Maple Avenue Kidlington, Cherwell

96 addresses across 7 postcodes (OX5), about 580 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 6800929.

  • Sales: 94 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £388,000 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Cherwell cost £355,981 in August 2026 (+2.6% on a year); private rents averaged £1,316 a month.
  • Energy: 49 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 25, D: 20, E: 2).
  • Flood: 10 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.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Woodstock Road, Yarnton - Battery Energy Storage System, is 1.4 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Cherwell costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 86% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Oxford Parkway, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2.5 km (1.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 61 to 64 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 96 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Gosford Hill Medical Centre, about 290 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 55 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20252£388,000£351,000£425,000
20241£375,000£375,000£375,000
20231£295,000£295,000£295,000
20221£575,000£575,000£575,000
20214£333,500£327,000£353,500
20191£320,000£320,000£320,000
20173£255,000£165,000£405,000
20164£315,500£280,000£318,000
20155£360,000£166,000£425,000
20143£307,500£295,000£327,500
20134£257,500£237,500£295,000
20124£241,500£228,000£305,000
All 94 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jun 20152 OX5 1ESDetached£360,000
14 Nov 20082 OX5 1ESDetached£225,000
5 Jul 19962 OX5 1ESDetached£87,000
27 Jul 20015 OX5 1ESDetached£174,000
25 Jul 20127 OX5 1ESDetached£247,500
16 Aug 20139 OX5 1ESDetached£295,000
31 Aug 20129 OX5 1ESDetached£235,500
1 Aug 201412 OX5 1ESDetached£327,500
14 Jul 199912 OX5 1ESDetached£115,000
26 Apr 201314 OX5 1ESDetached£270,000
22 Feb 200814 OX5 1ESDetached£250,000
25 Sep 199814 OX5 1ESDetached£106,000
28 Feb 200615 OX5 1ESSemi-detached£202,000
3 Sep 199715 OX5 1ESTerraced£85,000
23 Mar 200717 OX5 1ESDetached£236,200
3 Nov 199518 OX5 1ESDetached£77,500New build.
19 May 199519 OX5 1HNSemi-detached£64,000
29 Sep 200321 OX5 1HNSemi-detached£165,000
29 Jan 199921 OX5 1HNSemi-detached£36,000
30 Apr 202523 OX5 1HNTerraced£351,000
24 Jun 201423 OX5 1HNTerraced£307,500
14 Dec 202323A OX5 1HNFlat or maisonette£215,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jan 201523A OX5 1HNFlat or maisonette£150,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jan 201523B OX5 1HNFlat or maisonette£166,000New build. Leasehold.
28 Oct 202224 OX5 1ESSemi-detached£575,000
9 Jun 201524 OX5 1ESSemi-detached£425,000
16 Oct 201526 OX5 1ESSemi-detached£400,000
6 Aug 200426 OX5 1ESSemi-detached£225,000
27 Apr 199827 OX5 1HNTerraced£70,000
26 Jul 201228 OX5 1ESDetached£305,000
15 Dec 200528 OX5 1ESDetached£250,000
2 Dec 201629 OX5 1HNTerraced£318,000
27 Apr 200729 OX5 1HNTerraced£226,000
19 Sep 200029 OX5 1HNTerraced£115,000
4 Aug 201730 OX5 1HNSemi-detached£405,000
27 Feb 200430 OX5 1HNSemi-detached£210,000
25 Feb 202531 OX5 1HNTerraced£425,000
22 Feb 200231 OX5 1HNTerraced£150,000
14 May 201932 OX5 1HNDetached£320,000
31 Jan 201732 OX5 1HNDetached£255,000
4 Apr 199732 OX5 1HNDetached£63,000
18 Mar 201634 OX5 1HNTerraced£315,000
25 Jul 200634 OX5 1HNTerraced£211,750
31 Aug 201235 OX5 1HNTerraced£228,000
28 May 201035 OX5 1HNSemi-detached£195,000
12 Aug 201636 OX5 1HNTerraced£316,000
27 Jul 200136 OX5 1HNTerraced£123,000
26 Sep 201437 OX5 1HNTerraced£295,000
27 Oct 202139 OX5 1HNTerraced£330,000
16 Dec 201639 OX5 1HNTerraced£280,000
13 Jan 201040 OX5 1HNTerraced£165,000
17 Sep 202142 OX5 1HNTerraced£327,000
17 Sep 201046 OX5 1HNTerraced£232,500
28 Mar 200246 OX5 1HNTerraced£116,000
29 Jul 201147 OX5 1HNTerraced£232,500
17 May 201348 OX5 1HNTerraced£245,000
5 Apr 200748 OX5 1HNTerraced£230,000
25 Nov 201149 OX5 1HNTerraced£210,000
30 Oct 200949 OX5 1HNTerraced£225,000
6 Oct 200049 OX5 1HNSemi-detached£115,000
30 Aug 199549 OX5 1HNSemi-detached£60,000
3 Mar 200651 OX5 1HNTerraced£185,000
4 May 201153 OX5 1HNTerraced£205,000
20 Aug 200353 OX5 1HNTerraced£155,000
19 Apr 199653 OX5 1HNTerraced£63,000
11 Aug 202154 OX5 1HNTerraced£337,000
2 Sep 201354 OX5 1HNTerraced£237,500
13 Sep 200656 OX5 1HNTerraced£227,500
16 Feb 200760 OX5 1HWSemi-detached£221,500
9 Jun 200060 OX5 1HWSemi-detached£115,000
5 Jan 199660 OX5 1HWSemi-detached£60,000
14 Jan 202662 OX5 1HWTerraced£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Aug 200762 OX5 1HWTerraced£249,995
26 Nov 200462 OX5 1HWTerraced£187,000
5 May 199562 OX5 1HWTerraced£64,500
28 Feb 200564 OX5 1HWTerraced£180,000
28 Jun 199664 OX5 1HWTerraced£57,000
2 Apr 200466 OX5 1HWTerraced£175,000
2 Jun 200366 OX5 1HWTerraced£158,000
26 Apr 199968 OX5 1HWTerraced£61,725
23 Jun 202370 OX5 1HWTerraced£295,000
31 Jul 200370 OX5 1HWTerraced£160,000
25 Feb 201572 OX5 1HWTerraced£260,000
13 Nov 199672 OX5 1HWTerraced£59,500
30 Jun 200076 OX5 1HWTerraced£115,000
25 Aug 201780 OX5 1HWTerraced£165,000Leasehold.
26 Sep 200380 OX5 1HWTerraced£77,000Leasehold.
19 Jul 201082A OX5 1HWDetached£343,000
25 Oct 201084 OX5 1HWDetached£330,000
24 Nov 199585 OX5 1HWDetached£64,700
28 Mar 202488 OX5 1HWSemi-detached£375,000
30 Mar 202188 OX5 1HWSemi-detached£353,500
10 Jun 199788 OX5 1HWSemi-detached£80,000
5 Dec 199789 OX5 1HWSemi-detached£75,000

