Donkey Lane Bourne End, Buckinghamshire

18 addresses across 1 postcode (SL8), about 260 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 45503465.

Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £1,240,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 2, E: 1, F: 2).
Flood: 4 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 Buckinghamshire costs £2,527 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 8% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Bourne End, about 290 m away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 26 to 29 m above sea level.
Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cookham Medical Centre, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away.
People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 34 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2025	1	£1,240,000	£1,240,000	£1,240,000
2022	1	£2,100,000	£2,100,000	£2,100,000
2019	1	£1,705,000	£1,705,000	£1,705,000
2014	1	£915,000	£915,000	£915,000
2010	1	£1,615,000	£1,615,000	£1,615,000
2009	1	£1,300,000	£1,300,000	£1,300,000
2007	3	£450,000	£310,000	£2,050,000
2005	1	£1,000,000	£1,000,000	£1,000,000
2004	2	£375,000	£375,000	£375,000
1999	4	£310,000	£50,000	£760,000
1997	2	£495,000	£375,000	£615,000

Most recent sales (20)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
19 Aug 2025	THE ORCHARD SL8 5RR	Detached	£1,240,000
21 Oct 2022	PLATTS DELL SL8 5RR	Other	£1,550,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jul 2022	MAPLE LODGE SL8 5RR	Detached	£2,100,000
2 Aug 2019	FULBECK COURT SL8 5RR	Detached	£1,705,000
13 Dec 2018	WIND IN THE WILLOWS SL8 5RR	Other	£1,260,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Sep 2014	THE PLATT SL8 5RR	Semi-detached	£915,000
20 Aug 2010	BROOKSBY SL8 5RR	Detached	£1,615,000
1 Sep 2009	DANCING WATER SL8 5RR	Detached	£1,300,000
27 Sep 2007	THORNBIE HOUSE SL8 5RR	Detached	£2,050,000
6 Aug 2007	LITTLE PLATT SL8 5RR	Detached	£310,000
9 Jul 2007	DONKEY DRIVE BUNGALOW SL8 5RR	Detached	£450,000
2 Dec 2005	MAPLE LODGE SL8 5RR	Detached	£1,000,000
11 Jun 2004	MAPLE LODGE SL8 5RR	Detached	£375,000
2 Jun 2004	MAPLE LODGE SL8 5RR	Detached	£375,000
22 Jul 1999	THE ORCHARD SL8 5RR	Detached	£300,000
10 Jun 1999	WOODSIDE SL8 5RR	Detached	£320,000
25 May 1999	BROOKSBY SL8 5RR	Detached	£760,000
12 Feb 1999	FULBECK COURT SL8 5RR	Detached	£50,000
31 Oct 1997	THORNBIE HOUSE SL8 5RR	Detached	£615,000
26 Aug 1997	WIND IN THE WILLOWS SL8 5RR	Detached	£375,000

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

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 262 m². Most common: House, detached (7); House, semi-detached (2). Built: before 1900 (3); 2003-2006 (2); 1996-2002 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Buckinghamshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,527 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,684	£1,965	£2,246	£2,527	£3,088	£3,650	£4,211	£5,053

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (27% of about 820 homes).

A4%

B4%

C11%

D27%

E17%

F21%

G13%

H4%

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): Former Wycombe Rural District - Poultry Production.
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)

Comino HouseFurlong RoadBourne EndBuckinghamshireSL8 5AQ: up to 11 homes, permissioned (640 m (0.4 miles))
Herons Rest Hedsor Road Bourne End Buckinghamshire SL8 5DP, permissioned (890 m (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, 3 at medium risk and 6 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 14 homes the Environment Agency counts, 1 are in areas at high risk, 3 medium, 6 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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

