Crap Towns / Grove / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Grove?
In January 2026, 1.3% of premises in Grove couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 2.6 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 2 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 95.4% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 2 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 48 | 1.3% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 3,618 | 95.4% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Shrivenham and Watchfield | 15.0 km | 3.1 |
| Highworth | 19.9 km | 2.6 |
| Grove | – | 1.3 |
| Oxford | 20.3 km | 1.0 |
| Wallingford | 20.3 km | 0.8 |
| Eynsham | 19.8 km | 0.8 |
| Didcot | 12.3 km | 0.8 |
| Abingdon-on-Thames | 13.0 km | 0.7 |
| Faringdon | 12.2 km | 0.5 |
| Wantage | 1.8 km | 0.3 |
| Carterton | 20.0 km | 0.1 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |