Waldens Close Bourne End, Buckinghamshire

10 addresses across 1 postcode (SL8), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45501051.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £582,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 4).
  • 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 D; Band D in Buckinghamshire costs £2,527 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bourne End, about 220 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 29 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 10 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cookham Medical Centre, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 70 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
20191£582,500£582,500£582,500
20181£635,000£635,000£635,000
20111£405,272£405,272£405,272
20091£360,000£360,000£360,000
20061£373,000£373,000£373,000
20051£400,000£400,000£400,000
20042£373,750£335,000£412,500
20011£257,500£257,500£257,500
19981£210,000£210,000£210,000
19962£114,750£105,500£124,000
19952£116,750£112,500£121,000
Most recent sales (14)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Dec 20191 SL8 5RTDetached£582,500
9 Nov 20185 SL8 5RTDetached£635,000
7 Feb 20113 SL8 5RTDetached£405,272
18 Jun 20096 SL8 5RTDetached£360,000
2 Jun 20068 SL8 5RTDetached£373,000
1 Jul 2005JALNA SL8 5RTDetached£400,000
18 Nov 20041 SL8 5RTDetached£412,500
4 Aug 20045 SL8 5RTDetached£335,000
27 Feb 20018 SL8 5RTDetached£257,500
11 Sep 19988 SL8 5RTDetached£210,000
3 May 19962 SL8 5RTDetached£105,500
19 Jan 19965 SL8 5RTDetached£124,000
8 Dec 19953 SL8 5RTDetached£112,500
31 Mar 19957 SL8 5RTDetached£121,000

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 September 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 122 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (3); House, detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (3); 1950-1966 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Buckinghamshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,527 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,684£1,965£2,246£2,527£3,088£3,650£4,211£5,053

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (27% of about 820 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: 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): Former Wycombe Rural District - Poultry Production.
  • 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

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 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 addresses are about 29 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
SL8 5RT100%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 stationsBourne End 255,000 journeys in 2024–25220 m
Cookham 204,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.5 miles)
Marlow 361,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Railway Station Bourne End210 m
Bus or coach stationCoachway High Wycombe5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Car parksCookham Moor National Trust Car Park2 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station240 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR21.2 km (13 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 surgeriesCookham Medical Centre2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bourne End Pharmacy140 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Bourne End Dental Practice320 m
HospitalMarlow Hospital4 km (2.5 miles)
Police stationMarlow Police Station4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest BP - Parade SF Connect Cashzone180 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,100 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,290 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha430 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Round barrow cemetery on Cock Marsh, a scheduled monument, 670 m (0.4 miles) south-west. 19 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Round barrow cemetery on Cock MarshScheduled monument670 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Hedsor HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cock MarshWetland900 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Wilfrid WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
White HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Cookham DeanValley1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Lock CutLake or reservoir2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Sherriff IslandIsland3.5 km (2.2 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)9.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
Particles (PM10)11.44015

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 5910
Under 55910

1 of the street's 10 addresses is 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 Buckinghamshire: see them on the Buckinghamshire 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
E-Act Bourne End AcademySecondary11–18640 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Claytons Primary SchoolPrimary3–11770 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Paul's Church of England Combined School, WooburnPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2019, 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
Lloyds Pharmacy SL8 5SARetailers - other140 mExempt
Costa Coffee SL8 5SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Lee's Bakery SL8 5SBRetailers - other140 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Aug 2026
Wenzels SL8 5SBRetailers - other140 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
The Lemon Tree SL8 5SBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good8 May 2026
E Colliass Limited SL8 5SBRetailers - other140 m4 Good5 Aug 2019
@Fiesty SL8 5YPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good17 Apr 2026
The Coriander SL8 5SSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m2 Improvement necessary10 Jul 2026
Smiles SL8 5SSTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
The Fruit Market SL8 5SSRetailers - other180 m5 Very good3 Nov 2016
Parade Service Station SL8 5SSRetailers - other180 m4 Good12 Nov 2012
Kongs Peking Restaurant SL8 5SSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m4 Good23 Jan 2026
Viceroy SL8 5SSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good17 Nov 2025
Chanak Turkish Cuisine SL8 5SSTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m4 Good15 May 2026
Wimpy Bourne End SL8 5SURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good7 Mar 2025

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.

70 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Public order14
Shoplifting9
Criminal damage and arson8
Other theft5
Drugs3
Other crime2
Burglary2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (17); On or near Howard Court (15); On or near The Parade (8); On or near Sailing Club Road (7); On or near Burnham Close (7).

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: 368 residents in 162 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 age6040
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over39%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright64%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)43%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)60%32%
Travel to work by car or van35%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)49%34%
No qualifications9%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

The Rosery · Southbourne Drive · Oakfield Road · Donkey Lane · Wharf Lane · Wharf Lane · West Court · Ravenshoe Close · Sailing Club Road · The Parade · Camden Place · Wakeman Road

All the streets in SL8 and across Buckinghamshire.

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.