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On Priory Avenue, in Taunton North Town
What it's like at TA1 1XZ: every home that has sold on Priory Avenue 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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 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 Priory Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
5 of the 94 homes on the street are owned by companies (1 overseas).
| 30, Priory AvenueTerraced | Jun 2024 | £260,000 | 100 m² | £2,600/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32, Priory AvenueTerraced | Oct 2013 | £160,000 | 94 m² | £1,702/m² | 4 |
| 33, Priory AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2010 | £175,000 | 93 m² | £1,882/m² | 3 |
| 35, Priory AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2009 | £172,000 | 94 m² | £1,830/m² | 1 |
| 41, Priory AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2011 | £185,000 | 121 m² | £1,529/m² | 3 |
| 43, Priory AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2012 | £170,000 | 125 m² | £1,360/m² | 1 |
| 47, Priory AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2015 | £151,500 | 100 m² | £1,515/m² | 1 |
| 49, Priory AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2023 | £330,000 | 118 m² | £2,797/m² | 2 |
| 51, Priory AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2012 | £155,000 | 111 m² | £1,396/m² | 1 |
| 53, Priory AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2007 | £185,000 | 93 m² | £1,989/m² | 1 |
| 55, Priory AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2004 | £159,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 59, Priory AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2021 | £200,000 | 96 m² | £2,083/m² | 1 |
| The Print House, 37, Priory AvenueDetached | Aug 2010 | £203,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Taunton, about a 10-minute walk (700 m), with 1.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Paddington.
The nearest bus stop is Old Hospital, 450 m away, with a bus about every 7 minutes on weekdays (routes PR, 374, 6, 4).
The nearest primary school is St James Church School, a few minutes' walk (200 m); 49% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Bishop Fox's School, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 46.9 · 7.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Castle School (1.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 400 m away, with Dunelm closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Victoria Gate Surgery (400 m), with Morrisons Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Somerset Hair & Beauty Supplies is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Musgrove Park Hospital, 1.7 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 52% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 32 restaurants and cafés and 9 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Somerset County Cricket Club is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and The Princess Royal Inn the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (18 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 178 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 68 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 36% flats and 5% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
It's growing: about 106 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Victoria Park, 300 m away; for exercise, Recover UK (450 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, Exeter is 39 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 48 km.
Many neighbours rent: 37% of households rent privately and 9% socially.
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.
56 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.
Taunton and Wellington constituency: Gideon Amos MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 11,939 (23.7%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 48%, Conservative 25%, Reform UK 16%, Labour 7%.
28 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 TA1 1XZ →
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Somerset 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 94 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 1 of 75 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 6 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 1.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 84.8% | 73.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 13.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 11.8% | 10.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 2.9% | 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.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.