Spindles Tilbury, Thurrock

31 addresses across 1 postcode (RM18), about 120 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40501259.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £340,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 21 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 16, E: 3).
  • Flood: 21 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 B; Band D in Thurrock costs £2,255 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Tilbury Town, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 280 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 1 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 18 of its 31 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Commonwealth Health Centre, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 460 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 50% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 67 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
20241£340,000£340,000£340,000
20211£310,000£310,000£310,000
20201£282,000£282,000£282,000
20191£295,000£295,000£295,000
20163£240,000£231,500£245,000
20151£185,000£185,000£185,000
20141£150,000£150,000£150,000
20091£142,000£142,000£142,000
20082£166,000£165,000£167,000
20072£162,000£159,000£165,000
20061£139,995£139,995£139,995
20052£117,500£70,000£165,000
Most recent sales (39)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Mar 20253 RM18 8NPTerraced£306,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Aug 202412 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£340,000
16 Dec 202110 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£310,000
16 Jul 202019 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£282,000
18 Jun 20195 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£295,000
19 Sep 20164 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£240,000
26 Jul 201611 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£231,500
11 May 201629 RM18 8NPTerraced£245,000
22 Apr 20167 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£215,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 May 201514 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£185,000
24 Feb 20148 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£150,000
20 Nov 200917 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£142,000
8 May 200815 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£167,000
3 Mar 200818 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£165,000
30 Nov 200724 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£159,000
9 Feb 200719 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£165,000
9 Feb 200621 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£139,995
29 Nov 20054 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£165,000
26 May 200530 RM18 8NPFlat or maisonette£70,000Leasehold.
6 Dec 200426 RM18 8NPTerraced£184,995
1 Oct 200418 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£140,000
28 Oct 200229 RM18 8NPTerraced£104,995
26 Jul 20027 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£91,000
10 May 200221 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£92,500New build.
31 Jul 200120 RM18 8NPTerraced£79,995
27 Jul 20016 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£70,000
28 Feb 20014 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£84,000
24 Jan 200124 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£74,500
26 May 200018 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£67,995
13 Mar 199826 RM18 8NPTerraced£59,500
25 Apr 19977 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£50,000
30 Jan 19978 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£45,500
30 Aug 199619 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£47,500
30 Aug 199622 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£46,000
23 Feb 19967 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£47,000
6 Oct 199516 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£49,000
7 Jul 19956 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£47,995
20 Apr 199524 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£48,000
6 Jan 19956 RM18 8NPSemi-detached£47,000

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 March 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (19); House, mid-terrace (1); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (16); 1950-1966 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Thurrock in 2026-27: Band D £2,255 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,503£1,754£2,004£2,255£2,756£3,257£3,758£4,509

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (78% of about 680 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.

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 31 October 2026.

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, 14 addresses are in areas at high risk, 7 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 30 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 30 very low.

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: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

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 addresses are about 1 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
RM18 8NP100%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 stationsTilbury Town 1.1 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Grays 3.6 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Gravesend 2.9 million journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Handel Crescent Tilbury70 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Grays3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Ferry terminalTilbury Ferry Terminal2.2 km (1.3 miles)
Car parksAsda Tilbury Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY21.8 km (14 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Stansted Airport STN47 km (29 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Commonwealth Health Centre790 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Essex Pharmacy930 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Elite Dental Studio930 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalGravesham Community Hospital3 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationPort of Tilbury Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesATM890 m (0.6 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 1,040 m²280 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 550 m²330 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest King George's Field 5.9 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.0 ha410 m (0.3 miles)

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

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Earthworks near church, West Tilbury, a scheduled monument, 1.8 km (1.1 miles) east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Earthworks near church, West TilburyScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Tilbury FortScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hob HillHill820 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Hutts HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north
Broom HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Little Thurrock MarshesWetland1.7 km (1 mile) west
Cooper ShoreWood2 km (1.2 miles) east
Gravesend ReachTidal water2.2 km (1.3 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)13.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
65 to 6910
60 to 64140
55 to 5930
Under 551331

18 of the street's 31 addresses are 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 Thurrock: see them on the Thurrock 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
The Gateway Primary Free SchoolPrimary0–11620 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Tilbury Pioneer AcademyPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
The Gateway AcademySecondary11–16670 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Lansdowne Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chadwell St Mary Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Herringham Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thameside Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Canton Chef RM18 8NLTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m4 Good25 Feb 2026
St Chads Convenience RM18 8NLRetailers - other110 m5 Very good5 Apr 2025
Tilbury Chicken RM18 8NLTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good25 Feb 2026
Spudilicious RM18 8NLOther catering premises150 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
Narmadha Express RM18 8NLRetailers - other160 m1 Major improvement necessary7 Dec 2025
MR JUNKIES RM18 8NLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m4 Good28 Feb 2025
Munchies RM18 8LJTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Mar 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.

67 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences32
Vehicle crime8
Criminal damage and arson6
Anti-social behaviour6
Drugs5
Other theft5
Burglary2
Other crime2
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Chapel Road (15); On or near Leighton Gardens (11); On or near Melba Gardens (11); On or near Lawrence Gardens (9); On or near Spindles (6).

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: 464 residents in 146 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 age3440
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)50%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented28%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus13%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%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)17%34%
No qualifications37%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • RM18 8NP: 31 addresses of 35 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Chadfields · Berkeley Terrace · Leighton Gardens · Millais Place · Handel Crescent · Melba Gardens · Lawrence Gardens · Tilbury Gardens · Feenan Highway · Sullivan Road · Chapel Road · Raphael Avenue

All the streets in RM18 and across Thurrock.

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.