Blacksmith Close Williton, Somerset

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (TA4), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 43705117.

  • Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £170,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (B: 7, C: 14).
  • Flood: 14 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 Somerset costs £2,561 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Taunton, about 21.5 km (13 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 120 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 31 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is West Somerset Healthcare, about 170 m away.
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 50% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 126 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£170,000£170,000£170,000
20251£241,500£241,500£241,500
20241£170,000£170,000£170,000
20232£135,157£130,000£140,313
20221£259,950£259,950£259,950
20202£180,000£170,000£190,000
20192£172,250£144,500£200,000
20182£191,500£178,000£205,000
20174£162,500£140,000£182,500
20151£159,950£159,950£159,950
20141£130,950£130,950£130,950
20136£147,750£90,000£155,000
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Jul 20263 TA4 4AXTerraced£170,000
28 Mar 20258 TA4 4AXTerraced£241,500
3 May 202412 TA4 4AXTerraced£170,000
14 Jul 202315 TA4 4AXTerraced£130,000
31 Mar 20232 TA4 4AXFlat or maisonette£140,313Leasehold.
23 Sep 20229 TA4 4AXTerraced£259,950
17 Dec 202020 TA4 4AXTerraced£170,000
31 Mar 202018 TA4 4AXTerraced£190,000
9 Aug 201922 TA4 4AXDetached£144,500
8 Aug 20197 TA4 4AXTerraced£200,000
29 Jun 20189 TA4 4AXTerraced£205,000
27 Feb 201818 TA4 4AXTerraced£178,000
16 Nov 201710 TA4 4AXSemi-detached£182,500
10 Nov 201722 TA4 4AXDetached£140,000
28 Jul 201714 TA4 4AXTerraced£165,000
6 Feb 201717 TA4 4AXTerraced£160,000
12 Nov 20153 TA4 4AXTerraced£159,950
18 Jul 201412 TA4 4AXTerraced£130,950
16 Apr 201319 TA4 4AXTerraced£149,500New build.
22 Mar 201318 TA4 4AXTerraced£150,000New build.
7 Mar 20134 TA4 4AXTerraced£155,000New build.
5 Mar 201314 TA4 4AXTerraced£146,000New build.
22 Feb 201320 TA4 4AXTerraced£135,000New build.
31 Jan 20131 TA4 4AXFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
21 Dec 20128 TA4 4AXTerraced£170,500New build.
16 Nov 201222 TA4 4AXDetached£130,000New build.
16 Nov 20122 TA4 4AXFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
29 Oct 20127 TA4 4AXTerraced£185,000New build.
25 Sep 201217 TA4 4AXTerraced£150,000New build.
7 Sep 20125 TA4 4AXTerraced£150,000New build.
3 Sep 201210 TA4 4AXSemi-detached£185,000New build.
15 Jun 201216 TA4 4AXTerraced£123,250New build.
18 May 201212 TA4 4AXTerraced£135,000New build.
20 Apr 201211 TA4 4AXSemi-detached£185,000New build.
23 Mar 20129 TA4 4AXTerraced£183,000New build.
20 Dec 20113 TA4 4AXTerraced£137,500New build.

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 dates from March 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 62 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (8); House, end-terrace (6); Flat (5). Built: 2007-2011 (11); 2012 (6); 2012 onwards (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (11); owner-occupied (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,561 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,707£1,992£2,276£2,561£3,130£3,699£4,268£5,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (33% of about 840 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 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, 11 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 8 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 35 homes the Environment Agency counts, 10 are in areas at high risk, 3 medium, 8 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
TA4 4AXzone 2 5 / 0 / 7 unlikely
TA4 4NXzone 3 6 / 3 / 1 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 addresses are about 31 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)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
TA4 4AX100%100%100%0%
TA4 4NX100%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.

NearestDistance
Railway stationTaunton 1.6 million journeys in 2024–2521.5 km (13 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Williton Fore Street140 m
Ferry terminalMinehead Harbour12.3 km (7.6 miles)
Car parksHarbour Road Car Park2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL26.4 km (16 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 West Somerset Healthcare170 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Williton Pharmacy170 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oneleigh House Dental Practice60 m
HospitalWilliton Hospital430 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationWilliton Police Station240 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Williton, Williton210 m

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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 540 m²120 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,540 m²270 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha140 m
AllotmentsWilliton Allotments 1.1 ha1.7 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wayside cross at junction of High Street and Bank Street, a scheduled monument, 110 m west. 55 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wayside cross at junction of High Street and Bank StreetScheduled monument110 m west
Remains of Market Cross, Opposite Egremont HotelListed building, Grade II*120 m west
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*330 m south-west
Remains of Churchyard Cross, About 15 Metres North of North Aisle Door, Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*340 m west
Cross 15m north of St Peter's ChurchScheduled monument350 m west
Williton HospitalListed building, Grade II*640 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Round barrow cemetery at Battle Gore immediately west of North RoadScheduled monument720 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dowry CopseWood530 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Castle HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
The SwillLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Helwell BayBay2.3 km (1.5 miles) north
Swill PointWetland3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-east
Vinny CombeValley3.8 km (2.3 miles) east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)3.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.8205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5950
Under 551722

5 of the street's 22 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 Somerset: see them on the Somerset 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
Danesfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Community Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–13760 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Peter's Church of England First SchoolPrimary2–9810 m (0.5 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Knights Templar Community Church School & Nursery Church of England/MethodistPrimary3–91.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Old Bookshop TA4 4NWHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house60 m5 Very good22 Jan 2018
Wyndham Arms TA4 4NWPub/bar/nightclub60 m4 Good11 Dec 2025
Spar Williton TA4 4PXRetailers - other110 m5 Very good15 Jul 2024
Avenue 39 TA4 4PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good2 Apr 2026
Williton Children's Centre TA4 4PGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good30 Nov 2012
Croft House TA4 4NRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good7 Jan 2025
Bengal Spice TA4 4PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m4 Good1 Apr 2026
The Old Bank TA4 4PXRetailers - other200 m5 Very good7 Oct 2025
Jen's Pantry TA4 4SLMobile caterer240 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Glenmore Bakery TA4 4QNRetailers - other260 m5 Very good31 Jul 2026
Bitz N Pizzas TA4 4QNTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good13 May 2026
The White House Hotel TA4 4QWHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house270 m5 Very good27 Aug 2025
Hartnells TA4 4QUHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house330 m5 Very good11 Apr 2011
Somerset Farmhouse Kitchen TA4 4SLManufacturers/packers330 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Williton Hospital TA4 4RAOther catering premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Mar 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.

126 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences58
Shoplifting16
Anti-social behaviour14
Criminal damage and arson11
Public order10
Other theft5
Vehicle crime4
Other crime3
Robbery2
Bicycle theft2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Peters Close (39); On or near Fore Street (38); On or near Parking Area (22); On or near Blacksmith Close (6); On or near Robert Street (6).

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: 338 residents in 158 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 age4240
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)50%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented34%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)31%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications18%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 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • TA4 4AX: 21 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • TA4 4NX: 1 address of 18 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Half Acre · Robert Street · High Street · Rylands Close · St Peters Close · Fore Street · Killick Way · Bank Street · Bridge Street · Longfield Close · Half Acre Close · Half Acre

All the streets in TA4 and across Somerset.

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.