Longford Road Melksham, Wiltshire

94 addresses across 8 postcodes (SN12), about 580 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 43800769.

  • Sales: 88 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £335,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Wiltshire cost £328,102 in August 2026 (+1.5% on a year); private rents averaged £1,091 a month.
  • Energy: 44 homes have an energy certificate (B: 9, C: 16, D: 16, E: 3).
  • Flood: 26 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: 7 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 146 times (1,361 hours) in 2025.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A350, carries 28,323 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Wiltshire costs £2,572 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Melksham, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 38 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 94 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Giffords Primary Care Ctr, about 380 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,070 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 11 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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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£335,000£335,000£335,000
20256£330,000£275,000£385,000
20241£325,000£325,000£325,000
20233£322,500£291,000£465,000
20225£305,000£170,000£340,000
20214£285,000£275,000£295,000
20201£270,000£270,000£270,000
20181£350,000£350,000£350,000
20174£232,750£220,000£252,000
20163£255,000£252,500£265,000
20152£184,375£158,750£210,000
20143£165,000£160,000£232,000
All 88 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Mar 20221 SN12 6DHDetached£170,000
13 Sep 20023 SN12 6DHTerraced£139,000
10 Sep 19973 SN12 6DHTerraced£61,000
5 Feb 20255 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£275,000
30 Aug 20016 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£45,276
18 Sep 20127 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£155,000
29 Nov 201310 SN12 6DHDetached£235,000
14 Dec 200410 SN12 6DHDetached£215,000
20 Sep 199612 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£55,000
19 Dec 202313 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£291,000
28 Nov 200313 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£165,000
5 Mar 199913 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£74,000
18 Jul 200614 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£160,000
8 Nov 202115 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£290,000
30 Apr 201515 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£158,750
25 Apr 202516 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£298,000
16 May 201416 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£165,000
24 Nov 202217A SN12 6DHSemi-detached£305,000
14 Mar 201717A SN12 6DHSemi-detached£220,000
9 Aug 202217B SN12 6DHSemi-detached£305,000
21 Mar 201717B SN12 6DHSemi-detached£222,500
17 Jan 199718 SN12 6DHSemi-detached£63,500
29 Aug 202521 SN12 6ASDetached£385,000
26 Sep 200224 SN12 6ARDetached£143,000
29 Aug 202327 SN12 6ASDetached£465,000
15 Aug 199727 SN12 6ASDetached£86,000
18 Oct 199627 SN12 6ASDetached£77,500
10 May 201829 SN12 6ATDetached£350,000
21 May 202130 SN12 6ASDetached£280,000
27 Jun 202532 SN12 6ASDetached£340,000
5 Mar 200233 SN12 6ATDetached£133,000
12 Aug 201334 SN12 6ASDetached£240,000
30 Jun 199834 SN12 6ASDetached£92,000
5 Mar 200436 SN12 6ASDetached£174,950
3 Jul 200737 SN12 6ATDetached£288,000
30 Nov 200537 SN12 6ATDetached£249,950
30 Oct 199837 SN12 6ATDetached£96,500
24 Aug 201640 SN12 6ATDetached£265,000
4 Oct 201340 SN12 6ATDetached£187,000
29 Aug 202544 SN12 6ATDetached£320,000
17 Feb 199945 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£72,000
15 Jun 200647 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£169,000
4 Dec 200147 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£109,500
22 Jul 199949 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£91,500
21 Aug 199550 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£50,500
7 May 202153 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£295,000
9 Sep 199653 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£55,500
5 Nov 202454 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£325,000
11 Mar 202154 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£275,000
7 Mar 200854 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£163,000
5 Dec 202355 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£322,500
7 Oct 200855 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£175,000
14 Aug 202656 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£335,000
25 May 201756 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£243,000
27 Sep 201256 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£151,000
27 Jun 200856 SN12 6AUTerraced£160,000
28 Jul 199557 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£49,950
19 Jan 199658 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£58,000
24 Jun 201361 SN12 6AXSemi-detached£199,950
14 Mar 201462 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£160,000
19 Dec 200862 SN12 6AUTerraced£150,000
16 Jul 200163 SN12 6AXSemi-detached£105,000
10 Dec 201064 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£157,000
14 Nov 199764 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£65,000
15 Jan 201665 SN12 6AXSemi-detached£255,000
9 Jun 200065 SN12 6AXSemi-detached£111,000
10 Nov 201767 SN12 6AXSemi-detached£252,000
21 Dec 202268 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£340,000
16 Jun 201068 SN12 6AUSemi-detached£140,000
21 Dec 202274 SN12 6AXDetached£315,000
4 Dec 201274 SN12 6AXDetached£187,000
9 Feb 200674 SN12 6AXDetached£185,000
9 Jun 199574 SN12 6AXDetached£59,000
12 Dec 202576 SN12 6AXDetached£340,000
24 Oct 201276 SN12 6AXDetached£215,000
15 Dec 200976 SN12 6AXDetached£182,500
10 Jun 200976 SN12 6AXDetached£182,500
5 Mar 200478 SN12 6AXDetached£168,000
17 Jan 202080 SN12 6AXDetached£270,000
22 Feb 200680 SN12 6AXDetached£192,000
19 Apr 200280 SN12 6AXDetached£147,000
14 Jul 199782 SN12 6AXSemi-detached£73,000
25 May 199582 SN12 6AXSemi-detached£58,000
27 Jun 201684 SN12 6AXSemi-detached£252,500
18 Jun 201584 SN12 6AXSemi-detached£210,000
20 Aug 199884 SN12 6AXDetached£70,000
3 Oct 201486 SN12 6AXSemi-detached£232,000
6 Nov 200390 SN12 6AXDetached£167,500

