Ham Lane Longham, Dorset

59 addresses across 9 postcodes (BH21,BH22), about 740 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 12206025.

  • Sales: 57 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £455,000 across 4 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: 27 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 7, D: 15, E: 3, F: 1).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Canford, is 3.3 km (2 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A348, carries 22,032 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Dorset costs £2,765 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Branksome, about 7 km (4.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Knoll Gardens, is about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 14 to 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 44 of its 59 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Orchid House Surgery, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Road safety: 10 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 3 of them fatal or serious.

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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
20254£455,000£425,000£685,000
20241£557,400£557,400£557,400
20231£470,000£470,000£470,000
20221£410,000£410,000£410,000
20211£560,000£560,000£560,000
20202£435,000£330,000£540,000
20191£310,000£310,000£310,000
20183£370,000£360,000£560,000
20172£320,000£280,000£360,000
20152£276,000£260,000£292,000
20141£255,000£255,000£255,000
20133£241,000£240,000£270,000
All 57 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Mar 19972 BH22 9DPDetached£113,000
8 Jun 202337 BH22 9DWSemi-detached£470,000
2 Nov 201538 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£292,000
23 Sep 201038 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£237,500
31 Mar 202540 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£425,000
28 May 201340 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£241,000
2 Dec 202242 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£410,000
19 Apr 200543 BH22 9DWDetached£300,000
7 Dec 200043 BH22 9DWDetached£160,950
4 Aug 199743 BH22 9DWDetached£116,300
26 Oct 201744 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£280,000
10 Aug 199944 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£79,950
10 Aug 201848 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£370,000
15 Feb 201348 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£270,000
25 Jun 200848 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£244,000
10 Feb 200448 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£185,000
6 Feb 200456 BH22 9DPDetached£242,000
5 Apr 200256 BH22 9DPDetached£131,000
17 Apr 201958 BH22 9DPDetached£310,000
22 Dec 201168 BH22 9DPDetached£275,000
20 Jan 200668 BH22 9DPDetached£241,000
4 Sep 201870 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£360,000
15 Sep 201772 BH22 9DPSemi-detached£360,000
7 Aug 202074 BH22 9DPDetached£330,000
10 Aug 200174 BH22 9DPDetached£145,000
20 Mar 200074 BH22 9DPDetached£99,500
24 Oct 201876 BH22 9DPDetached£560,000
5 Dec 201376 BH22 9DPDetached£240,000
31 Jul 202578 BH22 9DPDetached£470,000
30 Apr 200778 BH22 9DPDetached£280,000
19 Nov 200478 BH22 9DPDetached£245,000
31 Mar 200478 BH22 9DPDetached£250,000
11 Jun 200378 BH22 9DPDetached£205,000
2 Aug 201282 BH22 9DPDetached£360,000
18 Jul 201182 BH22 9DPDetached£335,000
25 Aug 201584 BH22 9DPDetached£260,000
11 Nov 199984 BH22 9DPDetached£113,250
2 Jul 199684 BH22 9DPDetached£74,000
15 Feb 199584 BH22 9DPDetached£60,000
2 Nov 202086 BH22 9DPDetached£540,000
2 May 201486 BH22 9DPDetached£255,000
25 Jan 201086 BH22 9DPDetached£215,000
4 Aug 199986 BH22 9DPDetached£113,000
9 Jul 2021184 BH21 7LTDetached£560,000
28 Mar 2025188 BH21 7LTDetached£440,000
29 Sep 2011190 BH21 7LTDetached£354,000
18 Oct 1996190 BH21 7LTDetached£130,000
30 Sep 2025196 BH21 7LTDetached£685,000
12 Jan 2024196 BH21 7LTDetached£557,400
30 Nov 2006196 BH21 7LTDetached£370,000
25 Jul 2003196 BH21 7LTDetached£240,000
18 Dec 2000198 BH21 7LTDetached£212,000
24 Aug 2009THE LAURELS, 198 BH21 7LTDetached£318,500
29 Jul 2005200 BH21 7LTDetached£450,000
8 Feb 2019FOURWAYS BH22 9DPOther£395,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Jun 2001LAND ON THE NORTH EAST SIDE OF BH22 9DPDetached£270,000
16 Aug 1996LAND ON THE NORTH EAST SIDE OF BH22 9DPDetached£130,350

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.

27 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 111 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (10); House, detached (8); House, semi-detached (7). Built: 1930-1949 (11); 1950-1966 (9); 1900-1929 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (24); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (27 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,522 kWh of it on average in 2024, 10% more than the district's 12,285 kWh, and 4,475 kWh of electricity, 30% more than the district's 3,431 kWh. There are gas meters for about 96% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
BH22 9DP253,225 kWh 2712,441 kWh
BH22 9DW53,517 kWh 511,684 kWh
BH21 7LT113,201 kWh 1012,307 kWh
BH22 9DU123,967 kWh 1316,248 kWh
BH22 9AB124,164 kWh 917,641 kWh
BH22 9DX302,534 kWh 2710,695 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 BH22.

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 E (31% of about 670 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: 2.
  • 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: yes, Dorset.

