The Squirrels Drybrook, Forest of Dean

30 addresses across 2 postcodes (GL17), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 14701955.

Sales: 49 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £395,000 across 1 sale.
Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 16).
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 B; Band D in Forest of Dean costs £2,443 a year in 2026-27.
Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
Transport: The nearest railway station is Lydney, about 15.8 km (9.8 miles) away in a straight line.
Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
Height: Its addresses are 193 to 199 m above sea level.
Noise: 3 of its 30 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Drybrook Surgery, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
People: About 790 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
Crime: 18 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)
Year	Sales	Median price	Lowest	Highest
2025	1	£395,000	£395,000	£395,000
2023	2	£182,000	£114,000	£250,000
2021	2	£123,750	£72,500	£175,000
2020	1	£155,000	£155,000	£155,000
2018	3	£185,000	£162,000	£312,000
2017	2	£157,500	£60,000	£255,000
2016	3	£169,150	£141,250	£229,995
2015	3	£140,000	£59,475	£252,000
2013	1	£127,500	£127,500	£127,500
2012	3	£210,000	£142,000	£237,000
2011	2	£182,500	£145,000	£220,000
2009	3	£237,000	£60,000	£240,000

Most recent sales (49)
Date	Address	Type	Price	Notes
26 Sep 2025	17 GL17 9FB	Detached	£395,000
21 Sep 2023	25 GL17 9FB	Flat or maisonette	£114,000	Leasehold.
31 Mar 2023	6 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£250,000
1 Oct 2021	27 GL17 9FB	Flat or maisonette	£72,500	Leasehold.
11 Aug 2021	9 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£175,000
21 May 2021	2 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£164,000	Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Aug 2020	3 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£155,000
12 Dec 2018	2 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£162,000
20 Aug 2018	8 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£185,000
1 Jun 2018	17 GL17 9FB	Detached	£312,000
15 Dec 2017	18 GL17 9FB	Detached	£255,000
7 Jul 2017	27 GL17 9FB	Flat or maisonette	£60,000	Leasehold.
15 Jul 2016	3 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£141,250
23 Jun 2016	8 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£169,150
29 Apr 2016	21 GL17 9FB	Detached	£229,995
20 Nov 2015	26 GL17 9FB	Flat or maisonette	£59,475	Leasehold.
6 Nov 2015	16 GL17 9FB	Detached	£252,000
19 Jun 2015	4 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£140,000
15 Mar 2013	3 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£127,500
28 Nov 2012	10 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£142,000
31 Aug 2012	16 GL17 9FB	Detached	£237,000
3 May 2012	14 GL17 9FB	Detached	£210,000
4 Oct 2011	8 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£145,000
27 May 2011	19 GL17 9FB	Detached	£220,000
15 Dec 2009	15 GL17 9FB	Detached	£240,000
4 Dec 2009	23 GL17 9FB	Flat or maisonette	£60,000	Leasehold.
5 Mar 2009	17 GL17 9FB	Detached	£237,000	New build.
12 Dec 2008	26 GL17 9FB	Flat or maisonette	£59,975	New build. Leasehold.
7 Nov 2008	19 GL17 9FB	Detached	£230,000	New build.
5 Sep 2008	21 GL17 9FB	Detached	£195,000	New build.
29 Aug 2008	25 GL17 9FB	Flat or maisonette	£63,980	New build. Leasehold.
25 Jul 2008	24 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£64,975	New build. Leasehold.
4 Jul 2008	20 GL17 9FB	Detached	£211,000	New build.
12 Jun 2008	27 GL17 9FB	Flat or maisonette	£64,975	New build. Leasehold.
2 Jun 2008	4 GL17 9FB	Semi-detached	£139,950	New build.
20 May 2008	3 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£133,825	New build.
2 May 2008	12 GL17 9FB	Detached	£239,950	New build.
2 May 2008	11 GL17 9FB	Detached	£215,000	New build.
17 Apr 2008	18 GL17 9FB	Detached	£224,950	New build.
26 Mar 2008	14 GL17 9FB	Detached	£240,350
6 Mar 2008	6 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£189,950
29 Feb 2008	15 GL17 9FB	Detached	£225,000	New build.
4 Feb 2008	2 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£133,850
20 Dec 2007	8 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£159,950	New build.
19 Dec 2007	10 GL17 9FB	Semi-detached	£164,950	New build.
14 Dec 2007	16 GL17 9FB	Detached	£249,950	New build.
9 Nov 2007	1 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£135,000
26 Oct 2007	9 GL17 9FB	Terraced	£129,950
19 Oct 2007	5 GL17 9FB	Detached	£117,000	New build.

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

C16

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, detached (5); House, mid-terrace (4); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 2007-2011 (6); 2003-2006 (5); 2007 onwards (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (social) (3); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Forest of Dean in 2026-27: Band D £2,443 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
£1,629	£1,900	£2,172	£2,443	£2,986	£3,529	£4,072	£4,887

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (28% of about 900 homes).

