Meadow Bottom Stratton, Dorset

14 addresses across 2 postcodes (DT2), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 43210763.

  • Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £420,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Dorset cost £328,589 in August 2026 (-0.4% on a year); private rents averaged £1,059 a month.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Dorset costs £2,765 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dorchester West, about 5.3 km (3.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 71 to 73 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 14 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Poundbury Doctors Surgery, about 4.3 km (2.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 3 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often other theft.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20231£420,000£420,000£420,000
20221£297,000£297,000£297,000
20211£421,000£421,000£421,000
20181£342,500£342,500£342,500
20172£256,000£222,000£290,000
20152£325,500£310,000£341,000
20141£330,000£330,000£330,000
20131£320,000£320,000£320,000
20112£320,000£310,000£330,000
20092£270,000£210,000£330,000
20082£320,000£300,000£340,000
20071£320,000£320,000£320,000
Most recent sales (33)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Nov 20231 DT2 9WHDetached£420,000
20 Oct 20229 DT2 9WHTerraced£297,000
26 Feb 202110 DT2 9WHDetached£421,000
16 Jan 20181 DT2 9WHDetached£342,500
6 Dec 20173 DT2 9WHSemi-detached£290,000
23 Nov 20179 DT2 9WHTerraced£222,000
24 Sep 20156 DT2 9WHDetached£341,000
12 Feb 20158 DT2 9WHSemi-detached£310,000
27 Aug 20142 DT2 9WHDetached£330,000
28 Aug 201310 DT2 9WHDetached£320,000
11 Nov 201114 DT2 9WHDetached£330,000
10 May 201112 DT2 9WHDetached£310,000
27 Feb 20094 DT2 9WHDetached£330,000
6 Feb 20097 DT2 9WHTerraced£210,000
28 Nov 200812 DT2 9WHDetached£300,000
31 Mar 20081 DT2 9WHDetached£340,000
21 Aug 20072 DT2 9WHDetached£320,000
12 Apr 20069 DT2 9WHTerraced£190,000
8 Aug 20053 DT2 9WHSemi-detached£212,000
28 May 20048 DT2 9WHDetached£272,000New build.
28 May 20042 DT2 9WHDetached£270,000New build.
13 May 200410 DT2 9WHDetached£272,000New build.
30 Apr 200412 DT2 9WHDetached£289,000
26 Apr 20044 DT2 9WHDetached£278,000New build.
16 Jan 20049 DT2 9WHTerraced£165,000
8 Sep 20036 DT2 9WHDetached£285,000New build.
2 May 200314 DT2 9WHDetached£270,000New build.
29 Apr 200312 DT2 9WHDetached£265,000New build.
20 Mar 20039 DT2 9WHTerraced£137,500New build.
13 Mar 20037 DT2 9WHTerraced£179,500New build.
6 Mar 200311 DT2 9WHTerraced£139,950New build.
20 Feb 20035 DT2 9WHSemi-detached£182,500New build.
28 Jan 20031 DT2 9WHDetached£235,000New build.

House prices and rents in Dorset

A typical home in Dorset cost £328,589 in August 2026, 0.4% less than a year before. That is 9% more than five years earlier and 28% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£519,998
Semi-detached£333,127
Terraced£267,978
Flat or maisonette£169,474
Bought by a first-time buyer£257,241

Private renters in Dorset paid £1,059 a month on average in September 2026, 4.2% more than a year before. That is 26% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£733
Two bedrooms£969
Three bedrooms£1,194
Four or more bedrooms£1,688

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 2008 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 114 m². Most common: House, detached (7); House, semi-detached (3); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 2003-2006 (7); 1996-2002 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Dorset in 2026-27: Band D £2,765 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,843£2,151£2,458£2,765£3,379£3,994£4,608£5,530

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (23% of about 1,120 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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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

Groundwater flooding is possible in 2 of these postcodes: an address there is in a groundwater flood alert area.

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
DT2 9WHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 possible
DT2 9WFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible

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.

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.

Height above sea level

The street's 14 addresses are between 71 m and 73 m above sea level (72 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
DT2 9WF100%100%100%0%
DT2 9WH100%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 stationsDorchester West 97,000 journeys in 2024–255.3 km (3.3 miles)
Dorchester South 466,000 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.5 miles)
Maiden Newton 22,000 journeys in 2024–256.5 km (4.1 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Manor Close Stratton240 m
Bus or coach stationTop O Town Coach Park Dorchester4.9 km (3.1 miles)
Car parksParking Services2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station120 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH46.7 km (29 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS72.8 km (45 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 surgeriesPoundbury Doctors Surgery4.3 km (2.7 miles)
PharmaciesPoundbury Pharmacy4.3 km (2.7 miles)
NHS dentistsSt John's Dental Practice3.7 km (2.3 miles)
HospitalDorset County Hospital4.9 km (3 miles)
Police stationDorset Police5.5 km (3.4 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
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 110 m²110 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha70 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,140 m²710 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cross in St Mary's churchyard, a scheduled monument, 200 m east. 15 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cross in St Mary's churchyardScheduled monument200 m east
Churchyard Cross 10 Metres North of Nave of Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*200 m east
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I200 m east
Three barrows N of Penn HillScheduled monument930 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Round barrow NE of Hog Hill BarnScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Penns PlantationWood670 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Grimstone Field PlantationWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Strap BottomValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Newlands PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Penn HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) south
Steepleton PondsLake or reservoir4.4 km (2.7 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)3.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.1205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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 5910
Under 551314

1 of the street's 14 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 Dorset: see them on the Dorset page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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.

No open schools within 2 km (1.2 miles).

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
SAXON ARMS DT2 9WGPub/bar/nightclub110 m5 Very good16 Mar 2026
ACACIA CAKES DT2 9RURetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

3 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Other theft1
Violence and sexual offences1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Church View (1); On or near Meadow Bottom (1); On or near Sawyers Lane (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.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

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.

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: 299 residents in 137 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 age5040
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle2%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

Nearby streets

Penn Hill View · The Rise · Meadow Bottom · Church View · Magiston Street · The Square · Sawyers Lane · Manor Close · Bull Close · Mill Lane · Carpenters Close

All the streets in DT2 and across Dorset.

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.