Casterbridge Road Ferndown, Dorset

73 addresses across 2 postcodes (BH22), about 860 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 12205013.

  • Sales: 157 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £606,750 across 4 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Dorset cost £328,589 in August 2026 (-0.4% on a year); private rents averaged £1,059 a month.
  • Energy: 48 homes have an energy certificate (C: 32, D: 15, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Chapel Lane ERF, is 3.2 km (2 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A348, carries 13,949 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Dorset costs £2,765 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Branksome, about 7.3 km (4.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Knoll Gardens, is about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 28 to 35 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 73 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Orchid House Surgery, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 790 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 16 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, and it was serious.

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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
20254£606,750£515,000£767,000
20243£540,000£460,000£685,000
20233£620,000£457,000£750,000
20224£690,000£680,000£720,000
20212£516,250£457,500£575,000
20203£462,500£323,000£505,000
20192£414,750£367,000£462,500
20182£455,500£426,000£485,000
20176£608,750£325,000£645,000
20162£535,000£470,000£600,000
20154£503,750£337,000£585,000
20144£317,500£250,000£500,000
All 157 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Jan 20211 BH22 8LJDetached£457,500
27 May 20141 BH22 8LJDetached£325,000
4 May 20011 BH22 8LJDetached£220,000New build.
7 Jun 20192 BH22 8LNDetached£367,000
18 Aug 20032 BH22 8LNDetached£248,500
19 Jun 20022 BH22 8LNDetached£225,000New build.
12 Apr 20023 BH22 8LJDetached£188,000
29 May 20013 BH22 8LJDetached£160,000New build.
20 Dec 20024 BH22 8LNDetached£280,000New build.
7 Feb 20255 BH22 8LJDetached£515,000
27 Apr 20015 BH22 8LJDetached£173,000New build.
27 Mar 20256 BH22 8LNDetached£585,000
12 Jul 20166 BH22 8LNDetached£470,000
14 Jan 20056 BH22 8LNDetached£317,000
20 Dec 20026 BH22 8LNDetached£320,000New build.
12 Mar 20207 BH22 8LJSemi-detached£323,000
6 Oct 20067 BH22 8LJSemi-detached£235,000
26 Jun 20057 BH22 8LJSemi-detached£231,000
6 Mar 20017 BH22 8LJSemi-detached£145,000New build.
25 Sep 20008 BH22 8LNDetached£180,000New build.
8 Nov 20179 BH22 8LJDetached£325,000
20 Nov 20099 BH22 8LJDetached£220,000
23 Jun 20069 BH22 8LJDetached£222,000
20 Apr 20019 BH22 8LJDetached£145,000New build.
21 Jul 201110 BH22 8LNDetached£386,000
29 Jun 200410 BH22 8LNDetached£345,000
