Swingbridge Bathpool, Somerset

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (TA2), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39604801.

25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £505,500 across 2 sales. 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 8, E: 1, F: 1). 6 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Somerset costs £2,561 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 92% to 95% of premises. The nearest railway station is Taunton, about 2.6 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 410 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 11 to 14 m above sea level. 8 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Crown Medical Centre, about 1.0 km away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km. About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 21 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
20242£505,500£361,000£650,000
20231£561,000£561,000£561,000
20222£437,500£425,000£450,000
20211£329,000£329,000£329,000
20192£305,000£285,000£325,000
20181£310,000£310,000£310,000
20171£207,780£207,780£207,780
20152£335,000£320,000£350,000
20121£200,000£200,000£200,000
20111£250,000£250,000£250,000
20102£309,975£279,950£340,000
20091£229,950£229,950£229,950
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Nov 2024BAWLERS FARM TA2 8BYDetached£650,000
6 Jun 2024COPPER BEECHES TA2 8BYSemi-detached£361,000
15 Aug 2023APPLEDORE TA2 8BYDetached£561,000
27 Jan 2023SWINGBRIDGE HOUSE TA2 8BYOther£390,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Nov 20222 TA2 8BYDetached£450,000
21 Oct 20223 TA2 8BYDetached£425,000
9 Nov 2021RIVERDALE TA2 8BYSemi-detached£329,000
1 Apr 2021THE HORIZON CENTRE TA2 8BYOther£425,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Apr 2019LELANT TA2 8BYDetached£325,000
10 Apr 2019RIVERDALE TA2 8BYSemi-detached£285,000
20 Jun 2018THE LAURELS TA2 8BYDetached£310,000
4 May 2017COPPER BEECHES TA2 8BYSemi-detached£207,780
21 Aug 2015APPLEDORE TA2 8BYDetached£320,000
10 Feb 20157 TA2 8BYDetached£350,000
26 Apr 2012LITTLEFIELDS TA2 8BYSemi-detached£200,000
10 Nov 2011APPLEDORE TA2 8BYDetached£250,000
18 Jun 20102 TA2 8BYDetached£279,950
29 Jan 2010BAWLERS FARM TA2 8BYDetached£340,000
18 Sep 2009WINTERWOOD TA2 8BYSemi-detached£229,950
14 Jul 20062 TA2 8BYDetached£265,000
28 Oct 2005GALLEYWOOD TA2 8BYDetached£250,000
17 Mar 20058 TA2 8BYDetached£130,000
3 Dec 2004WINTERWOOD TA2 8BYSemi-detached£159,950
9 Mar 2001GALLEYWOOD TA2 8BYDetached£149,950
10 Oct 2000THE LAURELS TA2 8BYDetached£128,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 133 m². Most common: House, detached (5); House, semi-detached (3); Bungalow, semi-detached (3). Built: before 1900 (4); 1976-1982 (4); 1967-1975 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (1).

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 E (27% of about 880 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 1.0 km

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 8 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 34 homes the Environment Agency counts, 3 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 11 low and 5 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
TA2 8BYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 4 unlikely
TA2 8BDzone 2 4 / 1 / 4 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 22 addresses are between 11 m and 14 m above sea level (13 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
TA2 8BD100%92%92%0%
TA2 8BY95%95%95%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 stationsTaunton 1.6 million journeys in 2024–252.6 km
Bridgwater 487,000 journeys in 2024–2512.2 km
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m, 20 within 800 m; nearest Aldi Bathpool170 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Taunton3.1 km
Ferry terminalBridgwater Ferry Terminal13.7 km
Car parksSainsbury's Taunton Hankridge Car Park900 m
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km; nearest InstaVolt Charging Station500 m
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT40.9 km
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL45.3 km

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; nearest Crown Medical Centre1.0 km
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Boots1.0 km
NHS dentistsAshfords1.6 km
HospitalHospital@Home (Site Code)1.6 km
Police stationTaunton Police Station - Avon And Somerset Police2.9 km
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Monkton Heathfield School Rd, Monkton Heathfield Cashzone860 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 garden1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 4.7 ha410 m
Play area7 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 260 m²150 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 4.8 ha480 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,240 m²1.1 km

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 4.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

9 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Creechbarrow HillHill850 m south-west
Newmead PondLake or reservoir1.7 km east
Noah's HillHill2.4 km north
Gotton CopseWood2.9 km north
Rook WoodWood3.0 km north
Kennel BottomValley3.3 km north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6910
55 to 5970
Under 551422

8 of the street's 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Monkton Wood AcademySecondary11–18770 m Inadequate (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
West Monkton Church of England SchoolPrimary2–111.0 km No published inspection
Nerrols Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–111.1 km Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Minerva Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km Requires improvement (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lyngford Park Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Creech St Michael Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Blackbrook Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.8 km No published inspection
Ruishton Church of England SchoolPrimary2–112.0 km Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Bathpool Inn TA2 8BEPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good5 Mar 2025
Aldi Stores Limited TA2 8BARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m5 Very good18 Dec 2018
Somerset Buffet TA1 2LPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m5 Very good8 Jan 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.

21 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Public order6
Anti-social behaviour3
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1
Burglary1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Bridgwater Road (11); On or near Yew Tree Lane (4); On or near Acacia Gardens (2); On or near Parking Area (2); On or near Swingbridge (2).

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: 496 residents in 192 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 age4440
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented5%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%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.

  • TA2 8BY: 20 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • TA2 8BD: 2 addresses of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Acacia Gardens · Yew Tree Lane · Bridgwater Road · St Quintin Park · Milton Hill · Canal View · Dyers Lane

All the streets in TA2 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.