Honey Close Bideford, Torridge

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (EX39), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40905066.

  • Sales: 55 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £230,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Torridge cost £267,174 in August 2026 (+0.3% on a year); private rents averaged £792 a month.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 19).
  • 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.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Pillhead Copse Landfill, is 80 m away.
  • Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 700 m (0.4 miles) from its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Huxhill Farm, Weare Gifford - Wind Turbine, is 4.2 km (2.6 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Torridge costs £2,601 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnstaple, about 10.6 km (6.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 660 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 26 to 32 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 Wooda Surgery, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 52% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 62 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was 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£230,000£230,000£230,000
20232£279,000£275,000£283,000
20223£103,500£78,000£310,000
20213£180,000£82,500£186,000
20192£193,000£171,000£215,000
20184£114,625£53,550£214,500
20174£202,000£77,500£227,000
20161£162,500£162,500£162,500
20144£172,500£149,950£232,000
20135£179,950£140,000£187,000
20126£178,000£155,000£225,000
201113£150,000£58,050£174,995
All 55 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Dec 20111 EX39 4FSTerraced£162,500New build.
17 Sep 20212 EX39 4FSTerraced£82,500Leasehold.
26 May 20172 EX39 4FSTerraced£77,500Leasehold.
28 Oct 20113 EX39 4FSTerraced£145,000New build.
11 Aug 20145 EX39 4FSTerraced£165,000
30 Sep 20115 EX39 4FSTerraced£150,995New build.
27 Sep 20226 EX39 4FSTerraced£103,500Leasehold.
24 Jun 20116 EX39 4FSTerraced£58,050New build. Leasehold.
27 Feb 20257 EX39 4FSTerraced£230,000
24 Jun 20167 EX39 4FSTerraced£162,500
19 Sep 20137 EX39 4FSTerraced£145,000
23 Jul 20127 EX39 4FSTerraced£155,000
30 Sep 20119 EX39 4FSTerraced£159,995New build.
25 Nov 201111 EX39 4FSTerraced£150,000New build.
18 Apr 201314 EX39 4FSDetached£187,000
13 Sep 201014 EX39 4FSDetached£189,000New build.
21 May 202115 EX39 4FSTerraced£180,000
19 Dec 201915 EX39 4FSTerraced£171,000
28 Aug 201415 EX39 4FSTerraced£149,950
21 Oct 201315 EX39 4FSTerraced£140,000
25 Nov 201115 EX39 4FSTerraced£135,000New build.
9 Nov 201316 EX39 4FSSemi-detached£179,950
9 Sep 201316 EX39 4FSSemi-detached£179,950
27 Aug 201016 EX39 4FSSemi-detached£169,950New build.
24 Nov 201117 EX39 4FSTerraced£155,995New build.
13 Sep 201018 EX39 4FSSemi-detached£175,000New build.
5 Jan 201819 EX39 4FSTerraced£161,000
28 Nov 201119 EX39 4FSTerraced£147,950New build.
4 Nov 201920 EX39 4FSTerraced£215,000
4 Jul 201820 EX39 4FSTerraced£214,500
1 Mar 202121 EX39 4FSTerraced£186,000
25 Nov 201121 EX39 4FSTerraced£145,000New build.
27 Aug 201022 EX39 4FSTerraced£169,950New build.
30 Jul 201022 EX39 4FSTerraced£179,950New build.
11 Nov 201123 EX39 4FSTerraced£147,950New build.
3 Jul 201724 EX39 4FSTerraced£196,000
27 Aug 201024 EX39 4FSTerraced£167,000New build.
28 Oct 201125 EX39 4FSTerraced£160,000New build.
26 Oct 202326 EX39 4FSTerraced£275,000
24 Jul 201426 EX39 4FSTerraced£180,000
27 May 201126 EX39 4FSTerraced£174,995New build.
12 Apr 201728 EX39 4FSDetached£227,000
29 Mar 201228 EX39 4FSDetached£192,500
25 Jun 201028 EX39 4FSDetached£195,000New build.
19 Oct 201839 EX39 4FSFlat or maisonette£53,550Leasehold.
4 Mar 202245 EX39 4FSFlat or maisonette£78,000Leasehold.
16 Aug 201845 EX39 4FSFlat or maisonette£68,250Leasehold.
20 Apr 201259 EX39 4FSSemi-detached£175,000New build.
6 Oct 202361 EX39 4FSSemi-detached£283,000
2 Jun 201761 EX39 4FSSemi-detached£208,000
25 May 201261 EX39 4FSSemi-detached£176,000New build.
1 Jul 202263 EX39 4FSDetached£310,000
25 May 201263 EX39 4FSDetached£180,000New build.
12 Jun 201465 EX39 4FSDetached£232,000
21 Jun 201265 EX39 4FSDetached£225,000New build.

