Meadow View Kidlington, Cherwell

11 addresses across 1 postcode (OX5), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6800962.

  • Sales: 13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £524,150 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 2).
  • 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 Cherwell costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Oxford Parkway, about 2.8 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 63 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 11 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Key Medical Practice, about 720 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 64% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 16 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
20241£524,150£524,150£524,150
20181£455,000£455,000£455,000
20151£555,000£555,000£555,000
20121£390,000£390,000£390,000
20111£417,500£417,500£417,500
20081£350,000£350,000£350,000
20071£355,000£355,000£355,000
20041£285,000£285,000£285,000
20031£250,000£250,000£250,000
20003£200,000£190,000£205,000
19971£107,000£107,000£107,000
Most recent sales (13)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Aug 20248 OX5 2XYDetached£524,150
4 May 20181 OX5 2XYDetached£455,000
11 Sep 20155 OX5 2XYDetached£555,000
9 Nov 20121 OX5 2XYDetached£390,000
31 Aug 20111 OX5 2XYDetached£417,500
28 Mar 20088 OX5 2XYDetached£350,000
22 Aug 20074 OX5 2XYDetached£355,000
2 Apr 20049 OX5 2XYDetached£285,000
11 Jul 20039 OX5 2XYDetached£250,000
29 Aug 200010 OX5 2XYDetached£205,000
28 Jul 20007 OX5 2XYDetached£200,000
24 Mar 20004 OX5 2XYDetached£190,000
9 Jun 19979 OX5 2XYDetached£107,000

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

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 125 m². Most common: House, detached (4). Built: 1976-1982 (1); 1967-1975 (1); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

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 E (39% of about 720 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.

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 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 addresses are about 63 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
OX5 2XY100%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 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Islip 39,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Hanborough 376,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Homewell House Kidlington170 m
Bus or coach stationGloucester Green Bus Station Oxford City Centre8.4 km (5.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN63.5 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. 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 The Key Medical Practice720 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kidlington Pharmacy720 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smile With Us550 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalJohn Radcliffe Hospital8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Police stationThames Valley Police1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM460 m (0.3 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 area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²340 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Park Hill Recreation Ground 2.1 ha170 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,430 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Dovecote Approximately 10 Metres North North East of the Old Rectory and Dovecote End, a listed building (Grade II*), 560 m (0.3 miles) east. 56 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dovecote Approximately 10 Metres North North East of the Old Rectory and Dovecote EndListed building, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) east
The VicarageListed building, Grade II*570 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I580 m (0.4 miles) east
Thrupp CrossScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Deserted village of Hampton GayScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Blenheim PalaceWorld Heritage Site6.3 km (3.9 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Begbroke HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Madam Hindes's SpinneyWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Thrupp WideLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Knapp's AcreWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Busby's SpinneyWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Hampton GorseWood2.6 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)7.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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 55911

2 of the street's 11 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), 3 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
North Kidlington Primary SchoolPrimary4–11450 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Kidlington Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 miles) 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
West Kidlington Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gosford Hill SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 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
Edward Feild Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Trax Motor Project OX5 2AJSchool/college/university200 mAwaiting inspection
Small Steps Pre-School OX5 2DAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good19 May 2026
The Kings Arms OX5 2AJOther catering premises350 m5 Very good10 Jul 2026
Tesco Stores Ltd OX5 2DNRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Feb 2020
The Crafters Emporium OX5 2DLRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Pro G Ltd OX5 2DLPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Fresh Start Catering @ North Kidlington Primary School OX5 2DASchool/college/university450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Oct 2025
The Burrow OX5 2DAOther catering premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Feb 2026
The Foresters Bar OX5 2DNPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Apr 2024
Stanley's Sweets and Treats OX5 2DLRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Jun 2023
Dominos Pizza OX5 2DNTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Oct 2024
TULASI OX5 2DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 2025
Angaara OX5 2DNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good27 Aug 2026
Albert Fish And Chips OX5 2DNTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Nov 2024
Anatolian Olive Oil OX5 2BBOther catering premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Apr 2018

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.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Vehicle crime3
Criminal damage and arson1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Meadow View (11); On or near Ben Close (5).

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: 260 residents in 156 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 age6640
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over52%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownership6%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work33%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)55%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)49%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%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 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Pro G Ltd (pub/bar/nightclub, OX5 2DL) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026

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.

  • OX5 2XY: 11 addresses of 12 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Mead Way · The Moorlands · Ashmead Way · Ben Close · Lambs Close · Foxdown Close · Helwys Place · Deaufort Close · St Mary's Close · Benmead Road · Wise Avenue · Farm 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.
  • 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.