Rowbarrow Close Poole

1 address across 1 postcode (BH17), about 20 m long. USRN 30301147.

  • Sales: 89 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £280,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: 5 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 C; Band D in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole costs £2,436 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Parkstone (Dorset), about 3.6 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 17 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 Canford Heath Group Pract, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 49% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 165 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
20261£280,000£280,000£280,000
20252£375,000£370,000£380,000
20241£360,000£360,000£360,000
20231£360,000£360,000£360,000
20222£302,500£280,000£325,000
20214£332,500£230,000£387,000
20202£267,000£256,000£278,000
20175£275,000£202,000£306,000
20163£235,000£219,000£265,000
20151£260,000£260,000£260,000
20134£184,000£160,000£202,500
20122£222,250£206,500£238,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 89)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Aug 202622 BH17 9EASemi-detached£280,000
26 Feb 202512 BH17 9EADetached£370,000
31 Jan 20254 BH17 9EADetached£380,000
5 Jul 202428 BH17 9EADetached£360,000
31 Jul 202327 BH17 9EASemi-detached£360,000
20 Dec 202223 BH17 9EASemi-detached£325,000
4 Mar 202225 BH17 9EASemi-detached£280,000
15 Oct 20218 BH17 9EADetached£370,000
30 Apr 202116 BH17 9EADetached£387,000
4 Mar 202135 BH17 9EATerraced£230,000
17 Feb 202128 BH17 9EADetached£295,000
21 Dec 202022 BH17 9EASemi-detached£278,000
25 Mar 202015 BH17 9EASemi-detached£256,000
20 Dec 201712 BH17 9EADetached£305,000
18 Dec 201731 BH17 9EADetached£306,000
27 Jul 201715 BH17 9EASemi-detached£247,000
14 Jul 201744 BH17 9EADetached£275,000
16 Jun 201741 BH17 9EATerraced£202,000
9 Aug 201617 BH17 9EASemi-detached£235,000
3 May 201611 BH17 9EASemi-detached£219,000
16 Feb 20166 BH17 9EADetached£265,000
4 Aug 201540 BH17 9EADetached£260,000
22 May 201341 BH17 9EATerraced£160,000
3 May 20139 BH17 9EASemi-detached£180,000
31 Jan 20132 BH17 9EADetached£188,000
18 Jan 201327 BH17 9EASemi-detached£202,500
10 Aug 201212 BH17 9EADetached£238,000
16 Jan 201240 BH17 9EADetached£206,500
1 Oct 201018 BH17 9EADetached£202,500
22 Jun 201025 BH17 9EASemi-detached£197,500
16 Apr 201010 BH17 9EADetached£218,000
31 Oct 200815 BH17 9EASemi-detached£170,000
11 Sep 200722 BH17 9EASemi-detached£219,000
10 Aug 200735 BH17 9EATerraced£175,000
20 Jul 20079 BH17 9EASemi-detached£185,000
29 May 200736 BH17 9EADetached£229,950
25 May 200717 BH17 9EASemi-detached£190,000
7 Aug 200619 BH17 9EADetached£206,000
26 May 200615 BH17 9EASemi-detached£172,000
23 Nov 200517 BH17 9EASemi-detached£170,000
4 Oct 200539 BH17 9EATerraced£147,000
6 Sep 200529 BH17 9EADetached£203,000
17 May 200511 BH17 9EASemi-detached£162,000
24 Mar 200535 BH17 9EATerraced£160,000
10 Dec 200412 BH17 9EADetached£205,000
9 Jul 200410 BH17 9EADetached£202,500
11 Jun 200419 BH17 9EADetached£185,000
2 Jun 20046 BH17 9EADetached£196,000
14 May 200435 BH17 9EATerraced£135,000
27 Feb 200431 BH17 9EADetached£186,500

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in 2026-27: Band D £2,436 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,624£1,894£2,165£2,436£2,977£3,518£4,059£4,871

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (35% of about 650 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 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 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 address is about 17 m above sea level.

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
BH17 9EA100%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 stationsParkstone (Dorset) 229,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Poole 965,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Branksome 280,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Portesham Way Canford Heath140 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Poole3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Ferry terminalPoole Quay Ferry Landing4.7 km (2.9 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH9.6 km (5.9 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS87.5 km (54 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 Canford Heath Group Pract1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Arrowedge Pharmacy130 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Canford Heath Clinic130 m
HospitalSsd Alderney Community Hospital1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationDorset Police3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Canford Heath Adastral Sq Cashzone1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.8 ha360 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 11 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 160 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,190 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsBroadstone Allotments 1.1 ha1.7 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bowl barrow cemetery and four other bowl barrows on Canford Heath, a scheduled monument, 670 m (0.4 miles) north.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bowl barrow cemetery and four other bowl barrows on Canford HeathScheduled monument670 m (0.4 miles) north
Bowl barrow on Canford Heath 730m south east of AlhambraScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Bowl barrow on Canford Heath 650m south of southern corner of New CovertScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Poole CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2 km (1.3 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lodge HillHill520 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Parr's PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) south
Pergins IslandIsland3.2 km (2 miles) south-west
Bourne BottomValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) east
Merley PondLake or reservoir4 km (2.5 miles) north
Weston's PointWetland4.5 km (2.8 miles) south

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)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)9.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
Under 55111

None of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, railways or aircraft.

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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: see them on the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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
Ad Astra Infant SchoolPrimary4–7340 m Report card (Apr 2026): 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
Magna AcademySecondary11–18420 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Haymoor Junior SchoolPrimary7–11540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Poole Grammar SchoolSecondary11–18900 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Canford Heath Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Canford Heath Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Parkstone Grammar SchoolSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Edward's Roman Catholic/Church of England School, Poole Church of England/Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Hillbourne Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Broadstone Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Dec 2019, 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
Jumping Jellybeans Pre-school BH17 9DWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good5 Nov 2019
Kingfishers Fish and Chips BH17 9DWTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m5 Very good10 Nov 2025
St Pauls Church Hall Lunch Club BH17 9DWOther catering premises130 m5 Very good12 Nov 2025
The Haymoor BH17 9DWPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good28 May 2024
The Hideout Soft Play BH17 9DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good18 Nov 2025
Asda Stores Ltd BH17 9DWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets130 m5 Very good20 Apr 2026
Arrowedge Limited BH17 9DWRetailers - other150 mExempt
Canford Nest BH17 9DWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good3 Jul 2025
Ad Astra Infant School BH17 8APSchool/college/university340 mExempt
Tiny Explorers Pre-School BH17 8APHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good11 Oct 2019
Magna Academy Kitchen BH17 8RESchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Jan 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.

165 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour72
Violence and sexual offences38
Shoplifting24
Other theft10
Criminal damage and arson8
Public order5
Burglary4
Vehicle crime2
Bicycle theft2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (77); On or near Thorncombe Close (20); On or near Parking Area (18); On or near Petrol Station (14); On or near Walditch Gardens (8).

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: 325 residents in 154 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 age4740
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)49%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented34%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)88%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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

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.

  • BH17 9EA: 1 address of 48 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Walditch Gardens · Neighbourhood Centre · Culliford Crescent · Culliford Crescent · Culliford Crescent · Pimpern Close · Thorncombe Close · Tarrant Close · Knowlton Road · Hawkchurch Gardens

All the streets in BH17 and across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

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.