Irvine Close Taunton, Somerset

35 addresses across 1 postcode (TA2), about 190 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39605034.

  • Sales: 56 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £286,250 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Somerset cost £282,498 in August 2026 (+2.8% on a year); private rents averaged £1,021 a month.
  • Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 16, D: 6, E: 2).
  • Flood: 3 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.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 11 times (20 hours) in 2025.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A358, carries 22,479 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Somerset costs £2,561 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 21% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Taunton, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 22 to 24 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 35 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is French Weir Health Centre, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 310 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.
  • Crime: 35 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
20252£286,250£255,000£317,500
20241£225,000£225,000£225,000
20231£280,000£280,000£280,000
20223£260,000£245,000£300,000
20211£168,000£168,000£168,000
20192£205,000£160,000£250,000
20183£188,000£140,000£192,000
20174£189,975£145,000£240,000
20162£197,250£159,500£235,000
20151£113,000£113,000£113,000
20141£144,000£144,000£144,000
20135£133,500£105,000£267,000
All 56 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Apr 19981 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£85,000
30 Aug 20132 TA2 6UJDetached£267,000
7 Mar 20062 TA2 6UJDetached£273,000
6 Oct 20253 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£255,000
14 Sep 20173 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£205,000
27 Jul 20113 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£170,000
6 Dec 20023 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£122,000
28 Feb 19973 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£59,950
14 Apr 20224 TA2 6UJTerraced£260,000
19 Jul 20006 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£52,500
23 Jul 20219 TA2 6UJTerraced£168,000
6 Jun 20199 TA2 6UJTerraced£160,000
27 Jan 20179 TA2 6UJTerraced£145,000
4 Oct 20139 TA2 6UJTerraced£105,000
3 Mar 20159A TA2 6UJTerraced£113,000
4 Mar 201410 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£144,000
20 Sep 201210 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£145,000
6 Feb 201811 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£140,000
1 Apr 200512 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£160,000
3 Feb 201714 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£174,950
27 Nov 201215 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£170,000
16 Aug 200415 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£165,000
14 Oct 199616 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£67,000
29 Jul 202218 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£300,000
5 Jan 200718 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£189,000
20 Apr 200118 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£97,000
15 Mar 201319 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£133,500
10 Nov 200019 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£64,500
27 Mar 199719 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£43,000
19 May 202520 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£317,500
30 Jun 201620 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£235,000
24 Aug 201221 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£137,000
31 Jan 199521 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£46,750
5 Apr 202322 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£280,000
19 Jan 201824 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£188,000
5 Dec 199725 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£56,500
27 Jul 201826 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£192,000
3 May 201326 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£150,500
3 Sep 200226 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£114,000
2 Aug 199626 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£59,000
25 Jul 199626 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£58,500
31 May 201727 TA2 6UJTerraced£106,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jun 200827A TA2 6UJSemi-detached£121,000
1 Nov 200627A TA2 6UJSemi-detached£117,000
22 Apr 200327A TA2 6UJSemi-detached£89,950
28 Jan 200027A TA2 6UJSemi-detached£49,500
5 Jan 202430 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£225,000
24 Nov 201630 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£159,500
16 Jun 200630 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£144,500
29 Nov 200230 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£109,950
29 Nov 201931 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£250,000
31 Mar 201731 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£240,000
24 Jan 201331 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£130,000
5 Aug 202232 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£245,000
28 Jan 200032 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£57,300
18 Feb 199832 TA2 6UJSemi-detached£49,500

House prices and rents in Somerset

A typical home in Somerset cost £282,498 in August 2026, 2.8% more than a year before. That is 14% more than five years earlier and 37% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£459,165
Semi-detached£289,787
Terraced£235,285
Flat or maisonette£136,214
Bought by a first-time buyer£232,749

Private renters in Somerset paid £1,021 a month on average in September 2026, 6.3% more than a year before. That is 35% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£695
Two bedrooms£918
Three bedrooms£1,142
Four or more bedrooms£1,628

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 August 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (22); House, end-terrace (2); House, detached (1). Built: 1976-1982 (11); 1967-1975 (7); 1983-1990 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (social) (2); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (25 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,184 kWh of it on average in 2024, 7% less than the district's 8,783 kWh, and 2,328 kWh of electricity, 24% less than the district's 3,069 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the 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 TA2.

