Bodiam Drive Swindon

53 addresses across 6 postcodes (SN5), about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 40200186.

  • Sales: 54 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £342,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Swindon cost £263,685 in August 2026 (+2.8% on a year); private rents averaged £1,103 a month.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 11, D: 9, G: 1).
  • Flood: 18 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.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, British Rail Engineering, is 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Energy projects: 3 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Unit O, Penzance Drive - Solar Panels, is 700 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Swindon costs £2,438 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Swindon (Wilts), about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Mayenden Park, is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 99 to 113 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 45 of its 53 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Phoenix Surgery, about 390 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 123 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.
  • Road safety: 5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious.

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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
20251£342,000£342,000£342,000
20242£250,000£230,000£270,000
20231£235,000£235,000£235,000
20222£305,000£295,000£315,000
20203£272,500£163,000£292,500
20191£292,500£292,500£292,500
20162£256,250£245,000£267,500
20152£205,000£165,000£245,000
20142£205,000£200,000£209,999
20131£182,000£182,000£182,000
20112£165,000£130,000£200,000
20101£133,000£133,000£133,000
All 54 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Jun 20021 SN5 8BASemi-detached£118,000
31 Jan 20072 SN5 8BASemi-detached£124,950
12 Aug 19992 SN5 8BASemi-detached£73,950
17 Jan 20035 SN5 8BASemi-detached£123,000
27 Jul 20015 SN5 8BASemi-detached£104,000
27 Oct 20236 SN5 8BASemi-detached£235,000
25 May 20007 SN5 8BASemi-detached£87,950
25 Sep 19988 SN5 8BASemi-detached£64,500
20 Oct 19989 SN5 8BBSemi-detached£67,950
19 Jul 19969 SN5 8BBSemi-detached£53,685
10 May 199611 SN5 8BBSemi-detached£47,000
23 Nov 200512 SN5 8BBSemi-detached£135,000
27 Jul 200116 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£108,000
17 Dec 199916 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£87,000
19 Jan 202417 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£230,000
19 Aug 200319 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£85,000
12 Jul 199622 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£50,000
6 Jul 200523 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£135,000
4 Jun 202124 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Feb 202025 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£163,000
17 Jul 200725 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£140,000
26 Jun 199825 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£64,950
23 Mar 201526 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£165,000
1 Dec 200326 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£120,500
31 May 200226 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£109,950
16 Jun 201030 SN5 8BDSemi-detached£133,000
20 Mar 202035 SN5 8BEDetached£292,500
7 Oct 201635 SN5 8BEDetached£267,500
27 Jun 201435 SN5 8BEDetached£209,999
27 Jul 200735 SN5 8BEDetached£199,500
15 Oct 199936 SN5 8BEDetached£104,000
10 Jul 202037 SN5 8BEDetached£272,500
31 Oct 199537 SN5 8BEDetached£61,500
18 Dec 202538 SN5 8BEDetached£342,000
6 Jun 201438 SN5 8BEDetached£200,000
17 Feb 202239 SN5 8BEDetached£315,000
13 Sep 201940 SN5 8BESemi-detached£292,500
17 Jul 201540 SN5 8BESemi-detached£245,000
22 Aug 201140 SN5 8BESemi-detached£200,000
27 Nov 200941 SN5 8BESemi-detached£167,000
23 Jan 200941 SN5 8BESemi-detached£160,000
2 Apr 200441 SN5 8BESemi-detached£175,000
3 Oct 200341 SN5 8BESemi-detached£142,000
20 Dec 201342 SN5 8BEDetached£182,000
3 May 202444 SN5 8BEDetached£270,000
12 Dec 201144 SN5 8BEDetached£130,000
30 Jun 200444 SN5 8BEDetached£145,000
21 Jan 202245 SN5 8BEDetached£295,000
12 Dec 201645 SN5 8BEDetached£245,000
4 Jan 200646 SN5 8BEDetached£140,000
28 Mar 200246 SN5 8BEDetached£122,000
10 Aug 200146 SN5 8BEDetached£110,000
2 Jun 200046 SN5 8BEDetached£104,950
9 Jan 199847 SN5 8BEDetached£66,000

