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On Gordon Road, in Boscombe West
What it's like at BH1 4DW: every home that has sold on Gordon 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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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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Gordon Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 37 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Gordon RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2008 | £165,000 | 202 m² | £817/m² | 1 |
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| 2, Gordon RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2003 | £350,000 | 29 m² | £12,069/m² | 1 |
| 4, Gordon RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2003 | £350,000 | 28 m² | £12,500/m² | 1 |
| 7, Gordon RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2000 | £50,000 | 74 m² | £676/m² | 1 |
| 9, Gordon RoadFlat | Aug 2020 | £175,000 | 85 m² | £2,059/m² | 1 |
| Flat 4, 10, Gordon RoadFlat | Jun 2004 | £166,500 | – | – | 4 |
| Flat 5, 10, Gordon RoadFlat | Mar 2007 | £103,000 | 35 m² | £2,943/m² | 4 |
| Flat 6, 10, Gordon RoadFlat | Aug 2002 | £99,500 | 78 m² | £1,276/m² | 3 |
| Flat 3, 10, Gordon RoadFlat | Jul 2002 | £93,000 | 53 m² | £1,755/m² | 3 |
| Flat 1, 10, Gordon RoadFlat | Jul 2014 | £164,000 | 65 m² | £2,523/m² | 1 |
| Flat 2, 10, Gordon RoadFlat | Oct 2021 | £80,000 | 30 m² | £2,667/m² | 1 |
| 12, Gordon RoadSemi-detached | May 2017 | £385,000 | 146 m² | £2,637/m² | 8 |
| 15, Gordon RoadOther | Feb 2026 | £725,000 | 40 m² | £18,125/m² | 1 |
| 16, Gordon RoadDetached | Aug 2001 | £143,000 | 160 m² | £894/m² | 1 |
| 18, Gordon RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2026 | £480,000 | 134 m² | £3,582/m² | 2 |
| 20, Gordon RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £340,000 | 134 m² | £2,537/m² | 2 |
| 22, Gordon RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2001 | £149,000 | 190 m² | £784/m² | 1 |
| Flat 3, 24, Gordon RoadFlat | Mar 2019 | £120,000 | 46 m² | £2,609/m² | 4 |
| Flat 4, 24, Gordon RoadFlat | Mar 2024 | £135,000 | 32 m² | £4,219/m² | 5 |
| Flat 8, 24, Gordon RoadFlat | Jun 2014 | £80,000 | 36 m² | £2,222/m² | 2 |
| Flat 7, 24, Gordon RoadFlat | Aug 2024 | £120,000 | 40 m² | £3,000/m² | 3 |
| Flat 6, 24, Gordon RoadFlat | Oct 2015 | £62,500 | 22 m² | £2,841/m² | 3 |
| Flat 2, 24, Gordon RoadFlat | Nov 2010 | £112,500 | 40 m² | £2,813/m² | 3 |
| Flat 1, 24, Gordon RoadFlat | Mar 2016 | £105,000 | 58 m² | £1,810/m² | 3 |
| Flat 5, 24, Gordon RoadFlat | Aug 2021 | £65,500 | 19 m² | £3,447/m² | 1 |
| 28, Gordon RoadFlat · company-owned | Sept 2022 | £184,000 | 69 m² | £2,667/m² | 6 |
| 28a, Gordon RoadFlat | Feb 2000 | £42,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 28b, Gordon RoadFlat | Apr 2016 | £100,000 | 42 m² | £2,381/m² | 5 |
| 28c, Gordon RoadFlat | Jun 2000 | £45,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Flat 6, Beachwalk, 3 - 5, Gordon RoadFlat | Jul 1995 | £27,500 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 4, Beachwalk, 3 - 5, Gordon RoadFlat | Mar 1996 | £32,500 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 2, Beachwalk, 3 - 5, Gordon RoadFlat | Jun 2007 | £97,500 | – | – | 4 |
| Flat 1, Beachwalk, 3 - 5, Gordon RoadFlat | Aug 2002 | £68,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Flat 3, Beachwalk, 3 - 5, Gordon RoadFlat | Apr 1997 | £31,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 7, Beachwalk, 3 - 5, Gordon RoadFlat | Aug 2022 | £165,000 | – | – | 5 |
| Flat 8, Beachwalk, 3 - 5, Gordon RoadFlat | Nov 2005 | £88,000 | – | – | 3 |
| Flat 5, Beachwalk, 3 - 5, Gordon RoadFlat | Dec 2017 | £121,250 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Bournemouth, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km), with 2.7m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Boscombe Gardens, 200 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes m2, 1A, 1C, 1B); 70 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Bethany Church of England Junior School, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 35% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Avonwood Primary School (1.7 km).
The nearest secondary is Livingstone Academy Bournemouth, 1.4 km away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Avonbourne Boys' Academy (1.8 km) and Winton Academy (4.2 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Bournemouth School (2.8 km) and Bournemouth School for Girls (2.9 km).
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Supermarket Romania, 400 m away, with Ecomini closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Crescent Providence Surgery (300 m), with Kamsons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, Classy hairstyle is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, 2.9 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 65% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 66% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 51 restaurants and cafés and 5 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Hilltop Stores is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Bournemouth Masonic Club the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (14 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 161 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 18 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (90%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 56% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 112 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Boscombe Chine Gardens, 350 m away; for exercise, Majestic Gym (400 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Bournemouth Boscombe Pier, 700 m away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.3 µg/m³).
51 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 443-451, Christchurch Road | II | 140 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.
Bournemouth East constituency: Tom Hayes MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 5,479 (12.2%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Labour 41%, Conservative 29%, Reform UK 14%, Liberal Democrat 7%.
39 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 BH1 4DW →
For holidays, Bournemouth is 6.1 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 95 km.
Many neighbours rent: 60% of households rent privately and 10% socially.
The nearest university is AECC University College, 1.4 km away (TEF Bronze).
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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 37 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 24 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 5 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.1% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 61.8% | 85.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 33.1% | 11.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 4.7% | 1.4% | 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: Town Quay · about 42 min
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