Wallingford Street Wantage, Vale of White Horse

111 addresses across 12 postcodes (OX12), about 470 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 41601327.

  • Sales: 111 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £225,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Vale of White Horse cost £411,712 in August 2026 (+4.6% on a year); private rents averaged £1,369 a month.
  • Energy: 42 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 23, E: 9, F: 2, G: 1).
  • Flood: 10 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A338, carries 13,574 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Vale of White Horse costs £2,577 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 17% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Didcot Parkway, about 12.7 km (7.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Betjeman Millennium Park, is about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 90 to 95 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 80 of its 111 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Newbury Street Practice, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 38% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 167 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 10 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 5 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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£225,000£225,000£225,000
20242£125,000£120,000£130,000
20232£371,000£142,000£600,000
20213£215,000£210,000£228,000
20201£528,000£528,000£528,000
20191£125,000£125,000£125,000
20182£192,500£175,000£210,000
20173£170,000£127,500£212,500
20162£335,000£110,000£560,000
20154£179,250£145,000£189,950
20143£146,500£115,000£205,000
20132£129,000£94,000£164,000
All 111 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
29 Oct 1999FLAT, 3 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£42,000Leasehold.
17 Apr 201510 OX12 8AXOther£115,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 May 201510A OX12 8AXFlat or maisonette£145,000Leasehold.
17 May 202412 OX12 8AXFlat or maisonette£143,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Aug 201612 OX12 8AXOther£142,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Sep 202414 OX12 8AXOther£180,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Mar 201814 OX12 8AXOther£177,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Jan 202215 - 19 OX12 8BDOther£11,620,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Sep 202316 OX12 8AXSemi-detached£250,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Dec 200216 OX12 8AXSemi-detached£165,000
17 Nov 2006FLAT 1, HEALTH FOOD SHOP, 16 OX12 8AXFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
12 Mar 2004FLAT 1, HEALTH FOOD SHOP, 16 OX12 8AXFlat or maisonette£108,000Leasehold.
9 Jul 2001FLAT 1, HEALTH FOOD SHOP, 16 OX12 8AXFlat or maisonette£92,950Leasehold.
4 Oct 201321 OX12 8AUOther£1,822,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Sep 200622 OX12 8AXTerraced£106,000New build.
6 Feb 201423 OX12 8AUOther£235,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Oct 201323 OX12 8AUOther£1,822,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jun 200723 OX12 8AUDetached£855,000
23 Feb 200724 OX12 8AXTerraced£135,000
14 Jul 201725A OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£170,000Leasehold.
14 Jun 201725B OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Sep 2016THE OLD YEOMANRY, 27 OX12 8AUDetached£560,000
2 Jul 1999THE OLD YEOMANRY, 27 OX12 8AUDetached£160,000
3 Sep 200329 - 31 OX12 8AUDetached£550,000
30 Mar 200129 - 31 OX12 8AUDetached£378,000
11 Dec 199529 - 31 OX12 8AUDetached£205,000
15 Mar 200733 OX12 8AUDetached£250,000
18 Mar 200533 OX12 8AUDetached£250,000
20 Sep 2023FLAT C, 33 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£142,000Leasehold.
30 Sep 2014FLAT C, 33 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£115,000New build. Leasehold.
17 Jan 200335 OX12 8AUSemi-detached£250,000
12 Apr 200135 OX12 8AUSemi-detached£160,000
11 Apr 199735 OX12 8AUSemi-detached£90,000
5 Nov 2007FLAT 1, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
5 Jan 2007FLAT 1, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
28 Oct 1998FLAT 1, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£40,000Leasehold.
14 Nov 1997FLAT 1, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£38,000Leasehold.
1 Nov 2024FLAT 2, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£130,000Leasehold.
28 Jun 2019FLAT 2, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
17 Mar 2017FLAT 2, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£127,500Leasehold.
6 May 2003FLAT 2, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£87,500Leasehold.
23 Jan 1998FLAT 2, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£42,500Leasehold.
26 Sep 2003FLAT 3, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£125,000Leasehold.
17 Apr 1998FLAT 3, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£51,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 1995FLAT 3, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£47,950New build. Leasehold.
21 Nov 2024FLAT 5, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£120,000Leasehold.
23 Mar 2016FLAT 5, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
3 Oct 2007FLAT 5, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£102,500Leasehold.
17 Nov 1995FLAT 5, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUTerraced£39,950Leasehold.
28 Mar 2013FLAT 6, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£94,000Leasehold.
7 Jul 2006FLAT 6, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£111,000Leasehold.
