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On Old Road, in Beckley & Horspath
What it's like at OX3 8TA: every home that has sold on Old 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Old Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 116 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| Bramlings, Old RoadDetached | Jan 2000 | £650,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brynderi, Old RoadDetached | Jul 2015 | £1,035,200 | 321 m² | £3,225/m² | 3 |
| Dell Trees, Old RoadDetached | Apr 2017 | £552,000 | 123 m² | £4,488/m² | 1 |
| Hill House, Old RoadDetached | Oct 2017 | £950,000 | 159 m² | £5,975/m² | 1 |
| Honeywood House, Old RoadDetached | May 2005 | £925,000 | 335 m² | £2,761/m² | 1 |
| Mouette, Old RoadDetached | Nov 2014 | £700,000 | 156 m² | £4,487/m² | 3 |
| Oak Apples, Old RoadOther | Sept 2022 | £1,200,000 | 205 m² | £5,854/m² | 2 |
| Petergate, Old RoadDetached | Jul 2020 | £990,000 | 191 m² | £5,183/m² | 1 |
| Quarry Cottage, Old RoadDetached | Oct 2023 | £745,000 | 175 m² | £4,257/m² | 1 |
| Rose Bank, Old RoadDetached | Jun 2016 | £740,000 | 163 m² | £4,540/m² | 2 |
| Shotover Edge, Old RoadDetached | Jan 2022 | £2,680,000 | 563 m² | £4,760/m² | 1 |
| Shotover Edge Bungalow, Old RoadDetached | Feb 2012 | £280,000 | 176 m² | £1,591/m² | 1 |
| The Hazels, Old RoadDetached | Feb 2014 | £495,000 | 56 m² | £8,839/m² | 1 |
| The Lodge, Old RoadDetached | Sept 2008 | £572,000 | – | – | 1 |
| The Oaks, Old RoadDetached | Apr 2015 | £1,815,000 | 500 m² | £3,630/m² | 1 |
| The Rise, Old RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2021 | £580,780 | 119 m² | £4,881/m² | 1 |
| Wadena, Old RoadDetached | Aug 1997 | £235,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Windrush Cottage, Old RoadDetached | Aug 2006 | £570,000 | – | – | 4 |
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: 40% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Oxford, a drive away (5.4 km), with 8.1m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Paddington.
The nearest bus stop is Masons Road East, 450 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (route 15).
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 41 minutes away by public transport (15 by car).
Central London is 77 km away as the crow flies.
This is car country: only 9% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Wood Farm Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 68% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Cheney School, 2.1 km away; Attainment 8: 46 · 19.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is The Coop, 800 m away; Turna Beer And Wine (700 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Woodfarm Health Centre (950 m), with The Leys Pharmacy Wood Farm the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, Acute Cut is 700 m away.
The nearest full A&E is John Radcliffe Hospital, 4.0 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: 9 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars.
The Oxford Trust is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and Mason's Arms the nearest pub (800 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 46 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 231 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 48% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Broad Oak Nature Park, 800 m away; for exercise, Barton Pool (1.2 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.0 µg/m³).
For holidays, London Luton is 56 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 47% of households own their home outright.
It's highly educated: 45% of adults have a degree.
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.
Henley and Thame constituency: Freddie van Mierlo MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 6,267 (11.8%), turnout 72%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 45%, Conservative 33%, Reform UK 10%, Labour 7%.
12 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 OX3 8TA →
The nearest university is Oxford Brookes University, 2.2 km away (TEF Silver).
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: 3 of 84 homes with certificates have solar panels, 3 a heat pump, and 8 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.8% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 4.7% | 2.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 76.7% | 82.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 12.0% | 7.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.7% | 7.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.3% | 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 66 min
Nearest: Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway · about 35 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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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 116 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.