Smithfield Road Street, Somerset

34 addresses across 2 postcodes (BA16), about 320 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 25000195.

  • Sales: 30 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £280,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 13, E: 3).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Somerset costs £2,561 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Castle Cary, about 15.7 km (9.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 230 m away, and Merriman Park (0.8 hectares) is about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 39 to 42 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 Vine Surgery Partnership, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 39 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
20251£280,000£280,000£280,000
20241£320,000£320,000£320,000
20232£290,000£280,000£300,000
20212£302,500£222,000£383,000
20191£290,000£290,000£290,000
20182£290,000£275,000£305,000
20161£275,000£275,000£275,000
20152£207,500£170,000£245,000
20142£196,750£145,000£248,500
20131£168,250£168,250£168,250
20121£187,000£187,000£187,000
20101£220,000£220,000£220,000
Most recent sales (30)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Jul 20257 BA16 0RHSemi-detached£280,000
1 Mar 202418 BA16 0RHDetached£320,000
26 May 20234 BA16 0RHSemi-detached£300,000
16 Jan 20237 BA16 0RHSemi-detached£280,000
5 Nov 202129 BA16 0RGDetached£383,000
26 Jan 202119 BA16 0RGSemi-detached£222,000
13 Aug 201923 BA16 0RGDetached£290,000
27 Jul 201820 BA16 0RHDetached£275,000
15 Jun 201836 BA16 0RGDetached£305,000
24 May 201629 BA16 0RGDetached£275,000
10 Nov 201522 BA16 0RGDetached£245,000
22 May 20153 BA16 0RHSemi-detached£170,000
11 Dec 201423 BA16 0RGDetached£248,500
30 May 201423 BA16 0RGDetached£145,000
5 Dec 201312 BA16 0RHSemi-detached£168,250
16 Nov 201227 BA16 0RGDetached£187,000
31 Aug 201021 BA16 0RGSemi-detached£220,000
21 Jul 200925 BA16 0RGDetached£197,500
2 Oct 200717 BA16 0RGSemi-detached£193,000
30 Mar 200711 BA16 0RGSemi-detached£175,000
6 Feb 200630 BA16 0RGSemi-detached£184,000
23 Jul 20044 BA16 0RHSemi-detached£157,000
15 Mar 200221 BA16 0RGSemi-detached£142,500
13 Jul 19983 BA16 0RHSemi-detached£57,000
30 Jan 199810 BA16 0RHSemi-detached£58,500
5 Dec 199738 BA16 0RGDetached£82,000
21 Mar 199729 BA16 0RGDetached£68,000
31 Jan 19971 BA16 0RHSemi-detached£69,000
8 Mar 199632 BA16 0RGDetached£65,000
15 Sep 199530 BA16 0RGSemi-detached£58,000

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

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (10); House, semi-detached (6); Bungalow, semi-detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (13); 1967-1975 (5); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (2); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Somerset in 2026-27: Band D £2,561 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,707£1,992£2,276£2,561£3,130£3,699£4,268£5,121

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (54% of about 930 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 10 September 2026: Somerset Council, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway, footpath (immediate - urgent 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, 1 address is 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
BA16 0RGnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BA16 0RHnot 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 34 addresses are between 39 m and 42 m above sea level (40 m on average).

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
BA16 0RG100%100%100%0%
BA16 0RH100%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 stationCastle Cary 355,000 journeys in 2024–2515.7 km (9.7 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Green Lane Avenue Street100 m
Bus or coach stationCoach Park Street1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksM Bayliss Car Park900 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS29.6 km (18 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 Vine Surgery Partnership1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tout's Pharmacy Street1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Family Dental Practice810 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalButleigh Hospital4.8 km (3 miles)
Police stationStreet Police Station720 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machinesRadstock Co-Op - Street Cashzone870 m (0.5 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 3,650 m²230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Merriman Park 8,450 m²690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 530 m²120 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Goss Drive Play Area 4,590 m²50 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,190 m²340 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 1.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Roman villa NW of Two Acre Plantation, a scheduled monument, 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roman villa NW of Two Acre PlantationScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Teazle WoodWood820 m (0.5 miles) south
Ivy Thorn HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) south
Ivy Thorn WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Half Acre PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Clyce HoleLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Bushy CombeValley4.4 km (2.7 miles) north-east

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)4.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.94015

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
Under 553434

None of the street's 34 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Somerset: see them on the Somerset 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
Brookside Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11320 m No published inspection
Hindhayes Infant SchoolPrimary5–7940 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Elmhurst Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Crispin School AcademySecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Walton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 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
Green Lane Stores BA16 0QURetailers - other120 m5 Very good23 Apr 2019
Street Football club BA16 0TARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good19 Mar 2024
Morrisons Daily BA16 0TERetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Sep 2026
Hecks Farmhouse Cider BA16 0LBManufacturers/packers500 m (0.3 miles)4 Good23 Oct 2012

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.

39 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Anti-social behaviour4
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime2
Other crime2
Other theft2
Public order2
Theft from the person1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Goss Drive (13); On or near Quarry Road (9); On or near Oakfield Road (6); On or near Smithfield Road (3); On or near New Close (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: 539 residents in 223 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 age5040
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%34%
No qualifications22%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 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

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.

  • BA16 0RG: 20 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • BA16 0RH: 14 addresses of 17 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Eglinton Road · Lavender Court · Green Lane Avenue · Oakfield Road · Quarry Road · Summerwood Road · Chichester Road · New Close · Ringolds Way · Glanvill Road · Russett Road · Goss Drive

All the streets in BA16 and across Somerset.

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.