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On Avenue Road, in Highcliffe & Walkford
What it's like at BH23 5QH: every home that has sold on Avenue 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.
6 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Avenue Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 112 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Avenue RoadDetached | Aug 2020 | £405,000 | 98 m² | £4,133/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1a, Avenue RoadDetached | Jul 2003 | £317,500 | 160 m² | £1,984/m² | 2 |
| 3, Avenue RoadDetached | Nov 2006 | £337,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 4, Avenue RoadDetached | Mar 2025 | £970,000 | 163 m² | £5,951/m² | 2 |
| 7, Avenue RoadDetached | May 2014 | £550,000 | 254 m² | £2,165/m² | 3 |
| 8, Avenue RoadDetached | Sept 1995 | £123,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, Avenue RoadDetached | Feb 2017 | £375,000 | 91 m² | £4,121/m² | 1 |
| 10, Avenue RoadDetached | Jun 2014 | £590,000 | 154 m² | £3,831/m² | 3 |
| 10a, Avenue RoadDetached | Feb 2010 | £495,000 | 194 m² | £2,552/m² | 2 |
| 11, Avenue RoadDetached | Nov 1996 | £80,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, Avenue RoadDetached | Dec 2022 | £630,000 | 135 m² | £4,667/m² | 3 |
| 14, Avenue RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2005 | £237,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Avenue RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2009 | £245,000 | 107 m² | £2,290/m² | 3 |
| 18, Avenue RoadDetached | Jul 1996 | £93,000 | 172 m² | £541/m² | 1 |
| 22, Avenue RoadDetached | Feb 2024 | £606,250 | 182 m² | £3,331/m² | 2 |
| 23, Avenue RoadDetached | Mar 2022 | £520,000 | 133 m² | £3,910/m² | 2 |
| 25, Avenue RoadDetached | Dec 2004 | £232,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Avenue RoadDetached | Dec 2013 | £480,000 | 122 m² | £3,934/m² | 2 |
| 27, Avenue RoadDetached | Jun 2019 | £477,500 | 139 m² | £3,435/m² | 2 |
| 28, Avenue RoadOther | Jun 2018 | £25,000 | 182 m² | £137/m² | 2 |
| 29, Avenue RoadDetached | Jul 2018 | £604,000 | 198 m² | £3,051/m² | 2 |
| 31, Avenue RoadDetached | Feb 1996 | £92,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, Avenue RoadDetached | Nov 1995 | £73,000 | 75 m² | £973/m² | 1 |
| 33, Avenue RoadDetached | Feb 2007 | £289,000 | 152 m² | £1,901/m² | 2 |
| 34, Avenue RoadDetached | Feb 2019 | £821,000 | 182 m² | £4,511/m² | 2 |
| 35, Avenue RoadDetached | Jun 1995 | £64,000 | 196 m² | £327/m² | 1 |
| 36, Avenue RoadDetached | Nov 2006 | £370,000 | 177 m² | £2,090/m² | 1 |
| 37, Avenue RoadDetached | Sept 2009 | £185,000 | 170 m² | £1,088/m² | 1 |
| 38, Avenue RoadDetached | Mar 2016 | £440,000 | 116 m² | £3,793/m² | 1 |
| 41, Avenue RoadDetached | May 2007 | £354,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 43, Avenue RoadDetached | Aug 1996 | £90,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 47, Avenue RoadDetached | Nov 2018 | £630,000 | 162 m² | £3,889/m² | 3 |
| 49, Avenue RoadDetached | Jun 2012 | £382,500 | 129 m² | £2,965/m² | 1 |
| 51, Avenue RoadDetached | Sept 2022 | £722,000 | 154 m² | £4,688/m² | 2 |
| 55, Avenue RoadSemi-detached | Aug 1996 | £86,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 57, Avenue RoadDetached | Jun 2012 | £570,000 | 185 m² | £3,081/m² | 1 |
| 59, Avenue RoadDetached | Aug 2012 | £500,000 | 179 m² | £2,793/m² | 2 |
| Greensleeves, 55, Avenue RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2014 | £388,000 | – | – | 1 |
The nearest station is Hinton Admiral, a short drive or bike ride (2.0 km), with 134k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Brockenhurst.
The nearest bus stop is Walkford Hotel, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 82, 789); 4 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 47 minutes away by public transport (23 by car).
The nearest primary school is Highcliffe St Mark Primary School, a short drive or bike ride (1.4 km); 58% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Arnewood School, 1.6 km away; Attainment 8: 37.6 · 3.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Bournemouth School for Girls (10.8 km) and Bournemouth School (11.2 km).
Few families with young children: only 10% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Walkford Stores, 700 m away; J & J Wilson Shops (1.1 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Highcliffe Medical Centre (1.4 km), with Kamsons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.3 km).
For a haircut, Urban Barbers is 1.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal Bournemouth Hospital, 8.5 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 10 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
Muckers Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (700 m), and The Walkford the nearest pub (200 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 25 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 24 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 47% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
Bungalow country: 29% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 161 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Highcliffe Recreation Ground, 1.6 km away; for exercise, Society 23 (1.0 km).
The beach is on your doorstep: Highcliffe, 900 m away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.1 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
5 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.
Christchurch constituency: Sir Christopher Chope MP (Conservative), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 7,455 (15.7%), turnout 67%. Vote shares: Conservative 36%, Liberal Democrat 20%, Reform UK 19%, Labour 16%.
11 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 BH23 5QH →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
For holidays, Bournemouth is 11 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 101 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 57% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 45% 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.
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 112 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 81 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 | 0.7% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 89.9% | 85.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.4% | 11.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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: Hythe Pier · 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.