Campbell Close Kempston, Bedford

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (MK42), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 27302084.

  • Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £430,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 11, D: 1, E: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Bedford costs £2,472 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Kempston Hardwick, about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Great Denham Country Park, is about 720 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 32 to 35 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 King Street Surgery, about 600 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 219 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

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£430,000£430,000£430,000
20191£251,000£251,000£251,000
20041£187,000£187,000£187,000
20021£119,995£119,995£119,995
20001£108,500£108,500£108,500
19981£31,320£31,320£31,320
19971£37,000£37,000£37,000
19961£48,000£48,000£48,000
19951£68,000£68,000£68,000
Most recent sales (9)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Jan 20255 MK42 7EJSemi-detached£430,000
30 Sep 20192 MK42 7EJSemi-detached£251,000
18 Jun 20047 MK42 7EJSemi-detached£187,000
16 Aug 20029 MK42 7EJTerraced£119,995
13 Apr 20002A MK42 7EJDetached£108,500
11 Dec 19985 MK42 7EJSemi-detached£31,320
22 Aug 199716 MK42 7EJSemi-detached£37,000
20 Dec 19969 MK42 7EJTerraced£48,000
28 Jul 19951 MK42 7EJSemi-detached£68,000

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

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); House, detached (2); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 2007-2011 (8); 1950-1966 (4); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (social) (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

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 C (38% of about 680 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: 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 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 25 addresses are between 32 m and 35 m above sea level (34 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 7EJ100%100%100%0%
MK42 7EL100%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 stationsKempston Hardwick 9,780 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Bedford St Johns 176,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
Bedford 3.8 million journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 36 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Windermere Kempston180 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bedford3.2 km (2 miles)
Car parksParking Elstow Park and Ride1.5 km (1 mile)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station520 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN28.2 km (17 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 King Street Surgery600 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Britannia Pharmacy530 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest U H P The Dental Practice710 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBedford Hospital2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationAll Police Jobs700 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM110 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Great Denham Country Park 57 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,220 m²150 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,510 m²130 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,160 m²250 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 58 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Paved ford 400yds (366m) SE of Kempston Church, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) west. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Paved ford 400yds (366m) SE of Kempston ChurchScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Oval barrow 60m west of Ranworth Walk, 650m south west of Westfield SchoolScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Garden at Three GablesRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The SpinneyWood750 m (0.5 miles) west
Ridgeway WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Wiles WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Hollow LakeLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Rink IslandsIsland3.4 km (2.1 miles) north-east
Castle HillHill3.4 km (2.1 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)8.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)11.64015

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 Bedford: see them on the Bedford page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Balliol Primary SchoolPrimary2–11310 m Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bedford Road Primary AcademyPrimary5–11580 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): 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
Kempston AcademySecondary11–18770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Springfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Daubeney AcademySecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Kempston Rural Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Camestone SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Great Denham Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Aspens Services Ltd at Balliol Primary School MK42 7EPSchool/college/university20 m5 Very good1 Dec 2025
Kempston Post Office MK42 8EPRetailers - other110 m5 Very good8 Feb 2016
skminimart MK42 8EPRetailers - other110 m4 Good3 Feb 2025
Co-operative MK42 8EPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets130 m5 Very good28 Sep 2025
Oriental Chef MK42 8EPTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good9 Apr 2026
G's Takeaway MK42 8EPTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Nov 2025
PRASANA SUPERMARKET MK42 8EPRetailers - other150 m5 Very good27 Feb 2024
Kempston Filling Station Ltd MK42 7BTRetailers - other180 m5 Very good21 Feb 2024
Papa John's MK42 7ARTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good26 Aug 2025
abm catering @ Adlington The Newalls MK42 8EJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good28 May 2026
Brookside Residential Care Home MK42 7BSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good14 Jan 2026
HKS SHELL KEMPSTON MK42 7QARetailers - other260 m5 Very good4 Dec 2024
King William IV MK42 7ALPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
E&R Kitchen MK42 7QAPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good18 Jun 2026
Royal Oak MK42 7QRPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good25 Mar 2019

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.

219 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting114
Violence and sexual offences47
Anti-social behaviour14
Public order11
Criminal damage and arson8
Burglary8
Vehicle crime5
Other theft5
Possession of weapons3
Other crime2
Drugs2

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Old Yard (134); On or near Huntingdon Road (15); On or near Bruce Road (15); On or near St John'S Street (11); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (10).

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: 397 residents in 145 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 age3740
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented34%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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 7EL: 24 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • MK42 7EJ: 1 address of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

St Johns Street · St John's Avenue · Campbell Close · Bruce Road · St Johns Avenue · The Old Yard · The Windermere · Wyatt Road · Guilas Close · Balliol Road · Huntingdon Road · St John's Street

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.