Listed buildings

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

4 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Canford Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole APP/12/01559/F Advanced Conversion Technologies 10 MW Being built Jan 2015 3.3 km (2 miles)
Eco Composting Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 8/11/0268 Biomass 3.2 MW Operational Mar 2017 3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Whites Landfill Site (Canford) Landfill Gas 6 MW Operational May 1996 3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Chapel Lane ERF Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 8/21/0207/FUL Energy from waste (incinerator) 3.4 MW Being built Aug 2024 3.9 km (2.5 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

  • 28 October 2026: SOUTH WEST WATER, Remedial works, stop/go boards, on the carriageway, verge (minor works)
  • 24 August 2026 to 26 August 2026: SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN POWER DISTRIBUTION (SSEPD), Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (standard works)
  • 20 August 2026 to 21 August 2026: SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN POWER DISTRIBUTION (SSEPD), Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 6 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
BH22 9DPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 4 unlikely
BH22 9DRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH22 9DWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH21 7LTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH22 9DUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH22 9DJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH22 9ABnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
BH22 9DGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH22 9DXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely

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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 3 to 5%: 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: less than 1% (9); 3 to 5% (1).

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.

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 59 addresses are between 14 m and 16 m above sea level (15 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
BH21 7LT100%100%100%0%
BH22 9AB100%7%7%0%
BH22 9DG0%0%0%0%
BH22 9DJ0%0%0%0%
BH22 9DP100%100%100%0%
BH22 9DR83%83%83%0%
BH22 9DU100%100%100%0%
BH22 9DW100%100%100%0%
BH22 9DX100%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 stationsBranksome 280,000 journeys in 2024–257 km (4.3 miles)
Parkstone (Dorset) 229,000 journeys in 2024–257.7 km (4.8 miles)
Bournemouth 2.7 million journeys in 2024–257.8 km (4.8 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Glissons Longham350 m
Bus or coach stationBournemouth University Talbot Heath5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Ferry terminalPoole Quay Ferry Landing9.9 km (6.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH5.4 km (3.4 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS86.6 km (54 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. 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 surgeriesOrchid House Surgery Good Jul 20182 km (1.3 miles)
PharmaciesFerndown Community Pharmacy2 km (1.3 miles)
NHS dentistsFerndown Dental Practice2.1 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalSsd Alderney Community Hospital4.8 km (3 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fernhill Outstanding Oct 2019880 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationDorset Police3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM1.7 km (1 mile)

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 gardenKnoll Gardens 1.7 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 1,460 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldKing George's Playing Field 7.0 ha1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Longham Allotment Gardens 1.5 ha710 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 540 m (0.3 miles) west. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*540 m (0.3 miles) west
Bell barrow 500m north east of Beacon FarmScheduled monument890 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Bowl barrow 600m north east of Beacon FarmScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Little Moors FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Bowl barrow on Poor Common 370m north east of HolmwoodScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Crow CopseWood460 m (0.3 miles) north
Big CopseWood480 m (0.3 miles) north
Longham LakesLake or reservoir720 m (0.4 miles) south
Dudsbury HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
The BogWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Fernheath ValleyValley3.9 km (2.4 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)6.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
70 to 74100
65 to 69400
60 to 641500
55 to 592400
Under 55155959

44 of the street's 59 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 Dorset: see them on the Dorset page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Hampreston Church of England Voluntary Aided First SchoolPrimary5–9630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection None published
Parley First SchoolPrimary4–91.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Ferndown First SchoolPrimary4–91.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection None published
Ferndown Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 45% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 1% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)

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

1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 630 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Foundation Sports And Play BH21 7LX Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 630 m (0.4 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 4 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
High Mead Farm CIC BH22 9DRRetailers - other320 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
JU-ICE-IT BH22 9DRRetailers - other320 m5 Very good9 Dec 2024

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (dorset).

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.

10 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 3 serious and 7 slight, in which 3 people were seriously hurt. 4 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist. 40% happened in the dark, and 20% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 40 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202121
202221
202320
202431
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
29 Jul 2025 14:20 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A348, 30 mph Daylight
20 Mar 2024 19:50 Slight 1 person A348, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
10 Mar 2024 00:13 Serious 1 person A348, 40 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
19 Jan 2024 16:10 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist B3073, 40 mph Daylight
24 Oct 2023 23:52 Slight 1 person B3073, 60 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
20 Apr 2023 08:15 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist B3073, 60 mph Daylight
24 Jul 2022 20:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist B3073, 40 mph Dark, no street lights
23 May 2022 04:55 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist B3073, 40 mph Daylight
22 Aug 2021 17:38 Serious 2 people: 2 motorcyclists A348, 40 mph Daylight
31 Jul 2021 10:30 Slight 1 person B3073, 30 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

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A348 between LA Boundary and B3073, with 22,032 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 240 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A348 LA Boundary to B3073 22,032 estimated; counted 2021 4% -17% since 2015 240 m
A348 B3073 Ham Lane to Casrerbridge Rd 13,949 estimated 4% -5% since 2015 470 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.

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: 575 residents in 215 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 over30%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%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 7 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: SOUTH WEST WATER: Remedial works, 28 October 2026 to 29 October 2026 (stop/go boards) 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.

  • BH22 9DP: 33 addresses of 38 in the postcode
  • BH22 9DR: 5 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • BH22 9DW: 5 addresses
  • BH21 7LT: 4 addresses of 16 in the postcode
  • BH22 9DU: 4 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • BH22 9DJ: 3 addresses of 5 in the postcode
  • BH22 9AB: 2 addresses of 21 in the postcode
  • BH22 9DG: 2 addresses of 3 in the postcode
  • BH22 9DX: 1 address of 32 in the postcode

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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.