Chandlers Sherborne, Dorset

32 addresses across 2 postcodes (DT9), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 43201697.

  • Sales: 49 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £295,000 across 2 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: 23 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 7, D: 13, F: 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.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 20 times (5 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; 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 Sherborne, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 500 m (0.3 miles) away, and The Paddock Garden (0.2 hectares) is about 650 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 80 to 85 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 32 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Grove Medical Centre, about 480 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 7 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20252£295,000£265,000£325,000
20242£321,000£307,000£335,000
20224£317,500£300,000£345,000
20213£305,000£245,000£312,500
20192£269,250£212,500£326,000
20161£219,000£219,000£219,000
20143£210,000£210,000£250,000
20133£180,000£180,000£195,000
20124£214,500£150,000£288,000
20101£170,000£170,000£170,000
20092£163,750£162,500£165,000
20081£250,000£250,000£250,000
All 49 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Sep 20141 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£210,000
28 Jul 19991 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£75,950
25 Jul 20122 DT9 3RTDetached£288,000
28 Jul 19952 DT9 3RTDetached£62,500
8 Sep 20063 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£195,000
5 Oct 19955 DT9 3RTDetached£71,000
25 Nov 20106 DT9 3RTDetached£170,000
5 Aug 20096 DT9 3RTDetached£162,500
3 Jun 20137 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£180,000
12 Sep 20138 DT9 3RTDetached£195,000
10 Dec 20038 DT9 3RTDetached£184,000
22 Aug 19958 DT9 3RTDetached£76,500
27 Mar 200610 DT9 3RTDetached£202,500
7 May 199911 DT9 3RTDetached£92,500
13 Jan 202212 DT9 3RTDetached£300,000
14 Apr 202113 DT9 3RTDetached£312,500
23 Oct 201913 DT9 3RTDetached£212,500
16 Feb 202214 DT9 3RTDetached£330,000
23 Apr 201214 DT9 3RTDetached£214,000
5 Mar 202116 DT9 3RTDetached£245,000
25 Nov 200216 DT9 3RTDetached£170,000
23 Mar 200116 DT9 3RTDetached£125,000
12 Dec 202417 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£335,000
15 Aug 201317 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£180,000
30 Apr 202418 DT9 3RTDetached£307,000
5 Feb 202418 DT9 3RTDetached£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Apr 200419 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£160,000
8 May 201920 DT9 3RTDetached£326,000
27 Jun 201420 DT9 3RTDetached£250,000
1 Dec 200420 DT9 3RTDetached£228,000
11 Mar 202521 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£265,000
1 Feb 200822 DT9 3RTTerraced£250,000
10 Sep 200422 DT9 3RTTerraced£210,000
30 Apr 200424 DT9 3RTDetached£190,000
30 Apr 200224 DT9 3RTDetached£150,000
6 Jan 201225 DT9 3RTDetached£215,000
8 Jul 200925 DT9 3RTDetached£165,000
19 Dec 200526 DT9 3RTDetached£234,000
28 Jun 202127 DT9 3RTDetached£305,000
23 Mar 201227 DT9 3RTDetached£150,000
24 Aug 200029 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£98,000
9 Dec 199829 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£67,000
27 May 201631 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£219,000
10 Sep 201431 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£210,000
25 Oct 200731 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£187,500
29 Nov 200531 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£162,000
24 Jul 202533 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£325,000
26 Aug 202233 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£305,000
15 Sep 202235 DT9 3RTSemi-detached£345,000

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

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 63 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (12); Bungalow, semi-detached (11). Built: 1967-1975 (14); 1976-1982 (4); 1950-1966 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (23 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 9,253 kWh of it on average in 2024, 11% less than the district's 10,424 kWh, and 2,303 kWh of electricity, 43% less than the district's 4,022 kWh. There are gas meters for about 98% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
DT9 3RT311,607 kWh 318,120 kWh
DT9 3RW272,132 kWh 269,688 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 DT9.

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (29% of about 760 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.

