Talbot Close Banbury, Cherwell

27 addresses across 3 postcodes (OX16), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6801422.

  • Sales: 37 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £274,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 5).
  • Flood: 4 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 Cherwell costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 95% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Banbury, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 132 to 134 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 27 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Windrush Surgery, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 240 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 32 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£274,500£274,500£274,500
20212£210,000£195,000£225,000
20191£253,000£253,000£253,000
20181£204,000£204,000£204,000
20171£166,950£166,950£166,950
20161£225,000£225,000£225,000
20151£189,950£189,950£189,950
20101£158,000£158,000£158,000
20091£142,000£142,000£142,000
20072£157,975£146,000£169,950
20062£142,250£131,500£153,000
20051£142,000£142,000£142,000
Most recent sales (37)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Oct 20243 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£274,500
30 Jul 202110 OX16 1DYTerraced£195,000
5 Feb 202119 OX16 1DYTerraced£225,000
27 Sep 201920 OX16 1DYTerraced£253,000
29 Jun 20187 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£204,000
18 May 201818 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£230,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Feb 20174 OX16 1DYTerraced£166,950
3 Jun 20168 OX16 1DYTerraced£225,000
23 Mar 201519 OX16 1DYTerraced£189,950
15 Jul 201017 OX16 1DYTerraced£158,000
11 Dec 200915 OX16 1DYTerraced£142,000
9 Nov 20073 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£169,950
9 Mar 20077 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£146,000
30 May 20062 OX16 1DYTerraced£131,500
10 Mar 20068 OX16 1DYTerraced£153,000
24 Oct 200517 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£142,000
22 Jun 200416 OX16 1DYTerraced£116,000
23 Apr 200415 OX16 1DYTerraced£129,950
5 Dec 20033 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£129,000
16 Oct 200310 OX16 1DYTerraced£118,000
17 Sep 200317 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£128,000
19 Apr 20022 OX16 1DYTerraced£90,000
12 Apr 200218 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£107,500
7 Sep 200115 OX16 1DYTerraced£88,000
4 Apr 20019 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£88,000
24 Nov 20008 OX16 1DYTerraced£89,950
31 Mar 20003 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£84,000
29 Oct 199911 OX16 1DYTerraced£77,000
21 Dec 19986 OX16 1DYTerraced£59,950
1 Jul 19988 OX16 1DYTerraced£71,950
7 Nov 199713 OX16 1DYTerraced£53,500
1 Aug 199710 OX16 1DYTerraced£48,000
30 May 199718 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£54,500
13 Sep 19963 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£46,000
27 Aug 199614 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£42,000
1 Jul 199617 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£50,600
10 Nov 19957 OX16 1DYSemi-detached£42,000

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 January 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (7); House, end-terrace (6); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (9); 1976-1982 (3); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (4); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cherwell in 2026-27: Band D £2,583 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,722£2,009£2,296£2,583£3,157£3,731£4,305£5,166

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (47% of about 590 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 3 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
OX16 1DYnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 2 unlikely
OX16 1DFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX16 1DXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 27 addresses are between 132 m and 134 m above sea level (132 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
OX16 1DF100%100%100%0%
OX16 1DX100%100%100%0%
OX16 1DY100%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 stationsBanbury 2.3 million journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Kings Sutton 82,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (5 miles)
Bus stops17 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 47 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Talbot Close Ruscote50 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Banbury Town Centre2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksApcoa2.2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge920 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX49.9 km (31 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 surgeriesWindrush Surgery2 km (1.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well490 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalHorton Hospital2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationBanbury Police Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Londis, Hardwick Estate450 m (0.3 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.4 ha300 m
Play area16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 460 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.1 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.6 ha840 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Wroxton Abbey, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 1.8 km (1.1 miles) west. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wroxton AbbeyRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Abbey WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Withycombe CovertWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Lord's SpinneyWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Grimsbury ReservoirLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Crouch HillHill2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Padsdon BottomValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) west

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)5.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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
55 to 5920
Under 552527

2 of the street's 27 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 Cherwell: see them on the Cherwell 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
Hardwick Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–11380 m No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
North Oxfordshire AcademySecondary11–19460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Hill View Primary SchoolPrimary3–11680 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
William Morris Primary SchoolPrimary2–11680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Hanwell Fields Community SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Banbury Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Orchard Fields Community SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, BanburyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Barley Mow OX16 1SSPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good17 Feb 2023
Taylorshaw @ North Oxfordshire Academy OX16 0UDSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good13 May 2025
Hardwick Social Club OX16 1XEPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Tran Fish & Chips OX16 1XETakeaway/sandwich shop430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Mar 2023
Megha Wines OX16 1XERetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Aug 2015

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.

32 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences14
Criminal damage and arson4
Public order4
Anti-social behaviour4
Vehicle crime4
Drugs1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Romney Road (8); On or near Richman Gardens (7); On or near Devon Way (5); On or near Angus Close (4); On or near Horsham Close (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: 237 residents in 113 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 age3940
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented29%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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 Hardwick Social Club (pub/bar/nightclub, OX16 1XE) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 31 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

Daimler Avenue · Bedford Close · Morgan Close · Alvis Gate · Humber Walk · Bentley Close · Romney Road · Lanchester Drive · Richman Gardens · Devon Way · Riley Drive · Red Poll Close

All the streets in OX16 and across Cherwell.

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.