Nurseries near you, mapped by the walk you’d actually do.

Most parents narrow down on paper, then decide in person. Work out which nurseries are within a walk or drive you'd actually do twice a day, look at what Ofsted published and when, read what other parents wrote, then go and visit two or three. The visit is the decision — Trundle just decides what you go and see.

Every nursery shows two dates: when Ofsted published the data, and when we last synced it. Today that's Ofsted's management-information file as at 31 December 2025, synced on 17 July 2026. So the record is real and dated — but it's a December file, not a live feed, and the grade you're reading could still be from an inspection years before that. The inspection date sits on every record for exactly that reason. Reviews and the neighbourhood score are different: those are fetched from Google and Community Wolf when you open a nursery. A review can be up to 30 days old in our memory — that's Google's cache window, not ours — and the neighbourhood score up to an hour. And one caveat we'd rather you heard from us: Ofsted changed its inspection framework on 10 November 2025, and almost everything we've loaded was inspected before that change.

Browsing is always free, and it never asks for an account — the map, the filters, the grades, the reviews and the neighbourhood score all work signed out. Saving favourites and searches is the one thing that needs an account, because they live in the database against your user; the home pin works signed out and is kept in your browser. There's no advertising and no paid placement, and no nursery can pay to appear or to rank.

Agreed, which is why we don't stop at the word. Trundle shows the sub-judgements Ofsted published and the date of the inspection, so you can see where a nursery is strong and whether “Good” means 2025 or 2019. The grade is one signal, sitting next to reviews, the area, and how far you'd actually be walking. It was never meant to be the answer on its own.

Some are, and fetching them from Google doesn't fix that — being recent isn't the same as being real. What we can do is show the review count next to the score so you can see how big the sample is, show the review text so you can read the texture rather than trust a number, and never run our own unmoderated review system. Reviews are one input here, never the verdict. Plenty of nurseries have none at all.

One more thing we'd rather tell you than have you find out: we match a nursery to its Google listing by name and postcode, and we deliberately don't keep Google's name for the place, so we can't double-check the match ourselves. If a review doesn't sound like it's about the nursery you're reading, trust that and check on Google directly.

It's a blended area score from Community Wolf Safety Intelligence, combining police-recorded crime, community reports, local surveys, environment signals and precinct stats. Tap “What's behind this score?” on any nursery to see what each source contributed and the crime types recorded most often. It describes an area of roughly half a square kilometre. It is not a judgement of the nursery, it says nothing about a particular street or route or time of day, and it predicts nothing about what happens inside the nursery itself. We show it as context you read, not a verdict.

The grades are Ofsted's, taken from the official gov.uk file under the Open Government Licence and credited as Contains Ofsted data © Crown copyright (OGL). Nothing is scraped. What Ofsted's own tools don't have is the rest of the picture: no parent reviews, no area context, and no sense of how far a nursery is from your front door. It's an inspection database with pins, not a way of comparing two nurseries. Trundle puts the grade, the reviews, the area and the real travel time on one screen — and then hands you back to the visit.

It means we've no current Ofsted grade on record for that nursery. Grey means we've got nothing to show you, not that anything's wrong — we draw them hollow and grey rather than hiding them, and deliberately not red. That's 2,416 of the 18,296 nurseries on the map. Worth checking that nursery's own Ofsted page before you visit.

No, deliberately. Childminders work from home, so the registered address is a residential one and the registered person is a named individual. Publishing exact pins for those would be a privacy failure. If we add home-based providers later it'll be at postcode-district level, never an exact pin. It does mean Trundle isn't the whole market — around 24,700 childminders offering 149,000 places in England. For those, childcare.co.uk is the place to look.

Completely right, and Trundle isn't trying to replace that. Gut feeling, the children's faces, what the staff are like on a normal morning — none of that is in a database, and it's the part that actually decides it. The visit is the decision. Trundle just decides what you go and visit, so the mornings you spend looking round are spent on the right places.