High Bickington

19°COvercast

• Today: 20° / 10° · 29% rain
• Tomorrow: 19° / 16° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:45Sunset 19:39

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

8US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Barnstaple A39, United Kingdom

2 reported · July 2026

• Violence & sexual offences2

Neighbourhood team: Torrington Rural · Devon And Cornwall

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

105 reported road collisions (2024)

16 killed or seriously injured · 140 casualties · 15.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

12 food businesses within 2 miles

• 12 rated 4–5 ★ (11 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Portsmouth Arms (3.3 km)
• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£260,783 average▲ 3.9% YoY

Across Torridge · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£788 average monthly rent▲ 2.5% YoY

• 1 bed £564
• 2 bed £738
• 3 bed £906

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

8.2× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.2 times median annual pay (8.0× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 167.9p · Texaco (4.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Texaco (4.3 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

4 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 13 kW
• Nearest: Rose Cottage (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches2
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

68,113 residents in Torridge · 69/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 56%
• 65+: 28%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 67 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,601 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (24% of 34,600)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

36 schools · 8,421 pupils

28 primary · 4 secondary · 4 other

Ofsted: 11 of 15 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (73%)

33inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Torridge

832 CQC-registered services

• Care homes310
• GP practices118
• Dentists158
• Homecare agencies155
• Hospitals & hospices39

CQC ratings: 93% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Devon

• In a conservation area (High Bickington)
• Not in the Green Belt
• 35 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

123 applications decided

89.4% granted · 110 granted, 13 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Sir Geoffrey Cox

Conservative

Torridge and Tavistock

Source: UK Parliament

Independent majority

• Lab 2
• Con 5
• LD 12
• Grn 4
• Oth 13

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,075 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

5 jobs advertised

e.g. Delivery Opportunities Near Me? - Deliver with Uber Eats, Be Your Own Boss - Deliver with Uber Eats, Deliver with Uber Eats - Sign Up and Start Earning

Source: Adzuna

£684 median full-time weekly pay

2.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,212 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

37% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 38,447 certificates

12.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

80% low-carbon electricity

Solar 54% · Wind 23% · Gas 14% · Imports 7%

58 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 86 yrs women · 82.5 yrs men

66% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.7
• Feeling worthwhile8.2
• Happiness yesterday8.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Torridge and Tavistock:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership461 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects369 local signatures · 14,312 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office347 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership338 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases324 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  High Bickington · 0.4 km

  High Bickington is a rural village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England. The village lies on the B3217 road, around 6 miles (10 km) east of Great Torrington, 8 miles (13 km) south-west of South…

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  Brightley, Chittlehampton · 2.6 km

  Brightley was historically the principal secondary estate within the parish and former manor of Chittlehampton in the county of Devon, England, situated about 2 1/4 miles south-west of the church and on a hillside abo…

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  Atherington, Devon · 2.7 km

  Atherington is a village and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England, about 8 miles south of Barnstaple. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 391.

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  Umberleigh · 3.3 km

  Umberleigh is a former large manor within the historic hundred of (North) Tawton, but today a small village in North Devon in England. It used to be an ecclesiastical parish, but following the building of the church a…

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  Portsmouth Arms railway station · 3.3 km

  Portsmouth Arms railway station is a small wayside station in Devon. It is in the parish of Burrington but remote from any village so is named after the nearby 'Portsmouth Arms' pub. It is on the Tarka Line to Barnsta…

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  Umberleigh railway station · 3.4 km

  Umberleigh railway station serves the village of Umberleigh in Devon, England. It is on the Tarka Line to Barnstaple, 33 miles 22 chains (53.6 km) from Exeter Central at milepost 205.75 from London Waterloo.

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