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Winslow & Padbury
What it's like at MK18 3EN: every home that has sold on the street 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.
Sales and extensions on the street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
No sales recorded at this postcode since 1995.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 40% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Bletchley, a drive away (11 km), with 1.4m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Euston.
The nearest bus stop is Lowndes Way H & R, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 50, 60); 10 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 40 minutes away by public transport (24 by car).
Central London is 72 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 10% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Winslow Church of England School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 49% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Sir Thomas Fremantle School, 800 m away; Attainment 8: 40.4 · 3.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Royal Latin School (7.8 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-operative Group Winslow, 400 m away; Harrys Of Winslow (400 m) for top-ups.
The GP surgery is around 12 minutes on foot or by bus.
The nearest full A&E is Milton Keynes Hospital, 14 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 51% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 59% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 15 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 9 restaurants and cafés, 6 pubs and bars.
Winslow United Football Club is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Royal British Legion Club - Winslow the nearest pub (200 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 151 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 9% flats and 40% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 304 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.9 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Luton is 37 km away.
Most households own their home, 16% rent privately.
29 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.
Buckingham and Bletchley constituency: Callum Anderson MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 2,421 (5.1%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Labour 37%, Conservative 32%, Reform UK 16%, Liberal Democrat 9%.
17 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 MK18 3EN →
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.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.7% | 1.5% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 92.0% | 83.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.8% | 5.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.3% | 8.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.8% | 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: The Serpentine - Hyde Park · about 80 min
Nearest: Woodgreen Leisure Centre · about 38 min
Nearest: Leighton Buzzard Light Railway · about 33 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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