Winchfield Caddington, Central Bedfordshire

18 addresses across 2 postcodes (LU1), about 130 m long, classed as a local access road. USRN 35102088.

  • Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £590,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 5).
  • 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 A; Band D in Central Bedfordshire costs £2,516 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 95% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Luton, about 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Green, is about 210 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 172 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 18 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Caddington Surgery, about 370 m away.
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 24 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£590,000£590,000£590,000
20221£565,000£565,000£565,000
20214£447,500£315,000£530,000
20202£335,000£315,000£355,000
20191£385,000£385,000£385,000
20181£342,500£342,500£342,500
20161£502,500£502,500£502,500
20131£297,950£297,950£297,950
20121£277,000£277,000£277,000
20111£250,000£250,000£250,000
20101£320,000£320,000£320,000
20092£222,500£200,000£245,000
Most recent sales (41)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Nov 202517 LU1 4NEDetached£590,000
23 Jun 20222 LU1 4NEDetached£565,000
18 Nov 202116 LU1 4NEDetached£495,000
11 Jun 20214 LU1 4NESemi-detached£315,000
9 Apr 202115 LU1 4NEDetached£400,000
3 Mar 202117 LU1 4NEDetached£530,000
30 Nov 20207 LU1 4NEDetached£355,000
13 Nov 20208 LU1 4NESemi-detached£315,000
6 Dec 20191 LU1 4NEDetached£385,000
13 Sep 201811 LU1 4NESemi-detached£342,500
21 Oct 201617 LU1 4NEDetached£502,500
8 Nov 20137 LU1 4NEDetached£297,950
18 May 201210 LU1 4NESemi-detached£277,000
22 Jun 201114 LU1 4NESemi-detached£250,000
3 Sep 20102 LU1 4NEDetached£320,000
29 May 20097 LU1 4NEDetached£245,000
27 Mar 20099 LU1 4NESemi-detached£200,000
19 Dec 20083 LU1 4NESemi-detached£200,000
24 Jan 200817 LU1 4NEDetached£395,000
8 Sep 200616 LU1 4NEDetached£360,000
30 Jun 20062 LU1 4NEDetached£330,000
12 Aug 20054 LU1 4NESemi-detached£198,000
28 Jan 200514 LU1 4NESemi-detached£245,000
28 Jan 20058 LU1 4NESemi-detached£210,000
21 Aug 20033 LU1 4NESemi-detached£180,000
3 Aug 20017 LU1 4NEDetached£174,950New build.
31 Jul 200111 LU1 4NESemi-detached£164,950New build.
26 Jul 200110 LU1 4NESemi-detached£159,950New build.
20 Jul 20019 LU1 4NESemi-detached£144,950New build.
20 Jul 20018 LU1 4NESemi-detached£134,950New build.
16 Jul 200112 LU1 4NEDetached£164,950New build.
12 Jul 20016 LU1 4NESemi-detached£134,000New build.
29 Jun 20013 LU1 4NESemi-detached£139,950New build.
28 Jun 20015 LU1 4NESemi-detached£139,950New build.
26 Jun 200117 LU1 4NEDetached£249,950New build.
18 Jun 20014 LU1 4NESemi-detached£139,950New build.
25 May 200114 LU1 4NESemi-detached£164,950New build.
18 May 20011 LU1 4NEDetached£224,950New build.
18 May 200115 LU1 4NEDetached£179,950New build.
15 May 20012 LU1 4NEDetached£229,950New build.
30 Apr 200116 LU1 4NEDetached£239,950New 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 December 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (7); House, detached (6). Built: 1996-2002 (11); 1983-1990 (1); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (social) (1); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Central Bedfordshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,516 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,677£1,957£2,237£2,516£3,075£3,634£4,194£5,032

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (27% of about 1,220 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: yes, Central Bedfordshire.

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

Roadworks

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

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 3 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
LU1 4NEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
LU1 4ASnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely

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

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

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 172 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
LU1 4AS100%95%95%0%
LU1 4NE100%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 stationsLuton 3.7 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Leagrave 1.5 million journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Luton Airport Parkway 4.7 million journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Winchfield Caddington80 m
Bus or coach stationLuton Station Interchange Luton Town Centre3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Car parksAPH Parking2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN6.3 km (3.9 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Caddington Surgery370 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Medigreen LTD370 m
NHS dentistsBeech Hill Dental Practice2.6 km (1.6 miles)
HospitalLuton And Dunstable University Hospital3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Police stationBedfordshire Police2.8 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Caddington, Caddington Cashzone370 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Green 8,200 m²210 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,910 m²660 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,370 m²160 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Garden Allotments 2.5 ha160 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 210 m south-east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*210 m south-east
The Improvement GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.5 km (1.5 miles) east
Markyatecell ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Folly WoodWood460 m (0.3 miles) west
Cradle SpinneyWood650 m (0.4 miles) west
Heath WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Badgerdell WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Farley PondLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) east
Harps HillHill3.3 km (2 miles) south

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)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.3205
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, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55171818

1 of the street's 18 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 Central Bedfordshire: see them on the Central Bedfordshire 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
Caddington Village SchoolPrimary3–11770 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Margaret of Scotland Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Stockwood Park AcademySecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Whipperley Infant AcademyPrimary4–71.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Foxdell Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Farley Junior AcademyPrimary7–112 km (1.2 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Caddington Cobbs LU1 4EETakeaway/sandwich shop240 m4 Good4 Feb 2026
Checkmate Cafe & Grill Ltd LU1 4EETakeaway/sandwich shop250 m2 Improvement necessary5 Aug 2026
Hong Kong House LU1 4EETakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good18 Dec 2025
The Chequers LU1 4AFPub/bar/nightclub310 m4 Good18 Dec 2025
Spice of Caddington LU1 4EERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m4 Good24 Sep 2025
Co-operative Group LU1 4EERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets380 m5 Very good30 Jul 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.

24 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences8
Anti-social behaviour4
Public order2
Other crime2
Criminal damage and arson2
Robbery2
Burglary2
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cadia Close (8); On or near Rushmore Close (6); On or near Collins Wood (5); On or near Winchfield (4); On or near Chaul End Road (1).

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: 385 residents in 159 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 age4340
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away20%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

Folly Lane · Folly Lane · Rushmore Close · Rushmore Close · Cadia Close · Collings Wells Close · The Green · Meadow Way · Chaul End Road · Orchard Close · Meadow Croft · Heathfield Close

All the streets in LU1 and across Central Bedfordshire.

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.