House prices and rents in Wiltshire

A typical home in Wiltshire cost £328,102 in August 2026, 1.5% more than a year before. That is 14% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£517,138
Semi-detached£327,224
Terraced£265,398
Flat or maisonette£158,339
Bought by a first-time buyer£263,201

Private renters in Wiltshire paid £1,091 a month on average in September 2026, 5.8% more than a year before. That is 30% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£755
Two bedrooms£981
Three bedrooms£1,231
Four or more bedrooms£1,754

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 May 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

44 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (17); House, detached (14); Bungalow, detached (8). Built: 1967-1975 (19); 1930-1949 (8); 2015 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (40); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (44 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,712 kWh of it on average in 2024, 11% less than the district's 9,816 kWh, and 2,928 kWh of electricity, 16% less than the district's 3,494 kWh. There are gas meters for about 97% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
SN12 6DH262,443 kWh 238,998 kWh
SN12 6AU222,477 kWh 229,640 kWh
SN12 6AX161,828 kWh 159,215 kWh
SN12 6AT101,989 kWh 1010,475 kWh
SN12 6AS83,005 kWh 812,038 kWh
SN12 6RP392,626 kWh 395,712 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 SN12.

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 Wiltshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,572 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,715£2,000£2,286£2,572£3,143£3,715£4,286£5,144

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (35% 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.

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, 11 addresses are in areas at high risk, 15 at medium risk and 21 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 4 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 3 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
SN12 6DHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
SN12 6AUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 13 / 6 unlikely
SN12 6AXnot in 2 or 3 8 / 2 / 6 unlikely
SN12 6ATnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SN12 6ASnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
SN12 6RPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SN12 6ARnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SN12 6BGzone 2 2 / 0 / 2 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

7 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 146 times, for 1,361 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Berryfield Stream(S), (S) Berryfield Brook, River Avon, River Avon(S) and others.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Bowerhill Wastewater Treatment Work Wessex Water Berryfield Stream(S) 12 40 550 m (0.3 miles)
Bowerhill Wastewater Treatment Work Wessex Water Berryfield Stream(S) 33 373 550 m (0.3 miles)
Semington Road Pumping Station Wessex Water (S) Berryfield Brook 6 49 640 m (0.4 miles)
Melksham Wwtw Wessex Water River Avon 51 496 890 m (0.6 miles)
Semington Road Cso Wessex Water River Avon(S) 22 82 930 m (0.6 miles)
Semington Roundabout Wessex Water (S) River Avon 2 13 930 m (0.6 miles)
Melksham Wwtw Wessex Water River Avon 20 308 950 m (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

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

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

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

Historic landfill

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 addresses are about 38 m above sea level.

