Darent Place Didcot, South Oxfordshire

35 addresses across 1 postcode (OX11), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36208648.

  • Sales: 114 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £295,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 30 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 19, E: 4).
  • 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 South Oxfordshire costs £2,598 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Didcot Parkway, about 590 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 40 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 51 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 35 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Oak Tree Health Centre, about 590 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 62% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 26 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
20251£295,000£295,000£295,000
20232£381,000£367,000£395,000
20213£262,500£244,000£308,000
20202£277,500£255,000£300,000
20184£266,500£250,000£275,000
20174£273,500£225,000£332,000
20161£250,000£250,000£250,000
20151£285,000£285,000£285,000
20142£225,000£225,000£225,000
20131£222,500£222,500£222,500
20122£172,250£162,500£182,000
20111£195,000£195,000£195,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 114)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Sep 202514 OX11 7UQTerraced£295,000
22 Sep 20235 OX11 7UQTerraced£395,000
3 Aug 202339 OX11 7UQSemi-detached£367,000
12 Nov 202120 OX11 7UQSemi-detached£308,000
12 Nov 202114 OX11 7UQTerraced£262,500
21 Jun 20219 OX11 7UQTerraced£244,000
13 Nov 202039 OX11 7UQSemi-detached£300,000
16 Oct 202027 OX11 7UQTerraced£255,000
7 Dec 201841 OX11 7UQSemi-detached£275,000
3 Aug 201814 OX11 7UQTerraced£250,000
21 Jun 20182 OX11 7UQTerraced£273,000
19 Jan 201827 OX11 7UQTerraced£260,000
22 Sep 201725 OX11 7UQTerraced£310,000
23 Aug 20175 OX11 7UQTerraced£332,000
14 Jul 20179 OX11 7UQTerraced£237,000
28 Feb 201721 OX11 7UQTerraced£225,000
27 May 20164 OX11 7UQTerraced£250,000
11 Aug 201531 OX11 7UQTerraced£285,000
18 Dec 20147 OX11 7UQTerraced£225,000
7 Nov 20146 OX11 7UQTerraced£225,000
25 Feb 201323 OX11 7UQTerraced£222,500
28 Aug 201214 OX11 7UQTerraced£182,000
19 Apr 201221 OX11 7UQTerraced£162,500
27 May 201123 OX11 7UQTerraced£195,000
13 Dec 20107 OX11 7UQTerraced£164,000
21 Aug 200910 OX11 7UQTerraced£215,000
20 Mar 200931 OX11 7UQTerraced£204,250
1 Apr 200824 OX11 7UQSemi-detached£205,000
11 Jan 20085 OX11 7UQTerraced£227,000
26 Oct 200715 OX11 7UQTerraced£217,000
16 Apr 200711 OX11 7UQTerraced£175,000
19 Oct 20066 OX11 7UQTerraced£173,500
24 Jul 200621 OX11 7UQTerraced£160,000
14 Jun 20062 OX11 7UQTerraced£168,000
12 May 200620 OX11 7UQSemi-detached£192,500
10 Feb 200614 OX11 7UQTerraced£152,000
12 Jul 20059 OX11 7UQTerraced£155,000
6 May 200515 OX11 7UQTerraced£173,500
17 Dec 200437 OX11 7UQSemi-detached£207,000
1 Oct 20047 OX11 7UQTerraced£155,000
5 Jul 200424 OX11 7UQSemi-detached£181,000
15 Apr 20048 OX11 7UQTerraced£182,000
12 Sep 200312 OX11 7UQTerraced£139,500
27 Jun 200311 OX11 7UQTerraced£139,500
5 Mar 200341 OX11 7UQSemi-detached£167,000
11 Sep 200231 OX11 7UQTerraced£169,950
24 Aug 200116 OX11 7UQSemi-detached£109,500
26 Jul 20017 OX11 7UQTerraced£99,000
19 Jun 200117 OX11 7UQTerraced£99,000
27 Apr 200124 OX11 7UQSemi-detached£122,750

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

30 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (11); House, mid-terrace (10); House, end-terrace (7). Built: 1991-1995 (19); 1983-1990 (5); 1996-2002 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17); rented (private) (11).

Council tax

What each band costs in South Oxfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,598 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,732£2,020£2,309£2,598£3,175£3,752£4,329£5,195

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (56% of about 780 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.

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 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 addresses are about 51 m above sea level.

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
OX11 7UQ100%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 stationsDidcot Parkway 2.9 million journeys in 2024–25590 m (0.4 miles)
Appleford 9,070 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Culham 114,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ockley Brook Ladygrove140 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Edinburgh Drive Car Park740 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR56 km (35 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oak Tree Health Centre590 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apollo Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ladygrove Dental Practice300 m
HospitalDidcot Community Hospital2 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationCivil Nuclear Constabulary4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-Op Mersey Way, Mersey Way Cashzone380 m

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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 21 ha40 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 70 m²300 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 8,390 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.4 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 26 hectares in all.

Landmarks

4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Easton's PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Fulscot CopseWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Down HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Long Wittenham WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Clifton CutLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) north
Fullamoor PlantationWood3.8 km (2.4 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)7.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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 553435

1 of the street's 35 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 South Oxfordshire: see them on the South Oxfordshire 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
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11330 m No published inspection
Ladygrove Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lydalls Nursery SchoolNursery3–5670 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sires Hill Primary AcademyPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Willowcroft Community SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Manor Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Birinus SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Didcot Girls' SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Northbourne Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Stephen Freeman Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
The Ladygrove Generous George OX11 7SZPub/bar/nightclub250 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Jun 2026
Ladygrove Fish Bar OX11 7XTTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Central Co-operative OX11 7XTRetailers - other300 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Dec 2025
Ladygrove Day Nursery Didcot OX11 7XTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m4 Good9 Oct 2025
M&S Foodhall OX11 7LGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Mar 2025
Starbucks OX11 7LGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good11 Feb 2025
Hotel Chocolat OX11 7LGRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 Dec 2025
Cook Trading OX11 7LGRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good31 Aug 2022

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.

26 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Anti-social behaviour5
Public order2
Criminal damage and arson2
Robbery1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Darent Place (5); On or near Ockley Brook (4); On or near Ancholme Close (3); On or near Swarbourne Close (3); On or near Tyburn Glen (3).

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: 330 residents in 127 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 age3540
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over2%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)62%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work84%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)2%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)42%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)82%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

Nearby streets

Ottery Way · Tyburn Glen · Evenlode Drive · Ockley Brook · Cow Lane · Washford Glen · Exe Close · Cam Close · Arndale Beck · Tamar Way · Ancholme Close · Roding Way

All the streets in OX11 and across South Oxfordshire.

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.