Mare Leys Buckingham

42 addresses across 2 postcodes (MK18), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 1401593.

  • Sales: 94 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £395,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 27 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 16, E: 1).
  • Flood: 6 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Buckinghamshire costs £2,527 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wolverton, about 13.8 km (8.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 81 to 82 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 42 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Swan Practice, about 880 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 63% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 42 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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£395,000£395,000£395,000
20241£260,000£260,000£260,000
20231£369,995£369,995£369,995
20213£285,000£170,000£505,000
20201£278,000£278,000£278,000
20191£227,500£227,500£227,500
20182£292,500£265,000£320,000
20172£251,500£228,000£275,000
20164£292,500£198,000£430,000
20153£220,000£158,000£274,000
20141£159,500£159,500£159,500
20133£169,950£124,000£250,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 94)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Mar 202622 MK18 7AXDetached£395,000
13 Sep 202427 MK18 7AYTerraced£260,000
22 Jun 20231 MK18 7AYSemi-detached£369,995
30 Sep 202118 MK18 7AXDetached£505,000
27 Sep 202137 MK18 7AYTerraced£285,000
29 Jan 202124 MK18 7AXTerraced£170,000
24 Nov 202035 MK18 7AYTerraced£278,000
29 Apr 201932 MK18 7AXTerraced£227,500
3 Aug 201810 MK18 7AXDetached£320,000
30 May 201811 MK18 7AYTerraced£172,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Apr 201835 MK18 7AYTerraced£265,000
11 Aug 20175 MK18 7AYSemi-detached£275,000
6 Jul 201729 MK18 7AYTerraced£237,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Feb 20173 MK18 7AYSemi-detached£228,000
19 Dec 201637 MK18 7AYTerraced£262,000
2 Sep 201622 MK18 7AXDetached£323,000
5 Aug 201618 MK18 7AXDetached£430,000
31 Mar 201637 MK18 7AYTerraced£198,000
14 Aug 201511 MK18 7AYTerraced£158,000
11 Jun 201535 MK18 7AYTerraced£220,000
22 Apr 20158 MK18 7AXSemi-detached£274,000
31 Jan 201432 MK18 7AXTerraced£159,500
13 Dec 201334 MK18 7AXTerraced£169,950
30 Oct 201324 MK18 7AXTerraced£124,000
2 Sep 201316 MK18 7AXDetached£250,000
27 Jul 201229 MK18 7AYTerraced£174,500
27 Jul 201228 MK18 7AXTerraced£149,000
3 Aug 201129 MK18 7AYTerraced£170,000
27 May 20115 MK18 7AYSemi-detached£193,500
29 Mar 201025 MK18 7AYSemi-detached£165,000
9 Oct 200911 MK18 7AYTerraced£130,000
14 Aug 200932 MK18 7AXSemi-detached£148,000
5 Jun 20098 MK18 7AXSemi-detached£193,000
9 Mar 200928 MK18 7AXTerraced£145,000
2 Feb 200928 MK18 7AXTerraced£165,000
22 May 200829 MK18 7AYTerraced£170,000
9 Oct 200712 MK18 7AXSemi-detached£330,000
19 Jan 200728 MK18 7AXTerraced£163,000
6 Oct 200635 MK18 7AYSemi-detached£171,500
12 Jul 200610 MK18 7AXDetached£238,000
23 Jun 200611 MK18 7AYTerraced£125,000
25 Aug 200517 MK18 7AYSemi-detached£163,000
4 Jul 200510 MK18 7AXDetached£220,000
11 Feb 20055 MK18 7AYSemi-detached£164,000
12 Nov 200411 MK18 7AYTerraced£108,995
23 Aug 200426 MK18 7AXTerraced£85,000
4 Aug 200428 MK18 7AXTerraced£134,000
30 Jun 200434 MK18 7AXTerraced£138,000
24 Feb 200415 MK18 7AYSemi-detached£107,500
15 Aug 20035 MK18 7AYSemi-detached£159,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

27 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (10); House, mid-terrace (7); House, detached (4). Built: 1983-1990 (12); 1976-1982 (12); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (7).

Council tax

What each band costs in Buckinghamshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,527 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,684£1,965£2,246£2,527£3,088£3,650£4,211£5,053

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (38% of about 650 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 6 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
MK18 7AYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 6 unlikely
MK18 7AXnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 0 unlikely

Sources: 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 42 addresses are between 81 m and 82 m above sea level (82 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
MK18 7AX100%100%100%0%
MK18 7AY100%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 stationsWolverton 339,000 journeys in 2024–2513.8 km (8.6 miles)
Milton Keynes Central 6.1 million journeys in 2024–2514.2 km (8.8 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Linden Village Buckingham150 m
Bus or coach stationCoach Park Silverstone9.6 km (6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cornwalls Meadow Car Park740 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station750 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN43.9 km (27 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Swan Practice880 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Jardines Pharmacy830 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 7 High Street (Dental Practice)840 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalBuckingham Hospital880 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationBrackley Police Station12.3 km (7.7 miles)
Cash machinesWaitrose Buckingham, High Street1.1 km (0.7 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 22 ha170 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 750 m²370 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bourton Road Allotments 2.1 ha770 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Old Gaol, a listed building (Grade II*), 910 m (0.6 miles) west. 61 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Old GaolListed building, Grade II*910 m (0.6 miles) west
St Rumbold's WellScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Holloway SpinneyWood670 m (0.4 miles) north
The TwinsLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Ash Close SpinneyWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Chackmore Farm SpinneyWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Monkey IslandIsland4.2 km (2.6 miles) north-west
Grecian ValleyValley4.9 km (3.1 miles) north-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)6.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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 5920
Under 554042

2 of the street's 42 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 Buckinghamshire: see them on the Buckinghamshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Bourton Meadow AcademyPrimary3–11350 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Buckingham Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Buckingham SchoolSecondary11–18890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
George Grenville AcademyPrimary2–11930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Royal Latin SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Maids Moreton Church of England SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lace Hill AcademyPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Buckingham Pizza House MK18 7BUTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good20 May 2025
Linden Village Store MK18 7BARetailers - other210 m5 Very good16 Oct 2023

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.

42 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Anti-social behaviour4
Criminal damage and arson4
Burglary3
Other theft3
Other crime2
Robbery2
Public order2
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Small Crescent (8); On or near Pitt Green (7); On or near Bodenham Close (7); On or near Mare Leys (6); On or near Redshaw Close (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 306 residents in 126 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 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)63%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away20%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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.

  • MK18 7AY: 25 addresses of 27 in the postcode
  • MK18 7AX: 17 addresses of 19 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Krohn Close · Dukes Piece · Bodenham Close · Downer Close · Sandy Close · Akister Close · Hazley Walk · Burleigh Piece · Ackerman Close · Pitchford Walk · Redshaw Close · Windmill Close

All the streets in MK18 and across Buckinghamshire.

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.
  • 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.