Cross in Hand
Village · 1,348 residents
58Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 52 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Health scores 30, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Cross in Hand
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Cross in Hand a good place to live?
Cross in Hand scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (84).
It scores lowest on health (30) and food & drink (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Cross in Hand in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Cross in Hand
Cross in Hand sits along the A267 with the kind of streetscape that gives itself away immediately: detached houses set back from the road, hedges rather than fences, and very little passing trade beyond what the village itself needs. It's not a place that performs for visitors. The houses do the talking, and what they say is that this is a settled, comfortably-off corner of the Weald rather than a commuter dormitory or a retirement postcard, even though at a median age of 50 it leans older than the national picture by a decade.
The property market backs this up in blunt terms. Detached homes dominate the sales here — the large majority of the 37 recent sales — nearly all freehold, and the median price of £515,000 puts Cross in Hand well above both the national typical price and the Wealden district average around it, some 41% higher than the wider district. A detached house here sells for £555,000 against a national detached median of £420,000, which tells you this isn't a place where you find a bargain family home; it's a place where you buy into space and settling in for the long term. Schooling fits that pattern of permanence rather than ambition-driven relocation: Cross-in-Hand Church of England Primary and Blackboys CofE Primary are both rated Good, solid neighbourhood schools rather than headline-grabbing ones, and the presence of independent options like Skippers Hill Manor Preparatory suggests some households look beyond the state sector entirely. There's no rail station in the data for the village itself, so this reads as a driving village — the nine local transport stops point to bus links rather than a train-based commute, which matters if you're weighing this against somewhere with a direct line to London.