Bridge Street Boston

41 addresses across 2 postcodes (PE21), about 80 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 3604838.

  • Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2011 the median was £235,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Boston cost £180,174 in August 2026 (-1.1% on a year); private rents averaged £809 a month.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (D: 6, E: 3).
  • Flood: 6 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: 1 recorded flood covered 2 of its 2 postcode centres, most recently in December 2013.
  • Storm overflows: 6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 41 times (78 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Boston Alternative Energy Facility (BAEF), is 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A16, carries 42,107 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Boston costs £2,309 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 26% to 57% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Boston, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 5 to 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 38 of its 41 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Greyfriars Surgery, about 200 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 14% of households owned their home and 13% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 622 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 11 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 7 involved a pedestrian.

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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
20111£235,000£235,000£235,000
20081£120,000£120,000£120,000
20061£91,000£91,000£91,000
20042£65,000£55,000£75,000
20022£82,500£55,000£110,000
20012£44,500£30,000£59,000
20002£100,938£55,000£146,875
19991£35,000£35,000£35,000
19971£22,000£22,000£22,000
19961£34,721£34,721£34,721
All 20 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Dec 20155 PE21 8QFOther£157,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Oct 20025 PE21 8QFTerraced£110,000
5 Oct 20017 - 11 PE21 8QFTerraced£59,000
6 Oct 20007 - 11 PE21 8QFTerraced£55,000
9 Dec 20118 PE21 8QFDetached£235,000
29 Dec 20008 PE21 8QFDetached£146,875
3 Jan 200815A PE21 8QFDetached£120,000
2 Nov 200415A PE21 8QFDetached£75,000
8 Mar 200415A PE21 8QFDetached£55,000
24 Oct 200215A PE21 8QFDetached£55,000
5 Jan 199615A PE21 8QFDetached£34,721
30 Oct 202317 PE21 8QFOther£138,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Sep 202019 PE21 8QFOther£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Oct 201919 PE21 8QFOther£110,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Jul 201819 PE21 8QFOther£138,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Oct 200619A PE21 8QFTerraced£91,000
29 Oct 199919A PE21 8QFTerraced£35,000
1 Jul 199721A PE21 8QFTerraced£22,000
1 Nov 200123A PE21 8QFTerraced£30,000
8 Apr 201625 PE21 8QFOther£70,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Boston

A typical home in Boston cost £180,174 in August 2026, 1.1% less than a year before. That is 8% more than five years earlier and 26% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£246,209
Semi-detached£162,340
Terraced£125,675
Flat or maisonette£74,317
Bought by a first-time buyer£155,661

Private renters in Boston paid £809 a month on average in September 2026, 3.2% more than a year before. That is 30% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£607
Two bedrooms£767
Three bedrooms£927
Four or more bedrooms£1,288

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 February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 40 m². Most common: Flat (7); Maisonette, mid-terrace (1); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (6); 2009 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (5); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,881 kWh of it on average in 2024, 28% more than the district's 10,844 kWh, and 3,397 kWh of electricity, 11% more than the district's 3,054 kWh. There are gas meters for about 63% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
PE21 8QF52,561 kWh under 5
PE21 8QH112,197 kWh 107,665 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 PE21.

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 Boston in 2026-27: Band D £2,309 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,539£1,796£2,052£2,309£2,822£3,335£3,848£4,617

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (91% of about 700 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: yes, Boston (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 14.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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

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

Energy projects nearby

4 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Boston Alternative Energy Facility (BAEF) The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure EN010095 Energy from waste (incinerator) 102 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jul 2023 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pinguin Foods Boston B/15/0113 Solar farm 1.5 MW Operational Mar 2016 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Riverside Industrial Estate Gasification Plant Boston PL\0245\09 Advanced Conversion Technologies 10.5 MW Operational Mar 2018 2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Boston Landfill Scheme Landfill Gas 1.3 MW Operational Mar 1999 3.4 km (2.1 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 31 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 16 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 16 low and 0 very low.

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

Flood zone for planning: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
PE21 8QFzone 2 1 / 5 / 13 unlikely
PE21 8QHzone 2 0 / 0 / 18 unlikely

Recorded floods

1 recorded flood covered 2 of the centres of this street's postcodes, most recently in December 2013 (Witham, Haven; sea).

WhenFloodSource and causePostcodes
5 Dec 2013Witham, Haven Sea; overtopping of defences PE21 8QF, PE21 8QH

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

6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 41 times, for 78 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into The Haven (Estuary), The Haven, Maud Foster Drain, South Forty Foot Drain.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Boston London Road Pumping Station Anglian Water The Haven (Estuary) 22 18 570 m (0.4 miles)
Boston Norfolk Place Cso Anglian Water The Haven 3 1 620 m (0.4 miles)
Boston Queens Road Cso Anglian Water Maud Foster Drain 6 15 720 m (0.4 miles)
Norfolk Street Cso Anglian Water; monitored 61% of the year Maud Foster Drain 1 1 770 m (0.5 miles)
Boston Church Road Ps Anglian Water Maud Foster Drain 2 1 830 m (0.5 miles)
Boston London Road Pumping Station Anglian Water South Forty Foot Drain 7 42 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 41 addresses are between 5 m and 7 m above sea level (6 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
PE21 8QF96%57%57%0%
PE21 8QH100%26%26%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 stationsBoston 267,000 journeys in 2024–25450 m (0.3 miles)
Hubberts Bridge 760 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Swineshead 1,230 journeys in 2024–2510.9 km (6.8 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 38 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fish Hill Boston140 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Boston240 m
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Municipal Buildings Car Park190 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station700 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsHumberside Airport HUY70.2 km (44 miles)
Nearest large airportEast Midlands Airport EMA89.1 km (55 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 Greyfriars Surgery Good Jan 2017200 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots170 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery180 m
HospitalPilgrim Hospital (Nuh) Good May 20261.9 km (1.2 miles)
Care homes10 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Georgians (Boston) Limited - 50 Wide Bargate Boston Good Dec 2020660 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationBoston Police Station210 m
Cash machines7 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West End Post Office110 m

