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On Bentham Close, in Westlea & Shaw
What it's like at SN5 7FR: every home that has sold on Bentham Close 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.
6 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Bentham Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 41 homes on the street is owned by a company.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Swindon, a short drive or bike ride (2.3 km), with 3.2m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Paddington.
The nearest bus stop is Westlea Fire Station, 300 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (routes 1B, 154); 11 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 12 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Westlea Primary School, a few minutes' walk (450 m); 50% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is UTC Swindon, 1.7 km away; Attainment 8: 32.4 · 1.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury Supermarkets, 600 m away, with Swindon Food Collective closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Ashington House Surgery (700 m), with Ashington Way Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (700 m).
For a haircut, Hair 2 Go is 750 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Great Western Hospital, 7.7 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 54% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 58% 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: 10 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
14forty (c/o Oxford Brookes University) is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and The Windmill the nearest pub (650 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 63 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 15% flats and 37% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1983-1992.
The nearest park is Mayenden Park, 800 m away; for exercise, Delta Tennis Centre (150 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Cotswold Country Park and Beach, 14 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.2 µg/m³).
For holidays, Bristol is 65 km away.
Most households own their home, 27% rent privately.
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.
19 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.
Swindon South constituency: Heidi Alexander MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 9,606 (21.4%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Conservative 27%, Reform UK 14%, Green Party 6%.
25 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 SN5 7FR →
Nearest: Birdland Park and Gardens · about 41 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 41 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 41 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 41 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.1% | 1.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 83.7% | 89.9% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 16.0% | 8.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.2% | 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.