Ash Road Ashurst, New Forest

23 addresses across 2 postcodes (SO40), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 26720560.

  • Sales: 22 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £430,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 9, E: 3).
  • Flood: 4 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 New Forest costs £2,420 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 90% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ashurst New Forest, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 18 to 19 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is New Horizons Medical Partnership, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 24 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
20241£430,000£430,000£430,000
20231£365,000£365,000£365,000
20201£350,000£350,000£350,000
20191£347,000£347,000£347,000
20181£340,000£340,000£340,000
20152£307,475£250,000£364,950
20141£315,000£315,000£315,000
20111£342,500£342,500£342,500
20101£285,000£285,000£285,000
20061£370,000£370,000£370,000
20053£250,000£225,000£311,500
20041£232,500£232,500£232,500
Most recent sales (22)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Apr 20245 SO40 7ATDetached£430,000
3 Nov 202310 SO40 7ATDetached£365,000
12 Jun 202016 SO40 7ATSemi-detached£350,000
25 Oct 201918 SO40 7ATSemi-detached£347,000
5 Feb 201818 SO40 7ATSemi-detached£340,000
27 Nov 201526 SO40 7ATSemi-detached£364,950
23 Feb 201518 SO40 7ATSemi-detached£250,000
6 Nov 20141 SO40 7ATDetached£315,000
29 Jul 201128 SO40 7ATSemi-detached£342,500
1 Apr 20101 SO40 7ATDetached£285,000
24 Mar 200612 SO40 7ATSemi-detached£370,000
9 Dec 200522 SO40 7ATTerraced£225,000
30 Sep 200514 SO40 7ATSemi-detached£250,000
6 Jan 20051 SO40 7ATDetached£311,500
9 Jul 200428 SO40 7ATSemi-detached£232,500
28 Feb 20033 SO40 7ATDetached£225,000
8 Mar 200214 SO40 7ATSemi-detached£148,000
4 May 20011 SO40 7ATDetached£182,500
19 Dec 20008 SO40 7ATDetached£215,000
3 Jan 199812 SO40 7ATSemi-detached£117,000
31 Jan 19971 SO40 7ATDetached£93,000
1 Jul 199624 SO40 7ATTerraced£25,000

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 November 2008 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 103 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (5); House, detached (4); Bungalow, detached (2). Built: 1900-1929 (6); 1967-1975 (4); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in New Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,420 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,613£1,882£2,151£2,420£2,957£3,495£4,033£4,840

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (37% of about 630 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: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION NP NEW FOREST CAMPSITE, ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION NP NEW FOREST RECREATIONAL CAMPSITE, New Forest National Park Boundary, New Forest National Park Boundary.
  • Tree preservation orders: 4 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 8 October 2026 to 12 October 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 28 August 2026 to 2 September 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 22 August 2026 to 27 August 2026: SOUTHERN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
SO40 7ATnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 1 unlikely
SO40 7AWnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 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 23 addresses are between 18 m and 19 m above sea level (19 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
SO40 7AT100%100%100%0%
SO40 7AW100%90%90%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 stationsAshurst New Forest 108,000 journeys in 2024–25450 m (0.3 miles)
Totton 216,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Beaulieu Road 20,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shopping Parade Ashurst70 m
Bus or coach stationAshurst New Forest - Lyndhurst Park Hotel440 m (0.3 miles)
Ferry terminalSouthampton Vehicle Ferry Terminal Eastern Docks8.2 km (5.1 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU13.3 km (8.3 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW98 km (61 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 surgeriesNew Horizons Medical Partnership2.7 km (1.7 miles)
PharmaciesAr Pharmacy2.7 km (1.7 miles)
NHS dentistsForest Gate Dental Care2.7 km (1.7 miles)
HospitalAshurst Hospital120 m
Police stationTotton Police Station3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Southern Co-Operative Ashurst, Ashurst Cashzone440 m (0.3 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 gardenUnnamed 13 ha2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 810 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,790 m²290 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.5 ha1.7 km (1.1 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Medieval hunting lodge in Churchplace Inclosure, a scheduled monument, 1 km (0.6 miles) south-east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Medieval hunting lodge in Churchplace InclosureScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Bowl barrow north of Fulliford BogScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Bowl barrow 500m north of Williford CottagesScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fletchwood CopseWood510 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Costicles PondLake or reservoir820 m (0.5 miles) west
Hunters Inn HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Goatee BeachBeach3.8 km (2.4 miles) north-east
Eling Great MarshWetland4.1 km (2.6 miles) north-east
Shatterford BottomValley4.6 km (2.8 miles) south

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)6.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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
70 to 7410
60 to 6405
55 to 5955
Under 551713

6 of the street's 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 10 from railways, 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 New Forest: see them on the New Forest page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Foxhills Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Foxhills Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
ASHURST CAMPSITE SO40 7ARRetailers - other90 m5 Very good16 May 2024
NEW FOREST PIZZA SO40 7ARTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good29 Jan 2026
ASHA SO40 7ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
MERRITTS COFFEE LOUNGE SO40 7ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good30 Jul 2026
THE HAPPY CHEESE SO40 7ARPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good15 Dec 2025
TUCK IN SO40 7ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good12 Mar 2025
NEW JUMBO HOUSE SO40 7ARTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good30 Sep 2026
OAK TREE LODGE SO40 7AUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good13 Nov 2025
BEECH COURT SO40 7AYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m1 Major improvement necessary10 Nov 2025
WELCOME ASHURST SO40 7BERetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 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.

24 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Public order2
Vehicle crime2
Anti-social behaviour2
Other theft2
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (10); On or near Princess Road (6); On or near Holly Road (5); On or near Ash Road (3).

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: 303 residents in 115 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 age5240
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away14%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

Nearby streets

Lyndhurst Road · Peterscroft Avenue · Holly Road · Lyndhurst Road · Princess Road · Fir Road · Beech Road · Farm Lane

All the streets in SO40 and across New Forest.

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.