Tadworthy Road Northam, Torridge

96 addresses across 5 postcodes (EX39), about 460 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 40900224.

  • Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £390,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Torridge cost £267,174 in August 2026 (+0.3% on a year); private rents averaged £792 a month.
  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (A: 6, B: 11, C: 3, D: 8, E: 3, F: 1).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 40 times (164 hours) in 2025.
  • Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 790 m (0.5 miles) from its postcodes.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Torridge costs £2,601 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnstaple, about 11.5 km (7.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Northam Burrows Country Park, is about 590 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 14 to 29 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 96 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Northam Surgery, about 490 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 960 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 7 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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£390,000£390,000£390,000
20242£1,172,500£850,000£1,495,000
20221£310,000£310,000£310,000
20211£205,000£205,000£205,000
20202£190,000£190,000£190,000
20171£235,000£235,000£235,000
20154£211,475£191,950£530,000
20131£185,500£185,500£185,500
20123£195,000£180,000£338,000
20101£180,000£180,000£180,000
20091£155,055£155,055£155,055
20081£495,000£495,000£495,000
All 33 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Feb 20122 EX39 1JNDetached£195,000
4 Jul 2025CORNERWAYS, 2 EX39 1JNDetached£390,000
22 Mar 20124 EX39 1JNSemi-detached£180,000
30 Jul 20206 EX39 1JNSemi-detached£190,000
31 Jul 19966 EX39 1JNSemi-detached£58,000
30 Jan 200910 EX39 1JNSemi-detached£155,055
20 Aug 202012 EX39 1JNSemi-detached£190,000
16 Oct 201314 EX39 1JNSemi-detached£185,500
5 Jul 201018 EX39 1JNSemi-detached£180,000
14 Sep 200118 EX39 1JNSemi-detached£96,000
22 Jun 202220 EX39 1JNTerraced£310,000
13 Apr 200620 EX39 1JNTerraced£172,000
6 Feb 201730 EX39 1JNSemi-detached£235,000
27 Apr 201530 EX39 1JNSemi-detached£191,950
20 Aug 201536 EX39 1JNDetached£223,000
19 Aug 202438 EX39 1JNOther£625,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Mar 202340 EX39 1JNOther£200,000New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Nov 202442 EX39 1JNDetached£1,495,000New build.
18 Dec 202444 EX39 1JNDetached£850,000New build.
8 Jun 2012DALA HUS EX39 1JNDetached£338,000
4 Dec 2007DALA HUS EX39 1JNDetached£325,000
25 Jul 20072, LAKENHAM COTTAGES EX39 1JPTerraced£202,500
14 May 20012, LAKENHAM COTTAGES EX39 1JPTerraced£83,500
2 Aug 19962, LAKENHAM COTTAGES EX39 1JPTerraced£47,500
3 Feb 20213, LAKENHAM COTTAGES EX39 1JPTerraced£205,000
26 Apr 20043, LAKENHAM COTTAGES EX39 1JPTerraced£199,950
26 Jul 19963, LAKENHAM COTTAGES EX39 1JPTerraced£49,000
12 Aug 20055, LAKENHAM COTTAGES EX39 1JPSemi-detached£167,000
23 Nov 20015, LAKENHAM COTTAGES EX39 1JPSemi-detached£79,000
1 Dec 19955, LAKENHAM COTTAGES EX39 1JPSemi-detached£37,000
1 Apr 20152, TADWORTHY STABLES EX39 1JNSemi-detached£199,950
22 May 2015WOODBINE COTTAGE EX39 1JPDetached£530,000
15 Aug 2008WOODBINE COTTAGE EX39 1JPDetached£495,000

House prices and rents in Torridge

A typical home in Torridge cost £267,174 in August 2026, 0.3% more than a year before. That is 6% more than five years earlier and 34% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£389,229
Semi-detached£276,215
Terraced£207,983
Flat or maisonette£136,612
Bought by a first-time buyer£214,439

Private renters in Torridge paid £792 a month on average in September 2026, 2.1% more than a year before. That is 26% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£567
Two bedrooms£742
Three bedrooms£912
Four or more bedrooms£1,274

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 January 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

32 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 106 m². Most common: House, detached (15); House, semi-detached (8); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 2024 (9); 1967-1975 (8); 2022 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (32 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,627 kWh of it on average in 2024, 42% more than the district's 8,872 kWh, and 3,592 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
EX39 1JN242,841 kWh 2911,626 kWh
EX39 1WF142,031 kWh 1614,958 kWh
EX39 1JP71,945 kWh 69,357 kWh
EX39 1JG652,916 kWh 6211,588 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is EX39.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 C (38% of about 1,200 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: 2.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 4 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
EX39 1WJnot in 2 or 3
EX39 1JNnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 0 unlikely
EX39 1WFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
EX39 1JPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
EX39 1JGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

