Drakeloe Close Woburn, Central Bedfordshire

58 addresses across 2 postcodes (MK17), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25201399.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £525,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 44 homes have an energy certificate (C: 19, D: 24, E: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 C; Band D in Central Bedfordshire costs £2,516 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Aspley Guise, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 107 to 111 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 58 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Asplands Medical Centre, about 3.2 km (2 miles) away.
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 45% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 18 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often burglary.

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
20252£525,000£205,000£845,000
20241£420,000£420,000£420,000
20222£617,500£475,000£760,000
20211£278,750£278,750£278,750
20201£340,000£340,000£340,000
20191£395,000£395,000£395,000
20171£301,000£301,000£301,000
20151£306,000£306,000£306,000
20131£250,000£250,000£250,000
20123£227,000£220,000£280,000
20101£182,000£182,000£182,000
20091£215,000£215,000£215,000
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Mar 202645 MK17 9QFOther£1,458,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Nov 202577 MK17 9QFTerraced£205,000
30 Jul 202512 MK17 9QESemi-detached£845,000
12 Aug 202435 MK17 9QFSemi-detached£420,000
16 Nov 20226 MK17 9QESemi-detached£475,000
15 Nov 202212 MK17 9QESemi-detached£760,000
29 Mar 20215 MK17 9QFTerraced£278,750
20 Nov 202057 MK17 9QFSemi-detached£340,000
18 Jan 20198 MK17 9QESemi-detached£395,000
28 Mar 20185 MK17 9QFTerraced£216,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Feb 201737 MK17 9QFTerraced£301,000
2 Dec 201512 MK17 9QESemi-detached£306,000
28 Aug 20138 MK17 9QESemi-detached£250,000
15 Jun 201257 MK17 9QFSemi-detached£220,000
20 Mar 201229 MK17 9QFTerraced£227,000
1 Mar 201223 MK17 9QFSemi-detached£280,000
22 Jun 201029 MK17 9QFSemi-detached£182,000
18 Dec 200961 MK17 9QFSemi-detached£215,000
15 Dec 200657 MK17 9QFSemi-detached£215,000
28 Aug 200310 MK17 9QESemi-detached£170,000
30 Jul 20038 MK17 9QESemi-detached£212,000
26 Apr 20028 MK17 9QESemi-detached£158,750
23 Jul 200145 MK17 9QFSemi-detached£105,000
30 Jul 199925 MK17 9QFSemi-detached£121,000
19 Mar 199928 MK17 9QETerraced£58,000
4 Dec 199845 MK17 9QFSemi-detached£80,000
16 Sep 199837 MK17 9QFTerraced£66,500
12 Sep 199725 MK17 9QFSemi-detached£89,995
30 Jun 19974 MK17 9QESemi-detached£30,600
3 Feb 19976 MK17 9QESemi-detached£39,000
27 Oct 199525 MK17 9QFSemi-detached£70,000

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.

44 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15); Bungalow, end-terrace (10); Bungalow, mid-terrace (5). Built: 1950-1966 (27); 1976-1982 (6); 1967-1975 (6). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (26); owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (20 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Central Bedfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,516 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,677£1,957£2,237£2,516£3,075£3,634£4,194£5,032

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (26% of about 690 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: 1.
  • 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: yes, Central Bedfordshire.

Listed buildings

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
MK17 9QFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
MK17 9QEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 58 addresses are between 107 m and 111 m above sea level (109 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
MK17 9QE100%100%100%0%
MK17 9QF100%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 stationsAspley Guise 8,300 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Woburn Sands 48,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Ridgmont 18,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Village Hall Woburn160 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bletchley8 km (5 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN21.5 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.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesAsplands Medical Centre3.2 km (2 miles)
PharmaciesWoburn Sands Pharmacy3.1 km (1.9 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery3.3 km (2.1 miles)
HospitalSteppingley Hospital7.6 km (4.7 miles)
Police stationThames Valley Police11.1 km (6.9 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
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 620 m²190 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.7 ha170 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,820 m²250 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of Saint Mary, a listed building (Grade II*), 210 m south. 71 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 9 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of Saint MaryListed building, Grade II*210 m south
North Gatepier of Pair Adjacent to Lion LodgeListed building, Grade II*250 m south-east
South Gatepier of Pair Adjacent to Lion LodgeListed building, Grade II*260 m south-east
Old Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*260 m south-west
Woburn AbbeyRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lower Drakeloe PondLake or reservoir220 m north-east
Upper Drakeloe PondLake or reservoir420 m (0.3 miles) east
Cowhill BeltWood480 m (0.3 miles) south
Cowhill Belt PondLake or reservoir480 m (0.3 miles) south-east
The EvergreensWood820 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Ling HillHill2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-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)6.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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 6430
55 to 5970
Under 554858

10 of the street's 58 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 Central Bedfordshire: see them on the Central Bedfordshire 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
Woburn Lower SchoolPrimary4–9270 m Good (Dec 2023, 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Longs Inn MK17 9QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m4 Good24 Jun 2025
Margo's Woburn Ltd MK17 9QBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good5 Aug 2025
The Black Horse MK17 9QBPub/bar/nightclub210 m4 Good2 Jul 2026
The Bell Hotel & Inn MK17 9QBHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house210 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Woburn Swimming Pool MK17 9QDOther catering premises210 m5 Very good27 Oct 2023
Woburn Lower School MK17 9QLSchool/college/university230 m5 Very good28 Feb 2025
Kidz Zone Club Ltd MK17 9QLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good27 Feb 2025
The Nook MK17 9PZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good10 Jan 2025
Woburn Village Stores MK17 9PZRetailers - other320 m4 Good25 Mar 2026
Woburn Coffee House MK17 9PZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good16 Jan 2025
Flootes MK17 9PZTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m1 Major improvement necessary31 Mar 2026
Woburn Wine Cellar MK17 9PZRetailers - other320 mExempt
Rai Woburn MK17 9PZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good24 Sep 2024
Woburn Mosaic Limited MK17 9PZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good17 Jul 2024
Lambden's of Woburn MK17 9PZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m1 Major improvement necessary20 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.

18 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Burglary3
Vehicle crime3
Violence and sexual offences3
Possession of weapons2
Criminal damage and arson2
Other theft2
Robbery1
Other crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Drakeloe Close (6); On or near Eleanor Close (4); On or near Marquis Court (3); On or near Bedford Street (3); On or near Crawley Road (2).

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: 263 residents in 137 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 age5340
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)45%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented35%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)35%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)46%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Drakeloe Close · Eleanor Walk · Eleanor Close · Fox Close · Marquis Court · Caswell Lane · Bedford Street · Market Place · High Street · Market Place

All the streets in MK17 and across Central Bedfordshire.

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.