Pincombe Road Bideford, Torridge

45 addresses across 5 postcodes (EX39), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40905307.

  • Sales: 78 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £246,250 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Torridge cost £267,174 in August 2026 (+0.3% on a year); private rents averaged £792 a month.
  • Energy: 37 homes have an energy certificate (B: 36, C: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Devon Rustics, is 120 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 209 times (212 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Torridge costs £2,601 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 57% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnstaple, about 14.2 km (8.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 85 to 99 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 45 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bideford Medical Centre, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 39 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: 8 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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
20262£246,250£237,500£255,000
20255£235,000£200,000£305,000
20241£280,000£280,000£280,000
20234£310,000£218,000£338,500
20225£362,500£260,000£450,000
20212£275,000£270,000£280,000
202018£262,995£235,000£315,000
201937£212,995£169,995£284,995
All 78 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Apr 20191 EX39 3FXTerraced£204,995New build.
26 Apr 20242 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£280,000
27 Nov 20202 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£249,995New build.
7 Jun 20193 EX39 3FXTerraced£207,995New build.
27 Nov 20204 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£256,995New build.
27 Mar 20255 EX39 3FXTerraced£235,000
13 Jun 20195 EX39 3FXTerraced£204,995New build.
26 May 20236 EX39 3FXDetached£338,500
26 Mar 20216 EX39 3FXDetached£280,000New build.
31 Mar 20267 EX39 3FXTerraced£237,500
28 Jun 20197 EX39 3FXTerraced£216,995New build.
19 Apr 20228 EX39 3FXDetached£350,000
30 Aug 20198 EX39 3FXDetached£264,995New build.
27 Jun 20199 EX39 3FXTerraced£207,995New build.
21 Nov 202510 EX39 3FXDetached£310,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Aug 202310 EX39 3FXDetached£330,000
5 Apr 201910 EX39 3FXDetached£264,995New build.
18 Jul 202211 EX39 3FXTerraced£260,000
27 Jun 201911 EX39 3FXTerraced£214,995New build.
29 Mar 201912 EX39 3FXDetached£274,995New build.
29 Apr 201913 EX39 3FXTerraced£209,995New build.
5 Nov 202414 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Feb 201914 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£259,995New build.
26 Apr 201915 EX39 3FXTerraced£204,995New build.
18 Jun 202116 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£270,000
15 Feb 201916 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£255,995New build.
28 Jun 201917 EX39 3FXTerraced£209,995New build.
3 Nov 202218 EX39 3FXDetached£368,500
26 Apr 201918 EX39 3FXDetached£266,995New build.
26 Apr 201919 EX39 3FXDetached£274,995New build.
26 Apr 201920 EX39 3FXDetached£269,995New build.
26 Sep 202521 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£240,000
7 Jun 201921 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£214,995New build.
8 May 202522 EX39 3FXTerraced£210,000
29 Mar 201922 EX39 3FXTerraced£171,995New build.
21 May 202623 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£255,000
22 Mar 201923 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£229,995New build.
29 Mar 201924 EX39 3FXTerraced£169,995New build.
10 Oct 202525 EX39 3FXDetached£305,000
17 Nov 202325 EX39 3FXDetached£290,000
30 Jun 202025 EX39 3FXDetached£252,000New build.
29 Mar 201926 EX39 3FXTerraced£173,995New build.
28 Jun 201927 EX39 3FXDetached£284,995New build.
25 Mar 202529 EX39 3FXTerraced£260,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jul 201929 EX39 3FXTerraced£199,995New build.
28 Jun 201931 EX39 3FXTerraced£201,995New build.
27 Jun 201933 EX39 3FXTerraced£203,995New build.
21 Dec 202035 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£240,000New build.
11 Dec 202037 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£239,995New build.
30 Nov 202039 EX39 3FXTerraced£235,000New build.
12 Oct 202041 EX39 3FXTerraced£239,995New build.
17 May 201841 EX39 3FXOther£2,088,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Sep 202043 EX39 3FXTerraced£248,000New build.
28 Jun 201944 EX39 3FXTerraced£244,995New build.
30 Oct 202045 EX39 3FXDetached£265,995New build.
29 Aug 201946 EX39 3FXTerraced£239,995New build.
26 May 202347 EX39 3FXTerraced£218,000
29 Jul 201947 EX39 3FXTerraced£179,995New build.
19 Dec 201948 EX39 3FXTerraced£237,000New build.
18 Dec 202549 EX39 3FXTerraced£200,000
29 Jul 201949 EX39 3FXTerraced£170,000New build.
30 Oct 201950 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£212,500New build.
29 Jul 201951 EX39 3FXTerraced£172,995New build.
31 Oct 201952 EX39 3FXSemi-detached£212,995New build.
29 Jul 201953 EX39 3FXTerraced£176,995New build.
28 Feb 202054 EX39 3FXDetached£283,495New build.
31 Jul 202055 EX39 3FXDetached£259,995New build.
26 Aug 202256 EX39 3FXDetached£362,500
28 Feb 202056 EX39 3FXDetached£279,995New build.
30 Jun 202057 EX39 3FXDetached£301,000New build.
19 Dec 201964 EX39 3FXDetached£283,000New build.
20 Dec 201966 EX39 3FXDetached£260,000New build.
5 Oct 202068 EX39 3FXDetached£289,995New build.
5 Nov 202070 EX39 3FXDetached£292,995New build.
30 Jun 202072 EX39 3FXDetached£289,995New build.
26 Jun 202074 EX39 3FXDetached£285,000New build.
25 Nov 202276 EX39 3FXDetached£450,000
25 Jun 202076 EX39 3FXDetached£315,000New build.

