Valens Terrace Box, Wiltshire

22 addresses across 4 postcodes (SN13), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28600901.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £688,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 4, E: 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 E; Band D in Wiltshire costs £2,572 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bradford-On-Avon, about 7.8 km (4.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Franks Wood, is about 2.8 km (1.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 35 to 53 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Box Surgery, about 390 m away.
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 51% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 17 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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£688,500£688,500£688,500
20181£350,000£350,000£350,000
20131£561,000£561,000£561,000
20101£345,000£345,000£345,000
20081£450,000£450,000£450,000
20062£457,475£415,000£499,950
20041£345,000£345,000£345,000
20021£175,000£175,000£175,000
20011£180,000£180,000£180,000
19991£80,000£80,000£80,000
Most recent sales (11)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 May 20251 SN13 8NTTerraced£688,500
28 Feb 20182 SN13 8NTTerraced£350,000
1 Feb 20138 SN13 8NTDetached£561,000
23 Apr 20103 SN13 8NTTerraced£345,000
11 Apr 20088 SN13 8NTDetached£450,000
5 Dec 20067 SN13 8NTDetached£499,950
25 Jul 20065 SN13 8NTTerraced£415,000
29 Jul 20049 SN13 8NTDetached£345,000
13 Sep 20024 SN13 8NTTerraced£175,000
27 Dec 20013 SN13 8NTTerraced£180,000
30 Sep 19991 SN13 8NTTerraced£80,000

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

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 118 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (3); Flat (1); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (2); before 1900 (2); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (22% of about 650 homes).

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: yes, BOX (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 7.
  • 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: yes, Wiltshire.

Listed buildings

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 22 addresses are between 35 m and 53 m above sea level (41 m on average); the ground rises about 18 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
SN13 8NN100%100%100%0%
SN13 8NS100%0%0%0%
SN13 8NT100%0%0%0%
SN13 8PQ100%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 stationsBradford-On-Avon 532,000 journeys in 2024–257.8 km (4.9 miles)
Bath Spa 6.5 million journeys in 2024–258.3 km (5.1 miles)
Melksham 61,000 journeys in 2024–258.6 km (5.3 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pharmacy Box50 m
Bus or coach stationSouth Wraxall Turn Kingsdown1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest 9 Market Place Parking250 m
EV charging pointsMer5.1 km (3.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS32.4 km (20 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 Box Surgery390 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Box Pharmacy60 m
NHS dentistsCorsham Dental Centre2.5 km (1.5 miles)
HospitalSulis Hospital Bath Elective Surgical Hub9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Police stationBath Police Station - Avon And Somerset Police8.2 km (5.1 miles)
Cash machinesCompass Group - MOD Corsham, Westwells Road Cashzone2.5 km (1.5 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 gardenFranks Wood 2.0 ha2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 480 m²210 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.9 ha30 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,630 m²270 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Round House, a scheduled monument, 70 m east. 147 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Round HouseScheduled monument70 m east
Roman villa 500m south east of Hill House FarmScheduled monument90 m west
Church of St Thomas A BecketListed building, Grade I110 m west
East Portal of Middlehill TunnelListed building, Grade II*380 m north-west
West Portal of Middlehill TunnelListed building, Grade II*520 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Hill House FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*550 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Hazelbury ManorRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.8 miles) east
Three bowl barrows 160m south west of Hatt HouseScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
City of BathWorld Heritage Site8.7 km (5.4 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thorn WoodWood670 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Box BottomValley690 m (0.4 miles) south-east
England's WoodWood740 m (0.5 miles) south-west
White WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Totney FirsWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Kingsdown HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) 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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

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
70 to 7410
60 to 6410
Under 552022

2 of the street's 22 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), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Box Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11200 m Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Box Bowls Club SN13 8NTPub/bar/nightclub70 mExempt
The Queens Head SN13 8NHPub/bar/nightclub100 m4 Good21 Aug 2026
Caterlink@ Box C of E Primary School SN13 8NFSchool/college/university210 mAwaiting inspection
Box Kids After School & Holiday Club SN13 8NZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good14 Sep 2022
Toast Coffee House SN13 8PARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good15 Jul 2025
NBK Box Limited T/A Box Post Office SN13 8NARetailers - other340 mAwaiting 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.

17 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour7
Violence and sexual offences4
Shoplifting2
Public order1
Theft from the person1
Criminal damage and arson1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Burtons Lane (6); On or near Market Place (4); On or near Church Lane (2); On or near Valens Terrace (1); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (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: 569 residents in 250 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 age5040
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van40%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)51%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

  • SN13 8NT: 19 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • SN13 8NN: 1 address of 7 in the postcode
  • SN13 8NS: 1 address of 5 in the postcode
  • SN13 8PQ: 1 address of 7 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Church Lane · Burtons Lane · Queens Square · Chapel Lane · The Brownings · High Street · Market Place · Lycetts Orchard · Gregory Close · Glovers Lane · Bulls Lane · The Ley

All the streets in SN13 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.