North Road Bideford, Torridge

168 addresses across 9 postcodes (EX39), about 340 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 40900594.

  • Energy: 41 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 19, E: 12, F: 2, G: 3).
  • Flood: 12 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 A; Band D in Torridge costs £2,601 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 11% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnstaple, about 11.8 km (7.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Old Town Gardens, is about 370 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 7 to 15 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 17 of its 168 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wooda Surgery, about 350 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 550 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 22% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 446 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 July 2009 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 52 m². Most common: Flat (34); Maisonette, mid-terrace (4); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (16); 1900-1929 (12); 2007-2011 (6). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (31); owner-occupied (6); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (17 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Torridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,601 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,734£2,023£2,312£2,601£3,180£3,758£4,336£5,203

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (78% of about 1,370 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: yes, Bideford (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 67.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

And 37 more.

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 6 November 2026 to 9 November 2026: BT, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 6 October 2026 to 9 October 2026: WALES AND WEST UTILITIES LTD, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 10 at medium risk and 47 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
EX39 2JTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
EX39 2JRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 15 unlikely
EX39 2JJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
EX39 2JWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
EX39 2DAnot in 2 or 3 2 / 5 / 10 unlikely
EX39 2JDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 5 / 15 unlikely
EX39 2JNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX39 2JSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX39 2LBnot 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 168 addresses are between 7 m and 15 m above sea level (10 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
EX39 2DA78%78%78%0%
EX39 2JD69%54%54%0%
EX39 2JJ100%93%93%0%
EX39 2JN100%100%100%0%
EX39 2JR100%89%89%0%
EX39 2JS100%100%100%0%
EX39 2JT90%90%90%0%
EX39 2JW100%100%100%0%
EX39 2LB100%11%11%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 2024–2511.8 km (7.3 miles)
Chapelton (Devon) 160 journeys in 2024–2512.7 km (7.9 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High Street Bideford60 m
Ferry terminalBideford Ferry Landing120 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station580 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT64 km (40 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL73.5 km (46 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 Wooda Surgery350 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy Bideford350 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Quay Dental Practice100 m
HospitalBideford Hospital510 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Constabulary380 m
Cash machinesPayzone1.1 km (0.7 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Town Gardens 4,930 m²370 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 9,310 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 270 m²380 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 4.2 ha300 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,500 m²570 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 74 and 74A, High Street, a listed building (Grade II*), 70 m south-west. 244 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 10 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
74 and 74A, High StreetListed building, Grade II*70 m south-west
Nos 28 and 28A Including Pump and Milestone in CourtyardListed building, Grade II*150 m north
27, Bridgeland StreetListed building, Grade II*160 m north
31, Bridgeland StreetListed building, Grade II*170 m north
Cross ridge dyke on Godborough Castle earthwork NW of Turner's WoodScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Lenwood bowl barrow, 50m south east of Lenwood CottageScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Kenwith ValleyValley1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Colley Moor PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Raleigh HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Pillhead MarshWetland2 km (1.2 miles) east
Jennetts ReservoirLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Westward Ho! BeachBeach4.1 km (2.5 miles) north-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)3.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.8205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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 59170
Under 55151168

17 of the street's 168 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 Torridge: see them on the Torridge 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
West Croft SchoolPrimary2–11780 m (0.5 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Urgent improvement; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Urgent improvement; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Bideford CollegeSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
East-the-Water Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection

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
Nash Family Fruit \& Veg EX39 2JTRetailers - other20 m4 Good17 Sep 2026
Co-operative (Food) EX39 2JTRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets30 m5 Very good25 Sep 2025
Hiron And Son's EX39 2JTRetailers - other30 m5 Very good17 Feb 2026
Mill Street Butchers EX39 2JTRetailers - other30 m5 Very good10 Nov 2025
Tarka EX39 2JTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
Belluno EX39 2ALRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good25 Sep 2025
Aroma Rock EX39 2AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
The Spice EX39 2HJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m4 Good27 Nov 2025
Bideford News/Radfords EX39 2HJRetailers - other50 mExempt
Country Cottage Bakery (Billys) EX39 2HJRetailers - other50 m5 Very good23 Jan 2026
Amalfi Bar & Cafe EX39 2AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good28 Aug 2026
Crabby Dicks EX39 2DAPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good29 Jan 2016
Le Petit Monde EX39 2DARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
Dickys EX39 2DAPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good21 Oct 2022
The Silk Lounge EX39 2DAPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good15 May 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.

446 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences154
Shoplifting91
Anti-social behaviour83
Public order32
Criminal damage and arson25
Other theft22
Drugs8
Burglary6
Other crime5
Robbery5
Bicycle theft5
Possession of weapons4
Vehicle crime4
Theft from the person2

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Quay (96); On or near Supermarket (69); On or near Allhalland Street (64); On or near Willet Street (29); On or near Hart Street (22).

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: 547 residents in 330 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 age4040
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)22%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented59%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)17%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van44%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle26%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications24%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility asset works, 6 November 2026 to 9 November 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 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.

Nearby streets

New Street · King Street · Cooper Street · Allhalland Street · The Quay · Lower Gunstone · Chapel Street · Queen Street · Grenville Street · Hill Garden Close · Bridge Street · Hart Street

All the streets in EX39 and across Torridge.

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.