A21 Tunbridge Wells
57 addresses across 10 postcodes (TN3), about 5.1 km (3.2 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 41102153.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Tunbridge Wells cost £452,845 in August 2026 (-0.1% on a year); private rents averaged £1,543 a month.
- Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
- Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 34 times (245 hours) in 2025.
- Gas: No gas meters are recorded on its postcodes: it looks to be off the mains gas grid.
- Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A21, carries 20,639 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Tunbridge Wells costs £2,446 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Wadhurst, about 7.4 km (4.6 miles) away in a straight line.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 42 to 105 m above sea level.
- Noise: 35 of its 57 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lamberhurst, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
- People: About 700 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Road safety: 7 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 3 of them fatal or serious.
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House sales on this street
No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.
House prices and rents in Tunbridge Wells
A typical home in Tunbridge Wells cost £452,845 in August 2026, 0.1% less than a year before. That is 7% more than five years earlier and 24% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £858,368 |
| Semi-detached | £501,595 |
| Terraced | £405,347 |
| Flat or maisonette | £257,815 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £348,684 |
Private renters in Tunbridge Wells paid £1,543 a month on average in September 2026, 5% more than a year before. That is 35% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £1,062 |
| Two bedrooms | £1,414 |
| Three bedrooms | £1,714 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £2,479 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
Gas and electricity use
No gas meters are recorded on the street's postcodes, against 40 electricity meters: it looks to be off the mains gas grid, or almost, with heating from electricity, oil, LPG or solid fuel (5 meters are on Economy 7, the off-peak tariff for storage heaters).
| Postcode | Electricity meters | Typical electricity | Gas meters | Typical gas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN3 8JD | 11 5 Economy 7 | 14,557 kWh | none recorded | |
| TN3 8JG | 8 | 6,783 kWh | under 5 | |
| TN3 8AH | 5 | 7,725 kWh | under 5 | |
| TN3 8DT | 8 | 4,568 kWh | under 5 | |
| TN3 8DU | 8 | 2,572 kWh | under 5 |
These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is TN3.
Council tax
What each band costs in Tunbridge Wells in 2026-27: Band D £2,446 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,631 | £1,903 | £2,174 | £2,446 | £2,990 | £3,533 | £4,077 | £4,892 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (23% of about 730 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 6.
- Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
- Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
- Green belt: no.
Listed buildings
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, grade I
- BRADWORTH LODGE CROMWELL HOUSE, grade II
- CHEST TOMB TO MORLAND FAMILY, ABOUT 10 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, grade II
- COURT LODGE STABLE YARD AND WALLED GARDENS, grade II
- GROUP OF FOUR CHEST TOMBS ABOUT 5 TO 20 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, grade II
- MONUMENT TO POMFRET FAMILY, ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, grade II
Energy projects nearby
No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.
Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.
High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.
Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| TN3 8JB | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| TN3 8JD | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| TN3 8JE | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| TN3 8JG | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| TN3 8AG | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 1 | unlikely |
| TN3 8AH | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| TN3 8DT | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| TN3 8DU | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| TN3 8AB | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| TN3 8JN | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
Recorded floods
No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.
Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.
Coastal erosion
No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Storm overflows
1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 34 times, for 245 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Freshwater River.
| Overflow | Into | Spills | Hours | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chequers Pumping Station Southern Water | Freshwater River | 34 | 245 | 520 m (0.3 miles) |
A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.
Coal mining
No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.
Radon
Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.
