Arnold Way Thame, South Oxfordshire

32 addresses across 1 postcode (OX9), about 200 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36208853.

  • Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £705,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 4, D: 7, E: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 South Oxfordshire costs £2,598 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Haddenham and Thame Parkway, about 4.1 km (2.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 490 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 70 to 74 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 32 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Rycote Group, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 25 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£705,000£705,000£705,000
20252£645,000£590,000£700,000
20241£805,000£805,000£805,000
20221£660,000£660,000£660,000
20213£685,000£649,950£810,000
20201£590,000£590,000£590,000
20161£780,000£780,000£780,000
20152£625,000£525,000£725,000
20141£515,000£515,000£515,000
20101£430,000£430,000£430,000
20072£477,500£425,000£530,000
20051£340,000£340,000£340,000
Most recent sales (41)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 May 202631 OX9 2QADetached£705,000
12 Jun 20252 OX9 2QADetached£700,000
24 Mar 20255 OX9 2QADetached£590,000
19 Jan 202420 OX9 2QADetached£805,000
28 Feb 202215 OX9 2QADetached£660,000
29 Sep 202125 OX9 2QADetached£810,000
23 Sep 202121 OX9 2QADetached£649,950
16 Jun 20219 OX9 2QADetached£685,000
24 Nov 202013 OX9 2QADetached£590,000
11 Oct 201620 OX9 2QADetached£780,000
23 Oct 20153 OX9 2QADetached£725,000
30 Jan 20154 OX9 2QADetached£525,000
6 Nov 201417 OX9 2QADetached£515,000
9 Jul 20109 OX9 2QADetached£430,000
16 Nov 200724 OX9 2QATerraced£425,000
22 Jun 200725 OX9 2QADetached£530,000
16 Dec 200526 OX9 2QADetached£340,000
27 Aug 20044 OX9 2QADetached£355,000
23 Aug 200425 OX9 2QADetached£435,000
17 Jun 20041 OX9 2QADetached£422,500
26 Mar 200413 OX9 2QADetached£327,500
10 Jan 200331 OX9 2QADetached£340,000
1 Feb 20027 OX9 2QADetached£259,950
27 Nov 200110 OX9 2QADetached£368,500
23 Apr 200133 OX9 2QADetached£243,000
31 Jul 200026 OX9 2QADetached£230,000
29 Nov 19991 OX9 2QADetached£280,000
14 Jul 199919 OX9 2QADetached£199,950
3 Jun 199920 OX9 2QADetached£220,000
3 Jun 199913 OX9 2QADetached£192,000
23 Sep 19986 OX9 2QADetached£187,950
1 Sep 19989 OX9 2QADetached£196,000
5 Sep 199723 OX9 2QADetached£179,950
30 May 199727 OX9 2QADetached£142,500
22 Apr 199712 OX9 2QADetached£157,000
20 Mar 199733 OX9 2QADetached£144,500
6 Jan 199722 OX9 2QADetached£145,000
22 Oct 19963 OX9 2QADetached£169,500
23 May 199611 OX9 2QADetached£152,500
5 May 199523 OX9 2QADetached£65,000New build.
17 Jan 199512 OX9 2QADetached£152,000

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 September 2011 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 114 m². Most common: House, detached (14). Built: 1991-1995 (7); 1996-2002 (4); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Oxfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,598 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,732£2,020£2,309£2,598£3,175£3,752£4,329£5,195

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (26% of about 1,140 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 32 addresses are between 70 m and 74 m above sea level (71 m on average).

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
OX9 2QA100%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 stationsHaddenham and Thame Parkway 889,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Princes Risborough 513,000 journeys in 2024–259.9 km (6.1 miles)
Monks Risborough 21,000 journeys in 2024–2510.5 km (6.5 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Upper High Street Thame480 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Southern Road car park440 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station700 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN44.7 km (28 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Rycote Group890 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots500 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 1 Nelson Street370 m
HospitalThame Community Hospital800 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationWaddesdon Police Station13 km (8.1 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha490 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,840 m²370 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.3 ha150 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha210 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 2.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Spread Eagle Hotel, a listed building (Grade II*), 460 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 171 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 11 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Spread Eagle HotelListed building, Grade II*460 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Gallup Poll GarfieldListed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) north-east
The Birdcage Public HouseListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) north-east
The Swan HotelListed building, Grade II*530 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Moated site E of Moorend LaneScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Thame ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sydenham HurstWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Moretongap WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Musgrave's CovertWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Osierbed WoodWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Lobbersdown HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) south-west
Rycote LakeLake or reservoir3.4 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)6.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

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

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 5910
Under 553132

1 of the street's 32 addresses is 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 South Oxfordshire: see them on the South Oxfordshire 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
John Hampden Primary SchoolPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Thame Roman CatholicPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Barley Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Lord Williams's SchoolSecondary11–18840 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Pearce Court OX9 2DJOther catering premises190 m5 Very good8 Feb 2024
Red Kite Children's Centre OX9 2DYOther catering premises290 m5 Very good19 Nov 2019
Players Theatre OX9 2DPOther catering premises390 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Smarts Fish Bar OX9 2DWTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory17 Mar 2026
The Black Horse OX9 2BLPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jun 2026
The Old Nags Head OX9 2DWPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good29 Mar 2022
The James Figg OX9 2BLPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory11 Mar 2026
OXFAM OX9 2BLRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Dec 2022
Sainsburys OX9 2BURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Aug 2025
Dragon Inn OX9 3DXTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory3 Apr 2025
Atalay Cafe OX9 3DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Whats Cooking OX9 3DXRetailers - other500 m (0.3 miles)4 Good16 Oct 2025
Morrisons Daily OX9 2BURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets500 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory4 Feb 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.

25 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Drugs6
Vehicle crime6
Other theft2
Criminal damage and arson2
Public order1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Holliers Close (9); On or near Windmill Road (7); On or near Coombe Hill Crescent (5); On or near Conduit Hill Rise (3); On or near Corbetts Way (1).

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: 316 residents in 131 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 age5140
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van41%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

Nearby streets

Coombe Hill Crescent · Conduit Hill Rise · Hampden Avenue · Corbetts Way · Holliers Close · Moreton Lane · Windmill Road · Sharman Beer Court · Southern Road · Broadwaters Avenue · Elms Road · Nelson Street

All the streets in OX9 and across South Oxfordshire.

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.