Venners Water Didcot, South Oxfordshire

53 addresses across 2 postcodes (OX11), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36208713.

  • Sales: 46 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £180,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 41 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 28, D: 8, E: 1).
  • Flood: 31 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 South Oxfordshire costs £2,598 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 45% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Didcot Parkway, about 790 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 30 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 50 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 53 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Oak Tree Health Centre, about 440 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 680 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 59% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 47 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
20243£180,000£180,000£375,000
20221£200,000£200,000£200,000
20211£205,000£205,000£205,000
20201£335,000£335,000£335,000
20182£261,000£247,000£275,000
20171£192,000£192,000£192,000
20162£281,500£248,000£315,000
20153£220,000£190,000£232,500
20132£206,225£182,500£229,950
20112£193,750£172,500£215,000
20101£179,950£179,950£179,950
20092£174,975£174,950£175,000
Most recent sales (46)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Oct 20241 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£180,000Leasehold.
24 May 202411 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£180,000Leasehold.
26 Apr 202416 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£375,000
29 Feb 202416 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£375,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Nov 202212 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£200,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 20219 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£205,000Leasehold.
16 Oct 202024 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£335,000
19 Dec 201816 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£275,000
29 Mar 201834 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£247,000
30 Jun 20175 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£192,000Leasehold.
25 Nov 201620 OX11 7PTTerraced£248,000
5 Jul 201624 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£315,000
14 Sep 20153 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£190,000Leasehold.
1 May 201522 OX11 7PTTerraced£232,500
20 Feb 201520 OX11 7PTTerraced£220,000
12 Jul 201318 OX11 7PTTerraced£182,500
19 Apr 201330 OX11 7PTTerraced£229,950
19 Aug 201110 OX11 7PTTerraced£172,500Leasehold.
8 Jul 201124 OX11 7PTTerraced£215,000
15 Feb 201016 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£179,950
16 Oct 200920 OX11 7PTTerraced£175,000
28 Aug 200934 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£174,950
26 Oct 200728 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£226,000
4 Sep 20068 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£156,000Leasehold.
16 Aug 200420 OX11 7PTTerraced£156,000
23 Jul 20042 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£189,000
30 Jan 200414 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£154,000
14 Nov 200322 OX11 7PTTerraced£154,000
4 Jul 20037 OX11 7PTTerraced£115,000Leasehold.
22 Apr 200324 OX11 7PTTerraced£180,000
12 Apr 200222 OX11 7PTTerraced£122,500
9 Mar 200114 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£104,500
22 Jan 200132 OX11 7PTTerraced£104,000
13 Sep 200022 OX11 7PTTerraced£101,000
27 Jul 200022 OX11 7PTTerraced£100,000
30 May 200026 OX11 7PTTerraced£124,000
27 Apr 20002 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£119,000
10 Mar 200030 OX11 7PTTerraced£112,000
22 Jul 199932 OX11 7PTTerraced£80,000
26 Mar 199920 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£67,500
14 Oct 19983 OX11 7PTFlat or maisonette£68,000Leasehold.
26 Jun 199824 OX11 7PTTerraced£87,500
22 May 199811 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£64,000Leasehold.
7 Nov 199718 OX11 7PTTerraced£67,500
3 Oct 199734 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£64,950
10 May 199614 OX11 7PTSemi-detached£56,000

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

41 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 58 m². Most common: Flat (26); Bungalow, semi-detached (6); House, semi-detached (5). Built: 2003-2006 (14); 1991-1995 (11); 1996-2002 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (22); owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Oxfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,598 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,732£2,020£2,309£2,598£3,175£3,752£4,329£5,195

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (59% of about 1,410 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)

  • Didcot Gateway: up to 300 homes, not permissioned (830 m (0.5 miles))
  • Didcot Gateway: up to 300 homes, pending decision (830 m (0.5 miles))
  • Didcot Gateway: up to 300 homes, not permissioned (830 m (0.5 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 29 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 46 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 84 homes the Environment Agency counts, 29 are in areas at high risk, 2 medium, 47 low and 0 very low.

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
OX11 7PTzone 2 11 / 1 / 38 unlikely
OX11 7LRzone 2 18 / 1 / 8 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 addresses are about 50 m above sea level.

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
OX11 7LR100%100%100%0%
OX11 7PT100%45%45%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 stationsDidcot Parkway 2.9 million journeys in 2024–25790 m (0.5 miles)
Appleford 9,070 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Culham 114,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ladygrove Shops200 m
Car parksDidcot Station Foxhall Multi-Storey Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR56.1 km (35 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 Oak Tree Health Centre440 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Apollo Pharmacy200 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ladygrove Dental Practice200 m
HospitalDidcot Community Hospital2.2 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationCivil Nuclear Constabulary4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-Op Mersey Way, Mersey Way Cashzone90 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.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 21 ha30 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha300 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 8,390 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.2 ha1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Easton's PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Down HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Fulscot CopseWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Long Wittenham WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Clifton CutLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) north
Fullamoor PlantationWood3.3 km (2.1 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)6.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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 5940
Under 554953

4 of the street's 53 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 South Oxfordshire: see them on the South Oxfordshire 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
Ladygrove Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11430 m (0.3 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Sires Hill Primary AcademyPrimary2–11530 m (0.3 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: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Lydalls Nursery SchoolNursery3–5910 m (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Manor Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Willowcroft Community SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Didcot Girls' SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Birinus SchoolSecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Stephen Freeman Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Central Co-operative OX11 7XTRetailers - other200 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Dec 2025
Ladygrove Fish Bar OX11 7XTTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Ladygrove Day Nursery Didcot OX11 7XTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m4 Good9 Oct 2025
The Ladygrove Generous George OX11 7SZPub/bar/nightclub250 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Jun 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.

47 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Shoplifting7
Criminal damage and arson7
Public order4
Other theft4
Burglary4
Anti-social behaviour3
Robbery2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Venners Water (13); On or near Supermarket (11); On or near Cow Lane (7); On or near Grange Beck (4); On or near Doe Lea (2).

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: 680 residents in 274 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 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)59%61%
Owned outright24%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented28%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work70%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van43%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle14%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)87%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 9 to 10 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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.

Nearby streets

Grange Beck · Penpont Water · Beaulieu Mews · Weycroft · Crookdale Beck · Teescroft · Blackwater Way · Weaver Croft · Kew Win · Rother Garth · Foudry Close · Plym Drive

All the streets in OX11 and across South Oxfordshire.

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.