Hill View Road Herston, Dorset

302 addresses across 6 postcodes (BH19), about 500 m (0.3 miles) long. USRN 30801208.

  • Sales: 34 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £615,000 across 1 sale.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Swanage Refuse Tip, is 230 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 8 times (11 hours) in 2025.
  • Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 810 m (0.5 miles) from its postcodes.
  • 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 3% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Poole, about 12.7 km (7.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Durlston Country Park, is about 430 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 49 to 103 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Swanage Medical Practice, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 780 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 14 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • 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
20251£615,000£615,000£615,000
20231£500,000£500,000£500,000
20211£435,000£435,000£435,000
20181£220,000£220,000£220,000
20172£402,500£355,000£450,000
20141£295,000£295,000£295,000
20121£365,000£365,000£365,000
20102£318,750£287,500£350,000
20091£235,000£235,000£235,000
20082£299,475£273,950£325,000
20072£306,250£212,500£400,000
20064£227,250£95,000£250,000
All 34 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Oct 20251 BH19 2QUDetached£615,000
16 May 20081 BH19 2QUDetached£325,000
1 Sep 20231A BH19 2QUDetached£500,000
5 Aug 20022 BH19 2QXDetached£178,000
22 May 2017ASANTE, 2 BH19 2QXDetached£450,000
18 Jan 2012ASANTE, 2 BH19 2QXDetached£365,000
10 Aug 20103 BH19 2QUDetached£350,000
5 Oct 20073 BH19 2QUDetached£400,000
20 Jun 20144 BH19 2QXSemi-detached£295,000
14 Jun 20064 BH19 2QXSemi-detached£247,500
14 Jan 20004 BH19 2QXSemi-detached£96,000
30 Jun 20096 BH19 2QXDetached£235,000
21 Apr 20066 BH19 2QXDetached£207,000
24 Feb 199513 BH19 2QUDetached£70,000
25 Oct 201314 BH19 2QXDetached£230,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Nov 200315 BH19 2QUDetached£249,999
4 Aug 200016 BH19 2QXDetached£112,000
2 Sep 200520 BH19 2QXTerraced£235,000
4 Oct 201021 BH19 2QUDetached£287,500
29 Jul 199721 BH19 2QUSemi-detached£86,000
29 Sep 202123 BH19 2QUDetached£435,000
3 Apr 200623 BH19 2QUDetached£95,000
14 Jun 199924 BH19 2QXDetached£79,750
25 Mar 200825 BH19 2QUDetached£273,950
11 May 200125 BH19 2QUDetached£128,000
26 Feb 201626 BH19 2QXDetached£230,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Aug 199827 BH19 2QUDetached£116,500
18 Jun 201828 BH19 2QXDetached£220,000
20 Feb 200728 BH19 2QXDetached£212,500
3 Feb 201730 BH19 2QXDetached£355,000
20 Aug 200230 BH19 2QXDetached£185,000
14 Aug 199834 BH19 2QXDetached£69,950
28 Jul 2006THE CROFT BH19 2QXSemi-detached£250,000
19 Apr 2001THE CROFT BH19 2QXSemi-detached£140,000

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,655 kWh of it on average in 2024, 12% less than the district's 9,816 kWh, and 2,116 kWh of electricity, 29% less than the district's 2,979 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
BH19 2QT232,312 kWh 246,462 kWh
BH19 2RD651,714 kWh 677,565 kWh
BH19 2QX151,855 kWh 1411,097 kWh
BH19 2QU121,878 kWh 1213,146 kWh
BH19 2RE11785 kWh 105,812 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 BH19.

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 (39% of about 720 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

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.

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

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 1 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
BH19 2QTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH19 2RDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH19 2QXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BH19 2QUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH19 2REnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BH19 2TDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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

The nearest projected erosion zone is 810 m (0.5 miles) from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Hurst Spit to Durlston Head none (the line is held)870 m (0.5 miles)
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Hurst Spit to Durlston Head none (the line is held)870 m (0.5 miles)
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Hurst Spit to Durlston Head up to 54 m810 m (0.5 miles)

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.

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

3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 8 times, for 11 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Trib of River Swan(S), Swanage Bay.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Herston Cross Attenuation Tank Cso Wessex Water Trib of River Swan(S) 6 10 610 m (0.4 miles)
Swanage Tunnel Wessex Water Swanage Bay 1 0 890 m (0.6 miles)
Swanage Tunnel Wessex Water Swanage Bay 1 0 900 m (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.

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

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is 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.

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

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 230 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Swanage Refuse Tip Swanage, Dorset from 1930 Inert, industrial, commercial, household; gas control on site 230 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 302 addresses are between 49 m and 103 m above sea level (77 m on average); the ground rises about 54 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
BH19 2QT71%31%31%0%
BH19 2QU100%100%100%0%
BH19 2QX100%100%100%0%
BH19 2RD100%3%3%0%
BH19 2RE100%100%100%0%
BH19 2TD100%100%100%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 stationsPoole 965,000 journeys in 2024–2512.7 km (7.9 miles)
Parkstone (Dorset) 229,000 journeys in 2024–2513.2 km (8.2 miles)
Hamworthy 145,000 journeys in 2024–2513.8 km (8.6 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Howard Road Swanage480 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationCoach Park Swanage870 m (0.5 miles)
Ferry terminalShell Bay Ferry Terminal Studland8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Car parksMain Beach Car Park940 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.5 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH21.6 km (13 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS101 km (63 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 Swanage Medical Practice Good Nov 20151 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 118 Kings Road West Dental Practice620 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSwanage Community Hospital760 m (0.5 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Heathcote Care Home Good Mar 2023560 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationDorset Police13 km (8.1 miles)
Cash machines*Deposit & Withdrawal* The Cooperative Food Swanage Cashzone830 m (0.5 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Durlston Country Park 110 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,100 m²800 m (0.5 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,570 m²670 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 3.4 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 110 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Newton Manor, a listed building (Grade II*), 550 m (0.3 miles) north. 107 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Newton ManorListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) north
The old prison and pumpScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) east
Durlston Castle Historic LandscapeRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Old Mill PondLake or reservoir700 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Coombe CopseWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Durlston BayBay1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Giant's Grave BottomValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Purbeck HillsHills2.8 km (1.7 miles) north
Ballard PointWetland4 km (2.5 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)4.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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
Under 55302302

None of the street's 302 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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), 8 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
Swanage Primary SchoolPrimary2–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
The Swanage SchoolSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.1 (36.9 in 2025 and 39.5 in 2024); 33.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
Swanage St Mark's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 28% in 2023)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Swanage Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 61% 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

3 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 560 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Cumulus Outdoors Residential Centre BH19 2PX Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 560 m (0.3 miles)
Explorers Childcare Group BH19 2PW Full day care 49 Good (Nov 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 820 m (0.5 miles)
Explorers at Herston BH19 2PH Sessional day care 24 Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 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 8 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
Swanage Bay View BH19 2QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good21 May 2025
The View Bar BH19 2QTOther catering premises180 m5 Very good17 Apr 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.

14 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour5
Violence and sexual offences4
Drugs3
Criminal damage and arson1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hillview Road (8); On or near Purbeck View (6).

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 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 780 residents in 388 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 age5940
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over38%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%61%
Owned outright54%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work44%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)40%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle22%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%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 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.

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.

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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.

  • BH19 2QT: 271 addresses of 302 in the postcode
  • BH19 2RD: 11 addresses of 86 in the postcode
  • BH19 2QX: 7 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • BH19 2QU: 6 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • BH19 2RE: 6 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • BH19 2TD: 1 address of 7 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.