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On The Locks, in Potterne & Rowde
What it's like at SN10 1QR: every home that has sold on The Locks 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 Locks; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
| Oxhouse Farm, The LocksDetached | Apr 1996 | £181,500 | 285 m² | £637/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Firs, The LocksDetached | Dec 2010 | £490,000 | 348 m² | £1,408/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Melksham, a drive away (9.4 km), with 61k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Swindon (Wilts).
The nearest bus stop is Business Centre, 200 m away, with a bus about every 22 minutes on weekdays (routes 49, 272, 76, 1C); 8 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 49 minutes away by public transport (26 by car).
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Devizes, about a 10-minute walk (900 m); 24% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Devizes School, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 45.3 · 6.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 12% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Iceland, 1.5 km away, with Currys Motors closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lansdowne Surgery (1.0 km), with Devizes Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.5 km).
For a haircut, NextGen is 1.3 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal United Hospital Bath, 25 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 57% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 70% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 6 restaurants and cafés, 12 pubs and bars.
Cean Hill Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and The Black Horse the nearest pub (450 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 42 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 392 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 48% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Hillworth Park, 1.6 km away; for exercise, Sow & Root (1.4 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 4.6 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Bristol is 47 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 44% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
8 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.
Melksham and Devizes constituency: Brian Mathew MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 2,401 (4.7%), turnout 70%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 39%, Conservative 34%, Reform UK 13%, Labour 9%.
8 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 SN10 1QR →
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.
No crimes recorded "on or near" The Locks in the last 12 months.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.0% | 1.3% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 5.9% | 2.2% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 22.9% | 71.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 50.6% | 13.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 16.7% | 10.7% | 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.
Nearest: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 52 min
Nearest: Cleveland Pools · about 32 min
Nearest: Swindon and Cricklade Railway · about 41 min
Nearest: Longleat Safari and Adventure Park · about 34 min
Nearest: Bath Racecourse · 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.