Woodside Road Three Rivers

65 addresses across 11 postcodes (WD25,WD5), about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 40422147.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £495,000 across 3 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Three Rivers cost £590,232 in August 2026 (+0.9% on a year); private rents averaged £1,828 a month.
  • Energy: 37 homes have an energy certificate (B: 21, C: 1, D: 11, E: 3, F: 1).
  • Flood: 6 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.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Appspond Lane Energy Plant, is 3.8 km (2.4 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in Three Rivers costs £2,422 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Garston (Hertfordshire), about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Leavesden Country Park, is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 95 to 101 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 21 of its 65 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Abbotswood Medical Centre, about 640 m (0.4 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 19 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20253£495,000£450,000£930,000
20242£657,500£435,000£880,000
20232£707,500£625,000£790,000
20212£588,750£520,000£657,500
20182£590,000£500,000£680,000
201712£550,000£500,000£879,950
20141£527,000£527,000£527,000
20131£487,000£487,000£487,000
20111£435,000£435,000£435,000
20101£420,000£420,000£420,000
20091£310,000£310,000£310,000
20071£485,000£485,000£485,000
All 43 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Dec 20253, AUSTIN VILLAS WD25 0GDTerraced£495,000
17 Jul 20246, AUSTIN VILLAS WD25 0GDTerraced£435,000
23 Jan 20257, AUSTIN VILLAS WD25 0GDTerraced£450,000
19 Nov 20072, HIGH ELMS COTTAGES WD25 0LASemi-detached£485,000
9 May 20243, HIGH ELMS COTTAGES WD25 0LADetached£880,000
5 Jul 20063, HIGH ELMS COTTAGES WD25 0LADetached£475,000
12 Dec 20174, HIGH ELMS COTTAGES WD25 0LASemi-detached£879,950
16 Jun 20146, HIGH ELMS COTTAGES WD25 0LASemi-detached£527,000
13 May 20096, HIGH ELMS COTTAGES WD25 0LASemi-detached£310,000New build.
6 Apr 2001IVY COTTAGE WD25 0LBDetached£189,950New build.
21 May 20131, MEADOWSIDE WD25 0LBDetached£487,000
8 Dec 20041, MEADOWSIDE WD25 0LBDetached£400,000
2 Jul 20011, MEADOWSIDE WD25 0LBDetached£365,000New build.
29 Jun 20212, MEADOWSIDE WD25 0LBDetached£657,500
28 Sep 20012, MEADOWSIDE WD25 0LBDetached£285,000New build.
24 Jun 20103, MEADOWSIDE WD25 0LBSemi-detached£420,000
26 Nov 20013, MEADOWSIDE WD25 0LBSemi-detached£299,950New build.
10 Nov 20114, MEADOWSIDE WD25 0LBDetached£435,000
18 Sep 20014, MEADOWSIDE WD25 0LBDetached£305,000New build.
16 Jul 2004STOWE WD25 0LBDetached£352,500
19 Jul 1995STOWE WD25 0LBDetached£130,000
31 Oct 2025THE BEACONS WD25 0LBDetached£930,000
27 Jul 2000THE CHALET WD25 0LBDetached£215,000
31 Mar 1995THE CHALET WD25 0LBDetached£110,000
28 Apr 20171, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£550,000New build.
24 Aug 20172, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£525,000New build.
28 Jun 20173, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£525,000New build.
10 Jul 20174, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£550,000New build.
28 Jun 20175, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£560,000New build.
4 Aug 20176, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£515,000New build.
11 Aug 20177, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£515,000New build.
13 Jun 20178, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£560,000New build.
22 Sep 20179, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£560,000New build.
29 Oct 202110, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£520,000
17 Apr 201810, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£500,000New build.
18 Aug 201711, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£500,000New build.
28 Sep 202312, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£625,000
3 Jul 201712, THE COPSE WD5 0FRTerraced£560,000New build.
6 Feb 2018THE FIRS WD5 0HTOther£600,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Aug 2023THE NOOK WD25 0LBDetached£790,000
26 Oct 2001THE NOOK WD25 0LBDetached£250,000
23 Aug 1996THE NOOK WD25 0LBDetached£131,000
17 Oct 2018THE VINES WD25 0LBDetached£680,000

