Pilgrims Close Harlington, Central Bedfordshire

54 addresses across 1 postcode (LU5), about 340 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25201471.

  • Sales: 81 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £465,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 11, D: 10, E: 2).
  • Flood: 29 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 D; Band D in Central Bedfordshire costs £2,516 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Harlington (Bedfordshire), about 420 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Sundon Hills Country Park, is about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 89 to 92 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Toddington Medical Centre, about 3 km (1.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 42% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 36 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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£465,000£380,000£550,000
20242£172,400£52,800£292,000
20233£430,000£400,000£470,000
20222£420,000£405,000£435,000
20212£353,750£297,500£410,000
20191£450,000£450,000£450,000
20184£341,250£281,000£450,000
20161£453,000£453,000£453,000
20154£210,000£206,250£230,000
20133£235,000£225,000£340,000
20112£186,250£137,500£235,000
20101£280,000£280,000£280,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 81)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Jun 202634 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£380,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Oct 202536 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£380,000
30 Jun 202560 LU5 6LXDetached£550,000
3 Jul 202410 LU5 6LXDetached£52,800
22 Feb 202450 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£292,000
23 Oct 202320 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£430,000
12 Apr 202315 LU5 6LXDetached£470,000
20 Jan 202336 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£400,000
15 Dec 20222 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£435,000
9 Dec 202234 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£405,000
29 Oct 202158 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£410,000
24 Jun 202164 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£297,500
20 Sep 20196 LU5 6LXDetached£450,000
26 Jun 201946 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£275,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Jul 201828 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£281,000
21 May 20184 LU5 6LXDetached£450,000
21 May 201820 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£340,000
3 Apr 201838 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£342,500
11 Nov 201621 LU5 6LXDetached£453,000
28 Oct 201546 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£210,000
14 Jul 201558 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£206,250
8 Jul 20152 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£230,000
15 May 201526 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£210,000
27 Jun 201329 LU5 6LXDetached£340,000
31 May 201320 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£235,000
14 Mar 201334 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£225,000
11 Jul 201120 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£235,000
1 Feb 201130 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£137,500
27 Sep 20104 LU5 6LXDetached£280,000
14 Aug 200919 LU5 6LXDetached£235,000
1 Oct 200854 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£180,000
21 Aug 200860 LU5 6LXDetached£305,000
20 Dec 200760 LU5 6LXDetached£285,000
26 Nov 20071 LU5 6LXDetached£331,600
26 Nov 200720 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£264,995
4 Oct 200716 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£277,500
2 Jul 200750 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£82,500
31 May 200734 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£228,000
29 Sep 200610 LU5 6LXDetached£220,000
29 Sep 200654 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£175,000
11 Sep 200640 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£248,000
12 Apr 20063 LU5 6LXDetached£280,000
6 Feb 200631 LU5 6LXDetached£275,000
12 Dec 20056 LU5 6LXDetached£262,000
18 Apr 20054 LU5 6LXDetached£262,000
1 Apr 200546 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£162,000
28 Feb 200522 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£222,500
6 Aug 200434 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£195,000
14 May 200426 LU5 6LXSemi-detached£137,000
11 Mar 200419 LU5 6LXDetached£249,995

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

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 105 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15); House, detached (10). Built: 1976-1982 (9); 1967-1975 (9); 1991-1995 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (14 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Central Bedfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,516 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,677£1,957£2,237£2,516£3,075£3,634£4,194£5,032

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (33% of about 580 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 20 August 2026 to 21 August 2026: ANGLIAN WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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, 20 addresses are in areas at high risk, 9 at medium risk and 13 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 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 54 addresses are between 89 m and 92 m above sea level (90 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
LU5 6LX100%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 stationsHarlington (Bedfordshire) 308,000 journeys in 2024–25420 m (0.3 miles)
Flitwick 1.3 million journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Leagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–256.4 km (4 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bury Close Harlington230 m
Bus or coach stationTransport Interchange Flitwick5 km (3.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa440 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesla Supercharger1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN12.7 km (7.9 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 surgeriesToddington Medical Centre3 km (1.9 miles)
PharmaciesPharmag LTD3 km (1.9 miles)
NHS dentistsChurch Square Dental Practice2.9 km (1.8 miles)
HospitalSteppingley Hospital6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Police stationLuton North Police Station6.6 km (4.1 miles)
Cash machinesToddington Motorway Services M1 Northbound1.5 km (0.9 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 gardenSundon Hills Country Park 64 ha1.6 km (1 mile)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 840 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.1 ha490 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.3 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Harlington Manor, a listed building (Grade II*), 430 m (0.3 miles) north. 14 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
Harlington ManorListed building, Grade II*430 m (0.3 miles) north
Church of Saint Mary the VirginListed building, Grade I540 m (0.3 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Harlington SpinneyWood560 m (0.3 miles) south
Horsehill SpinneyWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
The BeltWood1.6 km (1 mile) west
Bright's PondLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Conger HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Smithcombe ValleyValley3.6 km (2.2 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)8.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

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
65 to 6901
60 to 64012
55 to 59016
Under 555425

29 of the street's 54 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from railways, 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 Central Bedfordshire: see them on the Central Bedfordshire 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
Harlington Lower SchoolPrimary4–9860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Harlington Upper SchoolSecondary13–181 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 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
The Carpenters Arms LU5 6LSPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good17 Sep 2025
The Old Sun Inn LU5 6LSPub/bar/nightclub210 m4 Good12 May 2022

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.

36 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour14
Violence and sexual offences7
Burglary4
Vehicle crime3
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft2
Other crime2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bury Close (12); On or near Prudence Close (11); On or near Pilgrims Close (5); On or near Valiant Close (4); On or near Christian Close (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: 333 residents in 138 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 age4840
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work67%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)42%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

  • LU5 6LX: 54 addresses of 58 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Park Leys · Valiant Close · Prudence Close · Bury Close · Giles Close · Beauchamp Road · Strafford Close · Kent Court · Christian Close · Shepherds Close · Chapel Close · Paxton Approach

All the streets in LU5 and across Central Bedfordshire.

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.