Back Gate Cowbit, South Holland

1 address across 1 postcode (PE12), about 100 m long. USRN 35709017.

Sales: 70 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £200,000 across 2 sales.
Flood: 3 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 C; Band D in South Holland costs £2,278 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Spalding, about 6.1 km (3.8 miles) away in a straight line.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: It is about 3 m above sea level.
Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Beechfield Medical Centre, about 5.7 km (3.5 miles) away.
People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 5 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2020	2	£200,000	£130,000	£270,000
2019	4	£238,750	£150,000	£365,000
2018	3	£272,000	£222,500	£310,000
2016	6	£191,000	£150,000	£292,000
2015	5	£178,500	£125,000	£262,700
2014	2	£227,500	£145,000	£310,000
2012	4	£177,000	£118,000	£250,000
2011	2	£141,000	£118,000	£164,000
2010	2	£194,000	£115,000	£273,000
2009	3	£136,850	£130,000	£175,000
2008	1	£150,000	£150,000	£150,000
2007	3	£161,000	£130,000	£223,000

Most recent sales (latest 50 of 70)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
18 Sep 2020	4A PE12 6AP	Detached	£270,000
27 Jan 2020	55 PE12 6AP	Detached	£130,000
8 Nov 2019	75 PE12 6AP	Detached	£195,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Oct 2019	67 PE12 6AP	Detached	£212,500
2 Oct 2019	THE OLD MILL, 11 PE12 6AP	Detached	£150,000
27 Aug 2019	55A PE12 6AP	Detached	£265,000
7 Jun 2019	68 PE12 6AP	Detached	£365,000
14 Sep 2018	55B PE12 6AP	Detached	£272,000
24 Aug 2018	39 PE12 6AP	Detached	£222,500
19 Jun 2018	83A PE12 6AP	Detached	£310,000
13 Apr 2018	70A PE12 6AP	Other	£87,500	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Nov 2016	4A PE12 6AP	Detached	£210,000
7 Oct 2016	72 PE12 6AP	Detached	£165,500
7 Oct 2016	87 PE12 6AP	Detached	£150,000
16 Aug 2016	33 PE12 6AP	Detached	£225,000
17 Jun 2016	BALLYCASTLE COTTAGE PE12 6AP	Detached	£292,000
29 Apr 2016	67 PE12 6AP	Detached	£172,000
9 Nov 2015	HIGHGATE HOUSE, 90 PE12 6AP	Detached	£262,700
4 Sep 2015	89 PE12 6AP	Detached	£178,500
14 Jul 2015	85A PE12 6AP	Semi-detached	£125,000
8 May 2015	6 PE12 6AP	Detached	£195,000
2 Jan 2015	69 PE12 6AP	Detached	£147,000
18 Dec 2014	16 PE12 6AP	Detached	£310,000
17 Oct 2014	48 PE12 6AP	Detached	£145,000
14 May 2014	33 PE12 6AP	Detached	£181,500	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Aug 2012	4A PE12 6AP	Detached	£174,000
16 Apr 2012	BALLYCASTLE COTTAGE PE12 6AP	Detached	£180,000
16 Mar 2012	75 PE12 6AP	Detached	£118,000
12 Jan 2012	65 PE12 6AP	Detached	£250,000
30 Jun 2011	10 PE12 6AP	Detached	£164,000
20 May 2011	63 PE12 6AP	Detached	£118,000
20 May 2010	19 PE12 6AP	Detached	£115,000
5 Jan 2010	71 PE12 6AP	Detached	£273,000
1 Oct 2009	16 PE12 6AP	Detached	£130,000
23 Sep 2009	82 PE12 6AP	Semi-detached	£136,850
31 Jul 2009	37 PE12 6AP	Detached	£175,000
2 Oct 2008	16 PE12 6AP	Detached	£150,000
1 Oct 2007	85A PE12 6AP	Semi-detached	£130,000
5 Jul 2007	67 PE12 6AP	Detached	£161,000
8 Jun 2007	4B PE12 6AP	Detached	£223,000
17 Oct 2006	51 PE12 6AP	Semi-detached	£228,500
17 Feb 2006	19 PE12 6AP	Detached	£156,000
4 Nov 2005	37 PE12 6AP	Detached	£165,000
28 Oct 2005	59 PE12 6AP	Detached	£249,950	New build.
25 Feb 2005	36 PE12 6AP	Detached	£240,000
17 Dec 2004	49 PE12 6AP	Detached	£192,000
12 Nov 2004	4A PE12 6AP	Detached	£182,000
30 Sep 2004	33 PE12 6AP	Detached	£158,000
21 Sep 2004	35 PE12 6AP	Detached	£228,000
19 Aug 2004	68 PE12 6AP	Detached	£105,000

Energy performance certificates

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in South Holland in 2026-27: Band D £2,278 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,519	£1,772	£2,025	£2,278	£2,784	£3,291	£3,797	£4,556

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (23% of about 1,150 homes).

A23%

B22%

C23%

D19%

E10%

F2%

G1%

H0%

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)

Former Station Yard & Croft House Nursery, Mill Drove South, Cowbit: up to 45 homes, pending decision (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 30 September 2026.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 21 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 82 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 21 low and 0 very low.

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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

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 address is about 3 m above sea level.

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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
PE12 6AP	95%	0%	0%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway station	Spalding 208,000 journeys in 2024–25	6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops	4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Backgate Cowbit	50 m
Bus or coach station	Bus Station Spalding	6.1 km (3.8 miles)
EV charging points	bp pulse Charging Station	5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	East Midlands Airport EMA	81.6 km (51 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	Beechfield Medical Centre	5.7 km (3.5 miles)
Pharmacies	Boots	5.8 km (3.6 miles)
NHS dentists	Ernevale House Dentistry	5.9 km (3.6 miles)
Hospital	Welland Hospital	6.7 km (4.2 miles)
Police station	Spalding Police Station	6 km (3.7 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Play area	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 40 m²	670 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha	660 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Settlement between Broadgate Farm and Lower Delgate Farm, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.7 miles) east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Settlement between Broadgate Farm and Lower Delgate Farm	Scheduled monument	1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Settlement SE of Lower Delgate Farm	Scheduled monument	1.6 km (1 mile) east

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
The Gull Pond	Lake or reservoir	3 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Coronation Channel	Lake or reservoir	4.5 km (2.8 miles) north

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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	5.2	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	6.9	20	5
Particles (PM10)	12.4	40	15

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

Road and rail noise

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
Under 55	1	1

None of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Holland: see them on the South Holland 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
The Cowbit St Mary's Church of England Academy	Primary	4–11	1 km (0.6 miles)	No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
Cowbit Village Hall PE12 6AL	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	470 m (0.3 miles)	5 Very good	18 Dec 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.

5 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	2
Anti-social behaviour	2
Criminal damage and arson	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bell Row Drove (5).

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: 351 residents in 154 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 street	England
Median age	50	40
Children under 15	13%	17%
Aged 65 and over	24%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	86%	61%
Owned outright	46%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	0%	17%
Private rented	14%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	66%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	0%	6%
Retired (of adults)	27%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	2%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	32%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	67%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	0%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	0%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	1%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	36%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	13%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	32%	34%
No qualifications	13%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	7%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	94%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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.

PE12 6AP: 1 address of 106 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Backgate · New River Drove · The Paddock · New River Drove · Milfoil Lane · Bittern Close · Wigeon Close

All the streets in PE12 and across South Holland.

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.