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 18 addresses are between 26 m and 29 m above sea level (28 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
SL8 5RR	100%	8%	8%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Bourne End 255,000 journeys in 2024–25	290 m
	Cookham 204,000 journeys in 2024–25	2.2 km (1.4 miles)
	Marlow 361,000 journeys in 2024–25	3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops	5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Railway Station Bourne End	300 m
Bus or coach station	Coachway High Wycombe	5.4 km (3.3 miles)
Car parks	Cookham Moor National Trust Car Park	1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points	1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station	360 m
Airport with scheduled flights	London Heathrow Airport LHR	21.3 km (13 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	Cookham Medical Centre	2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Pharmacies	1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bourne End Pharmacy	260 m
NHS dentists	1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Bourne End Dental Practice	330 m
Hospital	Marlow Hospital	3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Police station	Marlow Police Station	4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Cash machines	2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest BP - Parade SF Connect Cashzone	310 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,100 m²	640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,290 m²	570 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field	2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha	550 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments	1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha	530 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Round barrow cemetery on Cock Marsh, a scheduled monument, 550 m (0.3 miles) south-west. 19 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Round barrow cemetery on Cock Marsh	Scheduled monument	550 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Hedsor House	Registered park or garden, Grade II	2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Cock Marsh	Wetland	780 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Cookham Dean	Valley	1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
White Hill	Hill	1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Long Copse	Wood	1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Lock Cut	Lake or reservoir	2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Sherriff Island	Island	3.4 km (2.1 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	9.8	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	7.3	20	5
Particles (PM10)	11.4	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
65 to 69	0	3
60 to 64	0	8
55 to 59	0	6
Under 55	18	1

17 of the street's 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from railways, 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 Buckinghamshire: see them on the Buckinghamshire 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
E-Act Bourne End Academy	Secondary	11–18	760 m (0.5 miles)	Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Claytons Primary School	Primary	3–11	850 m (0.5 miles)	Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Paul's Church of England Combined School, Wooburn	Primary	3–11	1.5 km (0.9 miles)	Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)

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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
El Cerdo SL8 5RP	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	130 m	5 Very good	3 Jul 2025
The Bounty SL8 5RG	Pub/bar/nightclub	150 m	5 Very good	4 Aug 2026
@Fiesty SL8 5YP	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	210 m	5 Very good	17 Apr 2026
Costa Coffee SL8 5SB	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	260 m	5 Very good	14 Jan 2025
Lee's Bakery SL8 5SB	Retailers - other	260 m	3 Generally satisfactory	4 Aug 2026
Wenzels SL8 5SB	Retailers - other	260 m	5 Very good	10 Oct 2025
The Lemon Tree SL8 5SB	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	260 m	5 Very good	8 May 2026
E Colliass Limited SL8 5SB	Retailers - other	260 m	4 Good	5 Aug 2019
Lloyds Pharmacy SL8 5SA	Retailers - other	260 m	Exempt
KEG CRAFT BEER SL8 5QN	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	280 m	5 Very good	15 Jan 2020
The Coriander SL8 5SS	Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen	290 m	2 Improvement necessary	10 Jul 2026
Kingfishers Nursing Home SL8 5RA	Hospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises	310 m	5 Very good	11 Nov 2025
Smiles SL8 5SS	Takeaway/sandwich shop	310 m	5 Very good	14 Jan 2025
The Fruit Market SL8 5SS	Retailers - other	310 m	5 Very good	3 Nov 2016
Parade Service Station SL8 5SS	Retailers - other	310 m	4 Good	12 Nov 2012

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.

34 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	12
Criminal damage and arson	6
Public order	6
Other theft	4
Drugs	3
Burglary	2
Other crime	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Howard Court (15); On or near Sailing Club Road (7); On or near Donkey Lane (5); On or near Waldens Close (4); On or near Parking Area (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: 368 residents in 162 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 street	England
Median age	60	40
Children under 15	10%	17%
Aged 65 and over	39%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	87%	61%
Owned outright	64%	33%
Shared ownership	0%	1%
Social rented	under 1%	17%
Private rented	12%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	47%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	4%	6%
Retired (of adults)	43%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	2%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	60%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	35%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	under 1%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	1%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	3%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	61%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	16%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	49%	34%
No qualifications	9%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	5%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	99%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	under 1%	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.

SL8 5RR: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Camden Place · Wharf Lane · Wharf Lane · The Rosery · Waldens Close · Sailing Club Road · Southbourne Drive · Oakfield Road · Ravenshoe Close · West Court · Camden Place · Lock Bridge Road

All the streets in SL8 and across Buckinghamshire.

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.