Elm Close Bowerhill, Wiltshire

27 addresses across 1 postcode (SN12), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 43800858.

  • Sales: 31 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £525,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 7).
  • 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 B; Band D in Wiltshire costs £2,572 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 92% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Melksham, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 45 to 49 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 Spa Medical Centre, about 660 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 35 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£525,000£525,000£525,000
20241£375,000£375,000£375,000
20231£320,000£320,000£320,000
20222£295,000£275,000£315,000
20212£315,000£290,000£340,000
20202£305,000£275,000£335,000
20161£277,000£277,000£277,000
20151£237,500£237,500£237,500
20141£183,000£183,000£183,000
20131£199,995£199,995£199,995
20111£120,000£120,000£120,000
20091£217,000£217,000£217,000
Most recent sales (31)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Sep 202514 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£525,000
10 Jun 20244 SN12 6SDDetached£375,000
3 Aug 202320 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£320,000
30 Aug 202226 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£275,000
14 Jan 20225 SN12 6SDDetached£315,000
26 Mar 202125 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£290,000
10 Feb 202116 SN12 6SDDetached£340,000
16 Dec 20206 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£275,000
26 Oct 202014 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£335,000
27 May 20164 SN12 6SDDetached£277,000
4 Dec 20156 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£237,500
22 Aug 201425 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£183,000
13 Dec 20131 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£199,995
7 Oct 20118 SN12 6SDDetached£120,000
20 Nov 20094 SN12 6SDDetached£217,000
28 Jul 200625 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£199,950
22 Nov 200221 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£157,500
21 Jun 20027 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£161,000
4 Apr 200122 SN12 6SDDetached£139,000
5 Dec 200024 SN12 6SDDetached£128,500
12 Sep 20006 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£107,000
4 Sep 200026 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£119,950
11 May 200012 SN12 6SDDetached£134,500
4 Sep 199817 SN12 6SDDetached£87,000
28 Aug 19984 SN12 6SDDetached£92,000
22 May 199825 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£250,000
30 Apr 19971 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£75,000
9 Aug 199611 SN12 6SDDetached£88,000
26 Jul 19969 SN12 6SDDetached£94,000
15 Jan 199620 SN12 6SDSemi-detached£68,750
10 Nov 199524 SN12 6SDDetached£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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 105 m². Most common: House, detached (13). Built: 1967-1975 (6); 1983-1990 (3); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Wiltshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,572 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,715£2,000£2,286£2,572£3,143£3,715£4,286£5,144

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (37% of about 1,050 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.

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 27 addresses are between 45 m and 49 m above sea level (47 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
SN12 6SD100%92%92%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 stationsMelksham 61,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Trowbridge 904,000 journeys in 2024–257.6 km (4.8 miles)
Bradford-On-Avon 532,000 journeys in 2024–259 km (5.6 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lancaster Road Bowerhill180 m
Bus or coach stationChapel Knapp Farm6.3 km (3.9 miles)
Car parksChurch Street Car Park1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Source EV Charging Station940 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS41.1 km (26 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 Spa Medical Centre660 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Spa Pharmacy660 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Regency Dental Practice1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalBft Southmead Melksham Hospital770 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationWiltshire police crime numer candy handouts1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Melksham - Pembroke Road Cashzone1.4 km (0.8 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.2 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²130 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha290 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 820 m²920 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 4.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Woolmore Farmhouse, a listed building (Grade II*), 330 m east. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Woolmore FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*330 m east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Giles WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Eight Acre PlantationWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Forty Acre CopseWood2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Brickyard PlantationWood2.8 km (1.8 miles) north-east
Hag HillHill3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-west
Silverlands LakeLake or reservoir4.8 km (3 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)6.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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
Under 552727

None of the street's 27 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Wiltshire: see them on the Wiltshire 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
Bowerhill Primary SchoolPrimary4–11430 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Melksham Oak Community SchoolSecondary11–18520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Aloeric Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Forest and Sandridge Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
The Manor CofE VC Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
River Mead SchoolPrimary2–112 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding

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
Tolchards Ltd SN12 6TJDistributors/Transporters250 m5 Very good7 Jul 2022
Boomerang Ltd SN12 6TJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good10 Mar 2025
Project SEMH SN12 6TTSchool/college/university340 mExempt
ABC Day Nursery (Melksham) Ltd. SN12 6SSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Nov 2025

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.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Anti-social behaviour9
Public order6
Criminal damage and arson2
Drugs2
Burglary1
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Pathfinder Way (16); On or near Mallory Place (5); On or near Tedder Gardens (4); On or near Newall Road (4); On or near Elm Close (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: 276 residents in 122 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 age5040
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented32%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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 5 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

Birch Grove · Tedder Gardens · Halifax Road · Pathfinder Way · Wellington Drive · Pile Place · Anson Grove · Chamier Close · Newall Road · Babington Close · Mallory Place · Wellington Square

All the streets in SN12 and across Wiltshire.

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.