Gordon Way Witney, West Oxfordshire

15 addresses across 3 postcodes (OX28), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 43650075.

  • Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £338,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in West Oxfordshire costs £2,567 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Finstock, about 8.4 km (5.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Witney Lake and Country Park, is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 78 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 15 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Nuffield Health Centre, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 9% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 131 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
20221£338,000£338,000£338,000
20161£121,500£121,500£121,500
20111£200,000£200,000£200,000
20083£140,000£100,000£192,000
20061£90,000£90,000£90,000
20031£82,500£82,500£82,500
20021£70,000£70,000£70,000
20011£132,000£132,000£132,000
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 May 202223 OX28 4EHSemi-detached£338,000
28 Jun 20182 OX28 4EAOther£15,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Oct 20172 OX28 4EAOther£170,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Jul 201617 OX28 4EHTerraced£121,500Leasehold.
16 Dec 201123 OX28 4EHSemi-detached£200,000Leasehold.
18 Nov 200811 OX28 4EHSemi-detached£192,000
18 Aug 200823 OX28 4EHTerraced£140,000Leasehold.
8 Feb 200817 OX28 4EHTerraced£100,000Leasehold.
27 Jan 200623 OX28 4EHTerraced£90,000Leasehold.
10 Jul 200317 OX28 4EHTerraced£82,500Leasehold.
15 May 200211 OX28 4EHSemi-detached£70,000New build.
26 Oct 20019 OX28 4EHDetached£132,000New build. Leasehold.

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 January 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (3); House, mid-terrace (3); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1996-2002 (6); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (social) (3); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Oxfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,567 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,711£1,997£2,282£2,567£3,137£3,708£4,278£5,134

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (44% of about 960 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 31 October 2026.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 28 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 27 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 27 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
OX28 4EHzone 2 0 / 0 / 11 unlikely
OX28 4EFzone 2 0 / 0 / 16 unlikely
OX28 4EAzone 2 0 / 0 / 1 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 addresses are about 78 m above sea level.

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
OX28 4EA100%100%100%0%
OX28 4EF100%100%100%0%
OX28 4EH100%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 stationsFinstock 1,140 journeys in 2024–258.4 km (5.2 miles)
Combe (Oxon) 1,330 journeys in 2024–258.9 km (5.6 miles)
Hanborough 376,000 journeys in 2024–259.6 km (5.9 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fernleigh Witney60 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sainsbury's Witney Car Park550 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX77.3 km (48 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nuffield Health Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots890 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Church Green Dental Practice540 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalWitney Community Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationWitney Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM250 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
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Witney Lake and Country Park 20 ha360 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 800 m²220 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Leys 5.5 ha190 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lakeside Allotments 1.9 ha490 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 31 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Old Rectory and Attached Wall, a listed building (Grade II*), 390 m north-east. 137 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 8 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Old Rectory and Attached WallListed building, Grade II*390 m north-east
Henry Box SchoolListed building, Grade II*390 m north
Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade I430 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Bishop of Winchester's Palace, 90m east of St Mary's ChurchScheduled monument500 m (0.3 miles) north-east
WychwoodListed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Butter crossScheduled monument690 m (0.4 miles) north-east
The remains of a medieval moated manor, priory, settlement and associated features, CoggesScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Spring HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) east
Queen Elizabeth's SpinneyWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Cogges HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Moulden's WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
The HorseshoeLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Cherrytree BottomValley4.5 km (2.8 miles) north-east

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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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 5970
Under 55815

7 of the street's 15 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 West Oxfordshire: see them on the West Oxfordshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
The Henry Box SchoolSecondary11–18380 m No published inspection
St Mary's Church of England Infant SchoolPrimary5–7580 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Queen Emma's Primary SchoolPrimary4–11640 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Batt Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11720 m (0.4 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Blake Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Witney Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Tower Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ducklington Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
West Witney Primary School & NurseryPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Buttercup Bistro OX28 4DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good23 Jul 2026
I Like It OX28 4YHMobile caterer180 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Coco Gelato OX28 4YHTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good8 Aug 2026
New Peppers Tandoori OX28 4YHTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
Witney Town Bowls Club OX28 4ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good19 Jul 2019
Huffkins Bakery OX28 4YFRetailers - other240 mExempt
Tesco Express OX28 4EJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets250 m5 Very good12 Dec 2017
Poundstretcher OX28 4EJRetailers - other250 m5 Very good30 Oct 2018
Travelodge Witney OX28 4TJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house250 m5 Very good31 Aug 2021
Synolos OX28 4YDRetailers - other250 m5 Very good9 Jan 2025
Premier Inn Hotel OX28 4JFHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
McDonald's Restaurant OX28 4JFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good29 Aug 2026
Witney And West Oxfordshire Foodbank OX28 4YGFarmers/growers360 mExempt
Stir Food Ltd - Henry Box School OX28 4AXSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good23 Mar 2026
B&B's Breakfast And Burgers OX28 4GEMobile caterer390 m5 Very good20 May 2026

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.

131 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences41
Shoplifting31
Anti-social behaviour16
Public order13
Other theft13
Criminal damage and arson8
Drugs4
Vehicle crime2
Other crime2
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Beechgate (34); On or near Petrol Station (30); On or near Henry Box Close (20); On or near Kingfisher Drive (16); On or near Buttercross Lane (15).

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: 259 residents in 93 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 age3140
Children under 1528%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)9%61%
Owned outright2%33%
Shared ownership19%1%
Social rented70%17%
Private rented2%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%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)21%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Mallard Drive · Kingfisher Drive · Henry Box Close · Avenue One · Buttercross Lane · Carriage Crescent · Willowbank · Beechgate · Ducklington Lane · Swain Court · Parkside · Spring Close

All the streets in OX28 and across West Oxfordshire.

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.