Blenheim Close Didcot, South Oxfordshire

55 addresses across 3 postcodes (OX11), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36200151.

  • Sales: 56 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £575,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 27 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 9, D: 16, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in South Oxfordshire costs £2,598 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Didcot Parkway, about 480 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Smallbone Recreation Park, is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 65 to 73 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 55 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Didcot Health Centre Practice, about 110 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 700 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 50 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£575,000£575,000£575,000
20252£418,500£415,000£422,000
20241£360,000£360,000£360,000
20232£418,750£327,500£510,000
20221£415,000£415,000£415,000
20212£437,500£400,000£475,000
20202£322,500£315,000£330,000
20193£375,000£328,500£380,000
20181£300,000£300,000£300,000
20171£300,000£300,000£300,000
20161£452,000£452,000£452,000
20153£318,000£282,000£333,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 56)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 May 202613 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£575,000
4 Mar 202526 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£422,000
28 Jan 202533 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£415,000
21 Aug 202436 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£360,000
27 Oct 202314 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£510,000
20 Sep 202348 OX11 7JJDetached£375,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Mar 20233 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£327,500
22 Apr 202231 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£415,000
7 Oct 202132 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£475,000
20 Sep 202122 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£400,000
8 Oct 202048 OX11 7JJDetached£330,000
7 Oct 202041 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£315,000
22 Aug 201912 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£375,000
17 May 201926 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£328,500
18 Apr 201951 OX11 7JLSemi-detached£380,000
15 May 201848 OX11 7JJDetached£300,000
5 Dec 201715 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£300,000
4 Mar 201628 OX11 7JJDetached£452,000
28 Sep 201532 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£282,000
11 Sep 201512 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£291,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Apr 201522 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£318,000
3 Feb 201530 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£333,500
13 Dec 201341 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£225,000
6 Aug 20132 OX11 7JJDetached£350,000
13 Apr 201221 OX11 7JQDetached£240,000
2 Feb 201229 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£225,000
14 Dec 20105 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£306,000
30 Sep 201036 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£240,000
28 May 201017 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£250,000
28 May 201023 OX11 7JQDetached£245,000
30 Oct 20096 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£220,000
15 May 20082 OX11 7JJDetached£342,000
29 Nov 200742 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£265,000
22 Jun 200736 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£225,000
25 Apr 200718 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£250,000
3 Nov 20065 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£220,000
1 Sep 200651 OX11 7JLSemi-detached£227,000
18 Aug 200613 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£207,500
21 Jun 200635 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£216,950
30 Sep 20058 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£225,000
29 Jul 200542 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£215,000
28 Jul 200447 OX11 7JLSemi-detached£227,000
8 Apr 200328 OX11 7JJDetached£238,000
23 Dec 200237 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£228,000
3 May 20022 OX11 7JJDetached£180,000
15 Feb 200255 OX11 7JLFlat or maisonette£183,000
10 Dec 200144 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£148,000
23 Mar 200149 OX11 7JLSemi-detached£159,950
17 Mar 200014 OX11 7JJSemi-detached£137,500
20 Jan 200011 OX11 7JQSemi-detached£148,000

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 dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

27 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 105 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (16); House, detached (10); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1950-1966 (20); 1967-1975 (6); 2016 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (21); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (47% of about 720 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 55 addresses are between 65 m and 73 m above sea level (70 m on average); the ground rises about 8 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
OX11 7JJ100%100%100%0%
OX11 7JL100%100%100%0%
OX11 7JQ100%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 stationsDidcot Parkway 2.9 million journeys in 2024–25480 m (0.3 miles)
Appleford 9,070 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Culham 114,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Civic Hall Didcot150 m
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Edinburgh Drive Car Park340 m
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR56.7 km (35 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Didcot Health Centre Practice110 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots600 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery260 m
HospitalDidcot Community Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationCivil Nuclear Constabulary5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Didcot210 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Smallbone Recreation Park 7,790 m²100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 21 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 650 m²180 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,390 m²530 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha260 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 490 m (0.3 miles) north-west. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) north-west
East Hagbourne village crossScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Coscote village crossScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Easton's PlantationWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Fulscot CopseWood2 km (1.3 miles) east
Down HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Long Wittenham WoodWood3.3 km (2.1 miles) north-east
Stert PlantationWood3.8 km (2.4 miles) west
Clifton CutLake or reservoir4.4 km (2.7 miles) north-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)7.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

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

Road and rail noise

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

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 555455

1 of the street's 55 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for South Oxfordshire: see them on the South Oxfordshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 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
Manor Primary SchoolPrimary4–11300 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lydalls Nursery SchoolNursery3–5360 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Didcot Girls' SchoolSecondary11–18440 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Willowcroft Community SchoolPrimary2–11670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Birinus SchoolSecondary11–18750 m (0.5 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: Outstanding
Northbourne Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Ladygrove Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stephen Freeman Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Aureus Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Didcot Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Aureus SchoolSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 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 Meadows OX11 7JNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good17 Jun 2026
Smarts Takeaway OX11 8RSTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m2 Improvement necessary8 Sep 2026
Gurkha Sunkoshi OX11 8RSOther catering premises120 m4 Good17 Sep 2025
China Garden OX11 8RNTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Aug 2025
Broadways OX11 8RGPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Kolkata OX11 8RSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m3 Generally satisfactory20 May 2026
Little India OX11 8RSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good10 Dec 2025
Didcot Civic Hall OX11 7HNPub/bar/nightclub150 m5 Very good21 Jun 2022
Didcot Bowls Club OX11 7JNOther catering premises170 m5 Very good26 Jun 2025
Istanbul Kebab House OX11 8RNTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m4 Good5 Jun 2025
Co-operative Group OX11 8RNRetailers - other210 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Aspens Services at Manor Primary School OX11 7LBSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good25 Sep 2026
Kay Gee's Off Licence OX11 8RNRetailers - other240 m5 Very good4 Dec 2022
Dominos Pizza OX11 8RNTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m5 Very good21 Oct 2025
The Chippy OX11 8RNTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m4 Good21 Oct 2024

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.

50 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Shoplifting14
Public order5
Anti-social behaviour5
Other theft3
Criminal damage and arson3
Bicycle theft2
Drugs1
Other crime1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (26); On or near Blagrave Close (9); On or near Garth Road (7); On or near Orchard Close (4); On or near Melton Drive (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 704 residents in 289 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 age4340
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)43%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

  • OX11 7JJ: 25 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • OX11 7JQ: 22 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • OX11 7JL: 8 addresses of 9 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Blagrave Close · Rymans Court · Orchard Close · Garth Road · Melton Drive · Lydalls Close · Bosley's Orchard · St Peter's Road · Lydalls Road · King Alfred Drive · Manor Road · Ernest Road

All the streets in OX11 and across South Oxfordshire.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.