Brampton Close Bedford

32 addresses across 1 postcode (MK42), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 27300793.

  • Sales: 38 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £347,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 3, D: 6, E: 3, F: 1).
  • 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 B; Band D in Bedford costs £2,472 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bedford St Johns, about 2 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 290 m away, and Jubilee Park (18 hectares) is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 27 to 29 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is London Road Health Centre, about 1.4 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 60% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 65 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
20242£347,500£345,000£350,000
20231£408,000£408,000£408,000
20221£340,000£340,000£340,000
20211£360,000£360,000£360,000
20182£255,000£250,000£260,000
20151£261,500£261,500£261,500
20141£206,000£206,000£206,000
20092£161,750£153,500£170,000
20074£169,000£92,700£181,000
20061£190,000£190,000£190,000
20041£179,000£179,000£179,000
20022£136,498£133,000£139,995
Most recent sales (38)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Dec 20244 MK42 0HDSemi-detached£350,000
1 Oct 202421 MK42 0HDDetached£345,000
16 May 202326 MK42 0HDDetached£408,000
5 Oct 20225 MK42 0HDDetached£340,000
19 Apr 202123 MK42 0HDDetached£360,000
29 Jan 201814 MK42 0HDDetached£260,000
23 Jan 20189 MK42 0HDDetached£250,000
2 Apr 201525 MK42 0HDDetached£261,500
14 Jul 201420 MK42 0HDDetached£206,000
31 Jul 200913 MK42 0HDDetached£153,500
9 Mar 200927 MK42 0HDDetached£170,000
30 Nov 20077 MK42 0HDDetached£92,700
15 Jun 20074 MK42 0HDSemi-detached£168,000
1 Jun 200721 MK42 0HDDetached£170,000
13 Apr 200716 MK42 0HDDetached£181,000
20 Oct 20061 MK42 0HDDetached£190,000
5 Aug 200414 MK42 0HDDetached£179,000
17 Dec 200213 MK42 0HDDetached£133,000
30 Jul 200212 MK42 0HDDetached£139,995
21 Sep 200118 MK42 0HDDetached£115,995
4 May 20018 MK42 0HDSemi-detached£105,000
26 Mar 20019 MK42 0HDDetached£102,000
28 Feb 200124 MK42 0HDDetached£105,000
16 Feb 200121 MK42 0HDDetached£96,800
31 Aug 200016 MK42 0HDDetached£104,000
25 Aug 200014 MK42 0HDDetached£113,000
12 Apr 200027 MK42 0HDDetached£112,000
8 Oct 19991 MK42 0HDDetached£85,000
21 Sep 199918 MK42 0HDDetached£93,500
30 Oct 19987 MK42 0HDDetached£96,500
30 Sep 199811 MK42 0HDDetached£74,000
27 Mar 19986 MK42 0HDTerraced£65,500
18 Feb 19981 MK42 0HDDetached£80,000
12 Dec 199727 MK42 0HDDetached£79,950
6 Mar 19962 MK42 0HDDetached£72,000
6 Dec 199521 MK42 0HDDetached£53,000
7 Jul 199533 MK42 0HDDetached£73,000
12 Jun 199524 MK42 0HDDetached£59,000

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 May 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 95 m². Most common: House, detached (13); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1983-1990 (7); 1976-1982 (6); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (46% of about 810 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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 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 32 addresses are between 27 m and 29 m above sea level (28 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
MK42 0HD100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsBedford St Johns 176,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Bedford 3.8 million journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Kempston Hardwick 9,780 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 33 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brampton Close Fenlake50 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bedford2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Car parksRCP Parking2 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp Pulse550 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN28.2 km (18 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest London Road Health Centre1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pyramid Pharmacy550 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest London Road Health Centre1.4 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalBedford Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationBedford Police Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machinesNisa Cashzone1.4 km (0.8 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha290 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Jubilee Park 18 ha300 m
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 460 m²110 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsBunyan Allotments 8.9 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 36 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Site of Newnham Priory, a scheduled monument, 840 m (0.5 miles) north. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Site of Newnham PrioryScheduled monument840 m (0.5 miles) north
Garden to Howard's HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Press MeadowWood440 m (0.3 miles) north
Cardington SpillwayLake or reservoir570 m (0.4 miles) east
Priory LakeLake or reservoir680 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Priory MarinaLake or reservoir750 m (0.5 miles) north
Longholme IslandIsland1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Summerhouse HillHill1.8 km (1.1 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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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 6450
55 to 5970
Under 551932

13 of the street's 32 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

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

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 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
King's Oak Primary SchoolPrimary1–11770 m (0.5 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bedford AcademySecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Shackleton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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
Shortstown Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 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
Cherry Trees Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Castle Newnham SchoolAll-through4–162 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Mar 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

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
Sammy’s soul food ltd MK42 0DAPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good12 Dec 2025
Rai Superstore MK42 0DARetailers - other120 m5 Very good7 Nov 2024
Say Doughnuts MK42 0XYManufacturers/packers240 m5 Very good27 Sep 2024
H&D Local Store MK42 0LXRetailers - other280 m5 Very good31 Mar 2021
Fuji Film MK42 0ZERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good25 Apr 2024
BPHA MK42 0GQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jun 2025

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.

65 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences30
Anti-social behaviour16
Other theft7
Public order5
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Alburgh Close (17); On or near Leith Road (16); On or near Reddall Close (10); On or near Parking Area (10); On or near Eastcotts Road (7).

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: 280 residents in 153 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 age4540
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)60%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%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 bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%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.

  • MK42 0HD: 32 addresses of 35 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Boteler Gardens · Reddall Close · Leith Road · Alburgh Close · Stanley Road · Welbourne Gardens · Barton Road · Whitbread Way · Collins Place · Royle Gardens · Dunham Close · Eastcotts Road

All the streets in MK42 and across Bedford.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • 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.