House prices and rents in Swindon

A typical home in Swindon cost £263,685 in August 2026, 2.8% more than a year before. That is 15% more than five years earlier and 32% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£467,900
Semi-detached£292,213
Terraced£234,627
Flat or maisonette£153,968
Bought by a first-time buyer£224,898

Private renters in Swindon paid £1,103 a month on average in September 2026, 5% more than a year before. That is 34% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£825
Two bedrooms£994
Three bedrooms£1,227
Four or more bedrooms£1,668

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

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (10); House, detached (10); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 1976-1982 (10); 1967-1975 (8); 1983-1990 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (2); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (23 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,331 kWh of it on average in 2024, 9% more than the district's 10,361 kWh, and 3,251 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
SN5 8BE192,558 kWh 2010,317 kWh
SN5 8BD163,208 kWh 1610,514 kWh
SN5 8BA83,766 kWh 89,794 kWh
SN5 8BB65,138 kWh 711,626 kWh
SN5 8BH302,377 kWh 3211,140 kWh
SN5 8BX302,656 kWh 3011,891 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 SN5.

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 Swindon in 2026-27: Band D £2,438 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,625£1,896£2,167£2,438£2,980£3,522£4,064£4,876

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (48% of about 1,460 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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

5 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 3 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Mannington Battery Storage Plant Swindon S/17/1879 Battery storage 49.9 MW Operational Oct 2021 120 m
Unit O, Penzance Drive - Solar Panels Swindon S/23/0975 Solar farm 2 MW Permission granted, not yet built May 2024 700 m (0.4 miles)
Swindon Sewerage Treatment Works Swindon S/15/0530 Anaerobic digestion 1.2 MW Operational Jun 2016 1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Studley Grange Farm, Studley - Solar Farm Wiltshire PL/2026/02160 Solar farm 2.2 MW Planning application made Apr 2026 1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Studley Grange Landfill Site, Garden Centre Road - Battery Storage Wiltshire PL/2022/06399 Battery storage 1 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jan 2023 1.9 km (1.1 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 16 October 2026 to 20 October 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)
  • 16 October 2026 to 20 October 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (minor works)
  • 7 October 2026: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the verge (minor works)
  • 2 September 2026 to 7 September 2026: SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN POWER DISTRIBUTION (SSEPD), Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 15 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 14 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
SN5 8BEnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 5 unlikely
SN5 8BDnot in 2 or 3 9 / 1 / 3 unlikely
SN5 8BAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
SN5 8BBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
SN5 8BHnot in 2 or 3 5 / 0 / 3 unlikely
SN5 8BXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 500 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
British Rail Engineering Mannington, Swindon, Wiltshire 1959 to 1987 Industrial, special (hazardous), liquid sludge 500 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 53 addresses are between 99 m and 113 m above sea level (104 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
SN5 8BA100%100%100%0%
SN5 8BB100%100%100%0%
SN5 8BD100%100%100%0%
SN5 8BE100%100%100%0%
SN5 8BH100%100%100%0%
SN5 8BX100%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 stationSwindon (Wilts) 3.2 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Warneford Close Toothill210 m
Car parksAsda Swindon Car Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points17 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Russett Close - Visitor Bay350 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS65.3 km (41 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Phoenix Surgery390 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wellhub Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Thomas,Huws & Associates1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalRidgeway Hospital Good Sep 20263.7 km (2.3 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Willowbrook View Good Jul 20261 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationWiltshire Police2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machinesPremier Okus Convenience Store Cashzone1.7 km (1.1 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mayenden Park 1.7 ha110 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Toothill Park 6.8 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 150 m²170 m
Playing fieldMannington Recreation Ground 14 ha890 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rushey Platt Allotments 1.5 ha750 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bowl barrow 210m north east of Rushy Platt Farm, a scheduled monument, 810 m (0.5 miles) east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bowl barrow 210m north east of Rushy Platt FarmScheduled monument810 m (0.5 miles) east
Medieval settlement and associated ridge and furrow, West LeazeScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Roman pottery 140m SSW of Tewkesbury CrossScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Town Gardens, SwindonRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km (1.5 miles) east
Queen's Park, SwindonRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Toot HillHill920 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Bushey CopseWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
The BrakeWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Greendown PlantationWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) west
Peatmoor LagoonLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Markham BottomValley4.4 km (2.7 miles) south

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)8.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 64200
55 to 59246
Under 55847

45 of the street's 53 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 6 from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

