Muddlebridge Close Bickington, North Devon

63 addresses across 1 postcode (EX31), about 510 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 27507658.

  • Sales: 56 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £244,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 86 homes have an energy certificate (B: 86).
  • 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 North Devon costs £2,642 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnstaple, about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 950 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 17 to 27 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 35 of its 140 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Fremington Medical Centre, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 170 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 10 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£244,000£140,000£348,000
20243£405,000£365,500£420,000
20237£550,000£285,000£574,000
202218£370,000£303,000£578,500
20216£349,500£244,500£434,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 56)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Apr 202624 EX31 2FGDetached£340,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 May 202547 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£140,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 20257 EX31 2FGDetached£348,000
8 Nov 20248 EX31 2FGDetached£405,000
30 Oct 202424 EX31 2FGDetached£365,500
16 Oct 20242 EX31 2FGDetached£420,000
22 Dec 202375 EX31 2FGDetached£399,960New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Nov 202330 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£325,000
9 Aug 202346 EX31 2FGDetached£550,000New build.
28 Jul 202314 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£337,650
29 Jun 202369 EX31 2FGDetached£569,000New build.
29 Jun 202330 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£341,250Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 May 202344 EX31 2FGDetached£569,000New build.
26 May 20232 EX31 2FGDetached£488,250Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 202310 EX31 2FGDetached£574,000New build.
15 Feb 202320 EX31 2FGTerraced£285,000
20 Dec 202245 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£278,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Dec 202267 EX31 2FGDetached£470,000New build.
16 Dec 202265 EX31 2FGDetached£380,000New build.
9 Dec 202241 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£349,000New build.
30 Nov 202247 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£125,025New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Nov 202243 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£349,000New build.
3 Nov 202212 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£360,000New build.
28 Oct 202237 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£349,000New build.
7 Oct 202239 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£349,000New build.
31 Aug 202234 EX31 2FGDetached£386,750New build.
22 Jul 202232 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£370,000New build.
30 Jun 202240 EX31 2FGDetached£578,500New build.
30 Jun 202238 EX31 2FGDetached£556,000New build.
30 Jun 202242 EX31 2FGDetached£553,000New build.
30 Jun 202236 EX31 2FGDetached£375,000New build.
30 Jun 202230 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£370,000New build.
30 Jun 202214 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£365,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jun 202228 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£316,000New build.
30 Jun 202220 EX31 2FGTerraced£282,500New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 May 202257 EX31 2FGOther£149,490New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 May 202249 EX31 2FGOther£109,503New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Feb 202218 EX31 2FGTerraced£303,000New build.
19 Jan 202216 EX31 2FGDetached£367,000New build.
11 Jan 20228 EX31 2FGDetached£449,820New build.
23 Dec 202124 EX31 2FGDetached£367,000New build.
23 Dec 202113 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£330,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Dec 202122 EX31 2FGTerraced£303,500New build.
23 Dec 202115 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£270,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Dec 202135 EX31 2FGDetached£136,800New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Dec 20217 EX31 2FGDetached£350,000New build.
26 Nov 20211 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£139,837New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Nov 20213 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£139,837New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Oct 20219 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£119,400New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Oct 202111 EX31 2FGSemi-detached£119,400New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 May 2021 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

86 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 93 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (30); House, detached (29); House, mid-terrace (8). Built: 2022 (41); 2021 (20); 2026 (16). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Devon in 2026-27: Band D £2,642 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,761£2,055£2,349£2,642£3,229£3,817£4,404£5,284

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (26% of about 880 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 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

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 140 addresses are between 17 m and 27 m above sea level (22 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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
EX31 2FG100%97%97%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 stationsBarnstaple 609,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Chapelton (Devon) 160 journeys in 2024–258.6 km (5.4 miles)
Umberleigh 54,000 journeys in 2024–2512.3 km (7.6 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mead Park Bickington260 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Barnstaple3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Ferry terminalInstow Ferry Landing5.8 km (3.6 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT61.7 km (38 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL64.3 km (40 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Fremington Medical Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1.3 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentistsHillcrest Smiles Limited2.2 km (1.4 miles)
HospitalNorth Devon District Hospital4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Police stationBarnstaple Police Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machinesMFG - Roundswell Services Cashzone2.1 km (1.3 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
Park or gardenUnnamed 9,480 m²950 m (0.6 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mead Park Play Area 450 m²140 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,060 m²580 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mill Hill Allotments 7,050 m²270 m

Landmarks

5 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
Claypit CovertsWood610 m (0.4 miles) south
Fremington PillTidal water930 m (0.6 miles) west
Bassett's RidgeWetland1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Saltpill Duck PondLake or reservoir2 km (1.3 miles) west
Tent HillHill4.4 km (2.7 miles) south-east
Golden ValleyValley4.9 km (3 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)3.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.6205
Particles (PM10)8.14015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 59350
Under 55105140

35 of the street's 140 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 North Devon: see them on the North Devon 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
Roundswell Community Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fremington Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Sticklepath Community Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
E J Gayton EX31 2NAOther catering premises120 mAwaiting inspection

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.

10 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Public order1
Criminal damage and arson1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Penhill View (10).

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: 167 residents in 90 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 155%17%
Aged 65 and over51%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright70%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work40%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)50%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band B, house, detached (lodged 15 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band B, house, detached (lodged 14 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band B, house, detached (lodged 15 October 2026) found 2 November 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.

  • EX31 2FG: 63 addresses of 66 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Sea King Close · Penhill View · Muddlebridge · Penhill Farm Cottages · Combrew Lane · Mead Park · Mead Park Close · Clampitts Cottages · Mead Park · Elmfield Road

All the streets in EX31 and across North Devon.

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.