Ackland Close Bideford, Torridge

16 addresses across 1 postcode (EX39), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40905312.

  • Sales: 40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £192,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 12, C: 2).
  • Flood: 5 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 B; Band D in Torridge costs £2,601 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnstaple, about 12.2 km (7.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Old Town Gardens, is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 35 to 41 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 16 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bideford Medical Centre, about 260 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 103 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
20261£192,000£192,000£192,000
20252£190,000£185,000£195,000
20243£207,000£205,000£230,000
20216£178,500£171,000£181,000
20206£178,500£172,000£192,500
20193£190,000£164,000£200,000
201810£107,500£88,500£189,250
20172£157,250£157,000£157,500
20162£159,750£157,500£162,000
Most recent sales (40)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Feb 202623 EX39 2BYTerraced£192,000
12 Sep 20253 EX39 2BYTerraced£185,000
20 Aug 202520 EX39 2BYTerraced£195,000
30 Jun 202520 EX39 2BYTerraced£195,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Oct 202427 EX39 2BYTerraced£205,000
9 Aug 202422 EX39 2BYTerraced£207,000
10 May 202422 EX39 2BYTerraced£213,750Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Mar 202428 EX39 2BYTerraced£230,000
8 Mar 202313 EX39 2BYOther£125,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Feb 202314 EX39 2BYOther£120,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Nov 202120 EX39 2BYTerraced£181,000New build.
21 Apr 20213 EX39 2BYTerraced£171,000
1 Mar 202119 EX39 2BYTerraced£175,000New build.
24 Feb 202123 EX39 2BYTerraced£180,000New build.
10 Feb 202118 EX39 2BYTerraced£177,000New build.
4 Feb 202121 EX39 2BYTerraced£181,000New build.
13 Nov 202025 EX39 2BYTerraced£177,000New build.
16 Oct 202028 EX39 2BYTerraced£192,500New build.
5 Oct 202027 EX39 2BYTerraced£182,500New build.
7 Aug 202026 EX39 2BYTerraced£172,000New build.
17 Jul 202024 EX39 2BYTerraced£177,000New build.
8 Jul 202022 EX39 2BYTerraced£180,000New build.
5 Dec 20194 EX39 2BYTerraced£164,000
28 Jun 20194 EX39 2BYTerraced£165,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 May 201910 EX39 2BYTerraced£190,000New build.
15 Feb 20199 EX39 2BYTerraced£200,000New build.
23 Nov 201812 EX39 2BYTerraced£103,573New build.
15 Nov 201811 EX39 2BYTerraced£103,573New build.
26 Oct 20184 EX39 2BYTerraced£165,000
31 Aug 20187 EX39 2BYSemi-detached£189,250New build.
20 Jul 20188 EX39 2BYSemi-detached£184,000New build.
16 May 201813 EX39 2BYFlat or maisonette£107,500New build. Leasehold.
16 May 201814 EX39 2BYFlat or maisonette£107,500New build. Leasehold.
26 Mar 201816 EX39 2BYFlat or maisonette£107,500New build. Leasehold.
26 Mar 201815 EX39 2BYFlat or maisonette£106,000New build. Leasehold.
26 Mar 201817 EX39 2BYFlat or maisonette£88,500New build. Leasehold.
17 Nov 20174 EX39 2BYTerraced£157,000New build.
3 Mar 20173 EX39 2BYTerraced£157,500New build.
15 Dec 20161 EX39 2BYTerraced£162,000New build.
15 Dec 20162 EX39 2BYTerraced£157,500New build.

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 December 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (5); House, mid-terrace (4); Flat (3). Built: 2018 (6); 2019 (4); 2012-2021 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (1); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Torridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,601 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,734£2,023£2,312£2,601£3,180£3,758£4,336£5,203

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (36% of about 970 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) 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: 1.
  • 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

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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 16 addresses are between 35 m and 41 m above sea level (37 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
EX39 2BY100%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 stationsBarnstaple 609,000 journeys in 2024–2512.2 km (7.6 miles)
Chapelton (Devon) 160 journeys in 2024–2513 km (8.1 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 46 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Meddon Street Bideford60 m
Ferry terminalBideford Ferry Landing560 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station890 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT64.1 km (40 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL73.9 km (46 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bideford Medical Centre260 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bideford Pharmacy260 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Queen Anne Dental Surgery330 m
HospitalBideford Hospital360 m
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Constabulary310 m
Cash machinesPayzone1.2 km (0.7 miles)

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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Town Gardens 4,930 m²100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 9,310 m²700 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 120 m²20 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,590 m²560 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,500 m²130 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade II*), 310 m east. 245 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 10 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*310 m east
74 and 74A, High StreetListed building, Grade II*380 m north-east
Old FordListed building, Grade II*450 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Bideford Bridge Including Parapet Walls and Gates of East AbutmentListed building, Grade I490 m (0.3 miles) east
Cross ridge dyke on Godborough Castle earthwork NW of Turner's WoodScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Hallsannery limekilnScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Kenwith ValleyValley1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Raleigh PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Raleigh HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Jennetts ReservoirLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Pillhead MarshWetland2.4 km (1.5 miles) east
Westward Ho! BeachBeach4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-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)3.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.8205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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
55 to 5940
Under 551216

4 of the street's 16 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 Torridge: see them on the Torridge 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
West Croft SchoolPrimary2–11340 m Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Urgent improvement; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Urgent improvement; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bideford CollegeSecondary11–18730 m (0.5 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
East-the-Water Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection

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
Blackwells Pasties Ltd EX39 2EFManufacturers/packers160 m5 Very good14 Aug 2026
Anchor EX39 2DJPub/bar/nightclub180 m4 Good17 Sep 2025
Linton Support EX39 3BUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good4 Jan 2016
Mother Clucking Farm Ltd EX39 2DXRetailers - other250 mAwaiting inspection
Jack In The Box Catering EX39 2DXTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good3 Oct 2025
Minxy's Sweets EX39 2DXRetailers - other260 m5 Very good13 Sep 2018
Highwood Care Home EX39 3ABHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good16 Dec 2025
Devonshire Cork & Vine EX39 2DXRetailers - other260 m5 Very good25 Jun 2025
The Sage Apothecary Limited EX39 2DRRetailers - other260 mExempt
Joiners Arms EX39 2DRPub/bar/nightclub260 m1 Major improvement necessary3 Sep 2026
The Henley Larder Devon EX39 2DXRetailers - other270 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Pannier Galley Cafe EX39 2DRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Sep 2025
Wings EX39 2BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m1 Major improvement necessary4 Mar 2026
First Inn Last Out EX39 3BYPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
St Marys (Friday) Diner EX39 2BPOther catering premises310 m5 Very good28 Aug 2026

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.

103 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences58
Criminal damage and arson10
Anti-social behaviour9
Public order7
Drugs5
Other crime4
Other theft3
Vehicle crime3
Burglary2
Possession of weapons1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Silver Street (17); On or near Union Close (16); On or near Buttgarden Street (16); On or near Milton Place (10); On or near Honestone Street (10).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 527 residents in 235 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 age3140
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)14%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

  • EX39 2BY: 16 addresses of 34 in the postcode

Nearby streets

East View Terrace · Model Terrace · Victoria Grove · Meddon Street · Hyfield Place · Soloman Drive · Victoria Gardens · Union Close · Devonshire Park · Old Town · Old Town · Silver Street

All the streets in EX39 and across Torridge.

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.