Vashon Close Ludlow, Shropshire

66 addresses across 3 postcodes (SY8), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36500815.

  • Sales: 206 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £241,500 across 4 sales.
  • Energy: 50 homes have an energy certificate (C: 33, D: 16, E: 1).
  • Flood: 7 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 C; Band D in Shropshire costs £2,528 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ludlow, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 117 to 127 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 66 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Station Drive Surgery, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 39 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
20254£241,500£181,000£355,000
20243£265,000£190,000£270,000
20234£293,500£181,000£375,000
20223£220,000£200,000£329,950
20214£244,000£173,000£300,000
20203£276,500£148,000£295,000
20195£194,000£136,000£307,000
20184£153,750£143,000£237,500
20172£240,000£230,000£250,000
20163£172,500£130,000£255,000
20155£225,000£125,000£253,000
20133£216,000£173,000£235,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 206)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Nov 202582 SY8 1XGTerraced£189,000
17 Oct 202578 SY8 1XGTerraced£181,000
24 Apr 202519 SY8 1XGDetached£294,000
28 Mar 202536 SY8 1XGDetached£355,000
25 Oct 202466 SY8 1XGTerraced£270,000
20 Sep 20241 SY8 1XGDetached£265,000
10 May 202482 SY8 1XGTerraced£190,000
27 Sep 202339 SY8 1XGTerraced£181,000
17 Aug 202316 SY8 1XGDetached£375,000
26 Jul 202311 SY8 1XGDetached£322,000
13 Jul 202321 SY8 1XGDetached£265,000
26 Aug 202231 SY8 1XGTerraced£200,000
15 Jul 20224 SY8 1XGDetached£405,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Apr 202284 SY8 1XGTerraced£220,000
25 Mar 202229 SY8 1XGTerraced£163,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Mar 202220 SY8 1XGDetached£329,950
30 Sep 20215 SY8 1XGDetached£288,000
16 Aug 202148 SY8 1XGTerraced£173,000
26 Jul 202168 SY8 1XGOther£124,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Mar 202143 SY8 1XGTerraced£200,000
2 Feb 202124 SY8 1XGDetached£300,000
18 Dec 202078 SY8 1XGTerraced£154,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Aug 202050 SY8 1XGTerraced£148,000
29 Jun 202038 SY8 1XGDetached£295,000
25 Mar 202026 SY8 1XGDetached£276,500
25 Oct 201960 SY8 1XGTerraced£150,000
13 Sep 201948 SY8 1XGTerraced£136,000
5 Aug 201916 SY8 1XGDetached£307,000
29 Mar 201966 SY8 1XGTerraced£194,000
28 Mar 201934 SY8 1XGDetached£259,000
28 Nov 201858 SY8 1XGTerraced£155,500
20 Aug 201880 SY8 1XGTerraced£143,000
13 Mar 201829 SY8 1XGTerraced£152,000
2 Mar 20185 SY8 1XGDetached£237,500
24 Nov 20171 SY8 1XGDetached£230,000
7 Apr 201720 SY8 1XGDetached£250,000
23 Sep 201616 SY8 1XGDetached£255,000
23 Sep 201656 SY8 1XGSemi-detached£172,500
10 Jun 201616 SY8 1XGDetached£260,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Feb 201670 SY8 1XGTerraced£130,000
18 Dec 20155 SY8 1XGDetached£222,500
4 Dec 201526 SY8 1XGDetached£237,000
27 Nov 201532 SY8 1XGDetached£225,000
9 Nov 201519 SY8 1XGDetached£194,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Jun 20157 SY8 1XGDetached£253,000
16 Feb 201558 SY8 1XGTerraced£125,000
28 Nov 201317 SY8 1XGSemi-detached£173,000
18 Oct 201324 SY8 1XGDetached£235,000
16 Aug 201313 SY8 1XGDetached£216,000
16 Nov 201231 SY8 1XGTerraced£128,695

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

50 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, detached (23); House, mid-terrace (14); House, end-terrace (13). Built: 1996-2002 (40); 1983-1990 (5); 1991-1995 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (36); rented (private) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (32 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Shropshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,528 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,685£1,966£2,247£2,528£3,090£3,652£4,214£5,056

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (33% of about 1,070 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 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, 3 at medium risk and 2 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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
SY8 1XGnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 1 unlikely
SY8 1XJnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 1 unlikely
SY8 1XZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 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 66 addresses are between 117 m and 127 m above sea level (123 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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
SY8 1XG100%100%100%0%
SY8 1XJ100%100%100%0%
SY8 1XZ100%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 stationsLudlow 271,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Craven Arms 100,000 journeys in 2024–2512.2 km (7.6 miles)
Broome 1,680 journeys in 2024–2513.8 km (8.6 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Corfield Road Jct Ludlow130 m
Car parksSmithfield Car Park880 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Sandpits Road, Ludlow560 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX65.4 km (41 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Station Drive Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lunts Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alliance Dentistry LTD880 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalLudlow Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationLudlow Police Station930 m (0.6 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,240 m²80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 6.0 ha240 m
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 160 m²100 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ludlow Boxing Club 1.8 ha330 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 220 m²870 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 6.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St Julian's Well: a holy well in the middle of Livesey Road, 155m south west of the junction with Sandpits Road, a scheduled monument, 570 m (0.4 miles) west. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St Julian's Well: a holy well in the middle of Livesey Road, 155m south west of the junction with Sandpits RoadScheduled monument570 m (0.4 miles) west
Augustinian friary adjacent to the junction of Lower Galdeford and Weeping Cross LaneScheduled monument900 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Town wallsScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Henley HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rock CovertWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Ledwyche PoolLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
The Colonel's PlantationWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Ledwyche CovertWood2 km (1.3 miles) east
Tinkers HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Mary Knoll ValleyValley4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)3.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.2205
Particles (PM10)9.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 556466

2 of the street's 66 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 Shropshire: see them on the Shropshire 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
Ludlow Primary SchoolPrimary2–11310 m Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Laurence CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2024, 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
Morganics SY8 1YGOther catering premises210 m5 Very good11 Sep 2024
Working Together (Ludlow) Ltd Cafe SY8 1SXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
Ludlow Food Bank SY8 1SXRetailers - other350 m5 Very good12 Oct 2026
Monkey Mania SY8 1XDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good21 Jan 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.

39 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences24
Criminal damage and arson5
Vehicle crime3
Burglary2
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1
Anti-social behaviour1
Other crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Morgan Close (8); On or near Clee View Close (8); On or near Vashon Close (7); On or near Ballard Close (3); On or near Cangeford Drive (3).

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: 597 residents in 242 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 age3740
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented26%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van69%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)62%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away17%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

  • SY8 1XG: 64 addresses of 65 in the postcode
  • SY8 1XJ: 1 address of 46 in the postcode
  • SY8 1XZ: 1 address of 68 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ballard Close · St Margaret Road · Dahn Drive · Baker Close · Cangeford Drive · Corfield Road · Loughton Close · Parys Road · Bitterley Close · Riddings Road · Wheathill Close · Normandie Close

All the streets in SY8 and across Shropshire.

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.