Lindisfarne Priory Bedford

36 addresses across 2 postcodes (MK40,MK41), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 27301820.

  • Sales: 77 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £430,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Bedford cost £330,462 in August 2026 (+1.1% on a year); private rents averaged £1,177 a month.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (C: 17, D: 7).
  • 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: 1 recorded flood covered 1 of its 2 postcode centres, most recently in 1947.
  • Landfill: 3 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Goldington Power Station, is 140 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 7 times (50 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Elstow Landfill Site, is 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A4280, carries 16,252 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Bedford costs £2,472 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bedford St Johns, about 2.8 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Priory Country Park, is about 40 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 24 to 29 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bedoc Healthcare, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 770 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 12 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often vehicle crime.
  • 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
20261£430,000£430,000£430,000
20241£485,000£485,000£485,000
20221£435,000£435,000£435,000
20213£445,000£387,000£485,000
20201£400,000£400,000£400,000
20191£340,000£340,000£340,000
20171£370,000£370,000£370,000
20152£288,750£287,500£290,000
20142£307,500£305,000£310,000
20132£236,750£235,000£238,500
20121£225,000£225,000£225,000
20111£245,000£245,000£245,000
All 77 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Dec 19991 MK41 0REFlat or maisonette£39,750Leasehold.
23 Apr 19982 MK41 0REDetached£141,995New build.
14 Mar 20033 MK41 0RESemi-detached£67,500Leasehold.
3 Nov 20003 MK41 0RESemi-detached£43,000Leasehold.
2 Nov 19993 MK41 0RESemi-detached£36,500Leasehold.
29 May 20204 MK41 0REDetached£400,000
29 May 19984 MK41 0REDetached£133,995New build.
24 Mar 20005 MK41 0RESemi-detached£39,750Leasehold.
12 Mar 20196 MK41 0REDetached£340,000
11 May 20116 MK41 0REDetached£245,000
9 Jul 20046 MK41 0REDetached£241,000
31 Mar 20006 MK41 0REDetached£149,995New build.
28 May 19988 MK41 0REDetached£109,995New build.
28 Jul 20009 MK41 0RESemi-detached£42,000New build.
28 Jul 20009 MK41 0REFlat or maisonette£40,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 19979 MK41 0REFlat or maisonette£29,997New build. Leasehold.
8 May 201510 MK41 0REDetached£287,500
31 Mar 200610 MK41 0REDetached£225,000
25 May 199910 MK41 0REDetached£116,995New build.
2 Aug 200011 MK41 0RESemi-detached£73,000
12 May 199811 MK41 0RESemi-detached£70,000
24 Sep 202112 MK41 0REDetached£485,000
27 May 199912 MK41 0REDetached£125,995New build.
26 Nov 201213 MK41 0REDetached£225,000
8 May 199813 MK41 0REDetached£113,000New build.
29 Sep 202114 MK41 0REDetached£445,000
26 Feb 199914 MK41 0REDetached£114,795New build.
30 Apr 199815 MK41 0REDetached£113,995New build.
4 Nov 200916 MK41 0REDetached£267,000
10 Feb 200616 MK41 0REDetached£264,000
11 Dec 199816 MK41 0REDetached£141,495New build.
18 Jun 202117 MK41 0REDetached£387,000
19 Nov 201017 MK41 0REDetached£235,000
5 May 200617 MK41 0REDetached£267,500
28 Jun 200417 MK41 0REDetached£245,000
28 Mar 200217 MK41 0REDetached£173,000
13 May 199817 MK41 0REDetached£115,895New build.
15 Feb 201318 MK41 0REDetached£238,500
25 Sep 200918 MK41 0REDetached£235,000
11 Jan 199918 MK41 0REDetached£113,995New build.
29 May 199819 MK41 0REDetached£135,995New build.
3 Dec 202420 MK41 0REDetached£485,000
18 Dec 199820 MK41 0REDetached£123,995New build.
27 Jul 200121 MK41 0REDetached£151,500
19 Jun 199821 MK41 0REDetached£105,995New build.
7 Feb 201422 MK41 0REDetached£310,000
30 Oct 199822 MK41 0REDetached£141,500New build.
23 May 201323 MK41 0REDetached£235,000
15 May 199823 MK41 0REDetached£114,495New build.
18 Feb 200224 MK41 0REDetached£230,000
16 Jul 199924 MK41 0REDetached£172,500New build.
23 May 200825 MK41 0REDetached£303,000
24 Jul 199825 MK41 0REDetached£143,995New build.
3 Jun 201026 MK41 0REDetached£225,000
9 Aug 200226 MK41 0REDetached£172,000
13 Nov 199826 MK41 0REDetached£104,995New build.
11 Jun 201427 MK41 0REDetached£305,000
10 Jul 199827 MK41 0REDetached£135,995New build.
15 Mar 200228 MK41 0REDetached£174,000
27 Nov 199828 MK41 0REDetached£122,500New build.
29 Jun 200929 MK41 0REDetached£270,000
17 Jul 199829 MK41 0REDetached£118,500New build.
20 Mar 202630 MK41 0REDetached£430,000
21 Dec 200630 MK41 0REDetached£249,995
12 Aug 199930 MK41 0REDetached£126,000
29 Sep 199830 MK41 0REDetached£121,500New build.
27 May 202232 MK41 0REDetached£435,000
30 Jun 201732 MK41 0REDetached£370,000
6 Mar 201532 MK41 0REDetached£290,000
7 Dec 200032 MK41 0REDetached£159,950
4 Sep 199832 MK41 0REDetached£118,500New build.
23 Jun 200634 MK41 0REDetached£235,000
25 May 200134 MK41 0REDetached£143,000
4 Sep 199834 MK41 0REDetached£108,500New build.
11 Aug 199836 MK41 0REDetached£136,950New build.
25 Sep 200938 MK41 0REDetached£295,000
21 Aug 199838 MK41 0REDetached£147,950

