River Side Bridgnorth, Shropshire

48 addresses across 1 postcode (WV16), about 340 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34800053.

  • Energy: 28 homes have an energy certificate (C: 22, D: 5, E: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 Shropshire costs £2,528 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cosford, about 14.3 km (8.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Severn Park, is about 70 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 31 to 37 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 48 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bridgnorth Medical Practice, about 480 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 33 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 September 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

28 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 141 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (15); House, end-terrace (11); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1991-1995 (18); 1996-2002 (6); 1983-1990 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Shropshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,528 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,685£1,966£2,247£2,528£3,090£3,652£4,214£5,056

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (24% of about 800 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: 2.
  • 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

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

  • 2 November 2026 to 3 November 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Remedial works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 23 September 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Remedial works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 12 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 45 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 1 medium, 12 low and 0 very low.

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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

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 48 addresses are between 31 m and 37 m above sea level (34 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
WV16 4AS100%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 stationsCosford 82,000 journeys in 2024–2514.3 km (8.9 miles)
Shifnal 237,000 journeys in 2024–2514.7 km (9.1 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Harp Inn High Town290 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Smithfield Parking490 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations440 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX46.3 km (29 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bridgnorth Medical Practice480 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bridgnorth Pharmacy320 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Leonards House Dental Centre230 m
HospitalBridgnorth Hospital390 m
Police stationWest Mercia Police - Bridgnorth Police Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Bridgnorth, Low Town Cashzone320 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Severn Park 7.9 ha70 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,320 m²280 m
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bridgnorth Rugby Club 1.7 ha100 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,600 m²180 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Grammar School House, a listed building (Grade II*), 180 m west. 237 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 11 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grammar School HouseListed building, Grade II*180 m west
Church of St. LeonardListed building, Grade II*190 m west
Bishop Percy's HouseListed building, Grade I250 m south
The CourtListed building, Grade II*270 m south-west
Bridgnorth CastleScheduled monument620 m (0.4 miles) south
The HermitageScheduled monument910 m (0.6 miles) east
Panpudding Hill: a ringwork and bailey castle 100m south of Bridgnorth StationScheduled monument940 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tippings Cross CoppiceWood590 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Folly HoleWood660 m (0.4 miles) south-west
High Rock CoppiceWood890 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Paul's PoolLake or reservoir910 m (0.6 miles) west
The Hook DingleValley2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
BowmanshillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)4.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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
55 to 5930
Under 554548

3 of the street's 48 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 Shropshire: see them on the Shropshire 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
Bridgnorth Endowed SchoolSecondary11–16330 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyPrimary4–11600 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St. Mary's Bluecoat Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Leonard's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oldbury Wells SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Castlefields Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected 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
Bridgnorth Rugby Club WV15 5ADPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good11 Jun 2024
Black Boy Inn WV16 4BGPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good11 Jan 2024
The Bandon Arms WV15 5AGPub/bar/nightclub250 m4 Good15 Sep 2026
Bishop Percys House Tearooms WV16 4BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good21 Aug 2026
Saros Indian and Bangladeshi restaurant WV16 4EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m1 Major improvement necessary10 Sep 2026
Natasha's Tearooms WV15 5AGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good29 Oct 2024
Pennys Fine Foods WV16 4DXRetailers - other280 m4 Good26 Aug 2026
Blue Ginger WV15 5ALRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good2 May 2024
The Harp Bridgnorth WV16 4DXPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Tesco Express WV16 4DXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good29 Mar 2023
Apley On The High Street WV16 4DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good9 Jun 2026
The Royle WV16 4DXPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good6 Mar 2026
Bassa Villa WV16 4BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good17 Apr 2025
Jewel Of The Severn WV16 4DSPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good5 Sep 2024
R J Arbuckle WV16 4DXRetailers - other290 m5 Very good26 Aug 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.

33 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences9
Criminal damage and arson8
Public order5
Burglary4
Vehicle crime3
Anti-social behaviour2
Other theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (8); On or near Cliff Road (5); On or near Greyfriars (5); On or near Church Street (4); On or near Friar'S Street (4).

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: 277 residents in 128 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 age5940
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over39%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright59%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)0%6%
Retired (of adults)42%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)43%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility repair and maintenance works, 22 October 2026 to 23 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: CADENT GAS LIMITED: Remedial works, 2 November 2026 to 3 November 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Himalaya Tandoori (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WV16 4QN) re-inspected, still 4 Good (rated 24 September 2026) found 30 October 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.

  • WV16 4AS: 48 addresses of 51 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Friar's Street · Friars Street · River Side · Granary Steps · Friar's Street · St Leonards Close · Mold Court · St Leonard's Terrace · St Leonards Steps · Greyfriars · Bank Steps · Trevithick Path

All the streets in WV16 and across Shropshire.

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.