House prices and rents in Torridge

A typical home in Torridge cost £267,174 in August 2026, 0.3% more than a year before. That is 6% more than five years earlier and 34% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£389,229
Semi-detached£276,215
Terraced£207,983
Flat or maisonette£136,612
Bought by a first-time buyer£214,439

Private renters in Torridge paid £792 a month on average in September 2026, 2.1% more than a year before. That is 26% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£567
Two bedrooms£742
Three bedrooms£912
Four or more bedrooms£1,274

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 July 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 64 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (6); House, mid-terrace (5); Flat (5). Built: 2008 (13); 2007-2011 (6); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (social) (3); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 4,427 kWh of it on average in 2024, 50% less than the district's 8,872 kWh, and 2,642 kWh of electricity, 24% less than the district's 3,494 kWh. There are gas meters for about 84% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
EX39 4FS463,866 kWh 246,252 kWh
EX39 4FN761,597 kWh 783,421 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 EX39.

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 Torridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,601 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,734£2,023£2,312£2,601£3,180£3,758£4,336£5,203

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (45% of about 1,300 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

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

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Huxhill Farm, Weare Gifford - Wind Turbine Torridge 1/0244/2026/FUL Wind 1 turbine, 46.5 m tall 0.2 MW Planning application made Apr 2026 4.2 km (2.6 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

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

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
EX39 4FSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
EX39 4FNnot 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 700 m (0.4 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 Hartland Point to Anchor Head none (the line is held)710 m (0.4 miles)
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Hartland Point to Anchor Head none (the line is held)710 m (0.4 miles)
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Hartland Point to Anchor Head up to 3 m700 m (0.4 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

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

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 80 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Pillhead Copse Landfill Bideford, Old Barnstaple Road, Devon Not recorded Not recorded 80 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 22 addresses are between 26 m and 32 m above sea level (29 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
EX39 4FN100%100%100%0%
EX39 4FS100%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 stationsBarnstaple 609,000 journeys in 2024–2510.6 km (6.6 miles)
Chapelton (Devon) 160 journeys in 2024–2511.4 km (7.1 miles)
Umberleigh 54,000 journeys in 2024–2514.6 km (9 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco East-the-Water280 m
Ferry terminalBideford Ferry Landing1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.5 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT63 km (39 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL72.4 km (45 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wooda Surgery Good Nov 20191 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy Bideford1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Quay Dental Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalBideford Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kingsley House Good Jan 20201.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Constabulary1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone920 m (0.6 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,810 m²660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 420 m²160 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,430 m²700 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 9,680 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Southcott Barton, a listed building (Grade II*), 850 m (0.5 miles) north. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Southcott BartonListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) north
Tapeley ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cleave WoodWood560 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Pillhead MarshWetland780 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Ball HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Woodville BottomValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Gammaton ReservoirsLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Instow BeachBeach4.2 km (2.6 miles) north

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)3.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.8205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 552222

None of the street's 22 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 Torridge: see them on the Torridge 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
East-the-Water Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 51% in 2023)
St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
West Croft SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Urgent improvement; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Urgent improvement; Safeguarding standards: Met 38% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 29% in 2024 and 23% 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 870 m (0.5 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
East the Water Stepping Stones Pre School EX39 4BL Full day care 44 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 870 m (0.5 miles)
Bideford Baptist Pre-school EX39 2JR Sessional day care 40 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Tarka Tots Nursery EX39 2QS Full day care 45 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 328 childminders and 60 home childcarers (nannies) in Devon. 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
Tesco EX39 4FWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets190 m5 Very good15 Oct 2025
NIC Services Group EX39 4FWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m4 Good13 Mar 2018

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.

62 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting25
Violence and sexual offences11
Other theft6
Criminal damage and arson6
Anti-social behaviour4
Public order4
Drugs2
Robbery1
Other crime1
Vehicle crime1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (44); On or near Watkins Way (8); On or near Honey Close (8); On or near Donn Gardens (1); On or near Rogers Crescent (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. Most were on roads with a 60 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
16 Mar 2024 09:55 Slight 1 person Minor road, 60 mph Wet road

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 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 602 residents in 255 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 age3340
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)52%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership9%1%
Social rented19%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van72%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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

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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.

  • EX39 4FS: 21 addresses of 47 in the postcode
  • EX39 4FN: 1 address of 82 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Watkins Way · Donn Gardens · Rogers Crescent · Fillablack Road · May Court · Old Barnstaple Road · Biddiblack Way · Culm Close · Mines Road · Biddiblack Way

All the streets in EX39 and across Torridge.

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.