The Pathway Watford, Three Rivers

7 addresses across 1 postcode (WD19), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 40417552.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £565,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Three Rivers cost £590,232 in August 2026 (+0.9% on a year); private rents averaged £1,828 a month.
  • Energy: 4 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 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.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band F; Band D in Three Rivers costs £2,422 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bushey, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 280 m away, and Oxhey Park (13 hectares) is about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 71 to 75 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Consulting Rooms, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 15 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20221£565,000£565,000£565,000
20211£485,000£485,000£485,000
20191£465,000£465,000£465,000
20171£470,000£470,000£470,000
19971£97,000£97,000£97,000
19961£84,950£84,950£84,950
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Jun 20221 WD19 4NBSemi-detached£565,000
17 Jun 20215 WD19 4NBSemi-detached£485,000
12 Apr 20193 WD19 4NBSemi-detached£465,000
27 Jan 20174 WD19 4NBSemi-detached£470,000
3 Jul 19971 WD19 4NBSemi-detached£97,000
23 Aug 19964 WD19 4NBSemi-detached£84,950

House prices and rents in Three Rivers

A typical home in Three Rivers cost £590,232 in August 2026, 0.9% more than a year before. That is 7% more than five years earlier and 14% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£1,202,340
Semi-detached£594,332
Terraced£462,540
Flat or maisonette£290,250
Bought by a first-time buyer£426,190

Private renters in Three Rivers paid £1,828 a month on average in September 2026, 2% more than a year before. That is 30% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,275
Two bedrooms£1,590
Three bedrooms£1,976
Four or more bedrooms£2,781

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 August 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

4 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4). Built: 1950-1966 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Three Rivers in 2026-27: Band D £2,422 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,615£1,884£2,153£2,422£2,961£3,499£4,037£4,845

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band F (38% of about 580 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

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.

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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre 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.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 here 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.

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 7 addresses are between 71 m and 75 m above sea level (73 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
WD19 4NB100%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 stationsBushey 1.2 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Carpenders Park 1.2 million journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Watford High Street 1.4 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Oaklands Avenue South Oxhey320 m
Car parksBushey Station Car Park (TfL)1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest EV Chargers Installation1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR19.2 km (12 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. 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Consulting Rooms Good Aug 20191.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Viks Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery760 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalUrgent Care Hemel Hempstead Hospital1.7 km (1 mile)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wisteria Lodge Good Oct 2017530 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationSouth Oxhey Police Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesATM1.6 km (1 mile)

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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,170 m²280 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Oxhey Park 13 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,180 m²600 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Oxhey Grange Playing Fields 1.4 ha330 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.1 ha470 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 14 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Oxhey Hall moated site, a scheduled monument, 1.2 km (0.8 miles) west. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oxhey Hall moated siteScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
The Rose Garden, BusheyRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Grims DykeRegistered park or garden, Grade II3 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sherwoods WoodWood340 m south-east
Margeholes WoodWood720 m (0.4 miles) east
Warren DellWood730 m (0.5 miles) south
Tommy Deacon's HillHill900 m (0.6 miles) north-west
The DellValley1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Haydon Hill PondLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-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)11.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5902
Under 5575

2 of the street's 7 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from railways, 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 Three Rivers: see them on the Three Rivers page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Bromet Primary SchoolPrimary5–11510 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oxhey Nursery SchoolNursery2–5750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Warren Dell Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Meryl SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bushey and Oxhey Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oxhey Wood Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Field Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Watford Field School (Infant & Nursery)Primary3–71.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bushey Manor Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Laurance Haines SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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 Royal Oak WD19 4EUPub/bar/nightclub310 m5 Very good8 Apr 2026
Load Of Hay WD19 4ETRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Jul 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.

15 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Criminal damage and arson3
Anti-social behaviour3
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1
Public order1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Anthony Close (11); On or near Green Lane (2); On or near Nancy Downs (1); On or near The Pathway (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.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

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.

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: 299 residents in 106 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 age4140
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)60%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)33%34%
No qualifications18%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 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.

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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.

  • WD19 4NB: 7 addresses of 8 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Anthony Close · Nancy Downs · Green Lane · Eley Place · The Oaks · Laurel Close · Woodwaye · Prestwick Road · Beaulieu Close · Sheridan Road · Blenheim Close · Green Lane

All the streets in WD19 and across Three Rivers.

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.