Salt Box Road Guildford

34 addresses across 4 postcodes (GU2,GU3,GU4), about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 16001601.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £1,000,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 7, E: 2, F: 5).
  • Flood: 7 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Guildford costs £2,547 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Worplesdon, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 480 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 35 to 42 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 34 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Woodbridge Hill Surgery, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 47% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 16 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20221£1,000,000£1,000,000£1,000,000
20213£695,000£535,000£975,000
20201£845,000£845,000£845,000
20182£632,500£595,000£670,000
20171£925,000£925,000£925,000
20132£580,000£530,000£630,000
20121£425,000£425,000£425,000
20113£385,000£355,000£545,000
20091£375,000£375,000£375,000
20081£738,000£738,000£738,000
20071£490,000£490,000£490,000
20051£490,000£490,000£490,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Apr 2022THE HOLLIES GU3 3TADetached£1,000,000
14 Dec 2021LITTLE TANGLEY GU3 3LHDetached£695,000
30 Sep 2021GRANTCHESTER LODGE GU3 3LHDetached£535,000
29 Sep 2021BRACKENDALE GU3 3LHDetached£975,000
8 Mar 2021MOUNT PLEASANT GU3 3TADetached£600,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Aug 2020BRACKENDALE GU3 3LHDetached£845,000
13 Dec 20183, SALT BOX COTTAGES GU3 3LHDetached£595,000
6 Apr 20182, SALT BOX COTTAGES GU3 3LHDetached£670,000
15 Sep 2017NORTH CHASE GU3 3LHSemi-detached£925,000
21 Oct 2013WEYCLIFFE COTTAGE GU3 3TADetached£630,000
23 Sep 2013WINDALE GU3 3TADetached£530,000
12 Oct 20121, SHAMROCK COTTAGES GU3 3TASemi-detached£425,000
13 Oct 2011THE HOLLIES GU3 3TADetached£545,000
4 Mar 20111, SALT BOX COTTAGES GU3 3LHDetached£355,000
1 Mar 20111, SHAMROCK COTTAGES GU3 3TASemi-detached£385,000
13 Nov 20092, SALT BOX COTTAGES GU3 3LHDetached£375,000
25 Jan 2008NORTH CHASE GU3 3LHSemi-detached£738,000
5 Oct 2007THE ARK GU3 3TADetached£490,000
29 Jul 2005NORTH CHASE GU3 3LHDetached£490,000
5 Mar 20041, SHAMROCK COTTAGES GU3 3TASemi-detached£267,500
7 Nov 2003WINDALE GU3 3TADetached£220,000
3 Aug 2001LITTLE TANGLEY GU3 3LHDetached£250,000
7 Apr 2000THE ARK GU3 3TADetached£259,000
13 Jan 1995SHINEY ROW GU3 3TADetached£65,000

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 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 172 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (8); House, detached (7); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (3); 1930-1949 (3); before 1900 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Guildford in 2026-27: Band D £2,547 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,698£1,981£2,264£2,547£3,113£3,679£4,246£5,095

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (37% of about 840 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: 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: yes, Guildford.

Listed buildings

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 29 October 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 29 October 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 20 October 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway (minor works)
  • 19 October 2026: BT, Utility asset works, road closure, on the verge (major works)
  • 4 September 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, give and take, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 2 September 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, give and take, on the carriageway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 12 August 2026: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, 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, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 6 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
GU3 3TAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
GU3 3LHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
GU4 7PXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
GU2 9YPnot in 2 or 3 6 / 1 / 5 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 34 addresses are between 35 m and 42 m above sea level (40 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
GU2 9YP100%100%100%0%
GU3 3LH100%100%100%0%
GU3 3TA100%0%0%0%
GU4 7PX0%0%0%100%

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 stationsWorplesdon 142,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
London Road (Guildford) 869,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Guildford 6.4 million journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 20 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Escombe Drive Stringers Common140 m
Bus or coach stationFriary Bus Station Guildford3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Car parksGuildford Spectrum Park and Ride2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Grange Road300 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR24.3 km (15 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 surgeriesWoodbridge Hill Surgery2 km (1.3 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Guildford Chemist1.3 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Surrey Dental Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalRoyal Surrey County Hospital3.2 km (2 miles)
Police stationSurrey Police - Guildford Police Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Cash machinesThe Corner Shop Cashzone1.3 km (0.8 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha480 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 7.3 ha780 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 90 m²390 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsLime Grove Allotments 1,810 m²840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 9.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Linear boundary on Whitmoor Common, a scheduled monument, 540 m (0.3 miles) north. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Linear boundary on Whitmoor CommonScheduled monument540 m (0.3 miles) north
Disc barrow on Whitmoor CommonScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Old Manor House (site of) W of Roman Catholic church, Sutton ParkScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Sutton PlaceRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Britten's PondLake or reservoir370 m north-east
Stringer's CommonWood550 m (0.3 miles) east
Stoke HillHill560 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Chitty's CommonWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Poor Jack's WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Dean BottomValley4.2 km (2.6 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)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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
70 to 7410
60 to 6422
55 to 5965
Under 552527

9 of the street's 34 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 7 from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Guildford: see them on the Guildford 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
Guildford Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Northmead Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Stoughton Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Christ's College, Guildford Church of EnglandSecondary11–161.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Weyfield Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Nisa local GU2 9PBRetailers - other350 m4 Good9 Sep 2026
Queen Elizabeth Park Care Home GU2 9LLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good9 Sep 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.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Anti-social behaviour3
Other theft3
Public order1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Regan Close (8); On or near Escombe Drive (6); On or near Salt Box Road (1); On or near Mansel Close (1).

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: 531 residents in 220 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 age4540
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work65%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van42%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)47%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 20 October 2026 (two-way signals) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 29 October 2026 (two-way signals) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 29 October 2026 (two-way signals) found 3 November 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.

Nearby streets

Mansel Close · Escombe Drive · Brittens Close · Regan Close · Burden Way · Brittens Close · Juniper Close · Knox Road · Hamilton Drive · Whateley Close

All the streets in GU2, GU3, GU4 and across Guildford.

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.