House prices and rents in Three Rivers

A typical home in Three Rivers cost £590,232 in August 2026, 0.9% more than a year before. That is 7% more than five years earlier and 14% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£1,202,340
Semi-detached£594,332
Terraced£462,540
Flat or maisonette£290,250
Bought by a first-time buyer£426,190

Private renters in Three Rivers paid £1,828 a month on average in September 2026, 2% more than a year before. That is 30% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£1,275
Two bedrooms£1,590
Three bedrooms£1,976
Four or more bedrooms£2,781

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 August 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

37 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 99 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (10); House, end-terrace (8); Flat (8). Built: 2017 (20); 1900-1929 (6); 1950-1966 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (37 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,696 kWh of it on average in 2024, 10% less than the district's 12,957 kWh, and 3,982 kWh of electricity, 8% more than the district's 3,696 kWh. There are gas meters for about 92% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WD5 0FR212,980 kWh 2010,271 kWh
WD25 0LA65,014 kWh 621,202 kWh
WD25 0GD82,325 kWh 911,709 kWh
WD25 0LB93,550 kWh 1013,942 kWh
WD25 0BE62,991 kWh 67,225 kWh
WD25 0BF592,806 kWh 597,213 kWh
WD25 0GL53,729 kWh under 5
WD25 7JQ223,860 kWh 2616,262 kWh
WD5 0BF50 13 Economy 72,948 kWh 3611,000 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 WD5.

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 Three Rivers in 2026-27: Band D £2,422 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,615£1,884£2,153£2,422£2,961£3,499£4,037£4,845

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band D (34% of about 2,190 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 3 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: 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, Three Rivers.

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

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Appspond Lane Energy Plant St Albans PL/0189/20 Biomass Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2021 3.8 km (2.4 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

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

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 30 October 2026 to 5 November 2026: AFFINITY WATER - C, New service connection, road closure, on the footway, carriageway, verge (immediate - urgent works, permit applied for)

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 2 November 2026 to 3 November 2026: BT, Remedial works, multi-way signals, on the footway, verge (minor works, permit applied for)
  • 19 November 2026 to 30 November 2026: Electricity Network Company Limited, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (standard works)
  • 1 December 2026 to 2 December 2026: BT, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the verge (minor works)
  • 1 February 2027 to 12 February 2027: AFFINITY WATER - C, Utility asset works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway, verge (major (paa) works, permit applied for)

Finished in the last three months

  • 18 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway (minor works)
  • 15 September 2026 to 17 September 2026: HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 15 September 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, verge (minor works)
  • 24 August 2026 to 8 September 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway, verge (major works)
  • 27 July 2026 to 13 August 2026: UK POWER NETWORKS EASTERN & LONDON, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (major 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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 5 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
WD5 0FRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WD25 0LAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WD25 0GDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WD25 0LBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WD5 0HTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WD25 0AAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WD25 0BEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WD25 0BFnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 3 unlikely
WD25 0GLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WD25 7JQnot in 2 or 3 3 / 2 / 0 unlikely
WD5 0BFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

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 65 addresses are between 95 m and 101 m above sea level (99 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
WD25 0AA100%100%100%0%
WD25 0BE100%100%100%0%
WD25 0BF100%100%100%0%
WD25 0GD100%100%100%0%
WD25 0GL0%0%0%0%
WD25 0LA0%0%0%0%
WD25 0LB100%100%100%0%
WD25 7JQ100%100%100%0%
WD5 0BF100%100%100%0%
WD5 0FR100%100%100%0%
WD5 0HT100%0%0%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 stationsGarston (Hertfordshire) 53,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Kings Langley 507,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bricket Wood 27,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Orchard Avenue Woodside580 m (0.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Jacketts Field Patient & Visitor Car Park700 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN18.9 km (12 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Abbotswood Medical Centre Good Oct 2019640 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Leavesden Pharmacy640 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Dental Practice640 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalLangley House Community Hospital2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tanners Good Oct 2023720 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationWatford Police Station4.9 km (3 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM600 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 Leavesden Country Park 20 ha80 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Moore Road Play Area 2,270 m²320 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha0 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha680 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 20 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Replica of the Mohne Dam, in the grounds of the Building Research Establishment, Garston, a scheduled monument, 1.8 km (1.1 miles) east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Replica of the Mohne Dam, in the grounds of the Building Research Establishment, GarstonScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bloom WoodWood640 m (0.4 miles) east
Stowes WoodWood930 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Mill StreamLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) west
Charlotte's ValeValley4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-west
Chantry IslandIsland4.5 km (2.8 miles) east
Juniper HillHill4.8 km (3 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)12.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)14.54015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 59200
Under 554465