House prices and rents in Cherwell

A typical home in Cherwell cost £355,981 in August 2026, 2.6% more than a year before. That is 14% more than five years earlier and 22% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£571,986
Semi-detached£355,133
Terraced£294,660
Flat or maisonette£172,531
Bought by a first-time buyer£305,382

Private renters in Cherwell paid £1,316 a month on average in September 2026, 3.2% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£984
Two bedrooms£1,229
Three bedrooms£1,485
Four or more bedrooms£2,224

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 November 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

49 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (24); House, detached (10); House, end-terrace (10). Built: 1976-1982 (23); 1967-1975 (15); 1991-1995 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (27); rented (private) (12).

Each home's certificates and sales (49 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,827 kWh of it on average in 2024, 11% less than the district's 12,215 kWh, and 3,135 kWh of electricity, 19% less than the district's 3,858 kWh. There are gas meters for about 97% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
OX5 1HN372,311 kWh 348,967 kWh
OX5 1ES241,904 kWh 229,800 kWh
OX5 1HW202,185 kWh 2012,161 kWh
OX5 1EZ292,844 kWh 2911,064 kWh
OX5 1EB442,820 kWh 428,779 kWh
OX5 1EY113,155 kWh 119,403 kWh
OX5 1HH352,252 kWh 3510,241 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 OX5.

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 Cherwell in 2026-27: Band D £2,583 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,722£2,009£2,296£2,583£3,157£3,731£4,305£5,166

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (56% of about 540 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

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

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
The Flit Cherwell 14/00786/F Solar farm 10.5 MW Operational Mar 2015 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Woodstock Road, Yarnton - Battery Energy Storage System Cherwell 24/02872/F Battery storage 52 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jun 2025 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Cassington AD (Waste AD) West Oxfordshire 08/01781/CM Anaerobic digestion 2.1 MW Operational Sep 2010 3.4 km (2.1 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 8 September 2026 to 9 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 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: 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
OX5 1HNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX5 1ESnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
OX5 1HWnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 3 unlikely
OX5 1EZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 6 / 4 unlikely
OX5 1EBnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 6 unlikely
OX5 1EYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
OX5 1HHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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