27 Sep 200010 BH22 8LNDetached£250,000New build.
3 Dec 201811 BH22 8LJDetached£485,000
7 Feb 200111 BH22 8LJDetached£285,000New build.
28 Feb 200812 BH22 8LNDetached£497,000
28 Jun 200212 BH22 8LNDetached£375,000New build.
9 Jun 202514 BH22 8LNDetached£767,000
27 Jan 201214 BH22 8LNDetached£585,000
28 Aug 200914 BH22 8LNDetached£550,000
22 May 200814 BH22 8LNDetached£550,000
18 Oct 200214 BH22 8LNDetached£305,000New build.
19 Aug 201015 BH22 8LJDetached£375,000
30 Oct 200615 BH22 8LJDetached£370,000
30 Mar 200115 BH22 8LJDetached£230,000New build.
12 Feb 202116 BH22 8LNDetached£575,000
22 Nov 200216 BH22 8LNDetached£330,000New build.
29 Nov 202417 BH22 8LJDetached£460,000
30 Jun 202317 BH22 8LJDetached£457,000
19 Jun 200317 BH22 8LJDetached£228,500
31 May 200117 BH22 8LJDetached£170,000New build.
7 Sep 200718 BH22 8LNDetached£482,500
27 Nov 200218 BH22 8LNDetached£374,950New build.
26 Jul 201319 BH22 8LJDetached£295,000
28 Oct 201119 BH22 8LJDetached£280,000
15 Dec 200619 BH22 8LJDetached£270,000
22 Dec 200319 BH22 8LJDetached£230,000New build.
13 Dec 201720 BH22 8LNDetached£612,500
9 Jul 200720 BH22 8LNDetached£465,000
22 Jun 200420 BH22 8LNDetached£415,000
30 Apr 200320 BH22 8LNDetached£380,000New build.
12 Apr 202221 BH22 8LJDetached£680,000
6 Jan 201521 BH22 8LJDetached£432,500
20 Jan 200421 BH22 8LJDetached£320,000
17 Apr 200121 BH22 8LJDetached£275,000New build.
30 Oct 201522 BH22 8LNDetached£585,000
4 Jul 200722 BH22 8LNDetached£499,950New build.
3 May 200123 BH22 8LJDetached£175,000New build.
18 Dec 202524 BH22 8LNDetached£700,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 200324 BH22 8LNDetached£325,000New build.
20 Mar 201425 BH22 8LJDetached£250,000
20 Apr 200125 BH22 8LJDetached£155,000New build.
14 Sep 201726 BH22 8LNDetached£605,000
10 Jun 201326 BH22 8LNDetached£468,000
25 Apr 200127 BH22 8LJDetached£172,500New build.
24 Apr 200328 BH22 8LNDetached£345,000New build.
20 Mar 201429 BH22 8LJDetached£310,000
20 Jan 200529 BH22 8LJDetached£267,500
27 Apr 200129 BH22 8LJDetached£190,000New build.
31 Jan 201230 BH22 8LNDetached£425,000
29 Jun 200131 BH22 8LJDetached£215,000New build.
12 Jan 200732 BH22 8LNDetached£470,000
22 Apr 200332 BH22 8LNDetached£425,000New build.
27 Feb 200433 BH22 8LJDetached£325,000
17 Nov 200534 BH22 8LNDetached£435,000
7 May 200434 BH22 8LNDetached£450,000New build.
17 Jul 201535 BH22 8LJDetached£337,000
6 Aug 200435 BH22 8LJDetached£293,250
30 May 200135 BH22 8LJDetached£210,000New build.
31 Jul 200636 BH22 8LNDetached£402,500
18 Jun 200436 BH22 8LNDetached£380,000New build.
16 May 200237 BH22 8LJDetached£315,000New build.
13 Oct 200838 BH22 8LNDetached£442,500
25 Aug 200438 BH22 8LNDetached£380,000New build.
4 Nov 202239 BH22 8LJDetached£700,000
28 Jun 200239 BH22 8LJDetached£374,950New build.
