Riversmeet Appledore, Torridge

40 addresses across 3 postcodes (EX39), about 430 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 40903072.

  • Sales: 52 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £415,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 5, D: 8, E: 3, G: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnstaple, about 9.6 km (5.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 380 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 43 to 55 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 40 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Northam Surgery, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 480 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 74% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 13 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often other theft.

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
20251£415,000£415,000£415,000
20243£515,000£390,000£585,000
20211£445,000£445,000£445,000
20183£349,000£249,000£350,000
20173£300,000£275,000£310,000
20163£290,000£280,000£350,000
20151£325,000£325,000£325,000
20141£229,000£229,000£229,000
20132£262,500£200,000£325,000
20101£249,950£249,950£249,950
20091£220,000£220,000£220,000
20081£272,000£272,000£272,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 52)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Nov 202517 EX39 1REDetached£415,000
20 Nov 202412 EX39 1REDetached£585,000
14 Nov 202425 EX39 1REDetached£515,000
7 Mar 202411 EX39 1REDetached£390,000
22 Sep 202130 EX39 1REDetached£445,000
5 Dec 201825 EX39 1REDetached£350,000
11 Sep 201834 EX39 1REDetached£249,000
4 Sep 201823 EX39 1REDetached£349,000
16 Nov 201733 EX39 1REDetached£310,000
4 Aug 201712 EX39 1REDetached£275,000
21 Jul 20172 EX39 1REDetached£300,000
9 Dec 201615 EX39 1REDetached£350,000
1 Jun 20162 EX39 1REDetached£280,000
30 Mar 20169 EX39 1REDetached£290,000
30 Nov 201533 EX39 1REDetached£267,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Sep 201513 EX39 1REDetached£325,000
5 Aug 201420 EX39 1REDetached£229,000
5 Dec 201312 EX39 1REDetached£200,000
5 Apr 201326 EX39 1REDetached£325,000
19 Feb 201025 EX39 1REDetached£249,950
25 Nov 200934 EX39 1REDetached£220,000
20 May 200824 EX39 1REDetached£272,000
16 Nov 200726 EX39 1REDetached£280,000
29 Nov 200632 EX39 1REDetached£250,000
30 Aug 200626 EX39 1REDetached£264,950
20 Apr 20069 EX39 1REDetached£230,000
24 Feb 200624 EX39 1REDetached£247,000
10 Jun 200519 EX39 1REDetached£225,000
17 Feb 20046 EX39 1REDetached£215,000
14 Jun 20027 EX39 1REDetached£149,950
24 May 200228 EX39 1REDetached£145,000
8 Mar 20029 EX39 1REDetached£139,000
24 Aug 20011 EX39 1REDetached£135,000
14 Nov 20002 EX39 1REDetached£88,500
14 Jul 200026 EX39 1REDetached£119,950
12 Jul 200033 EX39 1REDetached£129,950
2 Feb 200034 EX39 1REDetached£108,500
5 Nov 19991 EX39 1REDetached£87,000
3 Nov 199932 EX39 1REDetached£76,500
5 Oct 199911 EX39 1REDetached£92,950
13 Sep 199926 EX39 1REDetached£95,000
22 Dec 19981 EX39 1REDetached£60,000
2 Oct 199826 EX39 1REDetached£81,000
12 Jun 199830 EX39 1REDetached£64,750
25 Feb 199821 EX39 1REDetached£75,500
25 Jul 199715 EX39 1REDetached£65,000
10 Jan 199710 EX39 1REDetached£58,000
25 Oct 199628 EX39 1REDetached£75,500
2 Jul 199633 EX39 1REDetached£72,500
5 Mar 199628 EX39 1REDetached£39,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 106 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (15); House, detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (9); 1976-1982 (7); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (17).

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (27% of about 1,710 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 0 at medium risk and 1 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 1REnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX39 1RFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
EX39 1NZnot 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 40 addresses are between 43 m and 55 m above sea level (51 m on average); the ground rises about 12 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 1NZ100%100%100%0%
EX39 1RE100%100%100%0%
EX39 1RF100%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 stationsBarnstaple 609,000 journeys in 2024–259.6 km (5.9 miles)
Chapelton (Devon) 160 journeys in 2024–2512.7 km (7.9 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pitt Hill Appledore290 m
Ferry terminalAppledore Ferry Landing390 m
Car parksSandhills Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT65.5 km (41 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL70.7 km (44 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 surgeriesNortham Surgery2.3 km (1.4 miles)
PharmaciesBoots2.3 km (1.4 miles)
NHS dentistsNortham Dental Surgery (Adp)2.3 km (1.4 miles)
HospitalBideford Hospital4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Constabulary4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Cash machinesSpar Westward Ho!, Westward Ho!2 km (1.2 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 740 m²380 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 700 m²230 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Anchor Park 6,940 m²240 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 810 m²210 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Civil War Fieldwork on Staddon Hill, a scheduled monument, 70 m west. 115 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Civil War Fieldwork on Staddon HillScheduled monument70 m west
Docton HouseListed building, Grade II*380 m south-east
Richmond DockListed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Two decoy targets at Northam Radar StationScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Tapeley ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Staddon HillHill90 m west
West AppledoreWetland340 m north-east
Appledore PoolTidal water510 m (0.3 miles) north
South Yeo WoodsWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
SandymereLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) west
Kenwith ValleyValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) south-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)2.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.5205
Particles (PM10)7.54015

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 5910
Under 553940

1 of the street's 40 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), 1 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
Appledore SchoolPrimary3–11390 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School Church of EnglandPrimary3–71.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Margaret's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Sylvesters Fish And Chip Shop EX39 1RJTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
The Champ EX39 1RJPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good27 Feb 2025
The Royal George EX39 1RYPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good24 Sep 2025
The Beaver Inn EX39 1RYPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
The Seagate Hotel EX39 1QSPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
The Appledore Chocolate Shop EX39 1RHRetailers - other330 m5 Very good28 Aug 2019
Market Street Kitchen EX39 1PPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good5 Nov 2024
The Royal Hotel EX39 1PSPub/bar/nightclub340 m4 Good27 Mar 2024
Royal Plaice EX39 1PWTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good1 Oct 2026
Jack Sprats EX39 1PWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good20 Feb 2026
The Appledore Bakery EX39 1PWRetailers - other360 m5 Very good21 May 2025
Johns Of Appledore EX39 1QSRetailers - other370 m5 Very good13 Feb 2026
The Coffee Cabin EX39 1QSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good30 Jan 2026
Appledore Flame Factory EX39 1QSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good28 Feb 2025
The Crab & Apple Pub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good12 Jun 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.

13 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Other theft4
Violence and sexual offences3
Criminal damage and arson2
Anti-social behaviour2
Other crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Myra Court (6); On or near Churchfield Road (3); On or near Yeo Drive (2); On or near Ridge View Crescent (2).

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: 475 residents in 234 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 age5540
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)74%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)39%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 6 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.

  • EX39 1RE: 37 addresses of 38 in the postcode
  • EX39 1RF: 2 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • EX39 1NZ: 1 address of 69 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Mount · Mariner's Way · Green Lane · Yeo Drive · Odun Place · Alpha Place · Ivy Court · Irsha Court · Myra Court · Churchfield Road · Victoria Crescent · Staddon Road

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.