Abbots Way Bristol

39 addresses across 2 postcodes (BS9), about 350 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4529976.

  • Sales: 40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £260,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 10, E: 6, F: 1).
  • Flood: 13 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Bristol, City of costs £2,714 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ashley Down, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Horfield Common, is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 69 to 83 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Gloucester Road Medical Centre, about 520 m (0.3 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 710 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 53% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 222 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£260,000£260,000£260,000
20243£520,000£403,500£685,000
20231£385,000£385,000£385,000
20222£612,500£590,000£635,000
20192£445,000£440,000£450,000
20181£540,000£540,000£540,000
20161£452,000£452,000£452,000
20152£390,750£355,000£426,500
20141£345,000£345,000£345,000
20131£312,000£312,000£312,000
20121£225,000£225,000£225,000
20111£265,000£265,000£265,000
Most recent sales (40)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Oct 202520 BS9 4SWTerraced£260,000
20 Oct 202519 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£490,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Nov 20246 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£685,000Leasehold.
26 Jul 202417 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£520,000Leasehold.
14 Jun 202422 BS9 4SWTerraced£403,500
8 Sep 202321 BS9 4SWTerraced£385,000
22 Aug 202228 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£590,000
21 Jul 202237 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£635,000
23 Dec 201915 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£440,000Leasehold.
15 Nov 20193 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£450,000Leasehold.
12 Jul 20194 BS9 4SWOther£492,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jul 20194 BS9 4SWOther£492,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Jun 201812A BS9 4SWDetached£540,000
19 Apr 20169 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£452,000Leasehold.
18 Dec 201516 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£355,000Leasehold.
2 Oct 20156 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£426,500Leasehold.
14 Aug 201423 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£345,000
20 Dec 20134 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£312,000Leasehold.
27 Jul 201224 BS9 4SWDetached£225,000
12 Apr 201133 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£265,000
16 Dec 200924 BS9 4SWDetached£235,000
7 Mar 200716 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£249,000Leasehold.
14 Sep 200637 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£237,500
21 Jun 200618 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£205,000
5 Apr 200632 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£215,000
12 Sep 200539 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£244,500
6 May 200437 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£214,000
25 Mar 200435 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£196,500
28 Apr 200039 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£135,000
28 Apr 200024 BS9 4SWDetached£125,000
31 Aug 199928 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£117,000
18 Jun 199937 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£114,000
26 Mar 19995 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£106,000
28 Aug 199837 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£88,000
6 Feb 199835 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£96,500
26 Nov 19971 BS9 4SWDetached£113,000
16 May 19971 BS9 4SWDetached£85,000
2 Aug 199639 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£64,000
22 Jul 199610 BS9 4SWSemi-detached£78,000Leasehold.
29 Apr 199624 BS9 4SWDetached£73,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 111 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15); House, detached (3); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1930-1949 (16); 1950-1966 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bristol, City of in 2026-27: Band D £2,714 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,809£2,111£2,412£2,714£3,317£3,920£4,523£5,427

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (29% of about 1,230 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 7 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
BS9 4SWnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 2 unlikely
BS9 4SPnot in 2 or 3 4 / 5 / 4 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 39 addresses are between 69 m and 83 m above sea level (74 m on average); the ground rises about 14 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
BS9 4SP100%100%100%0%
BS9 4SW100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsAshley Down 51,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Montpelier 252,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Redland 230,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kellaway Crescent Horfield Common90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bristol3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Ferry terminalCastle Park Ferry Landing Broadmead3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ardagh Car Park410 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging pointsShell Recharge Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS14.7 km (9.2 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gloucester Road Medical Centre520 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bristol City Pharmacy520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Horfield Dental Surgery460 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSouthmead Hospital640 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationRedland Police Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Jk Convenience Store250 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Horfield Common 15 ha110 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Maskelyne Avenue Play Area 4,110 m²350 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha230 m
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 950 m²630 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of the Holy Trinity With St Edmund, a listed building (Grade II*), 170 m south-east. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of the Holy Trinity With St EdmundListed building, Grade II*170 m south-east
Bowl barrow in Bowness Gardens 315m north west of the swimming lakeScheduled monument1.5 km (1 mile) north-west
Royal Victoria Park (Formerly Brentry House)Registered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Stoke ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Henleaze Swimming LakeLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Badock's WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Heath House CovertWood2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Narroways HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Pale PlantationWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Coombe DingleValley3.4 km (2.1 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)12.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6420
55 to 5920
Under 553539

4 of the street's 39 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 Bristol, City of: see them on the Bristol, City of page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Horfield Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11590 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ashley Down Primary SchoolPrimary4–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Bishop Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Henleaze Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Henleaze Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Filton Avenue Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Filton Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bonaventure's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Orchard School BristolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Brunel Field Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Upper Horfield Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Debbie’s Cakes and Catering BS10 5AROther catering premises120 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
JK Convenience Store BS10 5ADRetailers - other240 m5 Very good18 Oct 2025
Saroe's Secret recipe BS10 5ADTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good9 Apr 2025
Top Chef BS10 5ADTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
MHA Horfield Lodge BS7 8SUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
The Wellington BS7 8URPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good18 Dec 2024
Peter Pan Nursery Limited BS7 8SWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Sep 2026
Costa BS6 7XWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Sep 2025
Tesco BS6 7XWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jun 2024
Shine BS6 7XWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Jan 2025
Hiveaway Ltd - Beehive Pub and Dining BS9 4QYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 May 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

222 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences96
Anti-social behaviour51
Public order18
Criminal damage and arson14
Vehicle crime11
Burglary10
Other crime7
Drugs5
Robbery4
Other theft4
Possession of weapons2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bishopthorpe Lane (64); On or near Bilbie Close (30); On or near Francombe Grove (29); On or near Tayman Close (28); On or near Rodbourne Road (21).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 709 residents in 269 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4140
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van33%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)91%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)53%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 10 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.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

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.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • BS9 4SW: 38 addresses of 39 in the postcode
  • BS9 4SP: 1 address of 36 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Southmead Road · Francombe Grove · Kellaway Crescent · Bilbie Close · Sayer Place · Woodhouse Grove · Reed Close · Tayman Close · Bishopthorpe Lane · Weston Crescent · Druetts Close · Butterfield Road

All the streets in BS9 and across Bristol, City of.

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.
  • 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.