Filands sits quietly on the edge of Malmesbury, the kind of hamlet you drive through rather than to — stone and hedgerow, a scatter of houses, no high street to speak of. It's the sort of place whose character is defined as much by what isn't there as what is.
There isn't enough here to build you a proper picture. No crime figures, no school data, no transport counts, no house price history specific to Filands itself — none of it has come through for this hamlet, which is common enough for a settlement this small; it likely gets folded into Malmesbury or the wider Wiltshire figures in most datasets. What we do know is the frame it sits in: Wiltshire as the parent authority, with a county-wide median house price around £315,000, itself a touch below the South West regional median of £350,000 and above the national figure of £281,000. That places this corner of Wiltshire as moderately priced against the country as a whole, neither a bargain nor a stretch.
Beyond that, honestly, I'd be guessing — and a hamlet like this deserves better than a guess dressed up as local knowledge. If you're weighing up Filands specifically, the sensible move is to look at Malmesbury's own figures for schools, crime and commute, since that's almost certainly where daily life here actually happens.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
Pick another area to line them up side by side — the verdict, both Check Local Scores, and what actually separates them.