What age can/did your children walk to/from school alone?

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Also, what kind of area do you live in (council estate, sub urban, rural, small village etc).

DD1 seems to think you can do it from 7 but I think 9/10 is more likely to be the answer.

We live in a small village.

Will obviously ask school but just curious what everyone else will/have done.

Small town. Children had to be picked up until the end of Year 6, and were supposed to be dropped off by an adult too. In reality, there was nobody to note who dropped a child off, and they turned a blind eye if a 14/15 year old sibling was doing a Year 6 pick up. Not sure what they would've done if no one turned up to collect!
Friends' children, at a different school, tended to walk by themselves from Year 5.

My 8 year old does it, we only live about 3-4 minutes walk away.

I walk the 6 year old across the two roads then he goes the rest of the way himself.

10 seems

Oops!

Was going to say 10 seems a bit far off if you're fairly close and live in a small place. Maybe walk her part of the way and see how sensible she is?

8, suburbs with pedestrian crossing

Suburban with major roads and motorways
Secondary school 4 miles away
6th form 15 miles away

so never
they got the bus from Secondary