Littleton Panell
Village · 1,260 residents
69Good
Good · better than 8 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 40 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 72, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 21, below the typical 60
- Infrastructure scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Littleton Panell
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Littleton Panell a good place to live?
Littleton Panell scores 69/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85) and transport (72).
It scores lowest on food & drink (21) and infrastructure (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Littleton Panell in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Littleton Panell
Littleton Panell is the sort of place where the main road does the talking: a scatter of stone and brick cottages, a working farm or two still visible from the verge, and none of the retail clutter that tells you a village has become a destination. There's no high street to speak of, no clutch of cafés vying for attention. What you see is what you get — a small, settled community with a median age pushing 47, noticeably older than the national average, which tells you this is somewhere people arrive and stay rather than pass through.
The practical picture is mixed in an interesting way. There's no rail station listed for the village itself, so this is a driving life, not a commuting one — you're looking at Wiltshire's lanes and the A360 rather than a platform and a season ticket. Schooling nearby includes Dauntsey's, a well-known independent school in the area, alongside Lavington School for state secondary provision, whose progress scores sit modestly above the national benchmark. With only two schools counted within the village boundary itself, this reads as a place where children are bussed or driven to school rather than walking to the gate, which suits families already organised around a car.
Housing here undercuts the county: the median sale price runs about 16% below the Wiltshire figure, and comfortably under the national median once you account for the property mix. Semi-detached homes dominate what sells, freehold is overwhelmingly the tenure, and new-build barely features — under 6% of sales — so what's on offer is mostly older, established stock rather than anything freshly built. A For Sale board here is very likely to be advertising a period semi or terrace with a garden, not a new-estate box.