Thornend doesn't give up much to a search engine, and that itself tells you something: this is a small pocket of Wiltshire without its own high street of shops, named school, or station to point to — the kind of hamlet that shows up on an Ordnance Survey map more readily than in a council database. What can be said sits at the level of the region rather than the place itself. Wiltshire's typical house price runs a little below the South West's average, and a little above the national one, which is the general price bracket a hamlet like this will sit within rather than buck. Beyond that comparison, there's nothing on the record here — no crime figures, no school ratings, no transport counts — specific to Thornend to weigh against it. Given how little is verifiable at the hamlet level, the honest answer is that this isn't a place to judge from a desk. A visit would tell you more in an afternoon than any dataset can: whether the lanes in are the kind you'd enjoy driving after dark, whether mobile signal drops out, whether the nearest village shop is a five-minute hop or a proper drive. For somewhere this size, that's not a gap in the research — it's simply the nature of hamlets, and worth treating as your cue to go and look rather than to keep reading about it.