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

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Lift HazelwoodPrimary2–11510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 87% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
The Deanery CofE Academy Anglican/Church of EnglandSecondary11–18900 m (0.6 miles) Inadequate (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 47.6 (46.6 in 2025); 47.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
Kingfisher CE Academy Church of England/ChristianPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met None published
Oliver Tomkins Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 40% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Oliver Tomkins Church of England Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–71.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection None published
Westlea Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
Robert Le Kyng Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 66% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
Millbrook Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) 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 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 51% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
Shaw Ridge Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Even Swindon Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection None published
UTC SwindonSecondary14–191.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 32.3 (32.4 in 2025 and 31.1 in 2024); 15.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade E+; 0% AAB or better; progress well below average

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 1.5 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 480 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Shine Bright Nursery SN5 7XF Full day care 200 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 480 m (0.3 miles)
Explore Learning Swindon SN5 7AA Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 700 m (0.4 miles)
Tigers At Swindon Day Nursery SN5 7XN Full day care 75 Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 790 m (0.5 miles)
The Big Adventure Club Ltd (The Kingfisher) SN1 7DA Out-of-school day care 16 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Brunel Short Breaks SN5 7BT Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Revolution Performing Arts - Oliver Tomkins SN5 8LW Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
The Big Adventure Club Ltd ( Oliver Tomkins School) SN5 8LW Out-of-school day care 12 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Central@rlk SN1 5HS Full day care 63 Outstanding (Mar 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Mini Steamers Childcare SN2 2HS Full day care 120 Mar 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Alpha Pre School SN5 8NU Sessional day care 24 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 139 childminders and 5 home childcarers (nannies) in Swindon. 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 4 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
Cafe Maxx SN5 8WARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
TK Maxx SN5 8WARetailers - other290 m5 Very good14 Mar 2023
The Windmill SN5 8AEPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good19 Oct 2026
Tesco Stores Ltd SN5 8DHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets360 m5 Very good4 Mar 2025
Golden Garden SN5 8DHTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good27 Sep 2024
Toothill Methodist Church SN5 8SXOther catering premises360 m5 Very good24 Feb 2026
The Hub @ Toothill CIC / Toothill Hub Pub/bar/nightclub360 mAwaiting inspection
Toothill Ecumenical Church SN5 8SXOther catering premises390 m5 Very good21 Feb 2024
Shine Bright Nursery SN5 7XFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Caterlink@ Lift Hazelwood SN5 8DRSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Delta Tennis Centre SN5 7XFOther catering premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Aug 2021
Tigers At Swindon Nursery SN5 7XFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory24 Aug 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.

123 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting67
Violence and sexual offences22
Anti-social behaviour15
Other theft5
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime2
Drugs2
Burglary2
Public order2
Bicycle theft2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Markenfield (92); On or near Bodiam Drive South (11); On or near Speresholt (8); On or near Bodiam Drive (5); On or near Shelfinch (4).

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.

5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 3 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 3 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 2 involved a child under 16. 40% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202111
202200
202300
202420
202521
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
26 Feb 2025 20:26 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child A3102, 70 mph Dark, no street lights
16 Feb 2025 18:53 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
16 May 2024 07:58 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
11 May 2024 16:04 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
21 Apr 2021 16:00 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child Minor road, 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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

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 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,259 residents in 501 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 age4640
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)82%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 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

  • Food hygiene ratings The Windmill (pub/bar/nightclub, SN5 8AE) now 5 Very good, was 2 Improvement necessary (rated 19 October 2026) found 4 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: CITYFIBRE METRO NETWORKS LTD: Utility repair and maintenance works, 7 October 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Hazelwood Academy (Aspens) (school/college/university, SN5 8DR) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Caterlink@ Lift Hazelwood (school/college/university, SN5 8DR) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • SN5 8BE: 20 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • SN5 8BD: 17 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • SN5 8BA: 8 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • SN5 8BB: 6 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • SN5 8BH: 1 address of 39 in the postcode
  • SN5 8BX: 1 address of 38 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Markenfield · Shelfinch · Speresholt · Longthorpe Close · Colchester Close · Telford Way · Warneford Close · Mannington Lane · Beaulieu Close · Scott Way · Deerhurst Way · Russet Close

All the streets in SN5 and across Swindon.

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.