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On Calvados Road, in Taunton Holway & Lambrook
What it's like at TA1 2LA: every home that has sold on Calvados 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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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 Calvados Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 22 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 21a, Calvados RoadFlat | Dec 2022 | £135,250 | 57 m² | £2,373/m² | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22a, Calvados RoadFlat | Jun 1998 | £39,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 24, Calvados RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £280,000 | 117 m² | £2,393/m² | 1 |
| 25, Calvados RoadTerraced | Jul 1996 | £19,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 27, Calvados RoadTerraced | Jun 2018 | £150,000 | 81 m² | £1,852/m² | 1 |
| 28, Calvados RoadTerraced | Oct 2025 | £270,000 | 86 m² | £3,140/m² | 3 |
| 29, Calvados RoadTerraced | Mar 2016 | £155,000 | 86 m² | £1,802/m² | 1 |
| 33, Calvados RoadTerraced | Jul 2022 | £236,000 | 66 m² | £3,576/m² | 4 |
| 33a, Calvados RoadTerraced | Jun 2014 | £136,000 | 58 m² | £2,345/m² | 4 |
| 35a, Calvados RoadTerraced | Oct 2015 | £143,000 | 56 m² | £2,554/m² | 2 |
| 36, Calvados RoadTerraced | Nov 2022 | £252,000 | 86 m² | £2,930/m² | 4 |
| 37, Calvados RoadTerraced | Nov 1997 | £50,950 | 57 m² | £894/m² | 1 |
| 37a, Calvados RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2025 | £250,000 | 108 m² | £2,315/m² | 2 |
| 38, Calvados RoadTerraced | Feb 2009 | £135,000 | 93 m² | £1,452/m² | 2 |
| 39, Calvados RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2010 | £165,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 41, Calvados RoadSemi-detached | Jun 1996 | £55,500 | 85 m² | £653/m² | 1 |
| 42, Calvados RoadTerraced | Jun 2009 | £147,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 43, Calvados RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2004 | £156,500 | 92 m² | £1,701/m² | 2 |
| 45, Calvados RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2012 | £153,000 | 90 m² | £1,700/m² | 1 |
| 49, Calvados RoadSemi-detached | Jun 1997 | £58,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 51, Calvados RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2018 | £166,000 | 71 m² | £2,338/m² | 1 |
| 53, Calvados RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2025 | £245,000 | 69 m² | £3,551/m² | 4 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Taunton, a short drive or bike ride (2.0 km), with 1.6m journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Paddington.
The nearest bus stop is Bacon Drive, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 6); 12 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Holway Park Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 39% 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, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 46.9 · 7.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: The Castle School (2.5 km).
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 200 m away; Somerset Bakehouse (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Taunton Vale Healthcare (250 m), with Blackbrook Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Onyx Salon is 800 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Musgrove Park Hospital, 2.8 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 4 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Blackbrook Leisure Centre and Spa Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (550 m), and The Flying Horse the nearest pub (400 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 162 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 22% flats and 8% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
The nearest park is Holway Green, 350 m away; for exercise, Blackbrook Leisure & Spa (700 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Exeter is 39 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 48 km.
Most households own their home, 11% 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.
29 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%.
19 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 2LA →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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 22 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 16 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 1.9% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 90.3% | 73.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 13.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.9% | 10.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.3% | 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.