Historic landfill
No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Height above sea level
The street's 57 addresses are between 42 m and 105 m above sea level (65 m on average); the ground rises about 64 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN3 8AB | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| TN3 8AG | 87% | 87% | 87% | 0% |
| TN3 8AH | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| TN3 8DT | 67% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| TN3 8DU | 67% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| TN3 8JB | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| TN3 8JD | 33% | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| TN3 8JE | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| TN3 8JG | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Wadhurst 359,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 7.4 km (4.6 miles) |
| Frant 113,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 7.7 km (4.8 miles) | |
| Paddock Wood 1.1 million journeys in 2024–25 | 8.4 km (5.2 miles) | |
| Bus stops | None within 800 m (0.5 miles) | |
| EV charging points | Connected Kerb Charging Stations | 5 km (3.1 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | London Gatwick Airport LGW | 41.5 km (26 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Lamberhurst Good Nov 2018 | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| Pharmacies | The Pharmacy | 4 km (2.5 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Brenchley Dental Practice | 5 km (3.1 miles) |
| Hospital | Tunbridge Wells Hospital At Pembury Requires improvement Jul 2025 | 8.2 km (5.1 miles) |
| Care homes | Hazeldene House Good Jun 2022 | 6.3 km (3.9 miles) |
| Police station | Cranbrook Police Station | 8.7 km (5.4 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Play area | Unnamed 730 m² | 1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 4.0 ha | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 2,910 m² | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade I), 420 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 30 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Church of St Mary | Listed building, Grade I | 420 m (0.3 miles) south-west |
| Coggers Hall | Listed building, Grade II* | 1 km (0.6 miles) south-west |
| Scotney Castle | Registered park or garden, Grade I | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) south |
| A quadrangular castle and 16th/17th century manor house known as Old Scotney Castle, set in a 19th century landscaped garden | Scheduled monument | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) south |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Marsh's Square Shaw | Wood | 310 m east |
| Lower Tott Shaw | Wood | 570 m (0.4 miles) north-west |
| Baker's Hill | Hill | 3.2 km (2 miles) north |
| Furnace Pond | Lake or reservoir | 4.3 km (2.6 miles) north |
| The Dell | Valley | 4.5 km (2.8 miles) north-west |
| Osprey Island | Island | 4.6 km (2.9 miles) west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 5.8 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.5 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 11.1 | 40 | 15 |
All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.
Road and rail noise
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 70 to 74 | 11 | 0 |
| 65 to 69 | 12 | 0 |
| 60 to 64 | 7 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 5 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 22 | 57 |
35 of the street's 57 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.
Climate, daylight and earthquakes
Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Tunbridge Wells: see them on the Tunbridge Wells page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamberhurst St Mary's CofE (Voluntary Controlled) Primary School Church of England | Primary | 4–11 | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) | No published inspection | 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 73% in 2023) |
Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.
Nurseries and childcare
No nursery, pre-school or out-of-school club on Ofsted's register is within 1.5 km (0.9 miles) of the middle of the street.
Ofsted also registers 757 childminders and 217 home childcarers (nannies) in Kent. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.
Food hygiene ratings nearby
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamberhurst Golf Club TN3 8DT | Pub/bar/nightclub | 310 m | 5 Very good | 8 Aug 2025 |
| British Fine Foods TN3 8AG | Retailers - other | 340 m | 5 Very good | 26 Jul 2022 |
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (sussex).
Road safety
7 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 3 serious and 4 slight, in which 4 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a motorcyclist. 29% happened in the dark, and 43% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 60 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2025 12:47 | Slight | 1 person | A21, 60 mph | Daylight |
| 10 Aug 2024 16:24 | Serious | 3 people | A21, 60 mph | Daylight |
| 22 Oct 2023 08:26 | Slight | 1 person | A21, 50 mph | Wet road |
| 30 May 2023 18:19 | Serious | 1 person: 1 motorcyclist | A21, 60 mph | Daylight |
| 17 Jan 2023 05:52 | Slight | 1 person | A21, 50 mph | Dark, frost or ice |
| 12 Jul 2022 18:05 | Serious | 3 people | A21, 60 mph | Daylight |
| 16 Jun 2021 23:20 | Slight | 1 person | A21, 50 mph | Dark, no street lights, flooded road |
Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.
Traffic on nearby roads
The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A21 between B2162 and B2169, with 20,639 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 260 m from the street's postcodes.
| Road | Between | Vehicles a day | Lorries | Ten years before | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A21 | B2162 to B2169 | 20,639 estimated; counted 2024 | 4% | 260 m |
Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 48 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 18% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 22% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 68% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 34% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 7% | 17% |
| Private rented | 25% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 61% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 3% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 23% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 1% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 41% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 47% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 3% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 3% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 7% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 38% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 22% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 40% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 12% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 5% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 98% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 2% |
Deprivation
The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.
What has changed
Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.
Postcodes on this street
- TN3 8JB: 13 addresses of 21 in the postcode
- TN3 8JD: 9 addresses of 33 in the postcode
- TN3 8JE: 8 addresses of 9 in the postcode
- TN3 8JG: 8 addresses of 23 in the postcode
- TN3 8AG: 7 addresses of 55 in the postcode
- TN3 8AH: 6 addresses of 17 in the postcode
- TN3 8DT: 2 addresses of 16 in the postcode
- TN3 8DU: 2 addresses of 17 in the postcode
- TN3 8AB: 1 address of 5 in the postcode
- TN3 8JN: 1 address of 2 in the postcode
Nearby streets
All the streets in TN3 and across Tunbridge Wells.
What this page cannot tell you
- Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
- What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
- How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
- Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
- Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
- How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
- Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
- How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.
How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.