Towpath Road Gloucester

16 addresses across 3 postcodes (GL1,GL2), about 80 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 15301453.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £335,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 5, C: 8, D: 1).
  • Flood: 16 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Gloucester costs £2,356 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Gloucester, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 120 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 11 to 12 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 Partners In Health, Pavilion Family Drs, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 830 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 29 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
20251£335,000£335,000£335,000
20231£310,000£310,000£310,000
20212£242,250£189,500£295,000
20192£270,000£255,000£285,000
20173£229,500£204,500£274,950
20151£183,000£183,000£183,000
201310£205,000£168,000£235,000
20114£126,450£104,452£160,000
Most recent sales (26)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Jun 20256 GL2 5FJTerraced£335,000
15 Dec 202314 GL2 5FJTerraced£310,000
15 Oct 20214 GL2 5FJDetached£310,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Apr 20215 GL2 5FJTerraced£189,500
18 Mar 202120 GL2 5FJTerraced£295,000
16 Oct 201918 GL2 5FJSemi-detached£285,000
25 Jan 201914 GL2 5FJTerraced£255,000
29 Nov 20171 GL2 5FJDetached£229,500
9 Jun 20172 GL2 5FJSemi-detached£204,500
18 Apr 20176 GL2 5FJTerraced£274,950
22 Dec 20152 GL2 5FJSemi-detached£183,000
20 Jul 20153 GL2 5FJTerraced£125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jun 20134 GL2 5FJDetached£235,000New build.
28 Jun 20136 GL2 5FJTerraced£212,500New build.
28 Jun 20132 GL2 5FJSemi-detached£168,000New build.
31 May 20138 GL2 5FJSemi-detached£228,000New build.
26 Apr 201320 GL2 5FJTerraced£210,000New build.
28 Mar 201318 GL2 5FJSemi-detached£228,000New build.
28 Mar 201316 GL2 5FJTerraced£200,000New build.
28 Mar 201314 GL2 5FJTerraced£190,000New build.
28 Mar 201312 GL2 5FJTerraced£180,500New build.
27 Mar 201310 GL2 5FJTerraced£200,000New build.
22 Dec 20115 GL2 5FJTerraced£144,950New build.
22 Dec 20113 GL2 5FJTerraced£104,452New build.
16 Dec 20111 GL2 5FJDetached£160,000New build.
31 Oct 201122 GL2 5FJDetached£107,950New 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 November 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 103 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); House, mid-terrace (3); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 2013 (5); 2009 (3); 2012-2021 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Gloucester in 2026-27: Band D £2,356 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,571£1,832£2,094£2,356£2,879£3,403£3,926£4,712

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (35% of about 1,740 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: 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 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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 12 at medium risk and 13 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
GL2 5FJzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
GL1 5SQnot in 2 or 3 3 / 10 / 7 unlikely
GL2 5EXnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 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 16 addresses are between 11 m and 12 m above sea level (11 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
GL1 5SQ100%100%100%0%
GL2 5EX100%100%100%0%
GL2 5FJ100%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 stationsGloucester 1.8 million journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cheltenham Spa 2.4 million journeys in 2024–2512 km (7.5 miles)
Stonehouse 193,000 journeys in 2024–2512.1 km (7.5 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Monk Meadow Hempsted250 m
Bus or coach stationTransport Hub Gloucester1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa790 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points15 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gloucester Quays Staff (Gloucester) evyve680 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS61.3 km (38 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Partners In Health, Pavilion Family Drs1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest First Call Pharmacy630 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gloucestershire Partnership N H1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalGloucester Royal Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationGloucester Police Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone490 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,830 m²120 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 6,030 m²340 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 540 m²100 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.9 ha1.7 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Llanthony Priory, Remains of Range on South Side of Inner Court, a listed building (Grade I), 660 m (0.4 miles) north. 59 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 7 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Llanthony Priory, Remains of Range on South Side of Inner CourtListed building, Grade I660 m (0.4 miles) north
Llanthony Secunda PrioryScheduled monument690 m (0.4 miles) north
Llanthony Priory, Remains of Precinct Wall South of Outer GatehouseListed building, Grade I690 m (0.4 miles) north
Llanthony Priory, Range Between Outer and Inner CourtsListed building, Grade I710 m (0.4 miles) north
Llanthony Priory, Remains of Outer GatehouseListed building, Grade I720 m (0.4 miles) north
Lady's WellScheduled monument790 m (0.5 miles) west
Hempsted village crossScheduled monument850 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Barge ArmLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Victoria DockLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Alney IslandIsland1.6 km (1 mile) north
Richard's WoodWood2 km (1.3 miles) north
Robins Wood HillHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Vale of GloucesterValley4.3 km (2.6 miles) north

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)10.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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
Under 551616

None of the street's 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Gloucester: see them on the Gloucester 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
Linden Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hempsted Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11900 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Gloucestershire College16 plus16–99920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Calton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Dec 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ribston Hall High SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Tredworth Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Tredworth Infant and Nursery AcademyPrimary2–71.6 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Crypt SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James' Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hatherley Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Widden Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Requires improvement (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Kebab Express GL1 5SRTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m5 Very good19 Feb 2025
Linden Pizzeria GL1 5TATakeaway/sandwich shop310 mAwaiting inspection
Linden Stores GL1 5TARetailers - other320 m4 Good13 Nov 2024
Blue Sea Chinese Restaurant GL1 5TATakeaway/sandwich shop320 m3 Generally satisfactory27 Aug 2025
Sunny Garden GL1 5TATakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good6 May 2025
CS Bakery GL1 5SYOther catering premises340 m5 Very good2 Sep 2026
Bristol Road Service Station GL1 5TARetailers - other380 m5 Very good17 Jun 2026
Lidl GL1 5TERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets390 m5 Very good17 Apr 2024
Tesco GL1 5SSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good11 Apr 2024
Frango Gloucester GL1 5SDOther catering premises450 m (0.3 miles)4 Good10 Feb 2026
Gold Choice GL1 5SDTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Nov 2025
The Linden Tree GL1 5SNPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Apr 2026
Kerryanne's Kitchen GL1 5SDTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory26 Nov 2025
Trojan Café GL1 5SDOther catering premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Aug 2025
APR Corner Shop GL1 5SBRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good24 Jul 2024

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.

29 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Other theft4
Anti-social behaviour3
Other crime3
Public order1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Maritime Court (15); On or near Jetty Road (8); On or near Quayside Way (3); On or near Shopping Area (3).

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: 827 residents in 361 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 age3540
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented33%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 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.

  • GL2 5FJ: 14 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • GL1 5SQ: 1 address of 68 in the postcode
  • GL2 5EX: 1 address of 198 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Drydock Way · Jetty Road · Wagon Way · Wharfside Close · Atlas Court · Quayside Way · Maritime Court · Mainsail Lane · Canal Court · Sandalwood Drive · Mayfair Close · Madleaze Road

All the streets in GL1, GL2 and across Gloucester.

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.