Fordshill Road Hereford
18 addresses across 3 postcodes (HR2), about 460 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 23204261.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Herefordshire, County of cost £291,495 in August 2026 (+1.9% on a year); private rents averaged £831 a month.
- Flood: 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Recorded floods: 1 recorded flood covered 2 of its 3 postcode centres, most recently in December 1960.
- Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Railway Cutting, is 50 m away.
- Radon: An estimated 10 to 30% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are at or above the radon Action Level.
- Gas: No gas meters are recorded on its postcodes: its homes look to be heated without mains gas.
- Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the B4399, carries 6,521 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Herefordshire, County of costs £2,574 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 33% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Hereford, about 3.6 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 49 to 51 m above sea level.
- Noise: 1 of its 18 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cantilupe Surgery, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away.
- People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- MP: Jesse Norman, Conservative, MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire.
- Council: Dinedor Hill ward, Herefordshire: Conservative won its latest election, on 4 May 2023.
- Crime: 4 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often bicycle theft.
- Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, and it was fatal; 1 involved a pedestrian.
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House sales on this street
No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.
House prices and rents in Herefordshire, County of
A typical home in Herefordshire, County of cost £291,495 in August 2026, 1.9% more than a year before. That is 18% more than five years earlier and 43% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £448,275 |
| Semi-detached | £280,673 |
| Terraced | £211,584 |
| Flat or maisonette | £127,868 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £225,408 |
Private renters in Herefordshire, County of paid £831 a month on average in September 2026, 2.9% more than a year before. That is 28% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £603 |
| Two bedrooms | £782 |
| Three bedrooms | £967 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,360 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
Gas and electricity use
No gas meters are recorded on the street's postcodes, against 18 electricity meters: it looks to be off the mains gas grid, or almost, with heating from electricity, oil, LPG or solid fuel.
| Postcode | Electricity meters | Typical electricity | Gas meters | Typical gas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR2 6LD | 10 | 3,659 kWh | none recorded | |
| HR2 6LE | 8 | 2,735 kWh | under 5 |
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 HR2.
Council tax
What each band costs in Herefordshire, County of in 2026-27: Band D £2,574 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,716 | £2,002 | £2,288 | £2,574 | £3,146 | £3,719 | £4,291 | £5,149 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (21% of about 1,020 homes).
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.
Energy projects nearby
No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 11 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 17 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 3 low and 0 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR2 6NS | zone 2 | 0 / 0 / 3 | unlikely |
| HR2 6LD | zone 2 | 0 / 4 / 8 | unlikely |
| HR2 6LE | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
Recorded floods
1 recorded flood covered 2 of the centres of this street's postcodes, most recently in December 1960 (Hereford; main river).
| When | Flood | Source and cause | Postcodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Dec 1960 | Hereford | Main river; channel capacity exceeded (no raised defences) | HR2 6LD, HR2 6NS |
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.
Coastal erosion
No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Storm overflows
No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Coal mining
No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.
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: 1 to 3% (1); 3 to 5% (1); 10 to 30% (2).
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.
Historic landfill
1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 50 m away.
| Site | Waste went in | Waste | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Railway Cutting Dinedor | Not recorded | Inert | 50 m |
Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.
Height above sea level
The street's 18 addresses are between 49 m and 51 m above sea level (49 m on average).