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

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

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

  • 14 October 2026: SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN POWER DISTRIBUTION (SSEPD), Utility asset works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 8 October 2026: WESSEX WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 5 October 2026: BT, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 13 August 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 10 August 2026: WESSEX WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, 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

3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 20 times, for 5 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Yeo Via Sws, Tributary of the River Yeo.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Newland Combined Sewer Overflow Wessex Water River Yeo Via Sws 9 2 910 m (0.6 miles)
Long Street Cso Wessex Water River Yeo Via Sws 0 0 910 m (0.6 miles)
Abbey Road Combined Sewer Overflow Wessex Water Tributary of the River Yeo 11 4 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

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

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 32 addresses are between 80 m and 85 m above sea level (82 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
DT9 3RT100%100%100%0%
DT9 3RW100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsSherborne 207,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Thornford 2,310 journeys in 2024–256.9 km (4.3 miles)
Yeovil Pen Mill 170,000 journeys in 2024–257.5 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lambs Field Sherborne160 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Yeovil8.5 km (5.3 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer730 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS49.9 km (31 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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 The Grove Medical Centre Good Jul 2016480 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Abbey Pharmacy860 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brooklyn House Dental Practice810 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalYeatman Hospital930 m (0.6 miles)
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rawleigh House Good Jul 2023260 m
Police stationDorset Police1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Sherborne Cashzone2.2 km (1.4 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 470 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The Paddock Garden 2,480 m²650 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 120 m²270 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.7 ha1 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,250 m²500 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary Magdalene, a listed building (Grade II*), 410 m (0.3 miles) south. 286 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 10 of them Grade I and 16 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Mary MagdaleneListed building, Grade II*410 m (0.3 miles) south
No 101 Including Outbuilding to South-EastListed building, Grade II*410 m (0.3 miles) south-west
The Cedars and East CedarsListed building, Grade II*520 m (0.3 miles) south
Sherborne Old CastleListed building, Grade I520 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Sherborne Old CastleScheduled monument530 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Roman site by Pinford LaneScheduled monument910 m (0.6 miles) east
The Conduit CrossScheduled monument910 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Sherborne CastleRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sherborne LakeLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Dancing HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Home CovertWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Oborne WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north
Yetman's CopseWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Lover's GroveWood2 km (1.2 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)5.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.8205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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 553132

1 of the street's 32 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), 9 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
Sherborne Primary SchoolPrimary4–11500 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; 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 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
The Gryphon School Church of EnglandSecondary11–18870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 47.4 (46.7 in 2025 and 48.1 in 2024); 44.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 13.2% 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

5 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 610 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Pear Tree Nursery and Pre-School DT9 4DN Full day care 30 Not inspected yet 610 m (0.4 miles)
Kaleidoscope Day Nursery DT9 3DR Full day care 120 Jan 2026: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 5 620 m (0.4 miles)
Forget Me Not Day Nursery DT9 4EQ Full day care 66 Good (Aug 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 810 m (0.5 miles)
Activate Camps at Sherborne School DT9 3AP Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Activate Camps @ Sherborne Girls DT9 3QN Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 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 9 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
ENGLISH HERITAGE Retailers - other140 mExempt
ST ALDHELMS CHURCH AND COMMUNITY HALL Other catering premises210 m5 Very good5 Feb 2025
Care Dorset, Sherborne Connect DT9 3AJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good17 Dec 2024
BRIDLEWAYS DT9 3RXOther catering premises230 m5 Very good18 Oct 2018
SHERBORNE AREA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE DT9 3DYOther catering premises240 mExempt
SHERBORNE PRIMARY SCHOOL DT9 4AJSchool/college/university440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Mar 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.

7 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7

Most of these are attached to: On or near Admirals Close (5); On or near Miller Way (1); On or near Earls Close (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.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

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: 394 residents in 209 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 age6940
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over62%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright72%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work29%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)66%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away22%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: WESSEX WATER: Utility repair and maintenance works, 8 October 2026 to 12 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN POWER DISTRIBUTION (SSEPD): Utility asset works, 14 October 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

Nearby streets

Francis Walk · School Drive · Langdons · Tinneys Lane · Earls Close · Castle Road · Hill House Close · Miller Way · Cold Harbour · Dunstan Street · Lush Path · Castleton Court

All the streets in DT9 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.