Grove Road Wickhambreaux, Canterbury
1 address across 1 postcode (CT5), about 43.9 km (27 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 5605707.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Canterbury cost £336,427 in August 2026 (-0.3% on a year); private rents averaged £1,288 a month.
- Flood: 20 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 its postcode centre, most recently in February 1953.
- Storm overflows: 5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 55 times (102 hours) in 2025.
- Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 310 m from its postcodes.
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Canterbury costs £2,419 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Sturry, about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Village Green, is about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: It is about 3 m above sea level.
- Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Sturry Surgery, about 3 km (1.9 miles) away.
- People: About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 50% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Road safety: 3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 3 of them fatal or serious; 2 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 Canterbury
A typical home in Canterbury cost £336,427 in August 2026, 0.3% less than a year before. That is 3% more than five years earlier and 22% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £532,531 |
| Semi-detached | £348,636 |
| Terraced | £302,753 |
| Flat or maisonette | £183,434 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £284,041 |
Private renters in Canterbury paid £1,288 a month on average in September 2026, 5.8% more than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £880 |
| Two bedrooms | £1,138 |
| Three bedrooms | £1,377 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,913 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
Gas and electricity use
The postcode does not have the 5 or more domestic meters needed for figures to be published.
Council tax
What each band costs in Canterbury in 2026-27: Band D £2,419 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,613 | £1,882 | £2,151 | £2,419 | £2,957 | £3,495 | £4,032 | £4,839 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (42% of about 760 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 1,527.
- Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
- Tree preservation orders: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
- Green belt: no.
Listed buildings
- 22-26, The Cathedral Precincts, grade I
- 27 AND 28, THE CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS, grade I
- BARN AT LITTLEBOURNE COURT, grade I
- BLACKFRIARS MONASTERY GUEST HOUSE, grade I
- CANTERBURY CASTLE, grade I
- CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL, grade I
- CHAPEL OF ST PANCRAS RUINS REMAINS OF ST AUGUSTINE'S ABBEY, grade I
- CHAPTER HOUSE TO CHRISTCHURCH CATHEDRAL, grade I
- CHRISTCHURCH CATHEDRAL, grade I
- Christchurch Gateway, grade I
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, grade I
- Church of St Mildred, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, grade I
- Church of St Nicholas, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN, grade I
- CHURCH OF ST VINCENT, grade I
- CLOISTER TO CHRISTCHURCH CATHEDRAL, grade I
- DARK ENTRY, grade I
- EASTBRIDGE HOSPITAL, grade I
- GREYFRIARS MONASTERY, grade I
And 1,497 more.
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, 19 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 3 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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.
Recorded floods
1 recorded flood covered the centre of this street's postcodes, most recently in February 1953 (Swale Estaury, Whitstable; sea).
| When | Flood | Source and cause |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Feb 1953 | Swale Estaury, Whitstable | Sea; overtopping of defences |
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
The nearest projected erosion zone is 310 m from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).
| Projection | Policy for the frontage | Erosion | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried out | Hold the line Isle of Grain to South Foreland | none (the line is held) | 320 m |
| By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried out | Hold the line Isle of Grain to South Foreland | none (the line is held) | 320 m |
| By 2105, if defences are not maintained or built | No intervention Isle of Grain to South Foreland | up to 353 m | 310 m |
Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.
Storm overflows
5 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 55 times, for 102 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Tankerton Bay, Controlled Sea, The Great Stour.
| Overflow | Into | Spills | Hours | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gorrell Outfall Via Diamond Rd Cso Southern Water | Tankerton Bay | 14 | 27 | 520 m (0.3 miles) |
| Tankerton Bay Outfall Southern Water | Controlled Sea | 9 | 10 | 810 m (0.5 miles) |
| Tankerton Bay Outfall Southern Water | Controlled Sea | 11 | 10 | 810 m (0.5 miles) |
| Tankerton Bay Outfall Southern Water | Controlled Sea | 14 | 10 | 810 m (0.5 miles) |
| Westbere Wwtw Southern Water | The Great Stour | 7 | 45 | 1 km (0.6 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.
