Freame Way Gillingham, Dorset

52 addresses across 2 postcodes (SP8), about 530 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 27601331.

  • Sales: 89 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £435,000 across 3 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Dorset cost £328,589 in August 2026 (-0.4% on a year); private rents averaged £1,059 a month.
  • Energy: 41 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 13, D: 26, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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.
  • Storm overflows: 2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 39 times (339 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Wessex Farm, Sherborne Causeway - Anaerobic Digestion Facility, is 4.4 km (2.8 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Dorset costs £2,765 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 90% to 98% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Gillingham (Dorset), about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 340 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 90 to 95 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 52 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Gillingham Medical Practice, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 480 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 22 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were 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
20263£435,000£387,000£555,500
20254£412,500£405,000£560,000
20242£257,500£248,000£267,000
20231£420,000£420,000£420,000
20222£377,000£310,000£444,000
20213£485,000£450,000£514,000
20203£350,000£333,500£375,000
20193£365,000£225,000£440,000
20186£278,750£200,000£480,000
20174£373,500£340,000£485,000
20164£348,750£285,000£465,000
20154£260,000£174,000£310,000
All 89 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Feb 20171 SP8 4RADetached£382,000
2 Nov 20151 SP8 4RADetached£310,000
3 Oct 19972 SP8 4RADetached£138,500
26 Nov 20223 SP8 4RADetached£444,000
20 Oct 20003 SP8 4RADetached£198,000
18 Aug 19983 SP8 4RADetached£155,000
15 Apr 20034 SP8 4RADetached£262,062
29 Oct 20185 SP8 4RASemi-detached£242,500
5 Jul 20115 SP8 4RASemi-detached£195,000
14 Oct 19985 SP8 4RASemi-detached£72,000
20 Dec 20226 SP8 4RASemi-detached£310,000
17 Jan 20237 SP8 4RADetached£420,000
23 Oct 20098 SP8 4RADetached£242,000
20 Jun 20139 SP8 4RADetached£295,000
26 Mar 201410 SP8 4RASemi-detached£170,000
3 Feb 201210 SP8 4RASemi-detached£149,000
22 Dec 200910 SP8 4RASemi-detached£163,000
3 Dec 202411 SP8 4RASemi-detached£267,000
5 Nov 200911 SP8 4RASemi-detached£160,000
4 May 201812 SP8 4RASemi-detached£223,000
15 Nov 201312 SP8 4RASemi-detached£164,000
29 Oct 201913 SP8 4RASemi-detached£225,000
31 Aug 201813 SP8 4RASemi-detached£200,000
28 Aug 201513 SP8 4RASemi-detached£174,000
29 May 200713 SP8 4RASemi-detached£200,000
28 Oct 199613 SP8 4RASemi-detached£57,000
5 Dec 200214 SP8 4RADetached£276,250
31 Jul 199814 SP8 4RADetached£145,000
26 Jul 199614 SP8 4RADetached£120,000
19 Sep 202515 SP8 4RADetached£420,000
11 Jul 200016 SP8 4RADetached£169,000
5 Jun 202617 SP8 4RADetached£555,500
20 May 201417 SP8 4RADetached£373,000
30 Nov 201619 SP8 4RADetached£400,000
7 Mar 201419 SP8 4RADetached£287,500
29 Aug 200319 SP8 4RADetached£275,000
12 Mar 202520 SP8 4RADetached£405,000
30 Jun 199820 SP8 4RADetached£129,000
9 Mar 202621 SP8 4RADetached£435,000
3 May 201321 SP8 4RADetached£265,000
25 Nov 202522 SP8 4RADetached£560,000
2 Aug 201822 SP8 4RADetached£480,000
4 Sep 200722 SP8 4RADetached£425,000
28 Sep 202123 SP8 4RADetached£485,000
25 Nov 201624 SP8 4RADetached£297,500
21 Sep 199924 SP8 4RADetached£156,000
4 Jul 201725 SP8 4RADetached£485,000
7 May 201526 SP8 4RADetached£240,000
6 Nov 200726 SP8 4RADetached£290,000
7 Dec 201827 SP8 4RADetached£315,000
6 Aug 201328 SP8 4RADetached£245,000
16 Sep 202129 SP8 4RADetached£450,000
29 Nov 200429 SP8 4RADetached£249,950
11 May 200129 SP8 4RADetached£170,000
21 Jun 199629 SP8 4RADetached£118,000
31 Aug 202132 SP8 4RADetached£514,000
26 Sep 200332 SP8 4RADetached£315,000
13 Aug 200132 SP8 4RADetached£225,000
21 Dec 199832 SP8 4RADetached£165,000
12 Mar 200933 SP8 4RADetached£339,000
10 Aug 202034 SP8 4RADetached£375,000
26 Mar 201034 SP8 4RADetached£375,000
24 May 201935 SP8 4RADetached£440,000
19 May 201736 SP8 4RADetached£365,000
22 Nov 200436 SP8 4RADetached£320,000
15 Jan 200336 SP8 4RADetached£305,000
14 Sep 201637 SP8 4RADetached£465,000
24 May 201238 SP8 4RADetached£410,000
24 Sep 201038 SP8 4RADetached£375,000
27 Oct 200039 SP8 4RADetached£174,000
19 Aug 201140 SP8 4RADetached£394,000
10 Jun 200340 SP8 4RADetached£249,950
31 Jul 199840 SP8 4RADetached£165,000
13 Apr 202641 SP8 4RADetached£387,000
16 Aug 202441 SP8 4RADetached£248,000
8 Jan 202041 SP8 4RADetached£333,500
21 Apr 201141 SP8 4RADetached£215,000
13 Oct 202543 SP8 4RADetached£405,000
23 Oct 201843 SP8 4RADetached£320,000
17 Aug 201543 SP8 4RADetached£280,000
18 Dec 201944 SP8 4RADetached£365,000
16 Jul 202045 SP8 4RADetached£350,000
6 Oct 201745 SP8 4RADetached£340,000
8 Mar 200245 SP8 4RADetached£172,950
30 Mar 200946 SP8 4RADetached£250,000
3 Aug 199847 SP8 4RADetached£148,000
31 Jul 199848 SP8 4RADetached£152,000
4 Apr 201649 SP8 4RADetached£285,000
26 Sep 200350 SP8 4RADetached£275,000