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
SN12 6AR100%100%100%0%
SN12 6AS100%100%100%0%
SN12 6AT100%100%100%0%
SN12 6AU100%100%100%0%
SN12 6AX100%100%100%0%
SN12 6BG100%100%100%0%
SN12 6DH100%100%100%0%
SN12 6RP100%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 stationsMelksham 61,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Trowbridge 904,000 journeys in 2024–257.5 km (4.7 miles)
Bradford-On-Avon 532,000 journeys in 2024–258.5 km (5.3 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hospital Melksham410 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationChapel Knapp Farm5.7 km (3.5 miles)
Car parksChurch Street Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Source EV Charging Station440 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS40.6 km (25 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Giffords Primary Care Ctr Good Dec 2016380 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Melksham Pharmacy380 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Regency Dental Practice590 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBft Southmead Melksham Hospital290 m
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ABLE (Action for a Better Life) - 57 King Street Good Apr 2023620 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationWiltshire police crime numer candy handouts1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Melksham - Pembroke Road Cashzone830 m (0.5 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,360 m²560 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 8,770 m²770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,430 m²90 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,220 m²180 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 820 m²610 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Woolmore Farmhouse, a listed building (Grade II*), 940 m (0.6 miles) south-east. 110 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Woolmore FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Turner Memorial in the Churchyard About 45 Metres South of Lady Chapel of the Church of St MichaelListed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Church of St MichaelListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Giles WoodWood2 km (1.3 miles) south
Eight Acre PlantationWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Forty Acre CopseWood2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Hag HillHill4.1 km (2.6 miles) south
Silverlands LakeLake or reservoir4.3 km (2.7 miles) north
Hilperton MarshWetland5 km (3.1 miles) south-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)6.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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 5990
Under 558594

9 of the street's 94 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 Wiltshire: see them on the Wiltshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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
Aloeric Primary SchoolPrimary4–11630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 42% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
The Manor CofE VC Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 40% in 2024 and 25% in 2023)
Bowerhill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 64% in 2023)
Melksham Oak Community SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.3 (41.4 in 2025 and 39.1 in 2024); 32.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 5% AAB or better; progress below average
River Mead SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding 38% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 41% in 2024 and 28% in 2023)
Forest and Sandridge Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 63% 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

7 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 410 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Bumpers Nursery at Canberra, Melksham SN12 7NY Full day care 53 Not inspected yet 410 m (0.3 miles)
ABC Day Nursery (Melksham) Ltd SN12 6SS Full day care 59 Good (Aug 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 640 m (0.4 miles)
Queensway Chapel Nursery SN12 7LQ Full day care 48 Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 860 m (0.5 miles)
PH ActiveEd - The Manor Primary School SN12 7NG Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Bowerhill Pre-School SN12 6YH Sessional day care 20 Good (Apr 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Achievio SN12 6LH Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Little Robins Nursery SN12 7BT Full day care 37 Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 285 childminders and 38 home childcarers (nannies) in Wiltshire. 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 5 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
Young Melksham Youth Cafe SN12 7NYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good20 Nov 2025
Bumpers Nursery at Canberra SN12 7NYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good12 Jan 2026
Spa Road Service Station SN12 7NYRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good30 Mar 2023
Boomerang Ltd SN12 6TJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Mar 2025
Tolchards Ltd SN12 6TJDistributors/Transporters500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Jul 2022

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.

11 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences6
Anti-social behaviour2
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sarum Avenue (3); On or near Cornflower Way (3); On or near Burnet Close (2); On or near Carisbrooke Road (1); On or near Farleigh Avenue (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 pedestrian; 1 involved a child under 16. 100% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202400
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
1 Nov 2025 20:21 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on

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 A350 between A350 and A365, with 28,323 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 130 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A365 A365 to A365 19,013 estimated; counted 2022 2% -15% since 2015 80 m
A350 A350 to A365 28,323 counted 2025 6% +1% since 2015 130 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 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,066 residents in 438 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 age4740
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%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 qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 10 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 September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Sarum Avenue · Windsor Avenue · Conway Crescent · Farleigh Avenue · Cornflower Way · Carisbrooke Road · Berkeley Close · Speedwell Close · Campion Drive · Wardour Place · Woodstock Gardens · Corfe Road

All the streets in SN12 and across Wiltshire.

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.