House prices and rents in Torridge

A typical home in Torridge cost £267,174 in August 2026, 0.3% more than a year before. That is 6% more than five years earlier and 34% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£389,229
Semi-detached£276,215
Terraced£207,983
Flat or maisonette£136,612
Bought by a first-time buyer£214,439

Private renters in Torridge paid £792 a month on average in September 2026, 2.1% more than a year before. That is 26% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£567
Two bedrooms£742
Three bedrooms£912
Four or more bedrooms£1,274

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 2019 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

37 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, detached (14); House, end-terrace (9); House, semi-detached (7). Built: 2018 (24); 2019 (8); 2020 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (37 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 6,607 kWh of it on average in 2024, 26% less than the district's 8,872 kWh, and 2,621 kWh of electricity, 25% less than the district's 3,494 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
EX39 3FX692,358 kWh 675,280 kWh
EX39 3FZ141,954 kWh 154,440 kWh
EX39 3FY161,810 kWh 173,744 kWh
EX39 3QU83,461 kWh 816,548 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is EX39.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 C (32% of about 1,240 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.

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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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
EX39 3FXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX39 3FZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX39 3FRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX39 3FYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX39 3QUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 209 times, for 212 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Kenwith Stream, Tributary of Kenwith (S).

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Laurel Avenue Cso South West Water Kenwith Stream 11 7 870 m (0.5 miles)
Moreton Park Road Cso South West Water Tributary of Kenwith (S) 2 0 930 m (0.6 miles)
Abbotsham Wwtw South West Water Kenwith Stream 196 205 1 km (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

By postcode centre: less than 1% (3); 1 to 3% (3).