House prices and rents in Dorset

A typical home in Dorset cost £328,589 in August 2026, 0.4% less than a year before. That is 9% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£519,998
Semi-detached£333,127
Terraced£267,978
Flat or maisonette£169,474
Bought by a first-time buyer£257,241

Private renters in Dorset paid £1,059 a month on average in September 2026, 4.2% more than a year before. That is 26% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£733
Two bedrooms£969
Three bedrooms£1,194
Four or more bedrooms£1,688

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 September 2008 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 109 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (22); House, detached (13); Bungalow, semi-detached (6). Built: 1983-1990 (25); 1991-1995 (5); 1996-2002 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (36).

Each home's certificates and sales (41 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,523 kWh of it on average in 2024, 46% more than the district's 9,924 kWh, and 4,067 kWh of electricity, 7% more than the district's 3,818 kWh. There are gas meters for about 87% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
SP8 4RA501,997 kWh 4913,716 kWh
SP8 4RE284,226 kWh 1918,612 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 SP8.

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 Dorset in 2026-27: Band D £2,765 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,843£2,151£2,458£2,765£3,379£3,994£4,608£5,530

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 790 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Wessex Farm, Sherborne Causeway - Anaerobic Digestion Facility Dorset P/FUL/2025/04692 Anaerobic digestion Planning application made Sep 2025 4.4 km (2.8 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 26 October 2026 to 28 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 7 August 2026 to 11 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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

2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 39 times, for 339 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Stour, River Stour (Upper).

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Brickyard Lane Pumping Station Wessex Water River Stour 4 21 760 m (0.5 miles)
Gillingham Water Recycling Centre Wessex Water River Stour (Upper) 35 319 770 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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 1 to 3%: 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.

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. 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 52 addresses are between 90 m and 95 m above sea level (93 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
SP8 4RA100%98%98%0%
SP8 4RE97%90%90%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsGillingham (Dorset) 358,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Templecombe 92,000 journeys in 2024–259.7 km (6 miles)
Bruton 53,000 journeys in 2024–2514 km (8.7 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Laburnum Way Wyke210 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station940 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH42.4 km (26 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS48.9 km (30 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gillingham Medical Practice Good Sep 20161.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gillingham Pharmacy1.2 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mydentist - Lanark Villas - Gillingham1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalWestminster Memorial Hospital7.1 km (4.4 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Mellowes Care Home Good May 2022150 m
Police stationDorset Police1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesEsso Service Station Chantry Fields, Le Newborg Way Cashzone1 km (0.6 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 1,900 m²340 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 9,940 m²770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 400 m²90 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 9.5 ha1.5 km (1 mile)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,990 m²940 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade I), 1 km (0.6 miles) north-east. 26 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Longbury long barrow 600m north west of Slaughtergate FarmScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lodden LakesLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Dorey's CoppiceWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Ring GroveWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Little MarshWetland2.3 km (1.5 miles) north
Bainly BottomValley2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Hunger HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south

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)4.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

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 555152

1 of the street's 52 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 Dorset: see them on the Dorset page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 9 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
Wyke Primary SchoolPrimary4–11310 m Requires improvement (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025)
Gillingham Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 39% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
Gillingham SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published

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

2 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 940 m (0.6 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Elestar Services Ltd T/A Flying Start Nursery SP8 4AZ Sessional day care 31 Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 940 m (0.6 miles)
Little Gems (Dorset) Limited SP8 4LT Full day care 40 Nov 2025: Expected standard in 6 areas 1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 115 childminders and 23 home childcarers (nannies) in Dorset. 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 9 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
Secret Garden Cafe SP8 4RERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good12 Dec 2024
The Mellowes SP8 4REHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good5 Aug 2026
Osho Leela SP8 4REHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house150 m5 Very good15 Jan 2025
Mulberry House SP8 4REHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 mAwaiting inspection
Salutemcare SP8 4REHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
Salutemcare SP8 4REHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
Chartwells (Wyke Primary School) SP8 4SHSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
The Dog House SP8 4NJPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Jul 2024
One Stop SP8 4PJRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Sep 2020

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.

22 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Other theft5
Anti-social behaviour3
Vehicle crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Common Mead Lane (14); On or near Sycamore Way (3); On or near Laburnum Way (3); On or near Freame Way (1); On or near Maple Way (1).

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.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 482 residents in 188 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 age5240
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over36%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away22%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%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 8 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: BT: Utility asset works, 23 October 2026 to 28 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) 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.

  • SP8 4RA: 51 addresses of 55 in the postcode
  • SP8 4RE: 1 address of 62 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Great Barton Hill Road · Duncliffe Close · Queens Farm Court · Maple Way · Laburnum Way · Moat Way · Sycamore Way · Great Barton Hill Road · Windsor Lane · Chestnut Way · The Laurels · Juniper Gardens

All the streets in SP8 and across Dorset.

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.