2 Nov 201140 BH22 8LNDetached£400,000
19 Nov 200440 BH22 8LNDetached£380,000
31 Oct 200340 BH22 8LNDetached£320,000New build.
7 Sep 200741 BH22 8LJDetached£335,000
22 Mar 200641 BH22 8LJDetached£270,000
27 May 200541 BH22 8LJDetached£283,500
28 Jun 200241 BH22 8LJDetached£217,500New build.
13 Nov 202043 BH22 8LJDetached£462,500
5 Jul 201843 BH22 8LJDetached£426,000
26 Mar 200443 BH22 8LJDetached£272,500
28 Jun 200243 BH22 8LJDetached£217,500New build.
30 Oct 200344 BH22 8LNDetached£376,400New build.
2 Dec 202045 BH22 8LJDetached£505,000
19 Jul 201945 BH22 8LJDetached£462,500
7 Dec 200745 BH22 8LJDetached£350,000
28 Jun 200245 BH22 8LJDetached£265,000New build.
25 Jan 201346 BH22 8LNDetached£445,000
30 Apr 200446 BH22 8LNDetached£345,000
6 Oct 201747 BH22 8LJDetached£380,000
16 Aug 200247 BH22 8LJDetached£227,950New build.
1 Apr 200448 BH22 8LNDetached£422,000New build.
25 Jul 200849 BH22 8LJDetached£333,000
16 Aug 200249 BH22 8LJDetached£227,950New build.
19 Jan 202250 BH22 8LNDetached£720,000
3 Jun 201150 BH22 8LNDetached£445,000
31 Mar 200450 BH22 8LNDetached£420,000
22 Aug 200251 BH22 8LJDetached£292,950New build.
17 Mar 202352 BH22 8LNDetached£750,000
24 Aug 200652 BH22 8LNDetached£451,000
27 Feb 200452 BH22 8LNDetached£422,000New build.
16 Jun 202553 BH22 8LJDetached£628,500
30 Aug 200253 BH22 8LJDetached£289,950New build.
15 Dec 201654 BH22 8LNDetached£600,000
27 Oct 200654 BH22 8LNDetached£450,000
22 Dec 200354 BH22 8LNDetached£380,000New build.
30 Jun 202355 BH22 8LJDetached£620,000
19 Dec 200355 BH22 8LJDetached£323,000
6 Sep 200255 BH22 8LJDetached£299,950New build.
28 Jan 202256 BH22 8LNDetached£680,000
18 Dec 200356 BH22 8LNDetached£360,000New build.
8 May 202457 BH22 8LJDetached£540,000
16 Sep 200257 BH22 8LJDetached£269,950New build.
6 Jun 202458 BH22 8LNDetached£685,000
18 May 201258 BH22 8LNDetached£480,000
19 Dec 200358 BH22 8LNDetached£415,000New build.
20 Dec 200259 BH22 8LJDetached£296,950New build.
28 Mar 201460 BH22 8LNDetached£500,000
9 Jun 200660 BH22 8LNDetached£420,000
6 May 200560 BH22 8LNDetached£430,000
19 Dec 200360 BH22 8LNDetached£370,000New build.
8 May 200861 BH22 8LJDetached£302,500
30 Nov 200461 BH22 8LJDetached£249,000
30 Jun 200461 BH22 8LJDetached£235,000New build.
30 Nov 200762 BH22 8LNDetached£510,000
30 Mar 200562 BH22 8LNDetached£426,000
19 Dec 200362 BH22 8LNDetached£405,000New build.
31 Jan 201763 BH22 8LJDetached£630,000
14 May 200463 BH22 8LJDetached£422,000
8 Mar 201364 BH22 8LNDetached£450,000
13 Apr 200464 BH22 8LNDetached£365,000
19 Dec 200364 BH22 8LNDetached£355,000New build.
30 Apr 200465 BH22 8LJDetached£330,000New build.
14 Dec 201769 BH22 8LJDetached£645,000
14 Apr 200469 BH22 8LJDetached£422,000New build.
25 Jun 201571 BH22 8LJDetached£575,000
25 Jun 200871 BH22 8LJDetached£515,000
30 Mar 200471 BH22 8LJDetached£435,000New build.

