Beverley Grove Bedford

6 addresses across 3 postcodes (MK40), about 140 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 27301367.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Bedford cost £330,462 in August 2026 (+1.1% on a year); private rents averaged £1,177 a month.
  • Energy: 1 homes have an energy certificate (E: 1).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Elstow Landfill Site, is 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A4280, carries 16,252 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Bedford costs £2,472 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bedford, about 860 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 710 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 31 to 33 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 6 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Linden Road Surgery, about 810 m (0.5 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 56% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 41 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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
The one sale, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Jun 20191 MK40 4BUDetached£660,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Bedford

A typical home in Bedford cost £330,462 in August 2026, 1.1% more than a year before. That is 16% more than five years earlier and 36% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£557,923
Semi-detached£348,256
Terraced£278,279
Flat or maisonette£159,840
Bought by a first-time buyer£273,305

Private renters in Bedford paid £1,177 a month on average in September 2026, 2.5% more than a year before. That is 33% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£802
Two bedrooms£1,032
Three bedrooms£1,265
Four or more bedrooms£1,812

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 July 2021 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

1 home with a current certificate; median floor area 196 m². Most common: House, detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,959 kWh of it on average in 2024, 5% more than the district's 12,388 kWh, and 5,029 kWh of electricity, 47% more than the district's 3,418 kWh. There are gas meters for about 97% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
MK40 4BS303,994 kWh 2917,661 kWh
MK40 4TL412,136 kWh 407,466 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is MK40.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Bedford in 2026-27: Band D £2,472 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,648£1,922£2,197£2,472£3,021£3,570£4,120£4,943

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 730 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): 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Elstow Landfill Site Bedford 20/01987/FULWM Solar farm 5.5 MW Being built Dec 2021 1.6 km (1 mile)
Elstow Landfill Site Landfill Gas 1.8 MW Operational Jul 1996 4.3 km (2.7 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 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: 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
MK40 4BSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 15 unlikely
MK40 4BUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
MK40 4TLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 6 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 6 addresses are between 31 m and 33 m above sea level (32 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
MK40 4BS100%100%100%0%
MK40 4BU100%100%100%0%
MK40 4TL100%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 stationsBedford 3.8 million journeys in 2024–25860 m (0.5 miles)
Bedford St Johns 176,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Kempston Hardwick 9,780 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 41 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Gregorys & St Josephs Sch Biddenham230 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bedford1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksRiver Street Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points15 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations290 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN30.7 km (19 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Linden Road Surgery Requires improvement Mar 2023810 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lindleys Chemist1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Dental Practice (136 Bromham Road)610 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBedford Hospital Good Mar 20191.8 km (1.1 miles)
Care homes21 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bromham Road Good Feb 2019170 m
Police stationBedford Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesATM810 m (0.5 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,900 m²710 m (0.4 miles)
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²190 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Allen Park Recreation Ground 5.8 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Queens Park Allotment Site 2.9 ha620 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Garden at Three Gables, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 500 m (0.3 miles) west. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Garden at Three GablesRegistered park or garden, Grade II500 m (0.3 miles) west
Oval barrow 60m west of Ranworth Walk, 650m south west of Westfield SchoolScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Medieval lime kiln off Castle Lane, BedfordScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Bedford CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Bedford Castle motte and baileyScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Deep SpinneyWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Bromham LakeLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Hill RiseWood1.5 km (1 mile) north-east
Castle HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Rink IslandsIsland1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Apple IslandIsland2 km (1.3 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)9.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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 7440
55 to 5910
Under 5516

5 of the street's 6 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 Bedford: see them on the Bedford page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary and Pre-School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11330 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 44% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 35% in 2024 and 45% in 2023)
Great Ouse Primary AcademyPrimary3–11400 m (0.2 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 78% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Queen's Park AcademyPrimary2–11580 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 49% in 2024 and 36% in 2023)
Biddenham International School and Sports CollegeSecondary11–18630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 40.3 (42.1 in 2025 and 40.4 in 2024); 35.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 8.3% AAB or better; progress average
Westfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Livingstone Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 49% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 42% in 2023)
Priory Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 46% in 2024 and 35% in 2023)
Edith Cavell Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
St James' CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 71% in 2023)
Great Denham Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
Bedford College16 plus16–991.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C-; 3.6% AAB or better; progress below average
Bedford Free SchoolSecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 51.0 (46.5 in 2025 and 52.7 in 2024); 58.3% grade 5+ in English and maths

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 810 m (0.5 miles); the nearest is 340 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
SSG Services MK40 4TJ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 340 m
Junior Adventures Group @ Great Ouse Primary Academy MK40 4TJ Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 340 m
Jumping Jacks Childcare MK40 2BB Full day care 52 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 450 m (0.3 miles)
Footsteps Nursery School MK40 4AZ Sessional day care 52 Not inspected yet 600 m (0.4 miles)
Blue Orkids @ Queens Park Community Nursery MK40 4LE Full day care 44 Good (Aug 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 650 m (0.4 miles)
Debbie's Day Care Ltd MK40 4PQ Full day care 23 Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 670 m (0.4 miles)
Cheeky Monkeys Two MK40 2DA Full day care 51 Apr 2026: Needs attention in 6 areas 730 m (0.5 miles)
Monkey Puzzle Bedford MK40 2DN Full day care 75 Good (May 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 780 m (0.5 miles)
Explore Learning Bedford MK40 2FG Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 810 m (0.5 miles)
Play 2 Learn Day Nursery MK41 7PN Full day care 75 Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 810 m (0.5 miles)

Ofsted also registers 95 childminders and 17 home childcarers (nannies) in Bedford. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Jumping Jacks Childcare Ltd MK40 2BBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Nov 2025
Kalooki Club MK40 2AZPub/bar/nightclub480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Dec 2017

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.

41 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Anti-social behaviour10
Vehicle crime8
Public order2
Theft from the person1
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Caber Walk (21); On or near Argyll Heath (9); On or near West Grove (6); On or near Beverley Crescent (3); On or near King George Avenue (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 3 slight. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 33% happened in the dark, and 33% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202210
202300
202420
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
10 Nov 2024 21:01 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
27 Sep 2024 07:32 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child A4280, 30 mph Wet road
21 Jun 2022 08:35 Slight 1 person A4280, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A4280 between Deep Spinney, Great Denham and A5141, with 16,252 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 360 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A4280 Deep Spinney, Great Denham to A5141 16,252 counted 2025 0% -11% since 2015 360 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 607 residents in 203 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 age3240
Children under 1529%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work80%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)50%32%
Travel to work by car or van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)56%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

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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.

  • MK40 4BS: 4 addresses of 44 in the postcode
  • MK40 4BU: 1 address of 3 in the postcode
  • MK40 4TL: 1 address of 44 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Dumbarton Mead · Argyll Heath · Caber Walk · West Grove · Sutherland Lane · Cutcliffe Grove · Stirling Drive · Cutcliffe Place · Beverley Crescent · Glen Grove · Milne Row · Chesterton Mews

All the streets in MK40 and across Bedford.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.