The nearest projected erosion zone is 790 m (0.5 miles) from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Hartland Point to Anchor Head none (the line is held)840 m (0.5 miles)
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Hartland Point to Anchor Head none (the line is held)840 m (0.5 miles)
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Hartland Point to Anchor Head up to 53 m790 m (0.5 miles)

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 40 times, for 164 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Bideford Bay &Amp; the Pill, Tributary of the Pill Via Sws, Silford Stream.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Northam Waste Water Pumping Station South West Water Bideford Bay &Amp; the Pill 10 19 470 m (0.3 miles)
Causeway Close Cso South West Water Tributary of the Pill Via Sws 10 7 540 m (0.3 miles)
Buckleigh Pumping Station South West Water Silford Stream 20 138 910 m (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 96 addresses are between 14 m and 29 m above sea level (20 m on average); the ground rises about 15 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 1JG100%100%100%0%
EX39 1JN100%22%22%0%
EX39 1JP100%0%0%0%
EX39 1WF100%100%100%0%
EX39 1WJ40%40%40%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 2024–2511.5 km (7.2 miles)
Chapelton (Devon) 160 journeys in 2024–2513.9 km (8.7 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Jackets Lane Westward Ho!280 m
Ferry terminalAppledore Ferry Landing2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsExeter International Airport EXT66.2 km (41 miles)
Nearest large airportCardiff International Airport CWL72.8 km (45 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Northam Surgery Outstanding Jun 2016490 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Northam Dental Surgery (Adp)490 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalBideford Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Care homes12 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lakenham Residential Care Home Good Nov 202270 m
Police stationDevon & Cornwall Constabulary3.1 km (2 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central Convenience - The Square, Northam260 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 Northam Burrows Country Park 229 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 190 m²230 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,210 m²700 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 4,500 m²800 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 229 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Margaret, a listed building (Grade I), 410 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 24 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MargaretListed building, Grade I410 m (0.3 miles) south-east
PorthillListed building, Grade II*930 m (0.6 miles) south
Two decoy targets at Northam Radar StationScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Lenwood bowl barrow, 50m south east of Lenwood CottageScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) south
Wreck off Northam BurrowsScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Westward Ho! BeachBeach1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Snuffy CornerWetland1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
SandymereLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north
Raleigh HillHill1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Raleigh PlantationWood2 km (1.2 miles) south
Kenwith ValleyValley2 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)2.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.6205
Particles (PM10)7.74015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6410
55 to 5970
Under 558796

9 of the street's 96 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 Torridge: see them on the Torridge page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 13 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
St Margaret's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–11300 m Requires improvement (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) 46% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 19% in 2024 and 38% in 2023)
St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School Church of EnglandPrimary3–7360 m Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met None published
Appledore SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14% at the higher standard (2025; 79% in 2024 and 87% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

2 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 290 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Our Happy Place Ltd EX39 1HT Out-of-school day care 16 Not inspected yet 290 m
Snapdragons Pre-School EX39 1HT Sessional day care 20 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 290 m

Ofsted also registers 328 childminders and 60 home childcarers (nannies) in Devon. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 13 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
Lakenham Residential Care Home EX39 1JJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises70 m4 Good12 Dec 2025
Snapdragons Pre-School EX39 1HTSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good12 Feb 2015
Bideford Blues Kitchen EX39 1XXOther catering premises380 m5 Very good14 Feb 2025
Daisy Chain Social Activity Group EX39 1EQOther catering premises460 m (0.3 miles)4 Good6 Feb 2025
The Square Studio EX39 1ARRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Costcutter EX39 1ARRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory27 Aug 2025
Royal North Devon Golf Club EX39 1HDPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jan 2016
Par Dining EX39 1HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory5 Feb 2026
Kingsburg EX39 1ARTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory17 Dec 2025
Northam News EX39 1ARRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 May 2015
On Track Education Services Ltd EX39 1AWSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Jun 2026
Northam Coffee House EX39 1AWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Mar 2026
Boots UK Ltd EX39 1AZRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

7 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Other theft2
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lakenham Hill (3); On or near Tadworthy Road (3); On or near The Links (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. 50% happened in the dark, and 50% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202410
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
20 Sep 2025 00:30 Slight 2 people B3236, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
23 Nov 2024 09:45 Slight 1 person B3236, 30 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 962 residents in 489 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 age6240
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over45%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright58%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work40%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)51%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%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 7 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band A, house, end-terrace (lodged 14 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, house, semi-detached (lodged 29 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Richmond Park · Sea View Avenue · Piggy Lane · Boulevard Way · Lakenham Hill · B3236 · The Links · Highfield · St Teresas Court · Saint Teresa's Close · Galleon Way · Atlanta View

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.