Murdoch Square Bristol

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (BS7), about 140 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 4596333.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £215,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (A: 4, B: 1, C: 19).
  • Flood: 3 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 Bristol, City of costs £2,714 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Filton Abbey Wood, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 180 m away, and Horfield Common (15 hectares) is about 700 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 84 to 88 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 25 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mvmg - Monks Park, about 280 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 680 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 257 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
20211£215,000£215,000£215,000
20061£130,000£130,000£130,000
20031£99,950£99,950£99,950
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Mar 202125 BS7 0NEFlat or maisonette£215,000Leasehold.
30 Mar 200625 BS7 0NEFlat or maisonette£130,000Leasehold.
30 Dec 200325 BS7 0NEFlat or maisonette£99,950Leasehold.

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

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 70 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (12); Bungalow, end-terrace (6); Bungalow, semi-detached (2). Built: 2003-2006 (18); 1996-2002 (4); 2007-2011 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (23); owner-occupied (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Bristol, City of in 2026-27: Band D £2,714 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,809£2,111£2,412£2,714£3,317£3,920£4,523£5,427

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (47% of about 890 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): Article 4 North.
  • 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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
BS7 0NEnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 2 unlikely
BS7 0NDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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 25 addresses are between 84 m and 88 m above sea level (87 m on average).

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
BS7 0ND100%100%100%0%
BS7 0NE100%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 stationsFilton Abbey Wood 694,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Ashley Down 51,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Bristol Parkway 2.3 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Filton Road Horfield130 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bristol4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Ferry terminalCastle Park Ferry Landing Broadmead4.8 km (3 miles)
Car parksQ-Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bevan Court, Filton GeniePoint1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS16 km (10 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 Mvmg - Monks Park280 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well230 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Monks Park Dental Care100 m
HospitalSouthmead Hospital920 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationPatchway Police Centre3.2 km (2 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Filton Rd, Horfield, Horfield180 m

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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,250 m²180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Horfield Common 15 ha700 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 220 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,550 m²500 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 24 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Second World War heavy anti-aircraft battery 590m north east of Highwood House, Pur Down, Bristol, a scheduled monument, 1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Second World War heavy anti-aircraft battery 590m north east of Highwood House, Pur Down, BristolScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Stoke ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Bowl barrow in Bowness Gardens 315m north west of the swimming lakeScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) west
Royal Victoria Park (Formerly Brentry House)Registered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.6 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Splatts Abbey WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) east
Pale PlantationWood1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Long WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Henleaze Swimming LakeLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Star HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) east
GlenfromeValley3.4 km (2.1 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)12.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5910
Under 552425

1 of the street's 25 addresses is 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 Bristol, City of: see them on the Bristol, City of 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
Upper Horfield Primary SchoolPrimary2–11180 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Orchard School BristolSecondary11–16190 m No published inspection
Filton Avenue Primary SchoolPrimary5–11770 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Shield Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Filton Avenue Nursery SchoolNursery2–4830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Charborough Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Fonthill Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Horfield Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stoke Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Trinity AcademySecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wallscourt Farm AcademyPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected 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 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
OCS BS7 0PDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house100 m5 Very good26 Sep 2024
Lira Food BS7 0PDRetailers - other100 m5 Very good20 Dec 2024
Impact Food Group @ Orchard School BS7 0XZOther catering premises210 mAwaiting inspection
The Co-operative Food BS7 0PBRetailers - other210 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Cakeshop BS7 0PBRetailers - other210 m5 Very good5 Jan 2024
Mr Bab BS7 0PBTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m4 Good6 Sep 2025
Filton Local BS7 0PBRetailers - other210 m5 Very good8 Sep 2026
Elmfield School For Deaf Children BS7 0PUSchool/college/university230 m5 Very good10 Jan 2025
Upper Horfield Community School BS7 0PUSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Elmfield School for Deaf Children BS7 0PUSchool/college/university250 mAwaiting inspection
Well Pharmacy BS7 0PBRetailers - other260 mExempt
Zanky’s Deli ( Taste of Kerala ) BS7 0PARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m4 Good28 May 2026
Pepe's Piri Piri BS7 0PATakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Fruit And Veg Land BS7 0SGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets360 m5 Very good9 Sep 2025
China Capital BS7 0SFTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good3 Dec 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.

257 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences86
Vehicle crime36
Criminal damage and arson35
Anti-social behaviour24
Other theft21
Public order13
Burglary12
Shoplifting9
Robbery8
Other crime5
Drugs4
Bicycle theft3
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Filton Road (107); On or near Beverley Road (36); On or near Green Close (21); On or near Murdoch Square (20); On or near St Gregory'S Road (19).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 675 residents in 263 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 age3440
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van42%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)91%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

Montreal Avenue · St Gregory's Road · Dudley Grove · Toronto Road · Keats Court · Filton Road · Sheridan Road · Manx Road · Beverley Road · Auden Mead · St Aldwyns Close · Green Close

All the streets in BS7 and across Bristol, City of.

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.