A303 Somerset
2 addresses across 2 postcodes (BA9), about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 83227653.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Somerset cost £282,498 in August 2026 (+2.8% on a year); private rents averaged £1,021 a month.
- Flood: 6 addresses on its postcodes are 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.
- Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Balsam Lane, is 50 m away.
- Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 3 times (4 hours) in 2025.
- Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Brains Solar Farm, is 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
- Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A303, carries 28,402 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Somerset costs £2,561 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Templecombe, about 6.3 km (3.9 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 180 m away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 93 to 105 m above sea level.
- Noise: 2 of its 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wincanton Health Centre, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
- People: About 650 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 39% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Crime: 5 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
- Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, and it was serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.
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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 Somerset
A typical home in Somerset cost £282,498 in August 2026, 2.8% more than a year before. That is 14% more than five years earlier and 37% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £459,165 |
| Semi-detached | £289,787 |
| Terraced | £235,285 |
| Flat or maisonette | £136,214 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £232,749 |
Private renters in Somerset paid £1,021 a month on average in September 2026, 6.3% more than a year before. That is 35% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £695 |
| Two bedrooms | £918 |
| Three bedrooms | £1,142 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,628 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
Gas and electricity use
Homes with gas used 8,345 kWh of it on average in 2024, 15% less than the district's 9,783 kWh, and 2,810 kWh of electricity, 30% less than the district's 4,006 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.
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 BA9.
Council tax
What each band costs in Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,561 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,707 | £1,992 | £2,276 | £2,561 | £3,130 | £3,699 | £4,268 | £5,121 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (20% of about 2,090 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 105.
- 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
- THE DOGS, grade I
- BALSAM HOUSE, grade II*
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, grade II*
- NO 7 (PRIORS HOUSE) AND NO 7A (DENTAL SURGERY), grade II*
- PHYSICWELL HOUSE, grade II*
- WHITE HORSE HOTEL, grade II*
- 1 AND 3, HIGH STREET, grade II
- 1, CHURCH STREET, grade II
- 10 FLINGERS LANE AND ASSOCIATED OUTBUILDINGS, grade II
- 10, MARKET PLACE, grade II
- 10, NORTH STREET, grade II
- 11, 13, 15 AND 17, NORTH STREET, grade II
- 11, MARKET PLACE, grade II
- 11, MILL STREET, grade II
- 12, HIGH STREET, grade II
- 13, MARKET PLACE, grade II
- 14, HIGH STREET, grade II
- 14, MILL STREET, grade II
- 15, MILL STREET, grade II
- 16 AND 17, MARKET PLACE, grade II
- 16, HIGH STREET, grade II
- 17 AND 19, MILL STREET, grade II
- 17, HIGH STREET, grade II
- 18, HIGH STREET, grade II
- 19, HIGH STREET, grade II
- 2, HIGH STREET, grade II
- 2, MILL STREET, grade II
- 20, MILL STREET, grade II
- 21 AND 23, HIGH STREET, grade II
- 22, HIGH STREET, grade II
And 75 more.
Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)
- 24 High Street, Wincanton: up to 8 homes, permissioned (1 km (0.6 miles))
Energy projects nearby
2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.
| Project | Kind | Size | Stage | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brains Solar Farm Somerset 21/02205/FUL | Solar farm | 18.8 MW | Permission granted, not yet built Jan 2022 | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) |
| Higher Hatherleigh Solar Farm extension Somerset 12/03914/FUL | Solar farm | 1.5 MW | Operational Mar 2013 | 1.5 km (1 mile) |
Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.
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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BA9 9FS | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 6 / 6 | unlikely |
| BA9 9PF | 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 3 times, for 4 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Tributary of the River Cale.
| Overflow | Into | Spills | Hours | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayford Pumping Station Wessex Water | Tributary of the River Cale | 3 | 4 | 260 m |
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
1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 50 m away.
| Site | Waste went in | Waste | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balsam Lane Wincanton, Somerset | Not recorded | Not recorded | 50 m |
Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.
