Widcombe Close Bristol

8 addresses across 2 postcodes (BS5), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 4533641.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £371,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 3 homes have an energy certificate (D: 3).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 B; Band D in Bristol, City of costs £2,714 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 86% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Lawrence Hill, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Troopers Hill, is about 150 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 59 to 72 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 8 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Air Balloon Surgery, about 380 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 92 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
20221£371,000£371,000£371,000
20211£319,000£319,000£319,000
20191£352,000£352,000£352,000
20051£133,500£133,500£133,500
20041£131,500£131,500£131,500
20031£86,000£86,000£86,000
19981£59,995£59,995£59,995
19971£51,000£51,000£51,000
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Jun 20222 BS5 8BYSemi-detached£371,000
26 Nov 20213 BS5 8BYSemi-detached£319,000
14 Oct 20195 BS5 8BYDetached£352,000
2 Sep 20051 BS5 8BYSemi-detached£133,500
2 Aug 20046 BS5 8BYSemi-detached£131,500
9 Jul 20036 BS5 8BYSemi-detached£86,000
1 Jun 19986 BS5 8BYSemi-detached£59,995
12 Sep 19973 BS5 8BYSemi-detached£51,000

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 2019 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

3 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (2); House, detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (2); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Bristol, City of in 2026-27: Band D £2,714 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,809£2,111£2,412£2,714£3,317£3,920£4,523£5,427

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (45% of about 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 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: yes, Avon Valley (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 8 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
BS5 8BYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
BS5 8BXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 6 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 8 addresses are between 59 m and 72 m above sea level (67 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
BS5 8BX100%86%86%0%
BS5 8BY100%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 stationsLawrence Hill 340,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Stapleton Road 305,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Bristol Temple Meads 11 million journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Troopers Hill Road St George210 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bristol4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Ferry terminalNetham Lock Ferry Terminal1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Car parksDucie Road Car Park2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS15.3 km (9.5 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Air Balloon Surgery380 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Air Balloon Pharmacy380 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hanham Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalBft Southmead Cossham Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationKingswood Police Station - Avon And Somerset Police2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Southern Co-Operative Bristol Two Mile Hill Road, Kingswood Cashzone700 m (0.4 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Troopers Hill 14 ha150 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 30 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dundridge Park Playing Field 10 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Aidens Allotments 1.7 ha200 m

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

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The park and garden to Brislington House (known as Long Fox Manor), a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 2.9 km (1.8 miles) south. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The park and garden to Brislington House (known as Long Fox Manor)Registered park or garden, Grade II*2.9 km (1.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Troopers HillHill330 m west
Magpie BottomValley810 m (0.5 miles) east
Conham ValleyValley840 m (0.5 miles) south
Birch WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
St Anne's WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Duchess PondLake or reservoir4.1 km (2.5 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)11.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5578

1 of the street's 8 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 Bristol, City of: see them on the Bristol, City of 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
Air Balloon Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–11360 m No published inspection
Summerhill Infant SchoolPrimary5–71 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Summerhill AcademyPrimary7–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
John Cabot AcademySecondary11–191.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Two Mile Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
E-ACT the Kingfisher SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bristol Brunel AcademySecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Speedwell Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Samuel White's Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.5 km (0.9 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: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met
Beacon Rise Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hanham Abbots Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Apr 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Jul 2024, 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
Visions BS5 8LWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m5 Very good12 Jun 2025
Horse & Jockey BS5 8LWPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good28 Apr 2025
Lord Raglan BS5 8LNPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good23 Apr 2024
Booze & Food BS5 8QLRetailers - other210 m5 Very good9 Apr 2025
Beijing Chinese & Thai Takeaway BS5 8QPTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m4 Good19 Mar 2026
Rolling Italy BS5 8LDMobile caterer300 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Milestones Trust BS5 8NAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good16 Apr 2025
Sainsbury's Local BS5 8QNRetailers - other330 m5 Very good30 Oct 2024
Hillside Pre School BS5 7PBOther catering premises350 m5 Very good6 May 2025
Air Balloon Hill Primary School BS5 7PBSchool/college/university350 m5 Very good6 May 2025
Milestones Trust BS5 8NSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good4 Jun 2025
Noble House BS5 8NSTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Mar 2026
Spice Cube BS5 8NSTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good30 Jan 2025
Grays Kitchen BS5 8NSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good9 Jul 2026
Atlantic Fish Bar BS5 8NSTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m3 Generally satisfactory13 May 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.

92 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences42
Criminal damage and arson14
Public order9
Vehicle crime7
Anti-social behaviour7
Burglary4
Other theft3
Other crime3
Theft from the person1
Drugs1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near A431 (16); On or near Jockey Lane (14); On or near Parslows Barton (13); On or near Fir Tree Lane (9); On or near Widcombe Close (8).

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: 280 residents in 119 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 over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright34%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented19%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van40%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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

Kennion Road · Nicholas Lane · Cassey Bottom Lane · Parslows Barton · Troopers' Hill Road · Nevalan Drive · Nags Head Hill · Troopers Hill Road · Fir Tree Lane · Cattistock Drive · Troopers' Hill Road · Greendown

All the streets in BS5 and across Bristol, City of.

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.