Chapel Park Close Bideford, Torridge

26 addresses across 2 postcodes (EX39), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40904877.

  • Sales: 55 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £185,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Torridge cost £267,174 in August 2026 (+0.3% on a year); private rents averaged £792 a month.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (B: 5, C: 15).
  • 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.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Pillhead Copse Landfill, is 440 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 11 times (17 hours) in 2025.
  • Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 540 m (0.3 miles) from its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Huxhill Farm, Weare Gifford - Wind Turbine, is 4.3 km (2.7 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Torridge costs £2,601 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnstaple, about 11.1 km (6.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 380 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 26 to 37 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 26 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wooda Surgery, about 570 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 670 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 57% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 62 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
20241£185,000£185,000£185,000
20232£274,000£200,000£348,000
20221£160,000£160,000£160,000
20212£262,500£255,000£270,000
20202£227,250£192,500£262,000
20195£196,000£150,500£235,000
20183£240,000£175,000£265,000
20174£155,750£137,000£230,000
20161£144,950£144,950£144,950
20153£188,000£139,000£208,000
20141£194,000£194,000£194,000
20133£133,500£133,000£145,000
All 55 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
8 Oct 20241 EX39 4FDTerraced£185,000
3 Feb 20231 EX39 4FDTerraced£200,000
5 Jan 20171 EX39 4FDTerraced£137,000
17 Jun 20101 EX39 4FDTerraced£133,995New build.
28 May 20102 EX39 4FDTerraced£165,000
27 Nov 20203 EX39 4FDTerraced£192,500
7 Dec 20183 EX39 4FDTerraced£175,000
5 Nov 20103 EX39 4FDTerraced£145,000
26 Jan 20225 EX39 4FDTerraced£160,000
27 May 20105 EX39 4FDTerraced£119,995
15 Oct 20105A EX39 4FDTerraced£150,000
20 Dec 20215B EX39 4FDSemi-detached£255,000
26 Jul 20195B EX39 4FDSemi-detached£196,000
30 Nov 20105B EX39 4FDSemi-detached£152,500
16 Feb 20216 EX39 4FDDetached£270,000
30 Oct 20086 EX39 4FDDetached£205,000
26 Jan 20237 EX39 4FDDetached£348,000
9 Apr 20207 EX39 4FDDetached£262,000
7 May 20097 EX39 4FDDetached£217,500
2 Jun 20087 EX39 4FDDetached£248,745
15 Oct 20188 EX39 4FDDetached£265,000
30 Apr 20088 EX39 4FDDetached£249,995
27 Jun 20089 EX39 4FDDetached£272,995
19 Jul 201710 EX39 4FDDetached£230,000
19 Aug 201510 EX39 4FDDetached£188,000
18 Apr 200810 EX39 4FDDetached£194,995
11 Mar 201911 EX39 4FDSemi-detached£215,000
26 Feb 201911 EX39 4FDSemi-detached£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Oct 200711 EX39 4FDSemi-detached£191,995New build.
4 May 201712 EX39 4FDTerraced£155,500
20 Dec 200712 EX39 4FDTerraced£148,000
3 Feb 201714 EX39 4FDTerraced£156,000
16 Nov 200714 EX39 4FDTerraced£156,995New build.
5 Aug 201615 EX39 4FDFlat or maisonette£144,950
25 Jan 201315 EX39 4FDFlat or maisonette£133,500
11 Sep 200915 EX39 4FDFlat or maisonette£134,000
23 Nov 200715 EX39 4FDSemi-detached£149,995New build.
12 Jul 201916 EX39 4FDTerraced£150,500
20 Mar 201516 EX39 4FDTerraced£139,000
13 Mar 201316 EX39 4FDTerraced£133,000
14 Dec 200716 EX39 4FDFlat or maisonette£149,995New build.
31 Jul 201917 EX39 4FDSemi-detached£235,000
28 Jun 201917 EX39 4FDSemi-detached£235,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 May 201517 EX39 4FDSemi-detached£208,000
31 Oct 200817 EX39 4FDSemi-detached£189,995New build.
7 Mar 200818 EX39 4FDSemi-detached£177,000
14 Dec 200719 EX39 4FDSemi-detached£179,996
21 May 201820 EX39 4FDDetached£240,000
7 Feb 201420 EX39 4FDDetached£194,000
14 Jan 201120 EX39 4FDSemi-detached£185,000
27 May 200821 EX39 4FDTerraced£229,000
19 Apr 201322 EX39 4FDTerraced£145,000
26 Sep 200822 EX39 4FDTerraced£184,995
28 Jun 201923 EX39 4FDTerraced£180,000
27 Jun 200823 EX39 4FDTerraced£179,995

House prices and rents in Torridge

A typical home in Torridge cost £267,174 in August 2026, 0.3% more than a year before. That is 6% more than five years earlier and 34% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£389,229
Semi-detached£276,215
Terraced£207,983
Flat or maisonette£136,612
Bought by a first-time buyer£214,439

Private renters in Torridge paid £792 a month on average in September 2026, 2.1% more than a year before. That is 26% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£567
Two bedrooms£742
Three bedrooms£912
Four or more bedrooms£1,274

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

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, detached (6); House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 2007-2011 (9); 2003-2006 (5); 2007 onwards (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (20 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 6,569 kWh of it on average in 2024, 26% less than the district's 8,872 kWh, and 2,335 kWh of electricity, 33% less than the district's 3,494 kWh. There are gas meters for about 98% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
EX39 4FD241,894 kWh 245,892 kWh
EX39 4AB172,506 kWh 166,573 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 EX39.