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 120 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Devon Rustics Bideford, Devon 1950 to 1990 Industrial 120 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 45 addresses are between 85 m and 99 m above sea level (92 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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 3FR100%100%100%0%
EX39 3FX100%100%100%0%
EX39 3FY100%100%100%0%
EX39 3FZ100%100%100%0%
EX39 3QU93%57%57%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 stationBarnstaple 609,000 journeys in 2024–2514.2 km (8.9 miles)
Bus stops1 stop within 400 m (0.2 miles), 3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Affinity Devon Outlet Bideford210 m
Ferry terminalBideford Ferry Landing2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT65.6 km (41 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL76 km (47 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeriesBideford Medical Centre Good Jun 20202.1 km (1.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Asda Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentistsQueen Anne Dental Surgery2.3 km (1.5 miles)
HospitalBideford Hospital2 km (1.3 miles)
Care homesKenwith Castle Country House Care Good Feb 20231.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Constabulary2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone3.2 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 gardenUnnamed 1.3 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 670 m²130 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2,890 m²880 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.6 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Helen, a listed building (Grade II*), 870 m (0.5 miles) north-west. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St HelenListed building, Grade II*870 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Kenwith Castle 330yds (300m) SE of KenwithScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Cross ridge dyke on Godborough Castle earthwork NW of Turner's WoodScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Daddon MoorWood110 m east
Badgers HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Jennetts ReservoirLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Kenwith ValleyValley2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Cockington HeadHeadland3.1 km (2 miles) west
Snuffy CornerWetland4.1 km (2.5 miles) north-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)2.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.6205
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
60 to 6410
Under 554445

1 of the street's 45 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 Torridge: see them on the Torridge page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
St Helen's Church of England SchoolPrimary2–11890 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 87% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Bideford CollegeSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.3 (45.7 in 2025 and 42.5 in 2024); 41.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 23.5% AAB or better; progress above average
West Croft SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 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 38% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 29% in 2024 and 23% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

3 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 740 m (0.5 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Make Waves Nursery EX39 3SG Full day care 65 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 740 m (0.5 miles)
Bearfoot Preschool Ltd EX39 5AP Sessional day care 35 Mar 2026: Strong standard in 2 areas, Expected standard in 4 890 m (0.6 miles)
Abbotsham and Alwington Pre-School EX39 5AP Sessional day care 26 Jan 2026: Strong standard in 3 areas, Expected standard in 3 890 m (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 328 childminders and 60 home childcarers (nannies) in Devon. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Aldi Stores Limited EX39 3FRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets60 m5 Very good13 Oct 2016
Domino's Pizza EX39 3FRTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
Starbucks Coffee EX39 3FRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
The Riverbank Inn EX39 3FRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good9 Oct 2026
World Of Wonder EX39 3DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Asda Coffee Shop EX39 3QURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
Asda Walmart Ltd EX39 3QURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good4 Sep 2025
Lidl EX39 3QURetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good11 Dec 2025
B And M Retail Ltd EX39 3QURetailers - other280 m5 Very good18 Feb 2021
Costa Coffee EX39 3DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
The Cornish Bakery EX39 3DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good9 Sep 2025
Edinburgh Woollen Mill EX39 3DURetailers - other310 mExempt
Holland And Barrett EX39 3DURetailers - other310 mExempt
BJ's Value House Stores EX39 3HNRetailers - other360 m4 Good2 Jun 2026
Jans Diner EX39 3HNMobile caterer360 m5 Very good12 Nov 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.

39 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour15
Violence and sexual offences7
Shoplifting5
Other theft4
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime2
Burglary1
Public order1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Atlantic Park Way (16); On or near Supermarket (11); On or near Daddon Close (9); On or near Pincombe Road (3).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

8 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 8 slight. 1 involved a child under 16. 25% happened in the dark, and 25% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202120
202230
202300
202420
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
4 Oct 2025 15:30 Slight 3 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
23 Nov 2024 17:26 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
3 Sep 2024 12:58 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
23 Dec 2022 18:00 Slight 4 people: 2 children Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
2 May 2022 14:03 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
22 Jan 2022 13:26 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
29 Aug 2021 15:44 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 Apr 2021 12:54 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 351 residents in 135 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 age3040
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work75%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)0%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)46%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

  • Food hygiene ratings The Riverbank Inn (restaurant/cafe/canteen, EX39 3FR) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 9 October 2026) found 4 November 2026

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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.

  • EX39 3FX: 25 addresses of 75 in the postcode
  • EX39 3FZ: 7 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • EX39 3FR: 6 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • EX39 3FY: 6 addresses of 18 in the postcode
  • EX39 3QU: 1 address of 32 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Pincombe Road · Moreton Gardens · Sams Close · Daddon Close · James Avenue · Adams Court

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.