Tangmere Close Bicester, Cherwell

42 addresses across 1 postcode (OX26), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6801426.

  • Sales: 68 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £370,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 23 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 10, D: 9, E: 3).
  • 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 Cherwell costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bicester North, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 71 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 42 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Alchester Medical Group, about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • People: About 520 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 32% 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
20261£370,000£370,000£370,000
20252£487,500£480,000£495,000
20241£490,000£490,000£490,000
20231£450,000£450,000£450,000
20221£490,000£490,000£490,000
20211£430,000£430,000£430,000
20161£355,000£355,000£355,000
20141£285,000£285,000£285,000
20133£330,000£315,000£360,000
20122£250,000£250,000£250,000
20101£250,000£250,000£250,000
20082£291,500£268,000£315,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 68)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Jun 202638 OX26 4YZDetached£370,000
20 Jun 202522 OX26 4YZDetached£480,000
21 Mar 20257 OX26 4YZDetached£495,000
18 Oct 20241 OX26 4YZDetached£490,000
14 Dec 202332 OX26 4YZDetached£450,000
16 Jun 20234 OX26 4YZSemi-detached£310,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Oct 20226 OX26 4YZDetached£490,000
21 May 202114 OX26 4YZDetached£430,000
20 Dec 201640 OX26 4YZDetached£355,000
9 Jan 201418 OX26 4YZDetached£285,000
28 Nov 201328 OX26 4YZDetached£360,000
21 Aug 201322 OX26 4YZDetached£315,000
12 Jul 201317 OX26 4YZDetached£330,000
28 Sep 201230 OX26 4YZDetached£250,000
4 May 201240 OX26 4YZDetached£250,000
25 Nov 201026 OX26 4YZDetached£250,000
19 Dec 200836 OX26 4YZDetached£268,000
30 May 200841 OX26 4YZDetached£315,000
18 Sep 200739 OX26 4YZDetached£292,500
20 Jul 200732 OX26 4YZDetached£355,000
28 Jun 200729 OX26 4YZDetached£282,000
22 Jun 200724 OX26 4YZDetached£248,000
28 Jul 200635 OX26 4YZDetached£267,500
19 Jul 20063 OX26 4YZDetached£242,500
17 Feb 200627 OX26 4YZDetached£205,000
16 Jan 200636 OX26 4YZDetached£240,000
7 Dec 200513 OX26 4YZDetached£200,000
18 Nov 200521 OX26 4YZDetached£260,000
16 Nov 200524 OX26 4YZDetached£210,000
23 Mar 20055 OX26 4YZDetached£245,000
3 Dec 200415 OX26 4YZDetached£276,000
26 Nov 200436 OX26 4YZDetached£236,000
29 Oct 20045 OX26 4YZDetached£250,000
23 Jun 200423 OX26 4YZDetached£237,500
23 Jun 200426 OX26 4YZDetached£210,000
22 Jun 20041 OX26 4YZDetached£200,000
24 May 200416 OX26 4YZDetached£246,950
23 Jan 200339 OX26 4YZDetached£225,000
20 Nov 200237 OX26 4YZDetached£171,000
26 Jul 200241 OX26 4YZDetached£216,000
21 Jun 200214 OX26 4YZDetached£198,000
11 Jan 200216 OX26 4YZDetached£187,000
21 Jun 200019 OX26 4YZDetached£132,000
31 Mar 200021 OX26 4YZDetached£145,000
21 Jan 200017 OX26 4YZDetached£123,000
21 Jan 20004 OX26 4YZSemi-detached£120,000
28 Oct 199925 OX26 4YZDetached£152,500
28 Oct 199913 OX26 4YZDetached£119,950
24 Sep 199929 OX26 4YZDetached£128,500
18 Aug 199911 OX26 4YZDetached£143,000

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

23 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 111 m². Most common: House, detached (23). Built: 1983-1990 (10); 1976-1982 (5); 1991-1995 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (21).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 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 C (54% of about 590 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 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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 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 addresses are about 71 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
OX26 4YZ100%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 stationsBicester North 823,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Bicester Village 1.9 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Heyford 46,000 journeys in 2024–2511.4 km (7.1 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Benson Close Glory Farm50 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN52.8 km (33 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 surgeriesAlchester Medical Group1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bicester Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalBicester Community Hospital2 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationWaddesdon Police Station8.8 km (5.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM300 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha140 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.9 ha200 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²170 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Launton Plotters Allotments 9,790 m²620 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 7.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is RAF Bicester: World War II airfield, a scheduled monument, 600 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
RAF Bicester: World War II airfieldScheduled monument600 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Barn Approximately 50 Metres South of Manor FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Longlands SpinneyWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Cotmore CovertWood2.8 km (1.8 miles) north
Foxey Leys CopseWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Bainton CopseWood3 km (1.9 miles) north-west
Blackthorn HillHill3.1 km (2 miles) south-east
Weir PondLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 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)7.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.9205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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 5910
Under 554142

1 of the street's 42 addresses is 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
Glory Farm Primary SchoolPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
The Cooper SchoolSecondary11–18760 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Longfields Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Launton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Southwold Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Bure Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brookside Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Bicester Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Langford Village Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
The Bicester SchoolSecondary11–182 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2024, 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
Amai’kiye OX26 5AAMobile caterer270 m5 Very good3 Jun 2025
By All Means Pizza And Pasta OX26 4ULTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good7 Oct 2026
Hundred Acres OX26 4FRPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good10 Dec 2025
Tesco Express OX26 4FRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets310 m5 Very good9 Jun 2017
Wing On OX26 4FRTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m4 Good21 Jul 2025
Wyndham Hall OX26 5AFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good27 Aug 2026
Nettle OX26 4ULManufacturers/packers360 m5 Very good10 Jun 2026
Bicester Burger OX26 4LDOther catering premises370 m5 Very good9 Apr 2025
Boho Burrito OX26 4LNTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good13 Jan 2026
Johan RD Limited OX26 4LNManufacturers/packers400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good3 Jul 2026
PaPizza & Shakes OX26 4LNTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good9 Sep 2026
The Athenian OX26 4LNTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good9 Sep 2026
The Barre OX26 4LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good14 Jul 2026
The Cafe OX26 4JQMobile caterer450 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory3 Aug 2026
Lidl UK GMBH OX26 4JQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good10 Jul 2017

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 offences17
Criminal damage and arson9
Anti-social behaviour3
Other crime1
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lyneham Road (9); On or near Scampton Close (5); On or near Fairford Way (4); On or near Turnberry Close (4); On or near Tangmere Close (4).

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: 524 residents in 196 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 age3740
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work76%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)12%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 van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)50%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)32%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

Nearby streets

Benson Close · Turnberry Close · Fulmar Court · Lyneham Road · Scampton Close · Manston Close · Vulcan View · Boston Road · Lerwick Croft · Fairford Way · Hart Place · Telford Road

All the streets in OX26 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.