Chestnut Road Brockenhurst, New Forest

33 addresses across 2 postcodes (SO42), about 340 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 26721549.

  • Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £820,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 2, D: 15, E: 1).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in New Forest costs £2,420 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Brockenhurst, about 380 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Waters Green, is about 280 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 13 to 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is New Forest Medical Group, about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 21 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£820,000£820,000£820,000
20251£900,000£900,000£900,000
20241£1,195,000£1,195,000£1,195,000
20232£832,500£800,000£865,000
20221£640,000£640,000£640,000
20211£700,000£700,000£700,000
20203£630,000£545,000£685,000
20192£647,500£535,000£760,000
20181£690,000£690,000£690,000
20173£765,000£442,500£850,000
20152£481,250£435,000£527,500
20131£500,000£500,000£500,000
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jun 202624 SO42 7RFDetached£820,000
28 Jan 202528 SO42 7RFDetached£900,000
11 Apr 2024OBSYDIAN HOUSE, 22 SO42 7RFDetached£1,195,000
27 Sep 202312 SO42 7RFDetached£865,000
26 Jul 202315 SO42 7RFDetached£800,000
26 Oct 202216 SO42 7RFDetached£640,000
30 Jun 202113A SO42 7RFDetached£700,000
5 Nov 20209 SO42 7RFDetached£685,000
4 Sep 202013 SO42 7RFDetached£630,000
31 Jan 202029 SO42 7RFDetached£545,000
6 Sep 201916 SO42 7RFDetached£535,000
8 Jul 20195 SO42 7RFDetached£760,000
7 Jun 201913A SO42 7RFDetached£515,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Jul 201811 SO42 7RFDetached£690,000
6 Sep 201722 SO42 7RFDetached£765,000
3 Apr 201711 SO42 7RFDetached£442,500
9 Mar 201728 SO42 7RFDetached£850,000
27 Nov 20159 SO42 7RFDetached£527,500
10 Jul 20156 SO42 7RFDetached£435,000
19 Dec 201310 SO42 7RFDetached£400,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jun 201319 SO42 7RFDetached£500,000
3 Jun 20117 SO42 7RFDetached£449,950
15 Jan 20103 SO42 7RFDetached£445,000
26 May 200622 SO42 7RFDetached£499,950
29 Mar 200615 SO42 7RFDetached£391,000
18 Nov 200512 SO42 7RFDetached£317,000
19 Feb 20054 SO42 7RFDetached£360,000
9 May 20038 SO42 7RFDetached£335,000
28 Feb 200322 SO42 7RFDetached£322,500
28 Nov 200223 SO42 7RFDetached£353,000
20 Aug 199923 SO42 7RFDetached£210,000
14 Jul 199928 SO42 7RFDetached£169,500
22 Jun 199819 SO42 7RFDetached£185,000
22 Jun 199813A SO42 7RFDetached£158,000
8 Mar 199625 SO42 7RFDetached£134,000
15 Feb 199516 SO42 7RFDetached£110,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 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 103 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (12); House, detached (8). Built: 1950-1966 (11); 1967-1975 (4); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (14 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in New Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,420 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,613£1,882£2,151£2,420£2,957£3,495£4,033£4,840

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (30% of about 940 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): ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION NP NEW FOREST CAMPSITE, ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION NP NEW FOREST RECREATIONAL CAMPSITE, New Forest National Park Boundary, New Forest National Park Boundary.
  • Tree preservation orders: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

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

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

Roadworks

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

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 4 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 36 homes the Environment Agency counts, 1 are in areas at high risk, 2 medium, 4 low and 0 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
SO42 7RFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
SO42 7REnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 3 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 33 addresses are between 13 m and 16 m above sea level (15 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
SO42 7RE100%100%100%0%
SO42 7RF100%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 stationsBrockenhurst 986,000 journeys in 2024–25380 m
Sway 81,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Beaulieu Road 20,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.9 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Foresters Arms Brockenhurst250 m
Bus or coach stationAshurst New Forest - Lyndhurst Park Hotel8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Ferry terminalLymington Town Quay7.3 km (4.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brookley Road Car Park230 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station180 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH19.2 km (12 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS102 km (63 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest New Forest Medical Group640 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis Pharmacy290 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Merrygate Dental Surgery200 m
HospitalLymington New Forest Hospital Cdc6 km (3.8 miles)
Police stationLymington Police Station4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Sway - Station Road Cashzone4.6 km (2.9 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 Waters Green 1.0 ha280 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Culverley Green 2.7 ha530 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 520 m²650 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha110 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha740 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 3.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Nicholas, a listed building (Grade II*), 760 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 23 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St NicholasListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Brockenhurst ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Bowl barrow 320m west of Ober HouseScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bakers PlantationWood910 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Butts LawnWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Furzy HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Dawkins BottomValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Latchmoor PondLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Hincheslea BogWetland2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)8.24015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6410
55 to 5980
Under 552333

10 of the street's 33 addresses are 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 New Forest: see them on the New Forest page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Brockenhurst College16 plus16–99330 m No published inspection
Brockenhurst Church of England Primary School & Pre-SchoolPrimary2–11490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
BROCKENHURST FOOTBALL CLUB SO42 7REPub/bar/nightclub130 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Jan 2026
RHAINS DINER SO42 7RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m4 Good1 Dec 2025
HARRISON'S CATERING SO42 7PGOther catering premises170 m5 Very good4 Jun 2024
FORESTERS ARMS SO42 7RRPub/bar/nightclub180 m4 Good18 Mar 2026
A AND R BEARDSMORE LTD TA RAINBOW FISH BAR SO42 7RRTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good5 Mar 2026
BROCKENHURST BOWLING CLUB SO42 7RROther catering premises180 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
CAREYS MANOR HOTEL & SENSPA SO42 7RHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house200 m5 Very good7 Aug 2025
KASI SO42 7RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m3 Generally satisfactory23 Jan 2026
THE HUNTSMAN SO42 7RHPub/bar/nightclub200 m5 Very good17 Oct 2025
WHITE TAILS RESTAURANT SO42 7SHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good10 Jan 2023
COTTAGE LODGE HOTEL SO42 7SHHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house200 m5 Very good17 Jan 2025
ESMES TEAROOMS SO42 7RRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good1 Apr 2026
PREMIER CONVENIENCE STORE SO42 7RLRetailers - other260 m5 Very good26 Sep 2026
THE SNAKECATCHER PUB SO42 7RLPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good17 Oct 2025
NEW FOREST SHORTBREAD SO42 7RLRetailers - other260 m5 Very good13 Feb 2026

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.

21 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences6
Criminal damage and arson3
Other crime3
Burglary3
Vehicle crime2
Bicycle theft1
Other theft1
Drugs1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sutton Place (6); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (2); On or near Brookley Road (2); On or near Fathersfield (2); On or near Auckland Avenue (2).

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: 538 residents in 230 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 age5540
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright61%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)40%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • SO42 7RF: 32 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • SO42 7RE: 1 address of 37 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Brookley Road · Sutton Place · Forest Hall · Noel Close · Auckland Avenue · Horlock Road · Waters Green Court · Silverstone Mews · Fathersfield · Greenways Road · Fibbards Road · Wide Lane Close

All the streets in SO42 and across New Forest.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.