A21%

B28%

C23%

D19%

E6%

F2%

G1%

H0%

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)

Drybrook Road Drybrook: up to 12 homes, permissioned (660 m (0.4 miles))
Drybrook Road Drybrook: up to 12 homes, permissioned (660 m (0.4 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 7 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.

Postcode	Planning zone	Addresses at high / medium / low risk	Groundwater
GL17 9FB	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 1	unlikely
GL17 9EQ	not in 2 or 3	0 / 0 / 6	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 30 addresses are between 193 m and 199 m above sea level (196 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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)
Postcode	Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)	Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)	Gigabit	Below 10 Mbit/s
GL17 9EQ	100%	100%	100%	0%
GL17 9FB	100%	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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway station	Lydney 194,000 journeys in 2024–25	15.8 km (9.8 miles)
Bus stops	9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cross Drybrook	100 m
Bus or coach station	Bus Station Cinderford	3.8 km (2.3 miles)
Ferry terminal	Sharpness Old Docks	14.7 km (9.1 miles)
EV charging points	High Street, Mitcheldean	2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flights	Bristol Airport BRS	54.5 km (34 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.

	Nearest	Distance
GP surgeries	1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Drybrook Surgery	460 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies	1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Drybrook Pharmacy	260 m
NHS dentists	Dental Surgery	2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Hospital	Forest Of Dean Community Hospital	2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Police station	West Mercia Police	8 km (4.9 miles)
Cash machines	1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-Op Drybrook Cashzone	70 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.

	Nearest	Distance
Park or garden	Unnamed 350 m²	2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Play area	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 110 m²	40 m
Playing field	3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.7 ha	460 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments	Unnamed 1.1 ha	1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
Name	What it is	From the middle of the street
Hazel Hill	Hill	670 m (0.4 miles) north
Loquiers Inclosure	Wood	690 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Quarry Hill	Hill	1 km (0.6 miles) south
Hollybush Hill	Hill	1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Wig Pool	Lake or reservoir	2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Horsepool Bottom	Valley	2.4 km (1.5 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)
Pollutant	Here	UK limit	WHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)	4.1	40	10
Fine particles (PM2.5)	5.9	20	5
Particles (PM10)	9.6	40	15

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)
Level	Road traffic	Railways
55 to 59	3	0
Under 55	27	30

3 of the street's 30 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 Forest of Dean: see them on the Forest of Dean 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.

School	Phase	Ages	Distance	Inspection
Drybrook Primary School	Primary	2–11	310 m	No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Steam Mills Primary School	Primary	4–11	1.7 km (1 mile)	Report card (Jun 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: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Mitcheldean Endowed Primary School Church of England	Primary	4–11	1.9 km (1.2 miles)	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.

Business	Type	Distance	Rating	Rated
The Co-op GL17 9EA	Retailers - other	70 m	5 Very good	24 Feb 2026
Hearts Of Oak GL17 9EE	Pub/bar/nightclub	150 m	5 Very good	23 Jul 2025
Overbook Service Station GL17 9JA	Retailers - other	180 m	5 Very good	23 Jul 2025
Dene Magna At Drybrook Primary School GL17 9JF	School/college/university	310 m	5 Very good	7 Feb 2024
Drybrook Rugby Football Club GL17 9EU	Pub/bar/nightclub	330 m	5 Very good	6 May 2026
Only Holy Water GL17 9JU	Manufacturers/packers	420 m (0.3 miles)	Awaiting inspection

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.

18 recorded crimes by category
Category	Crimes
Violence and sexual offences	10
Other theft	2
Other crime	2
Criminal damage and arson	1
Burglary	1
Drugs	1
Anti-social behaviour	1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hazel Road (5); On or near Back Lane (4); On or near The Squirrels (4); On or near High Street (3); On or near Whitehill Lane (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: 788 residents in 339 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 street	England
Median age	49	40
Children under 15	15%	17%
Aged 65 and over	27%	18%

Homes

	Around this street	England
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	80%	61%
Owned outright	46%	33%
Shared ownership	1%	1%
Social rented	9%	17%
Private rented	9%	21%

Work and commuting

	Around this street	England
Adults (16 and over) in work	54%	57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	3%	6%
Retired (of adults)	31%	22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	3%	4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	22%	32%
Travel to work by car or van	72%	48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	0%	4%
By any public transport, including bus	1%	8%
On foot or by bicycle	3%	10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)	44%	65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away	12%	8%

Education and languages

	Around this street	England
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	21%	34%
No qualifications	22%	18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	9%	5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)	100%	91%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

GL17 9FB: 29 addresses
GL17 9EQ: 1 address of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Hunts Row · Manse Road · Back Lane · Drybrook Road · West Avenue · North Avenue · Sunnymead Close · High Street · Noctule Close · Woodland Road · Whitehill Lane · Quabbs Road

All the streets in GL17 and across Forest of Dean.

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.