House prices and rents in Bedford

A typical home in Bedford cost £330,462 in August 2026, 1.1% more than a year before. That is 16% more than five years earlier and 36% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£557,923
Semi-detached£348,256
Terraced£278,279
Flat or maisonette£159,840
Bought by a first-time buyer£273,305

Private renters in Bedford paid £1,177 a month on average in September 2026, 2.5% more than a year before. That is 33% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£802
Two bedrooms£1,032
Three bedrooms£1,265
Four or more bedrooms£1,812

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 109 m². Most common: House, detached (21); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1996-2002 (21); 1991-1995 (2); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (3); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,105 kWh of it on average in 2024, 23% more than the district's 11,490 kWh, and 3,509 kWh of electricity, 8% more than the district's 3,237 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
MK41 0RE302,310 kWh 3112,629 kWh
MK40 4DR36 5 Economy 72,753 kWh 3615,439 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 MK41.

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 Bedford in 2026-27: Band D £2,472 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,648£1,922£2,197£2,472£3,021£3,570£4,120£4,943

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (31% of about 1,200 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

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

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Elstow Landfill Site Bedford 20/01987/FULWM Solar farm 5.5 MW Being built Dec 2021 1 km (0.6 miles)
Elstow Landfill Site Landfill Gas 1.8 MW Operational Jul 1996 3.7 km (2.3 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 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
MK41 0REnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
MK40 4DRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

Recorded floods

1 recorded flood covered 1 of the centres of this street's postcodes, most recently in 1947.

WhenFloodSource and causePostcodes
1947Not named Not recorded MK41 0RE

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 7 times, for 50 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into The River Great Ouse.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Bedford Water Recycling Centre Anglian Water; monitored 62% of the year The River Great Ouse 7 50 350 m

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

3 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 140 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Goldington Power Station Bedford, Bedfordshire Not recorded Liquid sludge 140 m
South Of New Cut Bedford, Bedfordshire 1950 to 1970 Inert, industrial, commercial, household 140 m
Goldington Power Station Bedford, Bedfordshire Not recorded Not recorded 170 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 36 addresses are between 24 m and 29 m above sea level (25 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
MK40 4DR100%100%100%0%
MK41 0RE100%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 stationsBedford St Johns 176,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Bedford 3.8 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Kempston Hardwick 9,780 journeys in 2024–257.1 km (4.4 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bindon Abbey Goldington120 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bedford3 km (1.8 miles)
Car parksRCP Parking2.5 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station870 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN29.3 km (18 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bedoc Healthcare1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy760 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Clinic560 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalBedford Hospital Good Mar 20193.1 km (1.9 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Creative Support - The Houghtons Good Apr 2025740 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationBedford Police Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machinesSamra Enterprise Ltd, Goldington Cashzone1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Priory Country Park 115 ha40 m
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 280 m²80 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,450 m²780 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha400 m (0.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 116 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Barrow and mortuary enclosure 1100m WNW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complex, a scheduled monument, 750 m (0.5 miles) east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Barrow and mortuary enclosure 1100m WNW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexScheduled monument750 m (0.5 miles) east
Mortuary enclosure 1200m north-west of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Site of Newnham PrioryScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Garden to Howard's HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Bedford ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
New CutLake or reservoir440 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Navigation ChannelLake or reservoir490 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Summerhouse HillHill650 m (0.4 miles) east
Finger LakesLake or reservoir660 m (0.4 miles) south
Press MeadowWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Longholme IslandIsland1.4 km (0.9 miles) west

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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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 5930
Under 553336

3 of the street's 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Bedford: see them on the Bedford page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 14 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
Goldington Green AcademyPrimary2–11780 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Goldington AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 52.0 (54.3 in 2025 and 54.1 in 2024); 59.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
St John Rigby Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 49% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 49% in 2023)
Castle Newnham SchoolAll-through4–161.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 51% in 2023)
GCSE figures withheld (2026, provisional)
Putnoe Primary SchoolPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
The Hills AcademyPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 72% 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

1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 1.4 km (0.9 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Blue Orkids @ Goldington Community Nursery MK41 9JA Full day care 51 Good (May 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 95 childminders and 17 home childcarers (nannies) in Bedford. 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 14 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
Jewson MK41 9RTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Mar 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.

12 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Vehicle crime4
Violence and sexual offences3
Criminal damage and arson1
Drugs1
Anti-social behaviour1
Other theft1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Neath Abbey (6); On or near Chessington Close (2); On or near Cartmel Priory (1); On or near Easby Abbey (1); On or near Torre Abbey (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 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202300
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
19 Oct 2021 13:50 Slight 3 people 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 A4280 between Deep Spinney, Great Denham and A5141, with 16,252 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 340 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A5141 A5141 Cauldwell St to A428 13,260 estimated; counted 2021 1% -3% since 2015 300 m
A4280 Deep Spinney, Great Denham to A5141 16,252 counted 2025 0% -11% since 2015 340 m

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 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 766 residents in 264 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 age3640
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all7%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 9 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

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • MK41 0RE: 35 addresses of 36 in the postcode
  • MK40 4DR: 1 address of 51 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Riverfield Drive · Glastonbury Abbey · Easby Abbey · Finchale Priory · Atherstone Abbey · Neath Abbey · Sibton Abbey · Bindon Abbey · Cartmel Priory · Torre Abbey · Chessington Close · Aldenham Close

All the streets in MK40, MK41 and across Bedford.

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.