St Leonards Steps Bridgnorth, Shropshire

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (WV16), about 130 m long. USRN 4300885.

  • Sales: 19 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £250,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 5, E: 1, F: 1).
  • 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 C; Band D in Shropshire costs £2,528 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cosford, about 14.5 km (9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Bridgnorth Community Garden, is about 160 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 56 to 72 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 Bridgnorth Medical Practice, about 390 m away.
  • People: About 210 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 54% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 199 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
20211£250,000£250,000£250,000
20181£174,300£174,300£174,300
20151£155,000£155,000£155,000
20141£189,000£189,000£189,000
20111£124,500£124,500£124,500
20082£126,500£110,000£143,000
20053£132,500£125,000£148,000
20041£130,000£130,000£130,000
20032£106,500£90,000£123,000
20001£106,000£106,000£106,000
19991£63,500£63,500£63,500
19971£60,000£60,000£60,000
Most recent sales (19)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Feb 2021PLUM COTTAGE WV16 4BNSemi-detached£250,000
9 Nov 201814 WV16 4BNTerraced£174,300
31 Jul 20159 WV16 4BNTerraced£155,000
9 Jul 2014PEAR COTTAGE WV16 4BNSemi-detached£189,000New build.
30 Nov 201112 WV16 4BNSemi-detached£124,500
22 Dec 200812 WV16 4BNSemi-detached£110,000
1 Aug 20089 WV16 4BNTerraced£143,000
24 Oct 200513 WV16 4BNTerraced£148,000
30 Sep 200512 WV16 4BNSemi-detached£132,500
5 Sep 20058 WV16 4BNTerraced£125,000
30 Jul 200412 WV16 4BNSemi-detached£130,000
5 Sep 200311 WV16 4BNTerraced£90,000
1 Aug 200313 WV16 4BNTerraced£123,000
28 Jan 200014 WV16 4BNTerraced£106,000
8 Nov 19998 WV16 4BNTerraced£63,500
29 Jul 199713 WV16 4BNTerraced£60,000
16 Dec 199614 WV16 4BNTerraced£71,500
8 Nov 19968 WV16 4BNTerraced£48,000
14 Feb 199612 WV16 4BNSemi-detached£43,000

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

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 53 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (4); House, end-terrace (4); House, semi-detached (1). Built: before 1900 (7); 2012 onwards (1); Pre-1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Shropshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,528 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,685£1,966£2,247£2,528£3,090£3,652£4,214£5,056

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 960 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: yes, Bridgnorth. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 10.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

  • 13 August 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footpath (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

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 15 addresses are between 56 m and 72 m above sea level (61 m on average); the ground rises about 16 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
WV16 4BN100%100%100%0%
WV16 4EJ100%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 stationsCosford 82,000 journeys in 2024–2514.5 km (9 miles)
Shifnal 237,000 journeys in 2024–2514.8 km (9.2 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Harp Inn High Town130 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Smithfield Parking380 m
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations270 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX46.4 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bridgnorth Medical Practice390 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots160 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Leonards House Dental Centre140 m
HospitalBridgnorth Hospital310 m
Police stationWest Mercia Police - Bridgnorth Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Bridgnorth, Low Town Cashzone350 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bridgnorth Community Garden 1,500 m²160 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Severn Park 7.9 ha240 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,320 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bridgnorth Rugby Club 1.7 ha230 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,600 m²170 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Grammar School House, a listed building (Grade II*), 70 m north-west. 238 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 11 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grammar School HouseListed building, Grade II*70 m north-west
The CourtListed building, Grade II*110 m south-west
Church of St. LeonardListed building, Grade II*130 m north-west
Former Swan InnListed building, Grade II*130 m south-west
Bridgnorth CastleScheduled monument480 m (0.3 miles) south
Panpudding Hill: a ringwork and bailey castle 100m south of Bridgnorth StationScheduled monument800 m (0.5 miles) south
The HermitageScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Folly HoleWood510 m (0.3 miles) south
Tippings Cross CoppiceWood760 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Paul's PoolLake or reservoir760 m (0.5 miles) west
High Rock CoppiceWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
The Hook DingleValley2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
BowmanshillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-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)4.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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 551515

None of the street's 15 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 Shropshire: see them on the Shropshire 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
Bridgnorth Endowed SchoolSecondary11–16250 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyPrimary4–11530 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Leonard's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St. Mary's Bluecoat Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oldbury Wells SchoolSecondary11–16850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Castlefields Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Pennys Fine Foods WV16 4DXRetailers - other110 m4 Good26 Aug 2026
Black Boy Inn WV16 4BGPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good11 Jan 2024
R J Arbuckle WV16 4DXRetailers - other120 m5 Very good26 Aug 2026
Tesco Express WV16 4DXRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets120 m5 Very good29 Mar 2023
Violets Tearoom WV16 4BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good22 Oct 2024
The Harp Bridgnorth WV16 4DXPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good4 Mar 2026
The Greenhouse WV16 4DXPub/bar/nightclub140 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Mar 2026
Millies Place WV16 4DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good24 Jun 2026
Giovannis WV16 4BWRetailers - other140 m5 Very good21 Jan 2025
Bishop Percys House Tearooms WV16 4BGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good21 Aug 2026
Apley On The High Street WV16 4DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good9 Jun 2026
The Royle WV16 4DXPub/bar/nightclub150 m5 Very good6 Mar 2026
The Viking Chefs WV16 4AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good12 Aug 2026
The Grape Tree WV16 4DBRetailers - other160 m5 Very good27 May 2015
Pelucci's WV16 4DBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m4 Good10 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.

199 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences64
Anti-social behaviour39
Shoplifting24
Criminal damage and arson14
Public order13
Other theft12
Vehicle crime11
Burglary7
Theft from the person5
Other crime4
Drugs3
Robbery2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (82); On or near B4373 (30); On or near Postern Gate (22); On or near Cartway (19); On or near Castle Terrace (15).

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: 205 residents in 130 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 age6040
Children under 155%17%
Aged 65 and over43%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)54%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented25%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)0%6%
Retired (of adults)39%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van36%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle20%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)32%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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 6 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Himalaya Tandoori (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WV16 4QN) re-inspected, still 4 Good (rated 24 September 2026) found 30 October 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

Cartway · The Shambles · Bank Steps · Friars Street · River Side · Granary Steps · Tudor Court · St Leonards Close · Church Street · Friar's Street · Waterloo Terrace · Castle Terrace

All the streets in WV16 and across Shropshire.

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.