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On Hardcastle Drive, in Kingston Bagpuize & East Hanney
What it's like at OX13 5GS: every home that has sold on Hardcastle Drive 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 Hardcastle Drive; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 17 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Hardcastle DriveDetached | May 2022 | £430,000 | 111 m² | £3,874/m² | 1 |
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| 3, Hardcastle DriveDetached | May 2022 | £500,000 | 130 m² | £3,846/m² | 1 |
| 4, Hardcastle DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £370,000 | 84 m² | £4,405/m² | 1 |
| 5, Hardcastle DriveDetached | Jun 2019 | £470,000 | 139 m² | £3,381/m² | 1 |
| 6, Hardcastle DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £355,000 | 79 m² | £4,494/m² | 1 |
| 7, Hardcastle DriveDetached | May 2026 | £420,000 | 105 m² | £4,000/m² | 3 |
| 8, Hardcastle DriveSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £310,000 | 65 m² | £4,769/m² | 1 |
| 9, Hardcastle DriveDetached | Sept 2019 | £410,000 | 116 m² | £3,534/m² | 1 |
| 10, Hardcastle DriveSemi-detached | Sept 2025 | £320,000 | 65 m² | £4,923/m² | 2 |
| 11, Hardcastle DriveDetached | Sept 2019 | £415,000 | 111 m² | £3,739/m² | 1 |
| 12, Hardcastle DriveOther | Feb 2022 | £668,486 | 84 m² | £7,958/m² | 1 |
| 15, Hardcastle DriveDetached | Jul 2024 | £460,000 | 111 m² | £4,144/m² | 2 |
| 17, Hardcastle DriveDetached | May 2025 | £450,000 | 132 m² | £3,409/m² | 2 |
| 19, Hardcastle DriveSemi-detached | Jun 2026 | £750,000 | 129 m² | £5,814/m² | 2 |
| 21, Hardcastle DriveDetached | Apr 2019 | £430,000 | 119 m² | £3,613/m² | 1 |
| 23, Hardcastle DriveDetached | May 2019 | £420,000 | 119 m² | £3,529/m² | 1 |
| 25, Hardcastle DriveDetached | Aug 2019 | £400,000 | 116 m² | £3,448/m² | 1 |
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 Radley, a drive away (12 km), with 132k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Oxford.
The nearest bus stop is Petypher Gardens, 300 m away, with a bus about every 19 minutes on weekdays (routes S6, 63).
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 John Blandy Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (750 m); 65% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest supermarket is Co-operative Group, 400 m away; Central Co-operative (1.2 km) for top-ups.
The GP surgery is around 46 minutes on foot or by bus.
For a haircut, Aquarius Hair Studio is 950 m 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 Gardens Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and Kingston Bagpuize & Southmoor Bowls Club the nearest pub (350 m).
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 Kingston Bagpuize Park, 750 m away; for exercise, Bfit Personal Training (2.5 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.
6 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.
Witney constituency: Charlie Maynard MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 4,339 (8.6%), turnout 67%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 41%, Conservative 33%, Reform UK 13%, Labour 9%.
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 OX13 5GS →
On this street: 0 of 17 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 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.
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 17 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
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.