Wickwar is a Gloucestershire town in south-west England, with low recorded crime but a surprising amount of industry nearby: three estates, a solar farm and a dozen mapped building sites.
Trusted Protection in Wickwar
Wickwar sees little recorded crime, yet within 5km you will find Arnolds Field Industrial Estate, Great Western Business Park, Beeches Industrial Estate, the P.M. Hinder & Sons site and Larks Green Solar Farm. Twelve construction sites are mapped in the same radius, alongside 13 pubs and bars. That combination of quiet streets and spread-out commercial land is what shapes security here: perimeter checks, remote monitoring and patrols rather than town-centre guarding.
Wickwar Business Profile
Forty security workers on our register live within 10 miles of Wickwar, and 15 of them hold a valid SIA licence and can be booked for shifts. That is a solid local base for a rural area, enough to keep regular patrol routes going and to staff a static post on a site that needs one. Every officer is BS 7858 vetted, on PAYE and checks in through GPS book-on.
South Gloucestershire has 10,475 registered businesses, with construction leading at 2,120, a 20.2% share against 14.1% for Great Britain. Professional services (1,565) and business services (805) follow. Transport and logistics is also above average at 5.7% versus 4.3%. Builders need CCTV towers and out-of-hours patrols to stop plant theft; hauliers lean on gatehouse control and yard guarding.
Sources: Go Security officer network (counts rounded to the nearest 5); ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis; place data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Updated October 2026.
Security Requirements in Wickwar
A low crime count does not mean low risk for the businesses around Wickwar. Solar farms, yards and industrial units are often unattended at night and spread across open ground, which makes them attractive to thieves looking for cable, fuel or tools. Regular patrols and towers that alert our control room suit that setting better than a guard on every gate.
Services in Wickwar
These are the services Wickwar estates, contractors, hauliers and pubs can book with us.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Police.uk shows 77 crimes recorded within one mile of Wickwar from September 2025 to August 2026.
Violence and sexual offences accounted for 38 of them. The remainder were spread thinly: other theft at 10, burglary at 9, anti-social behaviour at 6 and other crime at 5. With totals this low, one incident at an industrial unit or farm can make a real difference to the figures. Monitored alarms, key holding and occasional patrols are a proportionate way to protect property here.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
Wickwar is covered by Avon and Somerset Constabulary's Chipping Sodbury neighbourhood team, which has no specific local priorities published at present.
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Wickwar.
Areas We Cover Near Wickwar
Yate and Chipping Sodbury are both 3 miles from Wickwar, and Wotton-under-Edge is 4. Our patrols and guarding reach all three.
Postcodes We Cover in Wickwar
The 6 postcode districts nearest central Wickwar, covering parts of Cotswold, South Gloucestershire, Stroud and Wiltshire.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Wickwar Security FAQs
Crime is low, with 77 recorded within a mile in a year, but there are three industrial estates, a solar farm and 12 mapped construction sites within 5km. Those sites hold plant, fuel and cable that can be stolen when nobody is around, so patrols and monitoring still make sense.
Yes. Larks Green Solar Farm is among the named sites nearby. Solar and utility sites usually need perimeter patrols and CCTV towers linked to our 24/7 control room, so alarms are handled and an officer is sent out with every visit logged.
Forty security workers in our network live within 10 miles, and 15 are SIA-licensed and active for shifts. They support patrol routes across South Gloucestershire and can be rostered to static posts when a site needs one.
Construction is 20.2% of local businesses, the largest sector with 2,120 firms. We use solar CCTV towers, out-of-hours patrols and static guards for high-risk phases, all reported digitally.
Transport and logistics makes up 5.7% of South Gloucestershire businesses, above the 4.3% British level. Yards suit gatehouse control, vehicle logging and night patrols, with alarm response for unmanned depots. Our free on-site audit identifies weak points.
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