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On The Meads, in Kingston Bagpuize & East Hanney
What it's like at OX12 0LJ: every home that has sold on The Meads 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Meads; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 12 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, The MeadsSemi-detached | Nov 1997 | £85,950 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, The MeadsSemi-detached | Jun 1999 | £105,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, The MeadsSemi-detached | Sept 2021 | £427,500 | 114 m² | £3,750/m² | 3 |
| 9, The MeadsSemi-detached | Nov 2006 | £232,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, The MeadsSemi-detached | Mar 2011 | £289,600 | 98 m² | £2,955/m² | 5 |
| 12, The MeadsSemi-detached | Mar 2023 | £325,000 | 89 m² | £3,652/m² | 1 |
| Downlands, The MeadsSemi-detached | Jan 2021 | £400,000 | 94 m² | £4,255/m² | 3 |
| Meads Vue, The MeadsDetached | Aug 2009 | £152,500 | 189 m² | £807/m² | 1 |
| Moss Edge, The MeadsDetached | Dec 2016 | £442,500 | 101 m² | £4,381/m² | 2 |
| Pax Vobis, The MeadsDetached | Jul 2016 | £375,000 | 113 m² | £3,319/m² | 3 |
| Thimbles, The MeadsDetached | Aug 2018 | £425,000 | 153 m² | £2,778/m² | 3 |
| Woodcroft, The MeadsDetached | Jun 2024 | £460,000 | 90 m² | £5,111/m² | 5 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 46% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Appleford, a drive away (12 km), with 9k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Oxford.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 58 minutes away by public transport (23 by car).
This is car country: only 5% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St James Church of England Primary School, Hanney, about a 10-minute walk (850 m); 45% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is St Johns CofE Academy, 3.0 km away.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 2.7 km away, with Hanney Community Shop closer still (1.0 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Newbury Street Practice (4.0 km), with Bretts Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (2.8 km).
For a haircut, Grove Barbers is 2.7 km away.
The nearest full A&E is John Radcliffe Hospital, 18 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 73% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 62% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 15 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars.
The Plough at Hanney is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Hanney RBL Sports & Social Club the nearest pub (1.1 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 34 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 362 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 55% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 323 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Church Green, 1.5 km away; for exercise, Tfd (3.9 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.4 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, London Heathrow is 71 km away.
Most households own their home, 12% rent privately.
It's highly educated: 48% of adults have a degree.
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.
3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carter'S Close | II | 140 m |
| Implement Shed Approximately 20 Metres to North West of Aldworths | II | 170 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.
Didcot and Wantage constituency: Olly Glover MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 6,233 (11.4%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 40%, Conservative 28%, Labour 15%, Reform UK 12%.
1 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 OX12 0LJ →
On this street: 0 of 9 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.3% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 5.9% | 3.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 65.5% | 83.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 23.5% | 5.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.7% | 7.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.5% | 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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Nearest: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 47 min
Nearest: Cholsey and Wallingford Railway · about 38 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 Vale of White Horse 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 12 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.