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On Wells Road, in Draycott, Westbury & Wookey
What it's like at BA5 1DN: every home that has sold on Wells Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Wells Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 66 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 21, Wells RoadDetached | Jul 2018 | £585,000 | 203 m² | £2,882/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23, Wells RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2002 | £80,000 | 128 m² | £625/m² | 1 |
| Westleigh, 23, Wells RoadSemi-detached | May 2018 | £489,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 27, Wells RoadDetached | Jun 2021 | £662,500 | 82 m² | £8,079/m² | 2 |
| 29, Wells RoadDetached | May 2025 | £400,000 | 128 m² | £3,125/m² | 1 |
| 30, Wells RoadDetached | Nov 2018 | £635,000 | 192 m² | £3,307/m² | 2 |
| 31, Wells RoadDetached | Aug 2016 | £330,000 | 103 m² | £3,204/m² | 2 |
| 32, Wells RoadDetached | Jun 1995 | £74,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 34, Wells RoadDetached | May 1997 | £129,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 38, Wells RoadDetached | Jun 2023 | £372,500 | 105 m² | £3,548/m² | 1 |
| 40, Wells RoadDetached | Feb 1999 | £95,000 | 108 m² | £880/m² | 2 |
| 42, Wells RoadDetached | Jul 2020 | £615,000 | 147 m² | £4,184/m² | 2 |
| 44, Wells RoadDetached | Jul 2018 | £452,500 | 130 m² | £3,481/m² | 1 |
| 48, Wells RoadDetached | Aug 2022 | £575,000 | 104 m² | £5,529/m² | 1 |
| 50, Wells RoadDetached | Jun 2021 | £584,000 | 166 m² | £3,518/m² | 1 |
| 52, Wells RoadDetached | Jul 2001 | £220,000 | 228 m² | £965/m² | 1 |
| Wynfield, 25, Wells RoadDetached | Jun 2017 | £260,000 | 104 m² | £2,500/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Castle Cary, a drive away (17 km), with 355k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Paddington.
The nearest bus stop is Business Park, 450 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 67).
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 95 minutes away by public transport (47 by car).
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St Joseph and St Teresa Catholic Primary School, a short drive or bike ride (1.8 km); 65% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Blue School, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 49.7 · 15.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 1.8 km away, with Love Coffee closer still (600 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Wells Health Centre (2.1 km), with Tesco Instore Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.8 km).
For a haircut, Marshfield & Buckley is 2.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is UHBW Bristol Campus, 26 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 68% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 69% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 11 restaurants and cafés, 10 pubs and bars.
Wookey Hole is the closest café or restaurant (850 m), and Wookey Hole Inn the nearest pub (600 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 44 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 159 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 56% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 393 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 4.3 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Bristol is 17 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 49% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
3 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Glencot and Terraces at Rear | II | 160 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Wells and Mendip Hills constituency: Tessa Munt MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 11,121 (22.1%), turnout 69%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 47%, Conservative 25%, Reform UK 13%, Labour 7%.
2 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near BA5 1DN →
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 66 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 41 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 22 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.0% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 3.4% | 1.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 70.6% | 73.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 18.7% | 13.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.7% | 10.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.3% | 0.2% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Ashton Gate Stadium · about 38 min
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