Coal mining

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 96 addresses are between 61 m and 64 m above sea level (62 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
OX5 1EB100%100%100%0%
OX5 1ES100%100%100%0%
OX5 1EY100%100%100%0%
OX5 1EZ100%86%86%0%
OX5 1HH100%100%100%0%
OX5 1HN97%97%97%0%
OX5 1HW100%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 stationsOxford Parkway 655,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Islip 39,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Hanborough 376,000 journeys in 2024–256.5 km (4 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gosford Hill Kidlington150 m
Bus or coach stationGloucester Green Bus Station Oxford City Centre6.7 km (4.1 miles)
Car parksOxford Parkway Park and Ride1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station780 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN63.3 km (39 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 Gosford Hill Medical Centre Good May 2024290 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Parade Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oxford Road (Dental Surgery)610 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalJohn Radcliffe Hospital Requires improvement Sep 20266.9 km (4.3 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gosford Lodge Good Dec 2019620 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationThames Valley Police180 m
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM1.3 km (0.8 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 gardenUnnamed 9,050 m²2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 600 m²80 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest South Park 2.1 ha60 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,410 m²70 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Yarnton Manor, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Yarnton ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Blenheim PalaceWorld Heritage Site7.4 km (4.6 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stratfield BrakeWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Begbroke HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Peartree HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Duke's CutLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
Wolvercote Mill WoodlandWood3 km (1.9 miles) south
Begbroke WoodWood3.1 km (1.9 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)8.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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 5970
Under 558996

7 of the street's 96 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 Cherwell: see them on the Cherwell page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 6 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
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Kidlington Roman CatholicPrimary2–11360 m No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 81% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
West Kidlington Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–11360 m Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 58% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
Gosford Hill SchoolSecondary11–18400 m (0.2 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.1 (45.3 in 2025 and 45.2 in 2024); 44% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 13% AAB or better; progress below average
Edward Feild Primary SchoolPrimary4–11510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection None published
North Kidlington Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 67% 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

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 440 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Skips OX5 1EA Sessional day care 30 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 440 m (0.3 miles)
Robin Preschool OX5 2LG Sessional day care 64 Dec 2025: Strong standard in 2 areas, Expected standard in 4 510 m (0.3 miles)
Small Steps Day Nursery OX5 1AB Full day care 29 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Small Steps Pre-School OX5 2DA Full day care 26 Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 330 childminders and 104 home childcarers (nannies) in Oxfordshire. 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 6 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
Barefoot OX5 2PARetailers - other140 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Aug 2025
Londis ( Fairfax store ) OX5 2PARetailers - other150 m5 Very good26 Jun 2024
Smarts fish and chips ltd OX5 2PATakeaway/sandwich shop160 mAwaiting inspection
Mayflower restaurant OX5 2PBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m3 Generally satisfactory13 May 2026
WISH OX5 1EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
Gurkha Village OX5 1EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good24 May 2023
Zabka Supermarket OX5 1EERetailers - other310 m1 Major improvement necessary3 Nov 2025
Ronishca Ltd (Broadway News) OX5 1DBRetailers - other310 m4 Good25 Sep 2023
Skips Pre-School OX5 1EASchool/college/university360 m5 Very good29 Mar 2017
Caterlink Ltd at West Kidlington Primary School OX5 1EASchool/college/university360 m5 Very good3 Oct 2025
South Avenue B&B OX5 1DEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Feb 2022
Aramark @ Gosford Hill Secondary School OX5 2NTSchool/college/university470 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Oxford house Cafe OX5 1EARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Nov 2024

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.

55 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences18
Anti-social behaviour7
Other crime5
Burglary5
Vehicle crime4
Public order4
Criminal damage and arson4
Other theft3
Robbery3
Shoplifting1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fairfax Road (16); On or near Police Station (16); On or near Azalea Avenue (10); On or near Elm Grove (5); On or near Bowood Court (5).

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.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202300
202400
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
4 Jul 2025 14:20 Slight 1 person A4260, 30 mph Daylight
15 Mar 2021 15:30 Slight 1 person A4260, 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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,313 residents in 521 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 age4140
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%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 away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

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.

  • OX5 1HN: 41 addresses
  • OX5 1ES: 26 addresses of 30 in the postcode
  • OX5 1HW: 24 addresses
  • OX5 1EZ: 2 addresses of 35 in the postcode
  • OX5 1EB: 1 address of 51 in the postcode
  • OX5 1EY: 1 address of 14 in the postcode
  • OX5 1HH: 1 address of 39 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Maple Court · Azalea Avenue · Fairfax Centre · Fairfax Road · Elm Grove · Almond Avenue · Beech Crescent · Poplar Close · Hazel Crescent · Gosford Close · Hawthorn Way · Ash Close

All the streets in OX5 and across Cherwell.

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.