Cross Roads Bourton, Dorset

6 addresses across 2 postcodes (SP8), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 23800027.

  • Sales: 21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £320,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (D: 1, E: 1, F: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Dorset costs £2,765 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Gillingham (Dorset), about 5.6 km (3.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Zeals Green, is about 910 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 110 to 115 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 6 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Silton Surgery, about 210 m away.
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 2 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

Sales on this street

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

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£320,000£320,000£320,000
20171£335,000£335,000£335,000
20161£240,000£240,000£240,000
20142£291,000£280,000£302,000
20131£282,500£282,500£282,500
20101£596,000£596,000£596,000
20081£225,000£225,000£225,000
20061£304,000£304,000£304,000
20051£280,000£280,000£280,000
20031£319,000£319,000£319,000
20011£173,000£173,000£173,000
19993£115,000£78,500£168,500
Most recent sales (21)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Mar 2025MALT COTTAGE SP8 5DDDetached£320,000
17 Oct 2017AINSLIE HOUSE SP8 5DDSemi-detached£335,000
17 Oct 2017AINSLIE HOUSE SP8 5DDOther£335,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Mar 2016MALT COTTAGE SP8 5DDDetached£240,000
11 Jul 20142, BUTTERCUP COTTAGES SP8 5DDDetached£302,000
24 Feb 2014IMOLA SP8 5DDDetached£280,000
21 Jan 2013LADYMEAD SP8 5DDDetached£282,500
28 Apr 2010COTEMEAD SP8 5DDDetached£596,000
3 Nov 2008COTEMEAD SP8 5DDDetached£225,000
27 Jun 20061, BUTTERCUP COTTAGES SP8 5DDDetached£304,000
13 Oct 2005NEWLYN COTTAGE SP8 5DDDetached£280,000
17 Oct 2003COTEMEAD SP8 5DDDetached£319,000
18 Jun 20012, BUTTERCUP COTTAGES SP8 5DDDetached£173,000
17 Nov 19991, BUTTERCUP COTTAGES SP8 5DDDetached£168,500
11 Jun 1999OLD SCHOOL HOUSE SP8 5DDSemi-detached£78,500
12 Mar 1999NEWLYN COTTAGE SP8 5DDDetached£115,000
24 Jan 19971, BUTTERCUP COTTAGES SP8 5DDDetached£120,000
12 Aug 19962, BUTTERCUP COTTAGES SP8 5DDDetached£120,000New build.
24 Jun 1996MALT COTTAGE SP8 5DDDetached£74,950
17 Jan 1996LADYMEAD SP8 5DDDetached£55,000
2 Feb 1995AINSLIE HOUSE SP8 5DDSemi-detached£84,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 141 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (2); House, semi-detached (1); House, detached (1). Built: before 1900 (2); 1950-1966 (1); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3).

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 C (21% of about 980 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

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

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

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

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

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 6 addresses are between 110 m and 115 m above sea level (112 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
SP8 5DB100%100%100%0%
SP8 5DD100%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 stationsGillingham (Dorset) 358,000 journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Bruton 53,000 journeys in 2024–259.9 km (6.2 miles)
Templecombe 92,000 journeys in 2024–2510.9 km (6.8 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest White Lion Cross Bourton50 m
EV charging pointsPoGo Charge3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS44 km (27 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 Silton Surgery210 m
PharmaciesMere Pharmacy3.7 km (2.3 miles)
NHS dentistsWinning Smiles4 km (2.5 miles)
HospitalWincanton Community Hospital7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Police stationMere Police Station4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machinesThe Southern Co-Operative Mere The Square, The Square Cashzone3.7 km (2.3 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 gardenZeals Green 740 m²910 m (0.6 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 720 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 9,800 m²1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,390 m²780 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Martin, a listed building (Grade II*), 1 km (0.6 miles) north. 25 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 MartinListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north
Pen Pits quern quarries SE of Hart HillScheduled monument1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Orchard CastleScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Pen Pits quern quarries N of Combe BottomScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Factory PondLake or reservoir540 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Corner CopseWood750 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Bagmore WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Combe BottomValley1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Hart HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Little MarshWetland3 km (1.9 miles) south-east

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)4.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)9.54015

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
60 to 6410
Under 5556

1 of the street's 6 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), 1 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
Whitesheet Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; 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
St George's Church of England School, BourtonPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
WHEYD Ltd SP8 5ARRetailers - other180 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
White Lion Inn SP8 5ATPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good23 Jan 2025
Forge Garage SP8 5BDRetailers - other350 m5 Very good5 Nov 2025
All About The Glaze SP8 5ATRetailers - other360 m5 Very good28 Apr 2021

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.

2 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Meadows (1); On or near Maycroft (1).

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: 319 residents in 136 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 age5840
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over39%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright57%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)42%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.

  • SP8 5DD: 5 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • SP8 5DB: 1 address of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Cross Roads · Silton Road · Olde Fairfield · Tan Lane · Mill Lane · Silton Road · High Street · Stour View · Bridge Street · Easton Place · Spring Garden Cottage · Fantley Lane

All the streets in SP8 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.
  • 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.