Boswell Close Botley, Eastleigh

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (SO30), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 13317881.

  • Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £300,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (C: 20, D: 3).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Eastleigh costs £2,342 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 50% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Botley, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, River Hamble Country Park, is about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 11 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 25 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Peartree Practice, about 4.7 km (3 miles) away.
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 31% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 29 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
20251£300,000£300,000£300,000
20161£260,000£260,000£260,000
20071£192,000£192,000£192,000
20041£148,000£148,000£148,000
19951£26,390£26,390£26,390
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Aug 20251 SO30 2TXSemi-detached£300,000
12 Aug 201617 SO30 2TXSemi-detached£260,000
2 Nov 200717 SO30 2TXSemi-detached£192,000
2 Apr 200417 SO30 2TXSemi-detached£148,000
24 Nov 199515 SO30 2TXSemi-detached£26,390

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 2010 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 64 m². Most common: Flat (14); House, semi-detached (8); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (21); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (18); owner-occupied (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (20 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Eastleigh in 2026-27: Band D £2,342 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,561£1,822£2,082£2,342£2,863£3,383£3,904£4,684

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (47% of about 790 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.

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 12 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
SO30 2TXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
SO30 2EPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 6 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 11 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
SO30 2EP100%100%100%0%
SO30 2TX100%50%50%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 stationsBotley 155,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Hedge End 402,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Bursledon 68,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Primary School Botley110 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Eastleigh8.2 km (5.1 miles)
Ferry terminalHamble-le-Rice Ferry Landing Warsash6.8 km (4.2 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer60 m
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU7 km (4.3 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW80.8 km (50 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 surgeriesThe Peartree Practice4.7 km (3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lalys Pharmacy280 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Health Solutions Limited180 m
HospitalMoorgreen Hospital3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationHedge End Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Botley, Botley Cashzone280 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 gardenRiver Hamble Country Park 164 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 260 m²60 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.1 ha50 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha480 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Roman site 400yds (370m) S of Fairthorn, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) south-east. 37 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roman site 400yds (370m) S of FairthornScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
BroadoakWood450 m (0.3 miles) west
Woodhouse GullyValley800 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Curbridge CreekTidal water1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Breach HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-east
New LakeLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south
Hackett's MarshWetland4.4 km (2.8 miles) south-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)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

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
55 to 5910
Under 552425

1 of the street's 25 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 Eastleigh: see them on the Eastleigh 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
Botley Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–11360 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Deer Park SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Freegrounds Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Freegrounds Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Boorley ParkPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Berrywood Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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
Kings Copse Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wildern SchoolSecondary11–161.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
All Saints Chuch/Cafe Chat SO30 2EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Aspens Services Ltd @ Botley Church of England Primary School SO30 2EAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Jun 2025
Alphabets Pre-School SO30 2EAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good19 Mar 2015
CrackleRock Brewing Company SO30 2EAManufacturers/packers280 m5 Very good25 Jun 2026
Regginas Italian Restaurant SO30 2EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m4 Good23 Feb 2026
BOTLEY MARKET HALL SO30 2EAOther catering premises330 mExempt
THE DOLPHIN SO30 2EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Jan 2026
CO-OP and Post Office SO30 2EARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets350 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
THE BUGLE INN SO30 2EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Dec 2025
HARVEY'S CAFE SO30 2EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
SUPER WOK SO30 2EATakeaway/sandwich shop390 m4 Good31 Oct 2025
Purbani Botley Ltd SO30 2EAOther catering premises390 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
HOLLYBANK REST HOME SO30 2EBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good20 Oct 2025
The Brewery Bar SO30 2AAPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Dec 2025
Louise?s Apiary SO30 2AAManufacturers/packers450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Apr 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.

29 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Public order5
Other theft4
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime3
Anti-social behaviour3
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bailey Close (8); On or near Cheping Gardens (7); On or near Parking Area (5); On or near Jenkyns Close (4); On or near Mortimer Road (2).

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: 256 residents in 127 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 age5440
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)31%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented63%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van70%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%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)20%34%
No qualifications33%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, flat (lodged 29 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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.

  • SO30 2TX: 24 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • SO30 2EP: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bailey Close · Kilford Court · High Street · Cheping Gardens · Mortimer Road · Mayfair Court · Jenkyns Close · Cypress Gardens · Warner Mews · Downland Close · Pern Drive · Appletree Court

All the streets in SO30 and across Eastleigh.

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.