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On Roundthorn Close, in Much Wenlock & Broseley
What it's like at WV16 5AW: every home that has sold on Roundthorn 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.
8 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Roundthorn Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 21 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Roundthorn CloseDetached | Jan 2023 | £430,000 | 114 m² | £3,772/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Roundthorn CloseDetached | Jul 2021 | £315,000 | 129 m² | £2,442/m² | 2 |
| 4, Roundthorn CloseSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £310,000 | 41 m² | £7,561/m² | 5 |
| 5, Roundthorn CloseOther | Jul 2022 | £210,000 | 70 m² | £3,000/m² | 4 |
| 15, Roundthorn CloseTerraced | Jun 2013 | £189,950 | 112 m² | £1,696/m² | 2 |
| 16, Roundthorn CloseTerraced | Apr 2009 | £215,000 | 41 m² | £5,244/m² | 1 |
| 17, Roundthorn CloseTerraced | Apr 2009 | £218,452 | 41 m² | £5,328/m² | 1 |
| 18, Roundthorn CloseFlat | Mar 2020 | £165,000 | 70 m² | £2,357/m² | 2 |
| 19, Roundthorn CloseTerraced | Jul 2022 | £230,000 | 70 m² | £3,286/m² | 1 |
| 20, Roundthorn CloseTerraced | Jan 2019 | £175,000 | 58 m² | £3,017/m² | 2 |
| 21, Roundthorn CloseTerraced | Oct 2013 | £170,000 | 72 m² | £2,361/m² | 2 |
| 22, Roundthorn CloseDetached | Jan 2011 | £226,500 | 103 m² | £2,199/m² | 2 |
| 23, Roundthorn CloseDetached | May 2009 | £230,000 | 52 m² | £4,423/m² | 2 |
| 24, Roundthorn CloseDetached | Dec 2020 | £323,200 | 103 m² | £3,138/m² | 3 |
| 25, Roundthorn CloseTerraced | Jul 2015 | £189,950 | 73 m² | £2,602/m² | 2 |
| 26, Roundthorn CloseSemi-detached | Sept 2025 | £215,000 | 57 m² | £3,772/m² | 3 |
| 27, Roundthorn CloseTerraced | Sept 2015 | £153,500 | 56 m² | £2,741/m² | 2 |
| 28, Roundthorn CloseTerraced | Dec 2008 | £180,000 | 70 m² | £2,571/m² | 1 |
| 29, Roundthorn CloseDetached | Mar 2009 | £245,950 | 46 m² | £5,347/m² | 1 |
| 30, Roundthorn CloseDetached | Jul 2024 | £354,000 | 106 m² | £3,340/m² | 4 |
| 35, Roundthorn CloseOther · company-owned | Aug 2017 | £45,000 | 42 m² | £1,071/m² | 1 |
The nearest station is Shifnal, a drive away (15 km), with 237k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Portmans Way Jct, 400 m away, with a bus about every 50 minutes on weekdays (routes 436, 8A); 2 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 55 minutes away by public transport (21 by car).
The nearest primary school is Castlefields Primary School, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km); 83% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Oldbury Wells School, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 44.9 · 7.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 1.5 km away, with Turners Top Shop closer still (750 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Bridgnorth Medical Practice (1.4 km), with Peak Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.4 km).
For a haircut, Hair By Jade is 800 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Princess Royal Hospital, 13 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 43% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 68% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 18 restaurants and cafés, 13 pubs and bars.
The Auction Canteen is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Woodberry Inn the nearest pub (850 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 51 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 259 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 44% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 115 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is The Quayside, 1.8 km away; for exercise, AFC Bridgnorth (1.1 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 3.6 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Birmingham is 54 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
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.
2 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.
South Shropshire constituency: Stuart Anderson MP (Conservative), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 1,624 (3.1%), turnout 67%. Vote shares: Conservative 34%, Liberal Democrat 31%, Reform UK 18%, Labour 13%.
10 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 WV16 5AW →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Nearest: Little Lakes Golf Club · about 51 min
Nearest: West Midland Safari Park · about 49 min
Nearest: New Meadow · about 33 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 19 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 6 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.4% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.4% | 2.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 79.9% | 70.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 13.3% | 18.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.5% | 7.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Shropshire 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 21 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.