21 of the street's 65 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 Three Rivers: see them on the Three Rivers 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
Parmiter's SchoolSecondary11–18740 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 65.0 (66.5 in 2025 and 68.3 in 2024); 77.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B; 23.8% AAB or better; progress average
Alban Wood Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 23% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Future Academies WatfordSecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.6 (39.8 in 2025 and 39.4 in 2024); 40% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 0% AAB or better; progress well above average
Saint Michael's Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 48.8 (50.9 in 2025 and 51.2 in 2024); 43.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 9.4% AAB or better; progress below average
Abbots Langley SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
Mount Pleasant Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 51% in 2024 and 38% in 2023)
St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Leavesden JMI SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 40% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
Bedmond AcademyPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 33% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 20% in 2023)
Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
Coates Way JMI and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Kingsway Infants' SchoolPrimary5–71.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection None published

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

9 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 410 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Charters Nursery WD5 0GU Full day care 94 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 410 m (0.3 miles)
Early Adventures WD5 0BT Full day care 57 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 640 m (0.4 miles)
Stagecoach Watford WD25 0UU Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 740 m (0.5 miles)
Rainbow Childcare WD25 7NX Out-of-school day care 20 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Abbots Langley Learning Centre WD5 0EH Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Little Fawns Preschool - Abbots Langley WD5 0AS Sessional day care 40 Good (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Let's Play @ Watford Woodside WD25 7HH Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
CL Sports and Activity - Abbots Langley Primary School WD5 0BQ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Premier St Catherine Of Siena Wrap Around Care WD25 7HP Out-of-school day care 23 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 841 childminders and 251 home childcarers (nannies) in Hertfordshire. 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
The Woodlands Cafe WD5 0GURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Nov 2025
YMCA Woodlands Hub WD5 0GUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Sep 2025
Life Opportunities Trust WD5 0HTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Jun 2017
Mitie @ Warren Court WD5 0HTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 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.

19 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Criminal damage and arson2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Woodside Road (19).

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.

6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 6 slight. 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202230
202310
202400
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
16 Sep 2025 12:28 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
29 Nov 2023 09:08 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
18 Oct 2022 08:45 Slight 2 people: 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
12 Sep 2022 09:30 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
29 Apr 2022 18:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 Jul 2021 15:00 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

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: 1,339 residents in 502 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 age3940
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership4%1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: Electricity Network Company Limited: Utility asset works, 19 November 2026 to 30 November 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: AFFINITY WATER - C: New service connection, 30 October 2026 to 5 November 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: AFFINITY WATER - C: Utility asset works, 1 February 2027 to 12 February 2027 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Remedial works, 2 November 2026 to 3 November 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: Utility asset works, 1 December 2026 to 2 December 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • WD5 0FR: 22 addresses
  • WD25 0LA: 10 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • WD25 0GD: 9 addresses
  • WD25 0LB: 9 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • WD5 0HT: 9 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • WD25 0AA: 1 address of 4 in the postcode
  • WD25 0BE: 1 address of 9 in the postcode
  • WD25 0BF: 1 address of 65 in the postcode
  • WD25 0GL: 1 address of 3 in the postcode
  • WD25 7JQ: 1 address of 32 in the postcode
  • WD5 0BF: 1 address of 49 in the postcode

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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.