Height above sea level
The street's 2 addresses are between 93 m and 105 m above sea level (99 m on average); the ground rises about 12 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA9 9FS | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| BA9 9PF | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Templecombe 92,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 6.3 km (3.9 miles) |
| Bruton 53,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 7.2 km (4.5 miles) | |
| Gillingham (Dorset) 358,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 8.9 km (5.5 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Balsam Lane Wincanton | 530 m (0.3 miles) |
| Car parks | Carrington Way Parking | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| EV charging points | 1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Bristol Airport BRS | 42.7 km (27 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Wincanton Health Centre Good Jul 2019 | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| Pharmacies | 1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wincanton Pharmacy | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| NHS dentists | 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Wincanton Smile Centre | 930 m (0.6 miles) |
| Hospital | Wincanton Community Hospital | 1.7 km (1 mile) |
| Care homes | Elroi Manor Requires improvement Apr 2023 | 2.6 km (1.6 miles) |
| Police station | Wincanton Police Station - Avon And Somerset Police | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha | 180 m |
| Play area | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 420 m² | 150 m |
| Playing field | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,900 m² | 440 m (0.3 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 8,340 m² | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.5 hectares in all.
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Balsam House, a listed building (Grade II*), 770 m (0.5 miles) west. 30 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Balsam House | Listed building, Grade II* | 770 m (0.5 miles) west |
| Physicwell House | Listed building, Grade II* | 780 m (0.5 miles) south-east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Windmill Hill | Hill | 760 m (0.5 miles) north-west |
| Coneygore Hill | Hill | 910 m (0.6 miles) east |
| Sunny Hill | Hill | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east |
| Frith Copse | Wood | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east |
| Newfoundland Copse | Wood | 2 km (1.3 miles) east |
| Spear Pond | Lake or reservoir | 4.1 km (2.6 miles) north-west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 4.7 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 5.7 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 9.8 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 65 to 69 | 2 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 0 | 2 |
2 of the street's 2 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 Somerset: see them on the Somerset page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Primary Roman Catholic | Primary | 4–11 | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) | No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good | 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 37% in 2023) |
| Wincanton Primary School | Primary | 4–11 | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) | Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) | 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 47% 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
2 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 900 m (0.6 miles) from the middle of the street.
| Provider | Kind | Places | Latest inspection | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conkers The Balsam Centre's Community Nursery BA9 9HB | Full day care | 32 | Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) | 900 m (0.6 miles) |
| Little Sunbeams Pre-School BA9 9EN | Full day care | 40 | Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
Ofsted also registers 180 childminders and 43 home childcarers (nannies) in Somerset. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayford Inn BA9 9NL | Pub/bar/nightclub | 300 m | Awaiting inspection | |
| Luncheon Club at Bayford Village Hall BA9 9NL | Other catering premises | 390 m | 5 Very good | 19 Jun 2024 |
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 3 |
| Bicycle theft | 1 |
| Vehicle crime | 1 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Morpork Street (3); On or near Kinklebury Street (2).
Road safety
1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian. Most were on roads with a 70 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Nov 2021 15:44 | Serious | 1 person: 1 pedestrian | A303, 70 mph | Daylight |
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 A303 between A371 and B3081, with 28,402 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 250 m from the street's postcodes.
| Road | Between | Vehicles a day | Lorries | Ten years before | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A303 | A371 to B3081 | 28,402 counted 2025 | 7% | +58% since 2015 | 250 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 | 31 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 30% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 9% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 39% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 17% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 17% | 17% |
| Private rented | 45% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 72% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 4% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 11% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 3% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 25% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 66% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | under 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 1% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 7% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 29% | 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) | 33% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 11% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 6% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 95% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 6 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
Nearby streets
Morpork Street · Hen and Chickens Field · Peach Pie Street · Bayford Hill · Kinklebury Street · Langham Place · Southbrook Cottages · Bayford Court · Moon Pond Lane
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.