Evans Lane Kidlington, Cherwell

130 addresses across 10 postcodes (OX5), about 770 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 6800501.

  • Sales: 104 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £550,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Cherwell cost £355,981 in August 2026 (+2.6% on a year); private rents averaged £1,316 a month.
  • Energy: 70 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 28, D: 33, E: 7, F: 1).
  • Flood: 9 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 10 to 30% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Essentra Components, Langford Locks - Solar Panels, is 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Cherwell costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Oxford Parkway, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 61 to 65 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 32 of its 130 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Gosford Hill Medical Centre, about 370 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,870 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 28 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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
20261£550,000£550,000£550,000
20251£440,000£440,000£440,000
20242£308,750£202,500£415,000
20232£540,000£525,000£555,000
20225£468,000£387,500£515,000
20218£384,750£341,000£635,000
20202£337,500£280,000£395,000
20192£415,000£415,000£415,000
20182£406,500£360,000£453,000
20178£361,525£197,500£640,000
20155£313,000£280,000£650,000
20142£329,000£258,000£400,000
All 104 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Mar 20179 OX5 2HXDetached£525,000
30 Nov 201210 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£249,950
30 Apr 199712 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£69,000
14 Oct 202213 OX5 2HXDetached£400,000
28 Jun 202113 OX5 2HXDetached£380,000
17 Nov 199514 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£55,000New build.
15 Aug 199715 OX5 2HXDetached£75,000
30 Jun 199517 OX5 2HXDetached£70,000New build.
16 Apr 202120 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£384,500
4 Apr 201420 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£258,000
27 Jan 200620 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£170,000
28 Jul 202521 OX5 2HXDetached£440,000
4 Apr 199622 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£58,000
25 Nov 202224 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£468,000
24 Mar 201724 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£379,950
19 Nov 201024 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£246,000
23 Apr 200324 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£189,995
5 Nov 199926 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£93,000
18 Feb 200528 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£200,000
12 Dec 199728 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£82,000
2 Jun 201530 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£280,000
14 Feb 200330 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£166,000
7 Mar 202232 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£387,500
23 Jul 202132 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£385,000
13 Mar 201532 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£313,000
8 Feb 200832 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£247,000
16 Aug 200232 OX5 2HXSemi-detached£161,000
26 Mar 201040 OX5 2HYSemi-detached£220,000
28 Feb 202044 OX5 2HYSemi-detached£280,000
31 Aug 202345 OX5 2HZDetached£555,000
30 Mar 201245 OX5 2HZDetached£239,000
22 Aug 200747 OX5 2HZSemi-detached£238,000
12 Dec 199747 OX5 2HZSemi-detached£88,500
17 May 201249 OX5 2HZSemi-detached£228,000
3 May 201351 OX5 2HZSemi-detached£250,000
24 Sep 202152 OX5 2HYSemi-detached£382,000
15 Dec 200355 OX5 2HZSemi-detached£113,624
15 May 199856 OX5 2HYSemi-detached£85,000
28 Feb 200057 OX5 2HZSemi-detached£110,000
30 Mar 200159 OX5 2HZSemi-detached£138,000
27 Jan 202360 OX5 2HYSemi-detached£525,000
30 Jun 200060 OX5 2HYSemi-detached£121,750
6 Nov 200661 OX5 2JASemi-detached£250,000
4 May 200161 OX5 2JASemi-detached£125,000
7 Jul 2017FLAT 1, 61 OX5 2JAFlat or maisonette£199,950Leasehold.
6 Jul 2016FLAT 1, 61 OX5 2JASemi-detached£575,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Sep 2017FLAT 2, 61 OX5 2JAFlat or maisonette£190,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Sep 2017FLAT 3, 61 OX5 2JAFlat or maisonette£190,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Feb 2024FLAT 4, 61 OX5 2JAFlat or maisonette£202,500Leasehold.
13 Jul 2017FLAT 4, 61 OX5 2JAFlat or maisonette£197,500Leasehold.
22 May 201963 OX5 2JASemi-detached£415,000
3 May 200263 OX5 2JASemi-detached£142,500
19 Jan 201565 OX5 2JADetached£305,000
31 Mar 199566 OX5 2JBDetached£82,000
25 Feb 202169 OX5 2JADetached£635,000
10 Dec 201570 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£450,000
29 Nov 201370 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£320,000
27 Mar 200371 OX5 2JADetached£273,500
16 Oct 201472 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£400,000
14 Aug 201874 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£453,000
18 Mar 199974 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£120,000
16 Mar 202681 OX5 2JADetached£550,000
27 Aug 202081 OX5 2JADetached£371,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Oct 200984 OX5 2JBDetached£280,000
29 Jul 200584 OX5 2JBDetached£250,000
28 Sep 202286A OX5 2JBSemi-detached£515,000
12 Apr 201186A OX5 2JBSemi-detached£288,000
18 Feb 200388 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£202,000
3 Jun 199692 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£76,500
20 Aug 200493 OX5 2JADetached£272,500
5 Dec 200393 OX5 2JADetached£196,000
11 May 201297 OX5 2JASemi-detached£188,000
17 Jan 201998 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£415,000
22 Jul 201198 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£228,000
4 Jan 201899 OX5 2JATerraced£360,000
1 Apr 2021101 OX5 2JATerraced£400,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Jul 2007101 OX5 2JATerraced£320,000
4 May 2004101 OX5 2JATerraced£250,000
7 Dec 2005103 OX5 2JADetached£242,000
4 Oct 2002103 OX5 2JADetached£200,000
22 Dec 2021104 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£410,000
27 Sep 2021104 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£341,000
11 Feb 2022105 OX5 2JATerraced£470,500
26 May 2017105 OX5 2JATerraced£336,000
14 Nov 1997106 OX5 2JBDetached£190,000New build.
30 Jun 2017109 OX5 2JASemi-detached£343,100
13 Mar 2024111 OX5 2JASemi-detached£415,000
30 Mar 2021112 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£485,000
18 Oct 2013112 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£330,000
1 Oct 2020118 OX5 2JBDetached£395,000
24 Jan 2003118 OX5 2JBDetached£207,000
10 Sep 1999119 OX5 2JAFlat or maisonette£65,200Leasehold.
31 Oct 2008120 OX5 2JBDetached£240,000
17 Apr 2015128 OX5 2JBDetached£650,000
30 Nov 2012128 OX5 2JBDetached£249,995
30 Mar 2017130 OX5 2JBDetached£640,000
25 Sep 2009130 OX5 2JBDetached£415,000
31 Jan 2007130 OX5 2JBDetached£275,000
22 Jul 2005132 OX5 2JBDetached£275,000
24 Mar 2017134 OX5 2JBDetached£450,000
14 Dec 2004134 OX5 2JBDetached£125,000
17 Mar 2000136 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£133,000
29 Aug 1997138 OX5 2JBSemi-detached£87,950
21 May 1999144 OX5 2JBDetached£53,022

