Mayhew Close Bromham, Bedford

32 addresses across 2 postcodes (MK43), about 200 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 27300307.

  • Sales: 55 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £375,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 9, E: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 E; Band D in Bedford costs £2,472 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bedford, about 3.8 km (2.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 440 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 41 to 44 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 32 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Queens Park Health Centre, about 3 km (1.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 19 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£375,000£375,000£375,000
20232£459,000£413,000£505,000
20221£357,500£357,500£357,500
20201£250,000£250,000£250,000
20181£379,995£379,995£379,995
20171£345,000£345,000£345,000
20161£285,000£285,000£285,000
20151£310,000£310,000£310,000
20141£250,000£250,000£250,000
20121£249,999£249,999£249,999
20113£250,000£249,995£316,000
20091£245,000£245,000£245,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 55)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Jan 202627 MK43 8PWDetached£375,000
28 Sep 202331 MK43 8PWDetached£505,000
7 Aug 20233 MK43 8PWDetached£413,000
29 Jul 20221 MK43 8PWDetached£357,500
27 Mar 20209 MK43 8PWDetached£250,000
26 Oct 20185 MK43 8PWDetached£379,995
15 Nov 201725 MK43 8PWOther£250Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Mar 201716 MK43 8PWDetached£345,000
19 Dec 201616 MK43 8PWDetached£365,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Mar 20163 MK43 8PWDetached£285,000
22 Oct 201513 MK43 8PWDetached£310,000
18 Dec 201421 MK43 8PWDetached£250,000
27 Jan 20126 MK43 8PWDetached£249,999
2 Dec 201110 MK43 8PWDetached£316,000
30 Sep 201119 MK43 8PWDetached£249,995
25 Jul 20116 MK43 8PWDetached£250,000
30 Sep 200915 MK43 8PWDetached£245,000
1 Oct 200721 MK43 8PWDetached£225,000
16 Feb 200726 MK43 8PWDetached£220,000
8 Sep 200623 MK43 8PWDetached£250,000
25 Aug 200617 MK43 8PWDetached£218,500
14 Feb 20063 MK43 8PWDetached£230,000
30 Nov 200515 MK43 8PWDetached£235,000
19 Oct 200528 MK43 8PWDetached£248,500
25 Aug 20055 MK43 8PWDetached£246,000
18 Aug 200523 MK43 8PWDetached£245,995
1 Aug 20054 MK43 8PWDetached£320,000
27 May 200525 MK43 8PWDetached£250,000
4 Aug 20041 MK43 8PWDetached£213,000
22 Jul 20042 MK43 8PWDetached£285,000
5 Feb 20046 MK43 8PWDetached£230,000
5 Feb 20043 MK43 8PWDetached£215,000
5 Dec 200325 MK43 8PWDetached£229,950
3 Sep 200317 MK43 8PWDetached£170,000
17 Jan 200315 MK43 8PWDetached£226,000
4 Jan 200223 MK43 8PWDetached£169,000
14 Dec 200124 MK43 8PWDetached£167,000
18 Oct 20015 MK43 8PWDetached£166,000
8 Dec 200025 MK43 8PWDetached£164,000
8 Dec 200013 MK43 8PWDetached£145,500
19 Apr 200015 MK43 8PWDetached£140,000
6 Aug 199928 MK43 8PWDetached£121,000
2 Jun 19996 MK43 8PWDetached£118,000
13 Apr 199912 MK43 8PWDetached£146,000
22 Jan 19991 MK43 8PWDetached£90,000
22 Dec 19985 MK43 8PWDetached£110,000
2 Sep 19989 MK43 8PWDetached£114,950
30 Jun 19983 MK43 8PWDetached£102,000
5 Jun 199815 MK43 8PWDetached£107,500
30 Apr 199814 MK43 8PWDetached£250,000

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 May 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 91 m². Most common: House, detached (12). Built: 1991-1995 (7); 1996-2002 (4); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (29% of about 800 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
MK43 8PWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
MK43 8QXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 32 addresses are between 41 m and 44 m above sea level (42 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
MK43 8PW100%100%100%0%
MK43 8QX100%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 stationsBedford 3.8 million journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Bedford St Johns 176,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Kempston Hardwick 9,780 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Budgens Bromham100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bedford4.3 km (2.7 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN32 km (20 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 surgeriesQueens Park Health Centre3 km (1.9 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bromham Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentistsMunro Hall Clinic2 km (1.2 miles)
HospitalBedford Hospital4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Police stationKempston Police3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM3.3 km (2.1 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 350 m²570 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.9 ha930 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.5 ha2.6 km (1.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 1.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bromham Bridge, a scheduled monument, 780 m (0.5 miles) east. 11 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bromham BridgeScheduled monument780 m (0.5 miles) east
Garden at Three GablesRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thistley GreenWood290 m south
The ThornsWood690 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Bowels WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Apple IslandIsland1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Mushroom HillHill2.2 km (1.3 miles) north
Bromham LakeLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
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 5910
Under 553132

1 of the street's 32 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Bedford: see them on the Bedford 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
Bromham CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St James' CofE Academy Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Subway MK43 8PUTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good10 Apr 2025
Welcome co-op MK43 8PURetailers - other170 m5 Very good12 Sep 2026
Berry Drive Store MK43 8QARetailers - other200 m4 Good2 Feb 2016
Bromham Service Station Shop MK43 8PTRetailers - other230 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Apr 2025
The Prince of wales MK43 8PEPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good21 Mar 2026
Swan Inn MK43 8LSPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Feb 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

19 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Vehicle crime3
Shoplifting2
Anti-social behaviour2
Drugs2
Public order1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Berry Drive (5); On or near Thistley Lane (3); On or near Mayhew Close (3); On or near Pinsent Avenue (2); On or near Petrol Station (2).

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: 344 residents in 134 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 age4640
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)42%34%
No qualifications5%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%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.

  • MK43 8PW: 31 addresses of 32 in the postcode
  • MK43 8QX: 1 address of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Batcheldor Gardens · Jackman Close · Thistley Lane · Thistley Lane · Quenby Way · Symonds Close · Cartwright Close · Berry Drive · Pinsent Avenue · New Road · Princes Road · Northampton Road

All the streets in MK43 and across Bedford.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • 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.