Exeter Road Kidlington, Cherwell

73 addresses across 3 postcodes (OX5), about 380 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6800508.

  • Sales: 77 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £380,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 41 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 9, D: 25, E: 5, G: 1).
  • Flood: 13 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Cherwell costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Oxford Parkway, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 62 to 65 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 73 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Key Medical Practice, about 310 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 64 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
20261£380,000£380,000£380,000
20253£435,000£340,000£462,500
20241£540,000£540,000£540,000
20221£550,000£550,000£550,000
20192£381,250£320,000£442,500
20181£314,000£314,000£314,000
20172£375,000£330,000£420,000
20165£375,000£350,000£475,000
20145£412,000£365,000£420,000
20134£254,975£230,000£450,000
20121£250,000£250,000£250,000
20111£223,000£223,000£223,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 77)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jul 202667 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£380,000
4 Sep 202545 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£435,000
12 Jun 202546 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£340,000
26 Mar 202515 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£462,500
19 Sep 20241A OX5 2DYDetached£540,000
19 Aug 202262 OX5 2DZDetached£550,000
30 Jun 20211 OX5 2DYDetached£500,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jul 201931 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£320,000
8 Mar 201941 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£442,500
12 Feb 201840 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£314,000
20 Oct 20173 OX5 2DYDetached£420,000
3 Mar 201727 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£330,000
23 Sep 201632 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£357,500
5 Sep 201626 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£430,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Jun 201660 OX5 2DZDetached£467,000
1 Apr 201667 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£375,000
11 Mar 201654 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£475,000
25 Jan 201635 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£350,000
14 Nov 201420 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£412,000
29 May 201447 OX5 2DZTerraced£415,000
22 May 201464 OX5 2DZDetached£420,000
21 Feb 20141B OX5 2DYDetached£370,000New build.
21 Feb 20141A OX5 2DYDetached£365,000New build.
29 Nov 201344 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£260,000
9 Sep 20132 OX5 2DYDetached£450,000
30 Aug 201355 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£249,950
1 Feb 201321 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£230,000
29 Jun 20122 OX5 2DYDetached£250,000
14 Oct 201167 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£223,000
31 Aug 201024 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£285,000
9 Apr 201041 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£315,000
4 Dec 200947 OX5 2DZDetached£315,000
27 Nov 200919 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£345,000
25 Sep 200915 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£270,000
5 May 200959 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£250,000
16 Nov 200754 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£250,000
23 Oct 200715 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£235,000
8 Oct 20078 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£270,000
20 Apr 200713 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£285,000
16 Feb 200757 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£249,995
19 Dec 200659 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£250,000
15 Aug 200623 OX5 2DYDetached£525,000
19 May 200638 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£216,000
24 Mar 200665 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£237,500
3 Mar 200617 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£249,950
14 Feb 200639 OX5 2DYDetached£140,000
28 Nov 200558 OX5 2DZDetached£326,000
28 Nov 200555 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£239,750
30 Jun 200524 OX5 2DYSemi-detached£247,000
8 Apr 200557 OX5 2DZSemi-detached£232,000

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

41 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 98 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (25); House, detached (13); Bungalow, detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (13); 1930-1949 (10); 1967-1975 (9). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (34); rented (private) (3); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (26 addresses)

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (35% of about 820 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.

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.

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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 19 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
OX5 2DYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
OX5 2DZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 11 unlikely
OX5 2DTnot in 2 or 3 5 / 6 / 7 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 73 addresses are between 62 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 2DT100%100%100%0%
OX5 2DY100%100%100%0%
OX5 2DZ100%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 stationsOxford Parkway 655,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Islip 39,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Hanborough 376,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Kidlington160 m
Bus or coach stationGloucester Green Bus Station Oxford City Centre7.8 km (4.8 miles)
Car parksOxford Parkway Park and Ride2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN63.4 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. 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 The Key Medical Practice310 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kidlington Pharmacy310 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Adp Dental Co. LTD.240 m
HospitalJohn Radcliffe Hospital8 km (5 miles)
Police stationThames Valley Police1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM180 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
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,900 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Exeter Close 2.7 ha340 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,430 m²490 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Vicarage, a listed building (Grade II*), 450 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 63 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The VicarageListed building, Grade II*450 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Dovecote Approximately 10 Metres North North East of the Old Rectory and Dovecote EndListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I850 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Yarnton ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II3 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Blenheim PalaceWorld Heritage Site6.7 km (4.1 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Begbroke HillHill1.5 km (1 mile) west
Stratfield BrakeWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Madam Hindes's SpinneyWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Thrupp WideLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Hampton GorseWood2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Knapp's AcreWood2.9 km (1.8 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)7.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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 5910
Under 557273

1 of the street's 73 addresses is 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), 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
North Kidlington Primary SchoolPrimary4–11410 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Kidlington Roman CatholicPrimary2–11780 m (0.5 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
West Kidlington Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gosford Hill SchoolSecondary11–18850 m (0.5 miles) 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
Edward Feild Primary SchoolPrimary4–11940 m (0.6 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
Tesco Stores Ltd OX5 2DNRetailers - other200 m5 Very good26 Feb 2020
The Foresters Bar OX5 2DNPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good24 Apr 2024
Dominos Pizza OX5 2DNTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good30 Oct 2024
TULASI OX5 2DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good16 Apr 2025
Angaara OX5 2DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m4 Good27 Aug 2026
Albert Fish And Chips OX5 2DNTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good13 Nov 2024
Card Factory Retailers - other230 mExempt
Co-op Supermarket OX5 2DHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good27 Apr 2023
Stanley's Sweets and Treats OX5 2DLRetailers - other240 m5 Very good13 Jun 2023
Costa Coffee OX5 2DHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m4 Good18 Oct 2024
Pro G Ltd OX5 2DLPub/bar/nightclub250 mAwaiting inspection
Ovisher Restaurant OX5 2BPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good30 Jan 2025
Kebab Kid OX5 2BPTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
Off The Hook OX5 2BPTakeaway/sandwich shop260 m5 Very good27 Nov 2024
Creamery corner OX5 2DHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m4 Good29 May 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.

64 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Shoplifting14
Anti-social behaviour11
Public order9
Criminal damage and arson6
Other theft5
Robbery1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near High Street (21); On or near Dale Place (14); On or near Sterling Road Approach (8); On or near Parking Area (7); On or near Sterling Road (4).

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: 367 residents in 153 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 age3940
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)63%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented32%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%32%
Travel to work by car or van35%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle16%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%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)45%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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

  • Food hygiene ratings Pro G Ltd (pub/bar/nightclub, OX5 2DL) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026

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

Sterling Close · Dale Place · Primrose Place · Sterling Road · High Street · The Closes · Dukes Road · Old Chapel Close · Sterling Road Approach · Home Close · School Road · Green Road

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.
  • 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.