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 Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,561 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,707£1,992£2,276£2,561£3,130£3,699£4,268£5,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (39% of about 640 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre 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

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 11 times, for 20 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Tone.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Mountway Bishops Hull Cso Wessex Water River Tone 11 20 920 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 here 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 postcode is in a 1 km square in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

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 35 addresses are between 22 m and 24 m above sea level (22 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
TA2 6UJ100%21%21%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 stationsTaunton 1.6 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Bridgwater 487,000 journeys in 2024–2514.7 km (9.1 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Irvine Close Taunton30 m
Bus or coach stationCoach Park Taunton1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Car parksNorton Mills Local Centre Car Park1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT38.4 km (24 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL43.8 km (27 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 French Weir Health Centre Good Aug 20151.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Staplegrove Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Linden House Dental Practice1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalBft Southmead Musgrove Park Hospital Requires improvement Sep 20261.7 km (1.1 miles)
Care homes12 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Firs Care Centre Good Sep 2025360 m
Police stationTaunton Police Station - Avon And Somerset Police1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machinesThe Southern Co-Operative Norton Fitzwarren Morse Road, Norotn Fitzwarren Cashzone1.6 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,720 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,300 m²100 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha90 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Turners Allotments 4.4 ha740 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Norton Camp large univallate hillfort, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) west. 26 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Norton Camp large univallate hillfortScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) west
Taunton Castle: a motte and bailey castle, part of the outer bailey, an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and a Civil War artillery platformScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The GroveWood420 m (0.3 miles) north
Rag HillHill950 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Steps WaterLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Bench CovertWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Front CovertWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Gadd's BottomValley4.1 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)6.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)10.14015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 553435

1 of the street's 35 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Somerset: see them on the Somerset 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
Staplegrove Church School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11140 m No published inspection 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
The Castle SchoolSecondary11–191.2 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 52.7 (53.4 in 2025 and 55.3 in 2024); 57.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
Bishops Hull Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Norton Fitzwarren Church School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
St Andrew's Church School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 38% in 2024 and 32% in 2023)
North Town AcademyPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Wellsprings Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 44% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Priorswood Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 44% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 29% in 2024 and 21% in 2023)
Parkfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 60% 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

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.3 km (0.8 miles); the nearest is 170 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Primary Forest School Taunton TA2 6UP Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 170 m
Stepping Stones (SW) Ltd TA2 6UP Sessional day care 37 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 170 m
Little Adventures Nursery (Taunton) TA2 6BB Full day care 57 Jan 2026: Strong standard in 3 areas, Expected standard in 3 360 m
Taunton School Nursery TA2 6AE Full day care Not inspected yet 580 m (0.4 miles)
The Beehive Day Nursery Ltd TA1 5AA Full day care 62 Good (Aug 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 680 m (0.4 miles)
Taunton School Sports Club TA2 6AD Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 740 m (0.5 miles)
Brock House Day Nursery TA2 6RS Full day care 60 Nov 2025: Expected standard in 4 areas, Needs attention in 2 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Mama Bear's Day Nursery TA1 5AX Full day care 53 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bishops Hull Preschool TA1 5EB Sessional day care 23 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Spring Bishops Hull TA1 5EB Full day care 32 Good (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 180 childminders and 43 home childcarers (nannies) in Somerset. 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
Staplegrove Church School TA2 6UPSchool/college/university170 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
Stepping Stones (SW) Ltd TA2 6UPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises170 m5 Very good15 May 2024
Orchard Bungalow TA2 6ALHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good18 Dec 2025
Morrisons Daily TA2 6BDRetailers - other220 m5 Very good29 Apr 2026
Keys Child Care (Stapledene) TA2 6ALHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 mExempt
Mega Sea Fish and Chips TA2 6BDTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good2 Sep 2026
Yallands Farmhouse Bed and Breakfast TA2 6PZHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house320 m5 Very good7 Jul 2024
Welcome Staplegrove TA2 6ANRetailers - other320 m5 Very good17 Jun 2026
Nuffield Health - Taunton Hospital TA2 6ANHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good23 Oct 2025
The Firs Care Centre TA2 6AQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m4 Good2 Mar 2026
Town and Country Meats TA2 6BBRetailers - other360 m5 Very good2 Jul 2026
Little Adventurers Nursery (Taunton) TA2 6BBOther catering premises370 m5 Very good16 Feb 2026
Emmi Desserts Taunton Limited TA2 6ABManufacturers/packers440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Traceys Snacks TA2 6AAMobile caterer490 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory2 Apr 2025

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.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting16
Violence and sexual offences11
Anti-social behaviour3
Public order2
Burglary1
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Mallory Close (27); On or near Rhodes Close (2); On or near Stanley Close (2); On or near Scott Close (2); On or near Hudson Way (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. 1 involved a cyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202300
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
8 Jun 2021 10:10 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 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 A358 between A3027 and A3065, with 22,479 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 430 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A358 A3027 to A3065 22,479 estimated; counted 2022 2% +7% since 2015 430 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: 314 residents in 140 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 age4340
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work70%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%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 bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%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 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 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

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.

  • TA2 6UJ: 35 addresses of 37 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Stanley Close · Bindon Road · Hudson Way · Mallory Close · Scott Close · Livingstone Way · Elmbarton Cottages · Rhodes Close · Staplegrove Road · Cook Way · Brindle Close · Westerkirk Gate

All the streets in TA2 and across Somerset.

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.