Mountfield Hythe, New Forest

64 addresses across 3 postcodes (SO45), about 550 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 26721741.

  • Sales: 64 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £565,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 33 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 13, D: 19).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 D; Band D in New Forest costs £2,420 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 83% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Woolston, about 4.1 km (2.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Prospect Place Park, is about 860 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 13 to 29 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 64 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Waterfront And Solent Surgery, about 610 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 94% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 5 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
20252£565,000£545,000£585,000
20232£459,250£353,500£565,000
20225£510,000£475,000£565,000
20214£485,000£400,000£652,000
20204£452,500£420,000£485,000
20191£360,000£360,000£360,000
20182£410,000£400,000£420,000
20171£375,000£375,000£375,000
20152£374,500£349,000£400,000
20145£365,000£300,000£550,000
20131£372,000£372,000£372,000
20125£360,000£315,000£495,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 64)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 May 202547 SO45 5AQDetached£585,000
10 Mar 202558 SO45 5AQDetached£545,000
12 Sep 202326 SO45 5AQDetached£565,000
6 Jan 202312 SO45 5AQDetached£353,500
2 Dec 202211 SO45 5AQDetached£565,000
19 Aug 202244 SO45 5AQDetached£510,000
8 Apr 202212 SO45 5AQDetached£280,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Mar 202210 SO45 5AQDetached£520,000
28 Jan 202237 SO45 5AQDetached£504,000
17 Jan 202256 SO45 5AQTerraced£475,000
12 Nov 202147 SO45 5AQDetached£495,000
15 Apr 202122 SO45 5AQDetached£475,000
12 Feb 202144 SO45 5AQDetached£400,000
12 Jan 20214 SO45 5AQDetached£652,000
17 Dec 202025 SO45 5AQDetached£445,000
16 Dec 202046 SO45 5AQDetached£485,000
16 Dec 202023 SO45 5AQDetached£420,000
5 Mar 202051 SO45 5AQDetached£460,000
25 Jan 201911 SO45 5AQDetached£360,000
3 May 201826 SO45 5AQDetached£400,000
21 Feb 201817 SO45 5AQDetached£420,000
31 Oct 201710 SO45 5AQDetached£375,000
12 Jun 201544 SO45 5AQDetached£349,000
30 Apr 201517 SO45 5AQDetached£400,000
12 Dec 201445 SO45 5AQDetached£300,000
28 Nov 201450 SO45 5AQDetached£330,000
15 Oct 20144 SO45 5AQDetached£550,000
7 Mar 201455 SO45 5AQDetached£365,000
3 Feb 201449 SO45 5AQDetached£370,000
4 Jul 201346 SO45 5AQDetached£372,000
20 Nov 201217 SO45 5AQDetached£350,000
20 Nov 201251 SO45 5AQDetached£315,000
31 Aug 20124 SO45 5AQDetached£495,000
21 Aug 201233 SO45 5AQDetached£380,000
9 Mar 201218 SO45 5AQDetached£360,000
25 Feb 201140 SO45 5AQDetached£320,000
26 Nov 20102 SO45 5AQDetached£346,000
12 Nov 201015 SO45 5AQDetached£400,000
2 Jul 201023 SO45 5AQDetached£293,500
26 Feb 201017 SO45 5AQDetached£314,950
3 Jul 200917 SO45 5AQDetached£245,000
21 May 200956 SO45 5AQTerraced£260,000
3 Aug 200728 SO45 5AQDetached£345,000
5 Jul 200754 SO45 5AQDetached£338,000
8 Jan 200741 SO45 5AQDetached£310,500
17 May 200615 SO45 5AQDetached£311,000
4 Sep 200335 SO45 5AQDetached£284,000
2 Sep 200347 SO45 5AQDetached£262,000
22 Apr 200215 SO45 5AQDetached£242,500
15 Mar 200261 SO45 5AQDetached£238,000

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 November 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

33 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 104 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (23); House, detached (10). Built: 1983-1990 (13); 1976-1982 (12); 1991-1995 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (22); rented (private) (1); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (21 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in New Forest in 2026-27: Band D £2,420 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,613£1,882£2,151£2,420£2,957£3,495£4,033£4,840

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (46% of about 690 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: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): ARTICLE 4 DIRECTION 97/1, Hovercraft in the Solent.
  • Tree preservation orders: 39 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 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: 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
SO45 5AQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SO45 5ALnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SO45 5TAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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 64 addresses are between 13 m and 29 m above sea level (18 m on average); the ground rises about 16 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
SO45 5AL100%0%0%0%
SO45 5AQ100%80%83%0%
SO45 5TA70%20%20%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 stationsWoolston 180,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
Southampton Central 6.2 million journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Sholing 91,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest West Street Hythe100 m
Bus or coach stationAlbion Place Southampton City Centre3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Ferry terminalHythe (Hants) Ferry Terminal910 m (0.6 miles)
Car parksShore Road (Car Park)1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mer830 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsSouthampton Airport SOU9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW91.5 km (57 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 Waterfront And Solent Surgery610 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery660 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalHythe Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationHampshire Constabulary Southern Support and Training HQ5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Cash machinesSumburgh Hotel, Virkie Cashzone3.3 km (2 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 gardenProspect Place Park 1,990 m²860 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 500 m²570 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ewart Recreation Ground 3.3 ha550 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,550 m²260 m

Landmarks

16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Fern HillHill550 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Drapers CopseWood670 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Orestone CopseWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Weston ShelfBeach2.8 km (1.7 miles) north-east
The LakeLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Netley CliffCliff or slope4.4 km (2.8 miles) 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)7.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)8.84015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5940
Under 555964

5 of the street's 64 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 New Forest: see them on the New Forest 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
Hythe Primary SchoolPrimary4–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Orchard Junior SchoolPrimary7–11900 m (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Orchard Infant SchoolPrimary4–7900 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Noadswood SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Waterside Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Applemore CollegeSecondary11–161.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Wildground Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Wildground Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
LITTLE SHIPMATES DAY NURSERY SO45 5DBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good7 Jul 2026

Crime within 250 m

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

5 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Beaumaris Gardens (2); On or near Douglas Way (1); On or near Malwood Road West (1); On or near Michael'S Way (1).

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: 313 residents in 143 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 age6340
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over47%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)94%61%
Owned outright73%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work44%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)50%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%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 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

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.

  • SO45 5AQ: 62 addresses of 64 in the postcode
  • SO45 5AL: 1 address of 5 in the postcode
  • SO45 5TA: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Southampton Road · Southampton Road · Beaumaris Gardens · Douglas Way · Oak View · Michael's Way · Malwood Road West · Roberts Road · West Street · Hollybank Road · Hotspur Close · Merrivale Close

All the streets in SO45 and across New Forest.

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.