House prices and rents in Cherwell

A typical home in Cherwell cost £355,981 in August 2026, 2.6% more than a year before. That is 14% more than five years earlier and 22% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£571,986
Semi-detached£355,133
Terraced£294,660
Flat or maisonette£172,531
Bought by a first-time buyer£305,382

Private renters in Cherwell paid £1,316 a month on average in September 2026, 3.2% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£984
Two bedrooms£1,229
Three bedrooms£1,485
Four or more bedrooms£2,224

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

70 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (32); House, detached (13); Flat (12). Built: 1930-1949 (25); 1950-1966 (20); 1900-1929 (9). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (41); rented (social) (14); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (70 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,081 kWh of it on average in 2024, 15% more than the district's 12,215 kWh, and 3,633 kWh of electricity, 6% less than the district's 3,858 kWh. There are gas meters for about 97% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
OX5 2JB373,326 kWh 3414,159 kWh
OX5 2JA312,020 kWh 309,478 kWh
OX5 2HX263,025 kWh 248,844 kWh
OX5 2HY102,547 kWh 119,150 kWh
OX5 2HZ84,030 kWh 812,481 kWh
OX5 2EE403,854 kWh 3817,535 kWh
OX5 2HL142,616 kWh 1410,094 kWh
OX5 2LD442,231 kWh 4410,674 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is OX5.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Cherwell in 2026-27: Band D £2,583 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,722£2,009£2,296£2,583£3,157£3,731£4,305£5,166

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (27% of about 2,830 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 4 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: no.

Listed buildings

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.

Energy projects nearby

4 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
The Flit Cherwell 14/00786/F Solar farm 10.5 MW Operational Mar 2015 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Essentra Components, Langford Locks - Solar Panels Cherwell 24/00981/REN56 Solar farm 1 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jun 2024 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Essentra Components, Langford Lane - Solar Panels Cherwell 22/02711/REN56 Solar farm 1.2 MW Permission granted, not yet built Oct 2022 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cassington AD (Waste AD) West Oxfordshire 08/01781/CM Anaerobic digestion 2.1 MW Operational Sep 2010 4.1 km (2.5 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 12 January 2027: OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Core Sampling, stop/go boards, on the carriageway (minor works, permit applied for)

Finished in the last three months

  • 16 September 2026 to 18 September 2026: SOUTHERN GAS NETWORKS PLC, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (immediate - urgent works)
  • 24 August 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 20 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 70 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 4 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
OX5 2JBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 3 unlikely
OX5 2JAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX5 2HXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
OX5 2HYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX5 2HZnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 2 unlikely
OX5 2XHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX5 2XRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX5 2EEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 5 unlikely
OX5 2HLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX5 2LDnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 9 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 10 to 30%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

By postcode centre: less than 1% (10); 10 to 30% (1).

