Moley Gardens Wantage, Vale of White Horse

42 addresses across 2 postcodes (OX12), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41619818.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £401,250 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 41 homes have an energy certificate (B: 39, C: 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 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 Didcot Parkway, about 12.6 km (7.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Betjeman Millennium Park, is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 108 to 114 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 Newbury Street Practice, about 1.5 km (1 mile) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 500 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: 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
20242£401,250£322,500£480,000
20231£74,000£74,000£74,000
20221£490,000£490,000£490,000
20213£292,000£288,000£490,000
20201£295,000£295,000£295,000
20191£420,000£420,000£420,000
20181£452,500£452,500£452,500
201614£320,000£264,950£450,000
20153£259,950£259,950£399,950
Most recent sales (27)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Aug 20242 OX12 8FWDetached£480,000
1 Mar 20244 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£322,500
18 Jul 202343 OX12 8FWFlat or maisonette£74,000Leasehold.
1 Apr 20228 OX12 8FWDetached£490,000
3 Dec 202118 OX12 8FWDetached£490,000
27 Jan 202131 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£292,000
8 Jan 20216 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£288,000
9 Dec 202033 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£295,000
21 Jun 201937 OX12 8FWDetached£420,000
7 Jun 201818 OX12 8FWDetached£452,500
23 Sep 201618 OX12 8FWDetached£450,000New build.
29 Jul 201637 OX12 8FWDetached£427,450New build.
7 Jul 20168 OX12 8FWDetached£435,000New build.
6 Jun 201614 OX12 8FWDetached£375,000New build.
17 May 201612 OX12 8FWDetached£320,000New build.
16 May 201616 OX12 8FWDetached£375,000New build.
12 May 201610 OX12 8FWDetached£437,000New build.
21 Apr 201635 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£320,000New build.
6 Apr 201633 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£264,950New build.
17 Mar 201631 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£264,950New build.
15 Mar 201627 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£267,950New build.
3 Mar 201629 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£267,950New build.
19 Feb 201625 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£264,950New build.
19 Feb 201623 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£264,950New build.
11 Dec 20156 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£259,950
30 Nov 20152 OX12 8FWDetached£399,950New build.
27 Nov 20154 OX12 8FWSemi-detached£259,950New build.

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 September 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

41 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (26); House, detached (5); House, mid-terrace (4). Built: 2014 (38); 2012-2021 (2); 2012 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (40); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (38 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 (41% of about 1,110 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 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.

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
OX12 8FWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
OX12 8FUnot 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 42 addresses are between 108 m and 114 m above sea level (110 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
OX12 8FU100%100%100%0%
OX12 8FW100%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 stationsDidcot Parkway 2.9 million journeys in 2024–2512.6 km (7.8 miles)
Appleford 9,070 journeys in 2024–2513.8 km (8.5 miles)
Culham 114,000 journeys in 2024–2514.8 km (9.2 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 15 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Community Hospital Charlton460 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sainsbury's Wantage Car Park710 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station7.8 km (4.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR67.9 km (42 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 Newbury Street Practice1.5 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery440 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalWantage Community Hospital490 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationThames Valley Police - Wantage Police Station3.1 km (1.9 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 Betjeman Millennium Park 6,280 m²770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,000 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Memorial Recreation Ground 7.0 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsLetcombe Fields Allotments 4,870 m²870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 32 and 33, Market Place, a listed building (Grade II*), 610 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 109 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
32 and 33, Market PlaceListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Church of St Peter and St PaulListed building, Grade I670 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chain HillHill560 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Lark HillHill870 m (0.5 miles) east
Letcombe PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Crab HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Ardington BrookLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Warborough BottomValley2.7 km (1.7 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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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 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 Vale of White Horse: see them on the Vale of White Horse 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
Wantage Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11330 m No published inspection
King Alfred'sSecondary11–18630 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Charlton Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Stockham Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Wantage Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) Outstanding (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Caterlink at Wantage C Of E Primary School OX12 8DJSchool/college/university330 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Elite Camps Wantage OX12 8DJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good1 Apr 2026
Rockwell House Day Nursery OX12 8AZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Peking Dynasty OX12 8BSTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m3 Generally satisfactory2 Sep 2026
Pan Cook House OX12 8AXTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory23 May 2025
Kings Arms OX12 8AUPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory8 Nov 2024
Mr Pizza OX12 8AXTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good20 Feb 2025
Wantage Bowling Club OX12 8DWPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Sep 2022
USA Fried Chicken OX12 8AXTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Mar 2026
Rowes Newsmarket at Spar Wantage OX12 8AXRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Mar 2023
The Bay Tree Cafe OX12 8BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Mar 2026
Adali Restaurant OX12 8AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good2 Jun 2025
Subway OX12 8BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Feb 2025
Dominos Pizza OX12 8BUTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jan 2025
Papa Johns OX12 8BXTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 May 2025

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 offences22
Other theft5
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order4
Other crime4
Anti-social behaviour2
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Chandlers Close (22); On or near Moley Gardens (5); On or near Humphries Green (5); On or near Three Pigeons Close (4); On or near Alfredston Place (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: 503 residents in 193 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 age3840
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)64%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented25%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)44%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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.

Nearby streets

Orchard Way · Chain Hill · Castle Court · Humphries Green · Trinder Road · Alfredston Place · Chandlers Close · Three Pigeons Close · Winslow Terrace · Maryfield · St Gabriels · Icknield Lane

All the streets in OX12 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.