Coal mining
No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.
Radon
The postcode is in a 1 km square in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.
Historic landfill
No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Height above sea level
The street's address is about 3 m above sea level.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CT5 1AB | 96% | 96% | 96% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Sturry 112,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 3.5 km (2.2 miles) |
| Bekesbourne 38,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 4.7 km (2.9 miles) | |
| Adisham 27,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 6.5 km (4 miles) | |
| Bus stops | None within 800 m (0.5 miles) | |
| Bus or coach station | Bus Station Canterbury | 6.6 km (4.1 miles) |
| EV charging points | Connected Kerb Charging Stations | 2.7 km (1.6 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | London Southend Airport SEN | 45.1 km (28 miles) |
| Nearest large airport | London Stansted Airport STN | 92.2 km (57 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Sturry Surgery Good Jan 2017 | 3 km (1.9 miles) |
| Pharmacies | Sturry Pharmacy | 3.5 km (2.2 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Sturry Dental Practice | 3.5 km (2.2 miles) |
| Hospital | St Martin's Hospital | 5.1 km (3.2 miles) |
| Care homes | Meadow View Residential Care Home Requires improvement Sep 2026 | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
| Police station | Canterbury Police Station | 6.8 km (4.2 miles) |
| Cash machines | ATM | 2.6 km (1.6 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Village Green 1,050 m² | 2.1 km (1.3 miles) |
| Play area | Unnamed 30 m² | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| Playing field | Frank Montgomery Playing Field 4,030 m² | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 2.2 ha | 2.2 km (1.4 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade I), 930 m (0.6 miles) north-east. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Church of St Mary | Listed building, Grade I | 930 m (0.6 miles) north-east |
| Enclosure and ring ditch W of Newnham Farm | Scheduled monument | 1.6 km (1 mile) east |
| Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey and St. Martin's Church | World Heritage Site | 6.3 km (3.9 miles) west |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Stodmarsh Court Wood | Wood | 660 m (0.4 miles) west |
| Stodmarsh Valley | Valley | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) north |
| Westbere Marshes | Wetland | 1.7 km (1 mile) west |
| Trenleypark Wood | Wood | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west |
| Hersden Hill | Hill | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west |
| Reed Pond | Lake or reservoir | 4.8 km (3 miles) west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 6.0 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 6.5 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 11.6 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 55 to 59 | 1 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 0 | 1 |
1 of the street's 1 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 Canterbury: see them on the Canterbury page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wickhambreaux Church of England Primary School | Primary | 4–11 | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) | No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding | 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
No nursery, pre-school or out-of-school club on Ofsted's register is within 1.5 km (0.9 miles) of the middle of the street.
Ofsted also registers 757 childminders and 217 home childcarers (nannies) in Kent. 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
No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (kent).
Road safety
3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 2 serious and 0 slight, in which 1 person died and 3 people were seriously hurt. 2 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a child under 16. 33% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Aug 2025 20:20 | Fatal | 2 people: 2 pedestrians, 1 child | Minor road, 30 mph | Dark, street lights on |
| 1 Jul 2025 19:35 | Serious | 1 person | B2205, 30 mph | Daylight |
| 25 Mar 2023 12:55 | Serious | 1 person: 1 pedestrian | B2205, 20 mph | Daylight |
Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.
Traffic on nearby roads
No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 45 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 8% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 19% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 50% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 33% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 0% | 17% |
| Private rented | 50% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 67% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 5% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 17% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 0% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 32% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 33% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 2% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 12% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 19% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 62% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 19% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 45% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 12% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 5% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 97% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 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.
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
- CT5 1AB: 1 address of 212 in the postcode
Nearby streets
All the streets in CT5 and across Canterbury.
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.