31 Jan 2005FLAT 6, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold.
15 Oct 2001FLAT 6, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£69,500Leasehold.
2 Jun 1999FLAT 6, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£48,000Leasehold.
9 Apr 1998FLAT 6, THE OLD PRINT WORKS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£44,000Leasehold.
22 Apr 2005APARTMENT 4, WESSEX PRESS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 2001APARTMENT 4, WESSEX PRESS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£68,500Leasehold.
1 Dec 1997APARTMENT 4, WESSEX PRESS, 37 OX12 8AUFlat or maisonette£46,500Leasehold.
25 Sep 201938 OX12 8AXOther£354,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Apr 2018KINGS ARMS, 39 OX12 8AUOther£241,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Oct 202341 OX12 8AUTerraced£600,000
25 Aug 200641 OX12 8AUTerraced£405,000
17 Sep 199943 OX12 8AUTerraced£115,000
13 Sep 199643 OX12 8AUTerraced£78,000
14 Jul 201745 OX12 8AUTerraced£240,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Feb 202247 - 48 OX12 8AUOther£371,250Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Jun 199747 - 48 OX12 8AUDetached£142,000
25 Jan 200251 OX12 8AUSemi-detached£108,000
9 Jan 199551 OX12 8AUSemi-detached£48,000
29 Mar 202153 OX12 8AUOther£400,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Apr 200655 OX12 8AUDetached£235,000
17 Aug 200155 OX12 8AUDetached£160,000
1 Oct 202056 OX12 8AUDetached£528,000
29 Apr 199956 OX12 8AUDetached£195,000
15 Apr 20141, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£205,000Leasehold.
25 Jun 19991, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
7 Aug 19982, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£64,000Leasehold.
21 Jul 19972, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£53,000Leasehold.
26 Nov 20213, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZSemi-detached£228,000Leasehold.
4 Nov 19993, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZSemi-detached£100,000Leasehold.
18 Apr 19973, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZSemi-detached£74,500Leasehold.
17 Jun 20114, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZSemi-detached£186,500Leasehold.
26 Jun 19964, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZSemi-detached£75,000Leasehold.
1 Jun 20215, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£210,000Leasehold.
12 Nov 19985, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£84,950Leasehold.
16 May 20256, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£225,000Leasehold.
9 Jun 20216, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£215,000Leasehold.
5 Sep 20186, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£210,000Leasehold.
17 Jun 20136, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£164,000Leasehold.
4 Oct 20076, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£187,500Leasehold.
27 Apr 20157, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£189,950Leasehold.
5 Apr 20047, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£170,000Leasehold.
22 Nov 20027, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£116,950Leasehold.
1 Jul 19997, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
22 Jan 20158, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£178,500Leasehold.
18 Aug 20108, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£178,000Leasehold.
3 Oct 20078, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£185,500Leasehold.
3 Oct 20038, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£157,500Leasehold.
21 Sep 20189, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£175,000Leasehold.
18 Feb 20149, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£146,500Leasehold.
10 Oct 20089, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£120,500Leasehold.
6 Feb 199810, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£78,500Leasehold.
8 Jun 200711, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£176,500Leasehold.
18 Mar 200511, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£168,000Leasehold.
29 Aug 199711, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£70,000Leasehold.
8 Jun 201712, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£212,500Leasehold.
23 Jan 201512, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£180,000Leasehold.
9 Dec 200212, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£149,950Leasehold.
13 Jul 199812, BECKETT HOUSE OX12 8AZFlat or maisonette£77,500Leasehold.
9 Jul 2021ROCKWELL HOUSE DAY NURSERY OX12 8AZOther£683,316Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jul 2017ROCKWELL HOUSE DAY NURSERY OX12 8AZOther£600,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Vale of White Horse

A typical home in Vale of White Horse cost £411,712 in August 2026, 4.6% more than a year before. That is 19% more than five years earlier and 24% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£662,416
Semi-detached£402,480
Terraced£325,936
Flat or maisonette£209,356
Bought by a first-time buyer£330,205

Private renters in Vale of White Horse paid £1,369 a month on average in September 2026, 4.8% more than a year before. That is 28% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£998
Two bedrooms£1,245
Three bedrooms£1,522
Four or more bedrooms£2,257

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

42 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: Flat (27); Maisonette, mid-terrace (3); Maisonette, end-terrace (3). Built: before 1900 (13); 1900-1929 (8); 1967-1975 (6). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (19); owner-occupied (18).

