Edward Road Kennington, Vale of White Horse

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (OX1), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41600383.

  • Sales: 37 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £225,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 8, D: 5, 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 D; Band D in Vale of White Horse costs £2,577 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Radley, about 3.7 km (2.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Rivermead Nature Park, is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 62 to 70 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Donnington Medical Partnership, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 590 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 16 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£225,000£225,000£225,000
20242£525,000£430,000£620,000
20222£577,500£325,000£830,000
20212£225,000£200,000£250,000
20173£352,500£230,000£420,000
20151£728,600£728,600£728,600
20141£264,000£264,000£264,000
20132£270,500£141,000£400,000
20092£193,500£137,000£250,000
20064£241,250£155,000£359,950
20051£200,000£200,000£200,000
20042£297,500£275,000£320,000
Most recent sales (37)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 May 2025MONTANA OX1 5LHTerraced£225,000
23 Aug 202413 OX1 5LHDetached£620,000
26 Jul 202417 OX1 5LHTerraced£430,000
2 Dec 202214 OX1 5LHDetached£830,000
2 Dec 202215 OX1 5LHDetached£325,000
26 Oct 20214 OX1 5LHFlat or maisonette£250,000Leasehold.
6 Aug 2021MONTANA OX1 5LHTerraced£200,000
31 Aug 20174 OX1 5LHFlat or maisonette£230,000Leasehold.
12 May 20172A OX1 5LHDetached£420,000
19 Apr 201713 OX1 5LHDetached£352,500
11 Nov 20158 OX1 5LHDetached£728,600
14 Mar 201415 OX1 5LHDetached£264,000
2 Dec 20131 OX1 5LHDetached£400,000
18 Apr 2013MONTANA OX1 5LHTerraced£141,000
2 Oct 20094 OX1 5LHFlat or maisonette£137,000Leasehold.
8 Apr 20092 OX1 5LHDetached£250,000
8 Dec 20061 OX1 5LHDetached£359,950
16 Aug 20064 OX1 5LHFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 20066 OX1 5LHSemi-detached£182,500
20 Jan 200616 OX1 5LHDetached£300,000
1 Aug 200517 OX1 5LHTerraced£200,000
12 Dec 200418 OX1 5LHDetached£275,000
16 Jul 200414 OX1 5LHDetached£320,000
29 Aug 20038 OX1 5LHDetached£470,000
3 May 2002HILL RISE OX1 5LHDetached£106,000
26 Oct 200111 OX1 5LHDetached£232,500
10 Aug 200118 OX1 5LHDetached£230,000
1 Jun 20014 OX1 5LHFlat or maisonette£83,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 2001HILL RISE OX1 5LHDetached£86,000
30 Mar 20016 OX1 5LHSemi-detached£178,000
12 May 20008 OX1 5LHDetached£155,000
12 May 20006 OX1 5LHSemi-detached£105,000
17 Mar 2000MONTANA OX1 5LHDetached£85,000
24 Feb 20006 OX1 5LHSemi-detached£90,000
8 Mar 19968 OX1 5LHDetached£64,000
15 Dec 19955 OX1 5LHSemi-detached£73,000
31 Mar 199521 OX1 5LHSemi-detached£55,000

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 January 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 88 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (7); House, detached (2); Flat (2). Built: 1930-1949 (4); 1950-1966 (3); 1900-1929 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Vale of White Horse in 2026-27: Band D £2,577 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,718£2,005£2,291£2,577£3,150£3,723£4,296£5,155

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (33% of about 700 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 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
OX1 5LHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX1 5PGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 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 25 addresses are between 62 m and 70 m above sea level (66 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
OX1 5LH100%100%100%0%
OX1 5PG100%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 stationsRadley 132,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Oxford 8.1 million journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Culham 114,000 journeys in 2024–257.3 km (4.5 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Edward Road Kennington110 m
Bus or coach stationGloucester Green Bus Station Oxford City Centre4 km (2.5 miles)
Car parksKassam Parking2.5 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR61.1 km (38 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 surgeriesDonnington Medical Partnership2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kennington Pharmacy140 m
NHS dentistsNagi And Rattan Dental Surgery1.9 km (1.2 miles)
HospitalChurchill Hospital Oxford2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationThames Valley Police2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-op Kennington, Kennington90 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rivermead Nature Park 3.5 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 200 m²150 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.7 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 3.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Kennington Manor House and Attached Wall and Gatepiers, a listed building (Grade II*), 220 m south-east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Kennington Manor House and Attached Wall and GatepiersListed building, Grade II*220 m south-east
Old Abingdon Road CulvertsScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Colley's Ladder EastWood390 m west
Under WoodsWood510 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Heyford HillHill520 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Rose IsleIsland560 m (0.3 miles) east
Fiddler's ElbowLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Cow Hall BottomValley1.2 km (0.7 miles) 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)9.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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
55 to 5940
Under 552125

4 of the street's 25 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 Vale of White Horse: see them on the Vale of White Horse 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
St Swithun's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11580 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rose Hill Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Good
John Henry Newman Academy Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.7 km (1.1 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
Kennington Post Office OX1 5PERetailers - other70 mExempt
Ocean Blue Fish Bar OX1 5PGOther catering premises80 m5 Very good3 Dec 2024
Central Co-operative OX1 5PGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets100 m5 Very good12 Jul 2022
Mon Choisy OX1 5PEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good9 Oct 2026
Oxford BNB OX1 5LRHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house320 m5 Very good17 Oct 2024
Best One OX1 5PBRetailers - other390 m4 Good27 Sep 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.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Shoplifting4
Anti-social behaviour2
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1
Burglary1
Public order1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (13); On or near Edward Road (2); On or near Blackman Close (1).

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: 592 residents in 270 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 age4140
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van32%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 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.

Nearby streets

Rowles Close · Blackman Close · Kennington Road · Woodcroft · Bagley Close · Cow Lane · Ross Court · Kenville Road · Otters Reach · River View

All the streets in OX1 and across Vale of White Horse.

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.