Sentry Corner Bideford, Torridge

96 addresses across 4 postcodes (EX39), about 420 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 40900534.

  • Energy: 62 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 18, D: 31, E: 9, F: 1, G: 2).
  • 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 11.6 km (7.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 24 to 45 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 100 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wooda Surgery, about 470 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 940 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 79 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.

62 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (55); House, end-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 1900-1929 (30); 1930-1949 (14); before 1900 (11). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (34); rented (private) (18).

Council tax

What each band costs in Torridge in 2026-27: Band D £2,601 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,734£2,023£2,312£2,601£3,180£3,758£4,336£5,203

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (45% of about 1,300 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 100 addresses are between 24 m and 45 m above sea level (35 m on average); the ground rises about 21 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 4BL100%100%100%0%
EX39 4ET100%100%100%0%
EX39 4EU100%100%100%0%
EX39 4EX100%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 2024–2511.6 km (7.2 miles)
Chapelton (Devon) 160 journeys in 2024–2512.1 km (7.5 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Torridge Mount East-the-Water130 m
Ferry terminalBideford Ferry Landing700 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT63.3 km (39 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL73.3 km (46 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wooda Surgery470 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy Bideford470 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Quay Dental Practice640 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBideford Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Constabulary540 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone360 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,310 m²200 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,150 m²150 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pollyfield 3.9 ha130 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,680 m²210 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Royal Hotel, a listed building (Grade I), 340 m north-west. 226 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 9 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Royal HotelListed building, Grade I340 m north-west
Bideford Bridge Including Parapet Walls and Gates of East AbutmentListed building, Grade I460 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Old FordListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) west
Hallsannery limekilnScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lodge PlantationWood1 km (0.6 miles) south
Kenwith ValleyValley1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Pillhead MarshWetland1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Ball HillHill2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Jennetts ReservoirLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Westward Ho! BeachBeach4.8 km (3 miles) north-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)3.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.8205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 5599100

1 of the street's 100 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
East-the-Water Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11500 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
West Croft SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Urgent improvement; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Urgent improvement; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Bideford CollegeSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Pollyfield Community Association EX39 4BLPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good12 Aug 2026
East The Water Stepping Stones Pre School EX39 4BLSchool/college/university140 m2 Improvement necessary5 Dec 2025
Toon Station Refreshments EX39 4BBTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good5 Sep 2025
The Blacksmiths Arms EX39 4DPPub/bar/nightclub310 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Sep 2026
Number Eight EX39 4DPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m5 Very good19 Mar 2025
Barton Tors Stores EX39 4HARetailers - other350 m5 Very good14 Nov 2025
Tidal And Trail EX39 4DRRetailers - other360 mExempt
Biddy Baps EX39 4AEMobile caterer390 m5 Very good23 Jul 2026
Silver Bridge House EX39 4AETakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good27 Nov 2025
The Royal Hotel EX39 4AEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good5 Dec 2025
East Of The Water EX39 4AETakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good3 Sep 2026
East The Water Primary School EX39 4BZSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Dec 2025
The Food Hub EX39 4DFMobile caterer500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 May 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

79 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences51
Criminal damage and arson11
Anti-social behaviour8
Public order2
Other theft2
Burglary2
Possession of weapons1
Drugs1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ayres Close (16); On or near Sentry Corner (13); On or near Boards Court (10); On or near Avon Road (9); On or near Newport Terrace (8).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 942 residents in 395 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 age3840
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright34%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

Nearby streets

Newport Terrace · Boards Court · Newport Terrace · Torrington Lane · Brook Field Street · Avon Road · Torrington Lane · Grenville Terrace · Churchill Road · Torridge Mount · Chudleigh Avenue · Sunnyside

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.