Wouldham Road Wouldham, Tonbridge and Malling

232 addresses across 24 postcodes (ME1), about 710 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 40600451.

  • Energy: 145 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 28, D: 62, E: 37, F: 9, G: 5).
  • Flood: 10 addresses on its postcodes are 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 D; Band D in Tonbridge and Malling costs £2,472 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Halling, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 610 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 3 to 13 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 136 of its 232 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Riverside Medical Practice, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,420 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 75% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 52 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

145 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 77 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (81); House, end-terrace (32); House, detached (17). Built: 1900-1929 (44); before 1900 (42); 2003-2006 (11). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (111); rented (private) (19); rented (social) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Tonbridge and Malling in 2026-27: Band D £2,472 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,648£1,923£2,197£2,472£3,021£3,570£4,120£4,944

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (34% of about 620 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: 2.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 3 September 2026 to 6 September 2026: SOUTH EAST WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - emergency works)
  • 5 August 2026: KENT COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 16 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 69 homes the Environment Agency counts, 1 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 10 low and 19 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
ME1 3TYzone 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
ME1 3XBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
ME1 3XEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3UDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3UQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3XFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3XDzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3XGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3UTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3UPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3UFzone 2 1 / 1 / 3 unlikely
ME1 3UEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3ULnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3UGzone 2 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
ME1 3UWnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1 unlikely
ME1 3UNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3XAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3TDzone 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3URnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3GPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
ME1 3GRnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3TXzone 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3XNzone 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
ME1 3XRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 232 addresses are between 3 m and 13 m above sea level (7 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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
ME1 3GP100%100%100%0%
ME1 3GR100%100%100%0%
ME1 3TD100%100%100%0%
ME1 3TX100%0%0%0%
ME1 3TY100%82%82%0%
ME1 3UD100%37%37%0%
ME1 3UE100%0%0%0%
ME1 3UF100%100%100%0%
ME1 3UG100%100%100%0%
ME1 3UL100%100%100%0%
ME1 3UN100%100%100%0%
ME1 3UP100%100%100%0%
ME1 3UQ100%71%71%0%
ME1 3UR100%100%100%0%
ME1 3UT100%100%100%0%
ME1 3UW100%100%100%0%
ME1 3XA100%100%100%0%
ME1 3XB100%100%100%0%
ME1 3XD100%100%100%0%
ME1 3XE100%100%100%0%
ME1 3XF100%50%50%0%
ME1 3XG100%100%100%0%
ME1 3XN100%100%100%0%
ME1 3XR100%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 stationsHalling 109,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Snodland 276,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cuxton 61,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Watermans Arms Wouldham100 m
Bus or coach stationChatham Railway Station5.5 km (3.4 miles)
Ferry terminalTown Pier Gravesend12.3 km (7.6 miles)
EV charging pointsbp Pulse3.2 km (2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Southend Airport SEN29.5 km (18 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Gatwick Airport LGW50.2 km (31 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 Riverside Medical Practice770 m (0.5 miles)
PharmaciesPaydens Pharmacy2.5 km (1.6 miles)
NHS dentistsColosseum Dental (Snodland)2.4 km (1.5 miles)
HospitalSpire Alexandra Hospital5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Police stationKent undercover police.4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Rochester Riverside120 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 6.8 ha770 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,290 m²290 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.2 ha110 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha170 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade I), 300 m north. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade I300 m north
Bishop's palace at HallingScheduled monument780 m (0.5 miles) west
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I810 m (0.5 miles) west
94-96, High StreetListed building, Grade II*880 m (0.5 miles) west
Bell barrow in Shoulder of Mutton WoodScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Halling Salt MarshWetland620 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Harris's CopseWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Dean HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Horsehoe ReachTidal water2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Nashenden BottomValley2.5 km (1.6 miles) east
Brookland LakeLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 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)9.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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
60 to 6480
55 to 591280
Under 5596232

136 of the street's 232 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 Tonbridge and Malling: see them on the Tonbridge and Malling 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
Wouldham, All Saints Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–11700 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Halling Primary SchoolPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2023, 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
Medway Green School ME1 3TSSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good7 May 2026
The Watermans Arms ME1 3TYPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good4 Oct 2026
The Medway Inn ME1 3XBPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good14 May 2026
Rubys Wouldham Ltd ME1 3XBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good4 Sep 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.

52 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Other crime8
Criminal damage and arson4
Drugs4
Public order2
Other theft2
Anti-social behaviour2
Vehicle crime2
Possession of weapons1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near School Lane (22); On or near Ferry Lane (11); On or near Rectory Close (6); On or near Meadow Way (4); On or near Castle Street (3).

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: 1,416 residents in 547 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 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)75%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work66%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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

Meadow Way · Walter Burke Avenue · Nelson Road · Meadow Way · Nelson Road · Ferry Lane · Oldfield Drive · Castle Street · Portland Road · Rectory Close · Wouldham Court · Marsh Road

All the streets in ME1 and across Tonbridge and Malling.

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.