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 Torridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,601 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,734£2,023£2,312£2,601£3,180£3,758£4,336£5,203

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (45% of about 1,300 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

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

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Huxhill Farm, Weare Gifford - Wind Turbine Torridge 1/0244/2026/FUL Wind 1 turbine, 46.5 m tall 0.2 MW Planning application made Apr 2026 4.3 km (2.7 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

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

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

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

The nearest projected erosion zone is 540 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Hartland Point to Anchor Head none (the line is held)550 m (0.3 miles)
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Hartland Point to Anchor Head none (the line is held)550 m (0.3 miles)
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Hartland Point to Anchor Head up to 3 m540 m (0.3 miles)

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

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 11 times, for 17 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Torridge Via Sws, River Torridge Estuary (E), River Torridge Estuary(E).

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Torridge Mount Cso South West Water River Torridge Via Sws 0 0 760 m (0.5 miles)
Torrington Street Ps South West Water River Torridge Estuary (E) 8 11 900 m (0.6 miles)
Ethelwynne Brown Close Ps South West Water River Torridge Estuary(E) 3 6 950 m (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

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

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 1 to 3%: 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. 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

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 440 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Pillhead Copse Landfill Bideford, Old Barnstaple Road, Devon Not recorded Not recorded 440 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 26 addresses are between 26 m and 37 m above sea level (32 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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
EX39 4AB100%100%100%0%
EX39 4FD100%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 stationsBarnstaple 609,000 journeys in 2024–2511.1 km (6.9 miles)
Chapelton (Devon) 160 journeys in 2024–2511.8 km (7.3 miles)
Umberleigh 54,000 journeys in 2024–2514.9 km (9.3 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Biddiblack Way East-the-Water160 m
Ferry terminalBideford Ferry Landing820 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT63.2 km (39 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL72.8 km (45 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 Wooda Surgery Good Nov 2019570 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy Bideford570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Quay Dental Practice860 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalBideford Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingsley House Good Jan 20201.2 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Constabulary930 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone570 m (0.4 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 9,310 m²380 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,240 m²220 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,430 m²250 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,680 m²720 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Royal Hotel, a listed building (Grade I), 600 m (0.4 miles) west. 146 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 7 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Royal HotelListed building, Grade I600 m (0.4 miles) west
Bideford Bridge Including Parapet Walls and Gates of East AbutmentListed building, Grade I740 m (0.5 miles) west
31, Bridgeland StreetListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) west
4 and 4A, Bridgeland StreetListed building, Grade II*900 m (0.6 miles) west
Hallsannery limekilnScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Tapeley ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cleave WoodWood780 m (0.5 miles) east
Pillhead MarshWetland1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Ball HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Woodville BottomValley1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Jennetts ReservoirLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Instow BeachBeach4.4 km (2.8 miles) north

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)3.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.8205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 552526

1 of the street's 26 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 Torridge: see them on the Torridge page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 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
East-the-Water Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11330 m No published inspection 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 51% in 2023)
St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
West Croft SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Urgent improvement; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Urgent improvement; Safeguarding standards: Met 38% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 29% in 2024 and 23% in 2023)
Bideford CollegeSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.3 (45.7 in 2025 and 42.5 in 2024); 41.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 23.5% AAB or better; progress above 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 450 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
East the Water Stepping Stones Pre School EX39 4BL Full day care 44 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 450 m (0.3 miles)
Bideford Baptist Pre-school EX39 2JR Sessional day care 40 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Tarka Tots Nursery EX39 2QS Full day care 45 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
The Little Learners Childcare EX39 3JZ Full day care 30 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 328 childminders and 60 home childcarers (nannies) in Devon. 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 6 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
East The Water Primary School EX39 4BZSchool/college/university230 m5 Very good19 Dec 2025
Tesco EX39 4FWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets290 m5 Very good15 Oct 2025
NIC Services Group EX39 4FWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m4 Good13 Mar 2018
Pollyfield Community Association EX39 4BLPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Aug 2026
East The Water Stepping Stones Pre School EX39 4BLSchool/college/university450 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary5 Dec 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.

62 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Anti-social behaviour13
Vehicle crime6
Other theft6
Burglary3
Criminal damage and arson3
Public order3
Other crime2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Biddiblack Way (17); On or near Merryfield Road (13); On or near Northfield Road (10); On or near Culm Close (8); On or near Fillablack Way (6).

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 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 665 residents in 261 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 age3640
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)57%61%
Owned outright24%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%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)27%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

Nearby streets

Biddiblack Way · Culm Close · Fillablack Road · Biddiblack Way · Fillablack Road · Pollards Place · Northfield Road · Shamwickshire Close · Merryfield Road · Rogers Crescent · East Ridge View · Southfield Road

All the streets in EX39 and across Torridge.

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.