Mill Paddock Abingdon-on-Thames, Vale of White Horse

9 addresses across 1 postcode (OX14), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41600822.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2018 the median was £860,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (D: 5).
  • Flood: 8 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 Vale of White Horse costs £2,577 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Culham, about 3.7 km (2.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 80 m away, and Abbey Gardens (9.4 hectares) is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 50 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Malthouse Surgery, about 580 m (0.4 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 60% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 51 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
20181£860,000£860,000£860,000
20131£615,000£615,000£615,000
20111£655,000£655,000£655,000
20061£615,000£615,000£615,000
19992£304,750£292,000£317,500
19981£132,500£132,500£132,500
19961£200,000£200,000£200,000
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Mar 20181 OX14 5EUDetached£860,000
9 May 20136 OX14 5EUDetached£615,000
2 Dec 20113 OX14 5EUDetached£655,000
26 Apr 20064 OX14 5EUDetached£615,000
24 Sep 19997 OX14 5EUDetached£292,000
26 Jul 19994 OX14 5EUDetached£317,500
7 May 19983 OX14 5EUDetached£132,500
6 Sep 19964 OX14 5EUDetached£200,000

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 April 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 146 m². Most common: House, detached (5). Built: 1976-1982 (4); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Vale of White Horse in 2026-27: Band D £2,577 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,718£2,005£2,291£2,577£3,150£3,723£4,296£5,155

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (37% of about 910 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, 7 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 3 homes the Environment Agency counts, 2 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 0 low and 0 very low.

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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

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 50 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
OX14 5EU100%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 stationsCulham 114,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Radley 132,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Appleford 9,070 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coxeters Abingdon Town Centre350 m
Bus or coach stationGloucester Green Bus Station Oxford City Centre9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hales Meadow Car Park460 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station740 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR61.2 km (38 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Malthouse Surgery580 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kings Pharmacy490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Taha Dental Excellence350 m
HospitalAbingdon Community Hospital1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationAbingdon Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machinesHighway Stops - Vineyard Cashzone840 m (0.5 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.3 ha80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Abbey Gardens 9.4 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²170 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.7 ha130 m
AllotmentsDrayton Road Allotments 3.1 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 21 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Long Alley Almshouses, a listed building (Grade I), 110 m east. 261 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 9 of them Grade I and 12 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Long Alley AlmshousesListed building, Grade I110 m east
Brick Alley AlmshousesListed building, Grade I150 m east
Church of St HelenListed building, Grade I160 m north-east
57, East St Helen StreetListed building, Grade II*230 m north-east
Abingdon Bridge including Maud Hale's BridgeScheduled monument430 m (0.3 miles) east
Abingdon Abbey (remains of)Scheduled monument650 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Ock BridgeScheduled monument740 m (0.5 miles) west
Albert Park, AbingdonRegistered park or garden, Grade II750 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Sutton Courtenay ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Andersey IslandIsland680 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Abbey MeadowIsland830 m (0.5 miles) north-east
The WarrenWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Abbey StreamLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
The KnollHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Hill PondLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-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)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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 5579

2 of the street's 9 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 Vale of White Horse: see them on the Vale of White Horse 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
Carswell Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11530 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Caldecott Primary SchoolPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thameside Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
John Mason SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Nicolas Church of England Primary School, AbingdonPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Abingdon and Witney College16 plus16–991.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Larkmead SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Dunmore Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Fitzharrys SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Thomas Reade Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Rush Common SchoolPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Le Petit Doigt OX14 5BLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m1 Major improvement necessary23 Jul 2026
Central Co-operative OX14 5BLRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets330 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Dil Raj OX14 5AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m2 Improvement necessary20 Aug 2026
Prince Of India OX14 5BZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m3 Generally satisfactory21 May 2025
Hugomango's The Thai OX14 5BZTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Apr 2026
Samis BBQ Takeaway OX14 5BZTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m4 Good24 Sep 2025
Que Pasa Tapas bar OX14 5AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Jul 2026
The Tipsy Mercer OX14 5AXPub/bar/nightclub360 m5 Very good23 Jan 2020
Chaba Thai Restaurant OX14 5AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m4 Good20 Aug 2025
Love Desserts OX14 5AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m2 Improvement necessary10 Jul 2025
Juice Corner OX14 5AJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Limoncello Restaurant OX14 5ALRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m4 Good19 Feb 2026
The Kings Head & Bell OX14 5EAPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good15 Oct 2025
Abingdon Distillery OX14 5AJRetailers - other380 m5 Very good27 Oct 2022
The Earl of Abingdon OX14 5AJPub/bar/nightclub380 m4 Good21 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.

51 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Other theft6
Anti-social behaviour5
Public order5
Criminal damage and arson3
Drugs2
Burglary2
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wharf Close (13); On or near Coopers Lane (11); On or near St Helen'S Court (10); On or near Mill Paddock (7); On or near St Helen'S Wharf (7).

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: 297 residents in 144 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 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)60%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented25%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)0%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van38%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%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 qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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 Tiffins Abingdon (restaurant/cafe/canteen, OX14 3QH) re-inspected, still 4 Good (rated 24 September 2026) found 30 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.

  • OX14 5EU: 9 addresses of 10 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Manor Court · Manor Court · Turberville Close · Wharf Close · St Helen's Court · St Helen's Wharf · West Saint Helen Street · St Amand Drive · St Amand Drive · St Edmund's Lane · East Saint Helen Street · Neave Mews

All the streets in OX14 and across Vale of White Horse.

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.