Thatcham

At the bottom of the local market, unleaded starts around 156p per litre right now. The very top of the local range is set by a small number of expensive outliers, and most stations sit much closer together than the headline gap suggests.

The supermarket sites, including Sainsburys, tend to set the floor for prices here. 2 of the 10 local forecourts are supermarket-run, and the rest split between branded and independent operators.

Tesco around Pinchington Ln has been setting the cheapest unleaded price locally of late. Several of the busier sites sit along London Road and M4, so you can check them against each other without leaving your usual route.

The local average sits several pence over the wider South East England figure, which makes shopping around matter more than usual here. Diesel averages around 179p per litre across the stations listed for Thatcham.

Everything within about 8 km of the centre is included, so edge-of-town and retail park sites appear alongside the central forecourts. The cheapest station in Thatcham is not fixed; the low spot moves between forecourts through the week, so the current ordering matters more than habit.

The table below carries the exact live figures per station, and alerts can flag a drop at the forecourts you actually use.