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On Woodbury Avenue, in Wells Town
What it's like at BA5 2XN: every home that has sold on Woodbury Avenue 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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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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Woodbury Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
5 of the 56 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
| 1, Woodbury AvenueTerraced | Dec 2022 | £320,000 | 103 m² | £3,107/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Woodbury AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | Sept 2021 | £241,000 | 58 m² | £4,155/m² | 6 |
| 2, Woodbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2012 | £170,000 | 74 m² | £2,297/m² | 1 |
| 4, Woodbury AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2020 | £282,500 | 74 m² | £3,818/m² | 1 |
| 7, Woodbury AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2023 | £475,000 | 105 m² | £4,524/m² | 3 |
| 8, Woodbury AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2018 | £275,000 | 75 m² | £3,667/m² | 2 |
| 9, Woodbury AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2017 | £302,500 | 99 m² | £3,056/m² | 3 |
| 10, Woodbury AvenueDetached | May 2021 | £387,000 | 118 m² | £3,280/m² | 3 |
| 12, Woodbury AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2003 | £165,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 14, Woodbury AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2011 | £182,000 | 76 m² | £2,395/m² | 1 |
| 15, Woodbury AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2023 | £330,000 | 75 m² | £4,400/m² | 4 |
| 16, Woodbury AvenueSemi-detached | May 2018 | £258,000 | 102 m² | £2,529/m² | 2 |
| 17, Woodbury AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 1998 | £69,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, Woodbury AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2012 | £202,250 | 86 m² | £2,352/m² | 5 |
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 (15 km), with 355k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Paddington.
The nearest bus stop is Hawkers Lane, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 173); 6 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 81 minutes away by public transport (48 by car).
The nearest primary school is Stoberry Park School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Blue School, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 49.7 · 15.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Morrisons, 1.4 km away, with Budgens ? Wells closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Wells Health Centre (1.9 km), with Boots the closest pharmacy (1.0 km).
For a haircut, Karen Christen Hair Skin Beauty is 900 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal United Hospital Bath, 27 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 57% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 70% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 29 restaurants and cafés and 17 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
7b is the closest café or restaurant (550 m), and The Fountain Inn the nearest pub (600 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 106 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 33% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Wells).
There are 266 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 18% flats and 18% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.3 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Bristol is 20 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 45% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 30% 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.
8 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.
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%.
7 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 2XN →
On this street: 0 of 44 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.1% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.5% | 1.9% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 87.9% | 73.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.7% | 13.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.2% | 10.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.5% | 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: Brean · about 35 min
Nearest: Brean Leisure Park · about 35 min
Nearest: Twerton Park · about 36 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Somerset since 2011.
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 56 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.