The Lynch Mere, Wiltshire

14 addresses across 2 postcodes (BA12), about 300 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 33500957.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £520,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 3, E: 2, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Wiltshire costs £2,572 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 27% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Gillingham (Dorset), about 6.1 km (3.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 96 to 105 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mere Surgery, about 160 m away.
  • People: About 660 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 25 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£520,000£520,000£520,000
20251£345,000£345,000£345,000
20213£350,000£275,000£370,000
20191£252,000£252,000£252,000
20161£262,500£262,500£262,500
20151£202,500£202,500£202,500
20141£171,000£171,000£171,000
20111£305,000£305,000£305,000
20102£278,500£232,000£325,000
20091£160,000£160,000£160,000
20063£202,000£190,000£215,000
20051£270,000£270,000£270,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jan 2026FERNLENE BA12 6DQDetached£520,000
3 Jan 20254 BA12 6DQSemi-detached£345,000
26 Feb 2021MONS CALPE BA12 6DQDetached£370,000
8 Feb 2021SHREEN KNOLL BA12 6DQDetached£350,000
5 Feb 20213 BA12 6DQSemi-detached£275,000
4 Jan 2019WINDY RIDGE BA12 6DQSemi-detached£252,000
8 Mar 2016MONS CALPE BA12 6DQDetached£375,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Feb 2016RIVER COTTAGE BA12 6DQDetached£262,500
28 Aug 20153 BA12 6DQSemi-detached£202,500
9 Apr 20144 BA12 6DQSemi-detached£171,000
15 Jun 2011MONS CALPE BA12 6DQDetached£305,000
18 Aug 20102 BA12 6DQSemi-detached£232,000
2 Jun 2010LYNCH HOUSE BA12 6DQDetached£325,000
11 Dec 20094 BA12 6DQSemi-detached£160,000
1 Dec 2006SHREEN KNOLL BA12 6DQDetached£202,000
19 May 2006WINDY RIDGE BA12 6DQSemi-detached£190,000
20 Jan 20062 BA12 6DQSemi-detached£215,000
5 Aug 20051 BA12 6DQSemi-detached£270,000
5 Nov 2002RIVER COTTAGE BA12 6DQDetached£195,000
25 Jan 2002MONS CALPE BA12 6DQDetached£225,000
11 May 2001RIVER COTTAGE BA12 6DQDetached£60,000
12 Apr 2001LYNCH HOUSE BA12 6DQDetached£126,200
9 Apr 20013 BA12 6DQSemi-detached£78,500
17 Aug 1999LYNCH HOUSE BA12 6DQDetached£165,000

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

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 102 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (3); House, detached (2); Bungalow, detached (2). Built: 1900-1929 (3); before 1900 (1); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7).

Council tax

What each band costs in Wiltshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,572 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,715£2,000£2,286£2,572£3,143£3,715£4,286£5,144

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (27% of about 1,690 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, MERE (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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 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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

Groundwater flooding is possible in 2 of these postcodes: an address there is in a groundwater flood alert area.

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
BA12 6DQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible
BA12 6DZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 possible

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 14 addresses are between 96 m and 105 m above sea level (101 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
BA12 6DQ100%27%27%0%
BA12 6DZ100%0%0%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 stationsGillingham (Dorset) 358,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Bruton 53,000 journeys in 2024–2513.1 km (8.1 miles)
Tisbury 191,000 journeys in 2024–2513.3 km (8.3 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Car Park Mere250 m
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station5.7 km (3.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBournemouth Airport BOH45.4 km (28 miles)
Nearest large airportBristol Airport BRS45.4 km (28 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mere Surgery160 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mere Pharmacy400 m (0.2 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mere Dental Practice230 m
HospitalWestminster Memorial Hospital10.4 km (6.4 miles)
Police stationMere Police Station530 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Southern Co-Operative Mere The Square, The Square Cashzone380 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
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,340 m²360 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.3 ha340 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.8 ha440 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Dewes House, a listed building (Grade II*), 300 m north-west. 74 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dewes HouseListed building, Grade II*300 m north-west
Old Ship HotelListed building, Grade II*450 m (0.3 miles) north-west
The ChantryListed building, Grade II*500 m (0.3 miles) west
Church of St Michael the ArchangelListed building, Grade I520 m (0.3 miles) west
Mere CastleScheduled monument750 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Four bowl barrows on Long Hill, 220m west of Mere CastleScheduled monument900 m (0.6 miles) west
Bowl barrow 190m north east of Burton FarmScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Long HillHill770 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Castle PlantationWood820 m (0.5 miles) north
Chetcombe BottomValley1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
White Hill WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Puck WellLake or reservoir3.9 km (2.4 miles) east
Little MarshWetland4.3 km (2.7 miles) south-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)4.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.8205
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, 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 5930
Under 551114

3 of the street's 14 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 Wiltshire: see them on the Wiltshire page.

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
Mere SchoolPrimary4–11290 m No published inspection

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Mere and District Day Centre BA12 6ELHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises70 mExempt
Hayley's Hair Design BA12 6HATakeaway/sandwich shop280 mExempt
Mere Kebab & Pizza BA12 6HETakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good28 Aug 2025
Waltons of Mere BA12 6DDRetailers - other330 m4 Good12 Jun 2026
Sprout and Flower BA12 6DJRetailers - other370 m5 Very good15 Jan 2025
Golden Valley Chinese Takeaway BA12 6DLTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m5 Very good28 May 2025
The Co-op BA12 6DJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets390 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Angel Corner Tea Room BA12 6DHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Sep 2024
The Walnut Tree Inn BA12 6BHPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Aug 2025
The George Inn BA12 6DRPub/bar/nightclub440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good19 Mar 2026
Mere Fish & Chip Shop BA12 6DSTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Aug 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.

25 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences9
Anti-social behaviour7
Public order3
Burglary2
Criminal damage and arson2
Shoplifting1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lynch Close (11); On or near Springfield Road (9); On or near Parking Area (2); On or near Pettridge Lane (2); On or near The Lynch (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 663 residents in 334 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 age5740
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright54%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)34%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away31%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 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

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

Water Street · Lynch Close · Pettridge Lane · Ivy Mead · Mill Lane · Dark Lane · Springfield Road · Mill Lane · Salisbury Street · Hazzards Hill · Upper Water Street · Barnes Place

All the streets in BA12 and across Wiltshire.

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.