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.6 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 50 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central Park 4.5 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.1 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Exchange Buildings, 36-39 Market Place, a listed building (Grade II*), 110 m north-east. 237 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade I and 14 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Exchange Buildings, 36-39 Market PlaceListed building, Grade II*110 m north-east
The Assembly RoomsListed building, Grade II*120 m north
10 South Street, BostonListed building, Grade II*140 m east
Boston Defined Area Survey; 3, 5, 7 and 9 Spain LaneListed building, Grade II*150 m east
Hussey TowerScheduled monument480 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Moated site 480m north east of Wyberton West HospitalScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Boston CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1 mile) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grange WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Pioneer WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Beech WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Jenny's WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Kingfisher LakeLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Hawk LakeLake or reservoir3 km (1.9 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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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
65 to 69100
60 to 64280
Under 55341

38 of the street's 41 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 Boston: see them on the Boston page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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
Boston Pioneers Free School AcademyPrimary4–11200 m No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 46% in 2024 and 45% in 2023)
The Boston Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18340 m Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 54.7 (53.1 in 2025 and 51.3 in 2024); 60.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 15.1% AAB or better; progress below average
Carlton Road AcademyPrimary3–11660 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Boston College16 plus16–99770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade D; 0% AAB or better; progress well below average
Staniland AcademyPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Boston Nursery SchoolNursery2–41 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Tower Road AcademyPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Park AcademyPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
Saint Mary's RC Primary Academy Boston Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
St Nicholas CE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 37% in 2023)
Haven High AcademySecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 32.6 (31.7 in 2025 and 31.3 in 2024); 19.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
Boston High SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 56.6 (58.8 in 2025 and 59.9 in 2024); 67.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 12.4% AAB or better; progress 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 940 m (0.6 miles); the nearest is 80 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
The Home Nursery PE21 8SP Full day care 154 Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 80 m
Clarence House Boston PE21 6ST Full day care 68 Not inspected yet 510 m (0.3 miles)
Smiley Faces Childcare PE21 6TL Full day care 24 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 530 m (0.3 miles)
Little Acorns Nursery PE21 6DA Full day care 59 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 540 m (0.3 miles)
Little Lions Nursery Ltd PE21 6PL Full day care 64 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 560 m (0.3 miles)
Sandhills Day Nursery PE21 8EG Full day care 98 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 580 m (0.4 miles)
Kumon Boston PE21 6RY Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 660 m (0.4 miles)
Little Lambs Nursery PE21 8DF Full day care 24 Not inspected yet 870 m (0.5 miles)
Elite Sport Academy HAF Camps PE21 8DF Out-of-school day care 90 Not inspected yet 870 m (0.5 miles)
Riverside Early Years PE21 9JU Full day care 32 Good (Aug 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 940 m (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 267 childminders and 20 home childcarers (nannies) in Lincolnshire. 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 5 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
Pancake Haven PE21 8QFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m5 Very good24 Mar 2026
The Stanley Hotel PE21 8SHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house20 m5 Very good22 Nov 2024
Drinks by Drury (Mobile) PE21 8QARetailers - other40 m5 Very good11 Aug 2022
George's Cocktail Bar PE21 8QAPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good22 May 2024
Infinity Cafe Bar PE21 8QHPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good8 Dec 2022
Taste of Lithuania PE21 8QARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good25 Jan 2025
Merkur Slots PE21 8SHRetailers - other50 m5 Very good1 Nov 2023
The Moon Under Water PE21 8SHPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good16 Feb 2026
Boston Sausage PE21 8SHRetailers - other50 m5 Very good7 May 2025
White Hart Hotel PE21 8SHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house50 m5 Very good23 Jul 2025
Boston Sausage (Hot Dog Stall) PE21 8SHMobile caterer50 m5 Very good20 Jun 2024
Topkapi Grill PE21 8SHTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m4 Good1 Oct 2025
European Food and Wine PE21 8SHRetailers - other50 m5 Very good1 Oct 2018
Boston Kebab House PE21 8SHTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m5 Very good4 Aug 2026
Majestic Bites PE21 8SHTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m5 Very good14 Jan 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.

622 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences244
Anti-social behaviour140
Public order51
Shoplifting34
Other theft31
Criminal damage and arson30
Drugs29
Bicycle theft17
Burglary13
Robbery10
Other crime8
Possession of weapons7
Vehicle crime5
Theft from the person3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Church Lane (164); On or near Shopping Area (98); On or near Police Station (76); On or near Parking Area (56); On or near Fish Hill (54).

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.

11 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 11 slight. 7 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 2 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202130
202200
202330
202420
202530
The most recent 10 of 11
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
8 Dec 2025 08:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
26 Apr 2025 14:15 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
15 Mar 2025 13:35 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
17 Sep 2024 12:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
1 Sep 2024 18:50 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
23 Dec 2023 18:00 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
7 Nov 2023 08:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
18 Sep 2023 08:45 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
26 Nov 2021 15:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
18 Nov 2021 09:10 Slight 1 person 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

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A16 between A52 and A1138, with 42,107 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 200 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A16 A52 to A1138 42,107 estimated; counted 2022 3% +17% since 2015 200 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 368 residents in 177 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 age3540
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)14%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented39%17%
Private rented43%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)4%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle24%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)13%34%
No qualifications33%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification12%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)48%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all22%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

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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.

  • PE21 8QF: 40 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • PE21 8QH: 1 address of 42 in the postcode

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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.