Bubwith Road Chard, Somerset

76 addresses across 4 postcodes (TA20), about 370 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36612314.

  • Sales: 79 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £275,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 43 homes have an energy certificate (C: 23, D: 17, E: 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 B; Band D in Somerset costs £2,561 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 98% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Axminster, about 10.6 km (6.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Jocelyn Park, is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 97 to 101 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 76 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ariel Healthcare, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 31% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 103 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£275,000£275,000£275,000
20242£206,500£200,500£212,500
20232£202,475£169,950£235,000
20226£247,500£201,000£297,500
20214£185,000£175,000£220,000
20202£172,500£170,000£175,000
20191£167,500£167,500£167,500
20182£177,000£174,000£180,000
20178£160,000£125,000£210,000
20163£155,000£142,000£180,000
20153£136,500£135,000£145,000
20141£150,000£150,000£150,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 79)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Aug 202510 TA20 2BNTerraced£275,000
29 Aug 20247 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£212,500
20 Jun 20244 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£200,500
27 Oct 202353 TA20 2BPTerraced£235,000
2 Feb 202357 TA20 2BPSemi-detached£169,950
11 Nov 202229 TA20 2BWTerraced£260,000
23 Sep 202216 TA20 2BNTerraced£297,500
26 Aug 202210 TA20 2BNTerraced£272,500
8 Jul 202240 TA20 2BPTerraced£235,000
6 May 20227 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£220,000
25 Mar 20225 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£201,000
15 Oct 202165 TA20 2BPSemi-detached£175,000
28 Jun 2021SOUTHLANDS TA20 2BNDetached£220,000
6 May 202134 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£185,000
12 Mar 202134 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£162,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Jan 202119 TA20 2BWTerraced£185,000
16 Dec 202027 TA20 2BWSemi-detached£170,000
14 Aug 20207 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£175,000
10 Jan 20203 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£135,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Mar 20194 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£167,500
7 Sep 201827 TA20 2BWSemi-detached£174,000
6 Apr 20189 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£180,000
8 Dec 201729 TA20 2BWTerraced£155,000
18 Oct 201725 TA20 2BWSemi-detached£152,000
9 Oct 20178 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£210,000
17 Aug 201742 TA20 2BPTerraced£125,000
27 Jun 201716 TA20 2BNTerraced£170,000
2 Jun 2017SOUTHLANDS TA20 2BNDetached£185,000
21 Apr 201712 TA20 2BNTerraced£165,000
16 Jan 201714 TA20 2BNTerraced£140,000
16 Nov 201653 TA20 2BPTerraced£155,000
11 Nov 20167 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£142,000
12 Aug 201636 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£180,000
29 Sep 201565 TA20 2BPSemi-detached£135,000
7 Jul 201532 TA20 2BNTerraced£145,000
5 Jun 20154 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£136,500
6 Feb 201440 TA20 2BPTerraced£150,000
16 Nov 201233 TA20 2BWTerraced£143,000
27 Apr 20128 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£132,000
1 Apr 2011SOUTHLANDS TA20 2BNDetached£145,000
29 Sep 201065 TA20 2BPSemi-detached£125,000
28 Sep 201031 TA20 2BWTerraced£125,000
9 Jul 201012 TA20 2BNTerraced£115,000
18 Sep 200844 TA20 2BPTerraced£135,000
30 Apr 200852 TA20 2BPSemi-detached£159,950
9 Nov 200739 TA20 2BWSemi-detached£168,000
1 Nov 200727 TA20 2BWSemi-detached£145,500
12 Oct 20079 TA20 2BNSemi-detached£154,950
16 Mar 200733 TA20 2BWTerraced£134,000
30 Nov 200639 TA20 2BWSemi-detached£138,000

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 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

43 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (22); House, end-terrace (11); House, mid-terrace (7). Built: 1950-1966 (20); 1967-1975 (19); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (social) (13); rented (private) (4).

Council tax

What each band costs in Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,561 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,707£1,992£2,276£2,561£3,130£3,699£4,268£5,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (43% of about 630 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
TA20 2BPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TA20 2BNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
TA20 2BWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
TA20 2DAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 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 76 addresses are between 97 m and 101 m above sea level (99 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
TA20 2BN100%100%100%0%
TA20 2BP100%100%100%0%
TA20 2BW100%100%100%0%
TA20 2DA98%98%98%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 stationsAxminster 418,000 journeys in 2024–2510.6 km (6.6 miles)
Crewkerne 178,000 journeys in 2024–2512.6 km (7.8 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Montague Way Chard350 m
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Essex Close Public Parking610 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station590 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT35.6 km (22 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS59.4 km (37 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ariel Healthcare770 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mortons Pharmacy Chard Holyrood Street640 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Spa Dental Practice540 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalChard Hospital640 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationChard Police Station - Avon And Somerset Police370 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM460 m (0.3 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 Jocelyn Park 3.0 ha110 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,220 m²230 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,970 m²610 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.4 ha930 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 8.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary the Virgin, a listed building (Grade I), 460 m (0.3 miles) west. 131 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 8 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade I460 m (0.3 miles) west
Main building at Chard SchoolListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Monmouth House and Attached Walls and RailingsListed building, Grade II*490 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Chard Manor FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) west
Hillfort 550yds (501m) SE of Four GatesScheduled monument1.9 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Paintmoor PlantationWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Tudbeer PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Chard ReservoirLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Snowdon HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Brockfield BottomValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-west
Farway MarshWetland4.1 km (2.5 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)6.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)9.14015

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 557576

1 of the street's 76 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 Somerset: see them on the Somerset page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Manor Court Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11580 m (0.4 miles) Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holyrood AcademySecondary11–18890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Avishayes Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
The Redstart Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2020, 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
Oak Lodge Nursing Home TA20 2HNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good16 Mar 2026
Lidl TA20 2DARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good5 Feb 2025
Millfield Cafe TA20 2DARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m4 Good6 Aug 2025
STEPS Centre TA20 2BGOther catering premises280 m5 Very good25 Jan 2022
Tapstone Brewing Company Ltd TA20 2BBPub/bar/nightclub290 m4 Good24 Jul 2026
Tumbles Gymnastics TA20 2DJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good29 Nov 2023
Greggs PLC TA20 2LWRetailers - other390 m5 Very good29 Oct 2025
Premier TA20 2BDRetailers - other390 m5 Very good23 Jun 2025
Kings Head TA20 2DWPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good21 May 2021
Ashcroft TA20 2JHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good31 Mar 2021
English Martyrs Catholic Church TA20 1EPOther catering premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Oct 2025
Chard Cricket Club TA20 1QAPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Jul 2021
The Cerdic TA20 1QAPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Aug 2025
Chard Independent School TA20 1QASchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Jan 2025
Next Thing Education Camps TA20 1QASchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Apr 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.

103 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences56
Anti-social behaviour18
Other theft9
Criminal damage and arson9
Public order6
Vehicle crime2
Burglary1
Drugs1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dominy Close (23); On or near Auckland Way (19); On or near Bubwith Road (17); On or near Bubwith Close (12); On or near Beckington Crescent (10).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 533 residents in 265 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4340
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)31%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented51%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)12%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle29%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications34%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

Nearby streets

Bubwith Close · Kennion Close · Hervey Road · Auckland Way · Dominy Close · Beckington Crescent · Bryer Close · Bradfield Way · Ken Close · Farrow Close · Garner Close · Lordsleaze Lane

All the streets in TA20 and across Somerset.

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.