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 130 addresses are between 61 m and 65 m above sea level (63 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
OX5 2EE100%80%80%0%
OX5 2HL100%100%100%0%
OX5 2HX100%96%96%0%
OX5 2HY100%100%100%0%
OX5 2HZ100%100%100%0%
OX5 2JA100%100%100%0%
OX5 2JB100%100%97%0%
OX5 2LD100%100%100%0%
OX5 2XH100%100%100%0%
OX5 2XR100%0%0%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 stationsOxford Parkway 655,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Islip 39,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Hanborough 376,000 journeys in 2024–256.5 km (4.1 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Evans Court Kidlington60 m
Bus or coach stationGloucester Green Bus Station Oxford City Centre7.3 km (4.5 miles)
Car parksOxford Parkway Park and Ride1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station440 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN63.1 km (39 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 Gosford Hill Medical Centre Good May 2024370 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kidlington Pharmacy760 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oxford Road (Dental Surgery)320 m
HospitalJohn Radcliffe Hospital Requires improvement Sep 20267.4 km (4.6 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gosford Lodge Good Dec 2019190 m
Police stationThames Valley Police620 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM800 m (0.5 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 area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 370 m²330 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha270 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,430 m²190 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Vicarage, a listed building (Grade II*), 760 m (0.5 miles) north. 37 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The VicarageListed building, Grade II*760 m (0.5 miles) north
Dovecote Approximately 10 Metres North North East of the Old Rectory and Dovecote EndListed building, Grade II*870 m (0.5 miles) north
Yarnton ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Blenheim PalaceWorld Heritage Site7.2 km (4.5 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stratfield BrakeWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Begbroke HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Peartree HillHill2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
Hampton GorseWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Madam Hindes's SpinneyWood2.8 km (1.8 miles) north
Thrupp WideLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 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)8.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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 59320
Under 5598130

32 of the street's 130 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 Cherwell: see them on the Cherwell page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Gosford Hill SchoolSecondary11–18270 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.1 (45.3 in 2025 and 45.2 in 2024); 44% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 13% AAB or better; progress below average
Edward Feild Primary SchoolPrimary4–11320 m No published inspection None published
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Kidlington Roman CatholicPrimary2–11400 m (0.2 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 81% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
West Kidlington Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–11400 m (0.2 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
North Kidlington Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 300 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Skips OX5 1EA Sessional day care 30 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 300 m
Robin Preschool OX5 2LG Sessional day care 64 Dec 2025: Strong standard in 2 areas, Expected standard in 4 320 m
Small Steps Day Nursery OX5 1AB Full day care 29 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 670 m (0.4 miles)
Small Steps Pre-School OX5 2DA Full day care 26 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 330 childminders and 104 home childcarers (nannies) in Oxfordshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 6 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
Aramark @ Gosford Hill Secondary School OX5 2NTSchool/college/university230 mAwaiting inspection
Oxford house Cafe OX5 1EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good15 Nov 2024
Oxfordshire County Council OX5 2LGSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good5 Jun 2026
Edward Feild Primary (Breakfast & After School Clubs) OX5 2LGOther catering premises330 m5 Very good6 Feb 2026
Midcounties Co-operative OX5 1DZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets370 m5 Very good16 Jun 2026
Gurkha Village OX5 1EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good24 May 2023
Skips Pre-School OX5 1EASchool/college/university390 m5 Very good29 Mar 2017
Caterlink Ltd at West Kidlington Primary School OX5 1EASchool/college/university390 m5 Very good3 Oct 2025
Miller And Carter OX5 2PXOther catering premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Jan 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.

28 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Vehicle crime3
Other theft3
Public order3
Anti-social behaviour1
Other crime1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Waverley Avenue (11); On or near Prestidge Place (6); On or near Alexander Close (4); On or near Springfield Road (3); On or near Blenheim Road (2).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a cyclist. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
14 Mar 2024 17:33 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 6 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,865 residents in 781 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 age4840
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%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)38%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 4 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 8 to 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Core Sampling, 12 January 2027 (stop/go boards) found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • OX5 2JB: 40 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • OX5 2JA: 34 addresses of 37 in the postcode
  • OX5 2HX: 27 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • OX5 2HY: 11 addresses
  • OX5 2HZ: 8 addresses
  • OX5 2XH: 5 addresses
  • OX5 2XR: 2 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • OX5 2EE: 1 address of 59 in the postcode
  • OX5 2HL: 1 address of 15 in the postcode
  • OX5 2LD: 1 address of 51 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Prestidge Place · Evans Court · Blenheim Road · Waverley Avenue · Buckland Court · Alexander Close · Honor Close · Springfield Road · Bicester Road · Edinburgh Drive · Orchard Way · Croft Avenue

All the streets in OX5 and across Cherwell.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.