House prices and rents in Dorset

A typical home in Dorset cost £328,589 in August 2026, 0.4% less than a year before. That is 9% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£519,998
Semi-detached£333,127
Terraced£267,978
Flat or maisonette£169,474
Bought by a first-time buyer£257,241

Private renters in Dorset paid £1,059 a month on average in September 2026, 4.2% more than a year before. That is 26% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£733
Two bedrooms£969
Three bedrooms£1,194
Four or more bedrooms£1,688

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

48 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 133 m². Most common: House, detached (43); Bungalow, detached (4); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1996-2002 (36); 2003-2006 (11); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (38); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (48 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 16,163 kWh of it on average in 2024, 32% more than the district's 12,285 kWh, and 4,381 kWh of electricity, 28% more than the district's 3,431 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
BH22 8LJ343,839 kWh 3513,282 kWh
BH22 8LN303,274 kWh 3217,179 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 BH22.

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 Dorset in 2026-27: Band D £2,765 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,843£2,151£2,458£2,765£3,379£3,994£4,608£5,530

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (36% of about 1,250 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

Energy projects nearby

4 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Eco Composting Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 8/11/0268 Biomass 3.2 MW Operational Mar 2017 3 km (1.9 miles)
Chapel Lane ERF Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 8/21/0207/FUL Energy from waste (incinerator) 3.4 MW Being built Aug 2024 3.2 km (2 miles)
Canford Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole APP/12/01559/F Advanced Conversion Technologies 10 MW Being built Jan 2015 4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Whites Landfill Site (Canford) Landfill Gas 6 MW Operational May 1996 4.7 km (2.9 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 8 August 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 73 addresses are between 28 m and 35 m above sea level (31 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
BH22 8LJ100%100%100%0%
BH22 8LN100%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 stationsBranksome 280,000 journeys in 2024–257.3 km (4.5 miles)
Bournemouth 2.7 million journeys in 2024–257.7 km (4.8 miles)
Parkstone (Dorset) 229,000 journeys in 2024–258.3 km (5.1 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Just Close Dudsbury130 m
Bus or coach stationBournemouth University Talbot Heath5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Ferry terminalTuckton Tea Gardens Ferry Landing10.5 km (6.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS86.9 km (54 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Orchid House Surgery Good Jul 20181.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ferndown Pharmacy1.2 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ferndown Dental Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalSt Leonards Hospital4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Care homes8 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fernhill Outstanding Oct 20191 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationDorset Police3.2 km (2 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM750 m (0.5 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 gardenKnoll Gardens 1.7 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 270 m²230 m
Playing fieldKing George's Playing Field 7.0 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Longham Allotment Gardens 1.5 ha710 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bell barrow 500m north east of Beacon Farm, a scheduled monument, 270 m north-west. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bell barrow 500m north east of Beacon FarmScheduled monument270 m north-west
Bowl barrow on Poor Common 370m north east of HolmwoodScheduled monument360 m south-east
Bowl barrow 600m north east of Beacon FarmScheduled monument360 m north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Belle Vue PlantationWood590 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Poor CommonWood640 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Longham LakesLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Dudsbury HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
The BogWetland2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Fernheath ValleyValley4.2 km (2.6 miles) south

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)6.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55727373

1 of the street's 73 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 Dorset: see them on the Dorset page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Parley First SchoolPrimary4–9730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Ferndown First SchoolPrimary4–91.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection None published
Ferndown Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 45% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 1% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Hampreston Church of England Voluntary Aided First SchoolPrimary5–91.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection None published
Ferndown Upper SchoolSecondary13–191.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.9 (45.7 in 2025 and 48.3 in 2024); 41.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 10% AAB or better; progress 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

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 750 m (0.5 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Rainbow's End Montessori School BH22 8QE Full day care 27 Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 750 m (0.5 miles)
The Caterpillar Club BH22 9FB Full day care 22 Outstanding (Mar 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Ferndown Day Nursery BH22 9BG Full day care 45 Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Muddy Munchkins Forest Nursery BH22 8SS Full day care 30 Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 115 childminders and 23 home childcarers (nannies) in Dorset. 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 4 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
The Angel BH22 9APRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good6 Aug 2026
Hinton Wood BH22 9AEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m4 Good25 Aug 2023

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.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour5
Violence and sexual offences4
Burglary3
Public order1
Drugs1
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Angel Lane (6); On or near St Just Close (4); On or near Dunedin Drive (2); On or near Rose Farm Close (2); On or near Dunedin Gardens (1).

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.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a motorcyclist. 100% happened in the dark, and 100% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 40 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202111
202200
202300
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
8 Dec 2021 18:57 Serious 2 people: 2 motorcyclists A348, 40 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road

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 A348 between B3073 Ham Lane and Casrerbridge Rd, with 13,949 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 170 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A348 B3073 Ham Lane to Casrerbridge Rd 13,949 estimated 4% -5% since 2015 170 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 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 793 residents in 299 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 age4240
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away19%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 9 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.

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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.

  • BH22 8LJ: 38 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • BH22 8LN: 35 addresses of 37 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Rose Farm Close · Dunedin Drive · St Just Close · Egdon Close · Dunedin Gardens · Angel Lane · Dunedin Close · Sherwood Avenue · Pompeys Lane · Sycamore Gardens · Ringwood Road · Heath Farm Road

All the streets in BH22 and across Dorset.

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.