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR2 6LD | 100% | 92% | 92% | 0% |
| HR2 6LE | 100% | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| HR2 6NS | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway station | Hereford 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25 | 3.6 km (2.2 miles) |
| Bus stops | None within 800 m (0.5 miles) | |
| EV charging points | 1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Bristol Airport BRS | 73 km (45 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Cantilupe Surgery Good Jan 2024 | 3.4 km (2.1 miles) |
| Pharmacies | 1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy | 1.6 km (1 mile) |
| NHS dentists | The Dentist@Tupsley | 2.5 km (1.6 miles) |
| Hospital | Wye Valley Hospital | 3.3 km (2.1 miles) |
| Care homes | 2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Field Farm House Residential Home Requires improvement Mar 2025 | 800 m (0.5 miles) |
| Police station | Hereford Police Station | 3.4 km (2.1 miles) |
| Cash machines | Morrisons Daily - Tupsley Quarry Road, Tupsley | 2.6 km (1.6 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Unnamed 1.1 ha | 1.2 km (0.8 miles) |
| Play area | Unnamed 750 m² | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 1.7 ha | 1.6 km (1 mile) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 8,660 m² | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Rotherwas Chapel, a listed building (Grade II*), 520 m (0.3 miles) north-west. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Rotherwas Chapel | Listed building, Grade II* | 520 m (0.3 miles) north-west |
| Site of Rotherwas House, earthwork remains of formal gardens, and Rotherwas Chapel | Scheduled monument | 610 m (0.4 miles) north-west |
| Site of medieval village | Scheduled monument | 1.5 km (1 mile) south-west |
| Ring ditches and rectilinear enclosures E of Tupsley | Scheduled monument | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) north |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Rotherwas Park Wood | Wood | 580 m (0.4 miles) south-west |
| Dinedor Hill | Hill | 740 m (0.5 miles) south-west |
| Rough Hill | Hill | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west |
| Birch Grove | Wood | 2 km (1.2 miles) south-east |
| Camp Wood | Wood | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west |
| Red Deer Pond | Lake or reservoir | 4.2 km (2.6 miles) south |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 3.8 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 5.3 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 9.3 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 70 to 74 | 1 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 17 | 18 |
1 of the street's 18 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 Herefordshire, County of: see them on the Herefordshire, County of page.
Nearest schools
No open schools within 2 km (1.2 miles).
Nurseries and childcare
1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 1.4 km (0.9 miles) from the middle of the street.
| Provider | Kind | Places | Latest inspection | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake View Nursery Ltd HR2 6JT | Full day care | 59 | Mar 2026: Strong standard in 5 areas, Expected standard in 1 | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
Ofsted also registers 54 childminders and 8 home childcarers (nannies) in Herefordshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.
Food hygiene ratings nearby
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Shed HR2 6NS | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 60 m | 5 Very good | 23 May 2025 |
| Sink Green Farm HR2 6LE | Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house | 280 m | 5 Very good | 21 Mar 2011 |
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Bicycle theft | 1 |
| Other theft | 1 |
| Vehicle crime | 1 |
| Burglary | 1 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Fordshill Road (4).
Road safety
1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 0 serious and 0 slight, in which 1 person died. 1 involved a pedestrian. 100% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 60 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2023 02:41 | Fatal | 1 person: 1 pedestrian | B4399, 60 mph | Dark, no street lights |
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
The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the B4399, with 6,521 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 420 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.
| Road | Between | Vehicles a day | Lorries | Ten years before | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B4399 | Not recorded | 6,521 counted 2025 | 4% | 420 m (0.3 miles) |
Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 56 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 12% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 34% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 82% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 57% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | under 1% | 1% |
| Social rented | 0% | 17% |
| Private rented | 17% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 55% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | under 1% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 33% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 3% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 39% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 55% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | under 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | under 1% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 2% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 70% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 15% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 40% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 8% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 5% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 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.
Politics
This street is in the Hereford and South Herefordshire constituency. Its MP is Jesse Norman, Conservative.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jesse Norman (elected) | Conservative | 14,871 | 32.6% | -29.0 |
| Joe Emmett | Labour | 13,592 | 29.8% | +9.9 |
| Nigel Ely | Reform UK | 8,395 | 18.4% | |
| Dan Powell | Liberal Democrat | 5,325 | 11.7% | -1.6 |
| Diana Toynbee | Green Party | 3,175 | 7.0% | +1.9 |
| Mark Weaden | Independent | 214 | 0.5% |
Conservative hold, with a majority of 1,279 votes (2.8%). 45,572 valid votes from an electorate of 72,203, a turnout of 63.3%.
Change is in percentage points of the vote on 2019, recalculated for the 2024 boundaries (the notional result), so it compares like with like where the constituency changed shape; it is blank where the party or candidate did not stand in 2019.
Council: Dinedor Hill ward, Herefordshire
This street is in this ward. Its latest election was on 4 May 2023.
| Candidate | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| David Eirian Davies (elected) | Conservative | 401 |
| Cat Hornsey | Liberal Democrat | 370 |
| David Summers | It's Our County (Herefordshire) | 260 |
Councils elect all their members every four years or a third of them in three years out of four, so the members for a ward can come from more than one election; a councillor may have changed party since being elected.
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.
Postcodes on this street
- HR2 6NS: 15 addresses
- HR2 6LD: 2 addresses of 95 in the postcode
- HR2 6LE: 1 address of 19 in the postcode
Nearby streets
The Straight Mile · Chapel Road
All the streets in HR2 and across Herefordshire, County of.
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.