Fan Grove reads as big detached houses on quiet plots, hedges rather than fences, and cars parked on gravel drives rather than the street. It's a small place — barely 500 people — and it doesn't feel like a place you pass through so much as one you'd have to be heading to specifically. The houses tell you most of what you need to know. Nine of the nineteen recent sales were detached, freehold is the near-universal tenure, and the median sale price of £660,000 sits well above both the regional and national norms — detached homes here fetch £750,000 against £420,000 nationally. A For Sale board on this street is advertising space and privacy, not proximity to a station: transport is thin, just a handful of stops locally, so this is a driving life more than a commuting one. Schooling is limited in the data to Lyne and Longcross CofE Aided Primary, a voluntary aided village school of under 200 pupils — the kind of small, parish-adjacent primary that suits families already committed to a rural pace rather than those chasing an Ofsted headline. The green space is the standout feature — nearly 156 hectares across just two named areas, a hectares-per-head figure that dwarfs the regional average — so weekends here are shaped by land rather than a high street: walking, dogs, gardens, not restaurant rows or nightlife (the data has nothing to say about places to eat, which itself tells you this isn't a dining-out sort of postcode). Broadband is solid, with three-quarters of properties on full fibre, so it functions well for anyone working from home between dog walks. The one grade that doesn't fit the pattern is safety, sitting at C+ against an overall B and an A+ for environment — violence and sexual offences account for over half of recorded crime, though with a population this size, raw counts move the percentages more than they would in a larger suburb, so read the share cautiously rather than as a lived reality of danger. Set against Runnymede, the wider district, house prices here run noticeably higher, which fits: this reads as one of the pricier, quieter corners within it. Median age is 47, well above the national 40 — this suits people who've already made their money and want space to spend it quietly, not those looking for a starter home or a lively social scene on the doorstep.