Each home's certificates and sales (42 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,973 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 2,716 kWh of electricity, 28% less than the district's 3,765 kWh. There are gas meters for about 82% of the homes.

1 of its postcodes has no gas meters recorded among 10 or more homes: often flats heated by electricity, or homes off the gas grid.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
OX12 8AU30 7 Economy 72,657 kWh 1515,698 kWh
OX12 8AX102,289 kWh 1212,670 kWh
OX12 8AZ126,737 kWh none recorded
OX12 8BP81,034 kWh 86,091 kWh
OX12 7AQ142,817 kWh 1015,817 kWh
OX12 7AT312,342 kWh 3114,007 kWh
OX12 7AU221,145 kWh 225,760 kWh
OX12 8DH121,577 kWh 103,177 kWh
OX12 8DY361,063 kWh 354,448 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is OX12.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Vale of White Horse in 2026-27: Band D £2,577 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,718£2,005£2,291£2,577£3,150£3,723£4,296£5,155

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (40% 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: yes, Wantage Town Centre Conservation Area. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 17.
  • 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.

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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 14 October 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility asset works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 13 October 2026 to 14 October 2026: THAMES WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 7 September 2026 to 8 September 2026: OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (immediate - emergency works)

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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 7 at medium risk and 10 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
OX12 8AUnot in 2 or 3 3 / 5 / 0 unlikely
OX12 8AXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 10 unlikely
OX12 8AZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX12 8BPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX12 7AQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX12 7ATnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX12 7AUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX12 8BAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX12 8BBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
OX12 8BDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
OX12 8DHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OX12 8DYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 111 addresses are between 90 m and 95 m above sea level (92 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
OX12 7AQ100%100%100%0%
OX12 7AT100%100%100%0%
OX12 7AU100%100%100%0%
OX12 8AU100%89%89%0%
OX12 8AX97%61%61%0%
OX12 8AZ100%100%100%0%
OX12 8BA100%17%17%0%
OX12 8BB100%100%100%0%
OX12 8BD100%100%100%0%
OX12 8BP100%100%100%0%
OX12 8DH100%100%100%0%
OX12 8DY100%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 stationsDidcot Parkway 2.9 million journeys in 2024–2512.7 km (7.9 miles)
Appleford 9,070 journeys in 2024–2513.7 km (8.5 miles)
Culham 114,000 journeys in 2024–2514.8 km (9.2 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Seesen Way Wantage80 m
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sainsbury's Wantage Car Park340 m
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station8 km (5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Heathrow Airport LHR68.1 km (42 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 Newbury Street Practice Good May 20261.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots260 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery160 m
HospitalWantage Community Hospital320 m
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest OSJCT Stirlings Good Jul 2019130 m
Police stationThames Valley Police - Wantage Police Station3.2 km (2 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Betjeman Millennium Park 6,280 m²500 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 460 m²390 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Memorial Recreation Ground 7.0 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsLetcombe Fields Allotments 4,870 m²820 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 32 and 33, Market Place, a listed building (Grade II*), 320 m west. 118 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
32 and 33, Market PlaceListed building, Grade II*320 m west
Church of St Peter and St PaulListed building, Grade I400 m (0.2 miles) west
White Lodge, St Mary's ConventListed building, Grade II*770 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Chapel attached to St Mary's ConventListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chain HillHill910 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Lark HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Letcombe PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Crab HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Ardington BrookLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) east
Warborough BottomValley2.9 km (1.8 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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

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 7430
65 to 69580
60 to 64110
55 to 5980
Under 5531111

