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On Hardy Crescent, in Wimborne Minster
What it's like at BH21 2AS: every home that has sold on Hardy Crescent 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.
Sales and extensions on Hardy Crescent; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 29 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 76, Hardy CrescentFlat | Mar 2002 | £80,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82, Hardy CrescentTerraced | May 2015 | £200,000 | 91 m² | £2,198/m² | 2 |
| 94, Hardy CrescentTerraced | Mar 1999 | £67,250 | – | – | 1 |
| 140, Hardy CrescentSemi-detached · company-owned | Jun 2007 | £228,000 | 70 m² | £3,257/m² | 2 |
| 142, Hardy CrescentSemi-detached · company-owned | Apr 1997 | £56,000 | 53 m² | £1,057/m² | 1 |
| 144, Hardy CrescentSemi-detached | Nov 2018 | £287,500 | 99 m² | £2,904/m² | 2 |
| 146, Hardy CrescentSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £315,000 | 92 m² | £3,424/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Parkstone (Dorset), a drive away (8.2 km), with 229k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is Gordon Road, 350 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (route 13); 5 departures an hour from the 3 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is St John's Church of England First School, Wimborne, about a 10-minute walk (650 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Allenbourn Middle School, 1.3 km away.
Grammar schools are within reach: Poole Grammar School (4.9 km) and Parkstone Grammar School (5.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Waitrose, 800 m away, with Spar Gordon Road Wimborne closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Quarter Jack Surgery (750 m), with The Quarter Jack Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, Hair Ology is 800 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Poole Hospital, 8.6 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: 32 restaurants and cafés and 15 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Cross Fire Cooking is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and Wimborne Rugby Football Club the nearest pub (300 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 99 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 37% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Wimborne Minster Conservation Area, St Johns Rowlands Hill Conservation Area).
There are 179 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 34% flats and 24% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 585 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Bytheway Field, 1.2 km away; for exercise, Canford Sports Centre (1.7 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Poole Harbour Rockley Sands, 9.8 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.5 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Bournemouth is 10.0 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 83 km.
13 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.
Mid Dorset and North Poole constituency: Vikki Slade MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 1,352 (2.7%), turnout 66%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 43%, Conservative 41%, Labour 9%, Green Party 5%.
37 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 BH21 2AS →
Most households own their home, 18% rent privately.
It's an older community: 28% 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.
On this street: 0 of 21 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 | 0.5% | 1.5% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 1.8% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 84.2% | 77.7% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 9.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 13.2% | 10.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 2.0% | 0.6% | 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.
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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 29 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Town Quay · about 39 min
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