Whigham Close Ashford

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (TN23), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 1301648.

  • Sales: 34 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £450,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 5).
  • 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 Ashford costs £2,410 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ashford International, about 2.8 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 300 m away, and Bucksford Park (8.5 hectares) is about 640 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 55 to 61 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Kingsnorth Medical Practice, about 2.5 km (1.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 90 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
20251£450,000£450,000£450,000
20221£490,000£490,000£490,000
20202£415,000£410,000£420,000
20182£376,500£375,000£378,000
20151£269,950£269,950£269,950
20121£270,000£270,000£270,000
20091£240,000£240,000£240,000
20082£217,500£195,000£240,000
20061£205,000£205,000£205,000
20041£183,000£183,000£183,000
20032£175,250£173,000£177,500
20021£215,000£215,000£215,000
Most recent sales (34)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Mar 202510 TN23 5WFDetached£450,000
29 Nov 202410 TN23 5WFDetached£430,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Oct 20227 TN23 5WFDetached£490,000
8 Dec 20202 TN23 5WFDetached£410,000
5 Oct 20206 TN23 5WFDetached£420,000
6 Dec 20181 TN23 5WFDetached£375,000
14 Aug 20184 TN23 5WFDetached£378,000
2 Jul 201514 TN23 5WFDetached£269,950
11 Jun 20127 TN23 5WFDetached£270,000
1 Dec 20095 TN23 5WFDetached£240,000
17 Oct 20087 TN23 5WFDetached£240,000
31 Mar 20081 TN23 5WFDetached£195,000
3 Jul 200614 TN23 5WFDetached£205,000
29 Sep 20049 TN23 5WFDetached£183,000
12 Sep 20039 TN23 5WFDetached£173,000
30 May 20033 TN23 5WFDetached£177,500
22 Nov 20027 TN23 5WFDetached£215,000
21 Dec 20012 TN23 5WFDetached£136,500
3 Aug 200113 TN23 5WFDetached£129,000
22 May 20009 TN23 5WFDetached£109,500
17 Aug 19985 TN23 5WFDetached£126,500
3 Apr 19981 TN23 5WFDetached£89,950
2 Oct 19976 TN23 5WFDetached£122,500New build.
23 Jul 19975 TN23 5WFDetached£126,950New build.
30 Jun 19977 TN23 5WFDetached£114,000New build.
21 Feb 19978 TN23 5WFDetached£118,950New build.
20 Dec 19963 TN23 5WFDetached£91,950New build.
30 Aug 19969 TN23 5WFDetached£90,950New build.
30 Aug 199614 TN23 5WFDetached£87,950New build.
29 Aug 199610 TN23 5WFDetached£112,950New build.
14 Aug 199612 TN23 5WFDetached£126,000New build.
3 Jun 199613 TN23 5WFDetached£85,000New build.
31 May 19961 TN23 5WFDetached£89,950New build.
24 May 19962 TN23 5WFDetached£91,950New build.

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.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 123 m². Most common: House, detached (9). Built: 1996-2002 (8); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Ashford in 2026-27: Band D £2,410 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,607£1,875£2,142£2,410£2,946£3,481£4,017£4,820

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (33% of about 850 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.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's 15 addresses are between 55 m and 61 m above sea level (58 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
TN23 5WB100%100%100%0%
TN23 5WF100%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 stationsAshford International 3.8 million journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Pluckley 115,000 journeys in 2024–256.6 km (4.1 miles)
Ham Street 82,000 journeys in 2024–257.8 km (4.9 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bradbridge Green Singleton100 m
Car parksNCP Car Park Ashford County Square2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station270 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN49.1 km (31 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW71.6 km (44 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 surgeriesKingsnorth Medical Practice2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Singleton Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Singleton Dental Practice250 m
HospitalOne Ashford Hospital5.2 km (3.2 miles)
Police stationAshford Police Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Ashford Stanhope Square Cashzone890 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,000 m²300 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Bucksford Park 8.5 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 630 m²330 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,740 m²630 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Singleton Manor, a listed building (Grade II*), 340 m north-east. 34 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
Singleton ManorListed building, Grade II*340 m north-east
Timber Framed Building in the South West Corner of the Churchyard of Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*750 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I770 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Court LodgeListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Medieval moated site, The MoatScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Godinton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.3 km (1.4 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bridewell PlantationWood800 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Singleton LakeLake or reservoir870 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Colemans' Kitchen WoodWood870 m (0.5 miles) south
Joy WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Willow BedWood1.6 km (1 mile) north
Hurst HillHill4.3 km (2.6 miles) north-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)7.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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 5910
Under 551415

1 of the street's 15 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 Ashford: see them on the Ashford 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
Great Chart Primary SchoolPrimary4–11260 m Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The John Wesley Church of England Methodist Voluntary Aided Primary School Church of England/MethodistPrimary4–11510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Beaver Green Primary SchoolPrimary2–11920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Chilmington Green Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ashford Oaks Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Simon of England Roman Catholic Primary School, AshfordPrimary5–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Chilmington Green SchoolSecondary11–191.6 km (1 mile) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The John Wallis Church of England AcademyAll-through0–191.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Godinton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 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
Great Chart and Singleton Pre-School TN23 5LBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good12 Jun 2025
Ashford BME Association TN23 5LBRetailers - other200 m4 Good7 Apr 2026
JAVAB LIMITED TN23 5LBOther catering premises200 m5 Very good6 Mar 2026
Grow 19 TN23 5LBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good20 May 2026
Singleton Pizza & Kebab / Munchies Smash Burger TN23 5GRTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good23 Oct 2024
Singleton Fish Bar TN23 5GRTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good12 Aug 2026
Thai Basil TN23 5GRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
Morrisons Daily TN23 5GRRetailers - other270 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Singleton Barn TN23 4TYPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good11 Sep 2025
Footprints Cafe TN23 5LWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Feb 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.

90 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences41
Anti-social behaviour20
Criminal damage and arson12
Other theft6
Other crime3
Burglary2
Robbery2
Drugs2
Shoplifting1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hoxton Close (30); On or near Bradbridge Green (11); On or near Strouts Road (8); On or near Gravelly Field (7); On or near Quarry View (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: 452 residents in 170 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 age3840
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work72%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)34%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%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.

Nearby streets

Strouts Road · Quarry View · Bradbridge Green · Imperial Way · Bucksford Lane · Gravelly Fields · Normandy Way · High Ridge · Blue Field · Askes Court · Hoxton Close · Imperial Way

All the streets in TN23 and across Ashford.

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.