80 of the street's 111 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 Vale of White Horse: see them on the Vale of White Horse page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Wantage Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
King Alfred'sSecondary11–18510 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.4 (45.4 in 2025 and 44.0 in 2024); 43.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 18.9% AAB or better; progress above average
Charlton Primary SchoolPrimary2–11870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
Stockham Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
Wantage Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Outstanding (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 20% at the higher standard (2025)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 30 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Rockwell House Day Nursery And Nursery School OX12 8AZ Full day care 128 Feb 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 30 m
The Wantage Nursery & Preschool OX12 8BL Full day care 44 Not inspected yet 350 m
The Ark Pre-School Wantage OX12 8BL Full day care 24 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 350 m
Elite Camps Wantage OX12 8DJ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 390 m
Wantage Leisure Centre Holiday Playscheme OX12 9BY Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 510 m (0.3 miles)
AA Tennis OX12 8DW Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 740 m (0.5 miles)
TA Sport Stars Camp Charlton OX12 7HG Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Charlton Breakfast & Afterschool Club OX12 7HG Out-of-school day care 50 Jan 2026: Expected standard in 1 area 1 km (0.6 miles)
Camel Pre-School OX12 9HL Full day care 30 Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.7 miles)
King Alfred's Academy Sports Camp OX12 9DU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 330 childminders and 104 home childcarers (nannies) in Oxfordshire. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Kings Arms OX12 8AUPub/bar/nightclub40 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Nov 2024
Rockwell House Day Nursery OX12 8AZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises50 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Pan Cook House OX12 8AXTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m3 Generally satisfactory23 May 2025
Mr Pizza OX12 8AXTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good20 Feb 2025
USA Fried Chicken OX12 8AXTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good2 Mar 2026
Rowes Newsmarket at Spar Wantage OX12 8AXRetailers - other120 m5 Very good7 Mar 2023
Adali Restaurant OX12 8AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good2 Jun 2025
Papa Johns OX12 8BXTakeaway/sandwich shop190 m5 Very good6 May 2025
Subway OX12 8BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good21 Feb 2025
Boots UK OX12 8AWRetailers - other200 m5 Very good18 May 2026
The Vaults OX12 8ATRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good9 Sep 2025
Dominos Pizza OX12 8BUTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good16 Jan 2025
The Bay Tree Cafe OX12 8BURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
Savers Health & Beauty OX12 8AWRetailers - other210 mExempt
Holland & Barrett OX12 8AWRetailers - other220 m5 Very good1 Mar 2023

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.

167 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences66
Anti-social behaviour24
Public order21
Other theft17
Criminal damage and arson12
Shoplifting11
Burglary6
Theft from the person3
Possession of weapons2
Other crime2
Vehicle crime2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Mary'S (34); On or near The Ivies (22); On or near Chandlers Close (22); On or near Little Lane (19); On or near A338 (17).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

10 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 9 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 5 involved a pedestrian; 2 involved a cyclist; 2 involved a motorcyclist; 2 involved a child under 16. 10% happened in the dark, and 40% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202130
202221
202330
202420
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
19 May 2024 12:14 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
27 Mar 2024 10:49 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A417, 20 mph Daylight
6 Dec 2023 16:30 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist B4507, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
27 Apr 2023 16:38 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
13 Apr 2023 14:19 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist B4507, 30 mph Daylight
30 Mar 2022 10:49 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
28 Feb 2022 12:52 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 Dec 2021 11:39 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
26 Mar 2021 07:59 Slight 1 person A417, 30 mph Daylight
25 Mar 2021 17:01 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child B4507, 30 mph Wet road

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A338 between A417 Wallingford Street and A417 Mably Way, with 13,574 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 440 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A417 A338 Ormond Road to A4185 Newbury Road 10,852 counted 2025 2% 280 m
A338 A417 Wallingford Street to A417 Mably Way 13,574 counted 2025 1% 440 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,404 residents in 692 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 age4140
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)38%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented24%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van40%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)47%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 to 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.

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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

Stirlings Road · Partridge Close · The Ivies · Maryfield · Little Lane · Chapel Close · Eagles Close · Chandlers Close · Seesen Way · Stirling Close · Post Office Lane · Three Pigeons Close

All the streets in OX12 and across Vale of White Horse.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.