High Bickington

8°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 10° / 6° · 16% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:09Sunset 16:49

9h 39m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Barnstaple A39, United Kingdom

• 4.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 3.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

2 reported · August 2026▲ 100% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour1
• Violence & sexual offences1

Neighbourhood team: Torrington Rural · Devon And Cornwall

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

100 reported road collisions (2025)

19 killed or seriously injured · 124 casualties · 14.7 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

£267,174 average▲ 0.3% YoY

Across Torridge · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£789 average monthly rent▲ 2.1% YoY

• 1 bed £565
• 2 bed £739
• 3 bed £908

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

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

1,000 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK4,644
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK3,578
• Net moves+1,066

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 54 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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

38 schools · 8,421 pupils

29 primary · 4 secondary · 5 other

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

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Torridge

829 CQC-registered services

• Care homes309
• GP practices118
• Dentists156
• 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)

139 applications decided

95.7% granted · 133 granted, 6 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

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 (2026)

£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

11% low-carbon electricity

Gas 89% · Solar 8% · Wind 2%

352 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 86 yrs women · 82.5 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (Devon): 64 women · 63.7 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:

• Introduce urgent moratorium on AI Data Centres and BESS outside AI Growth Zones5,996 local signatures · 38,553 nationwide
• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects450 local signatures · 15,667 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks411 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases326 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately247 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  High Bickington · 0.4 km

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  Portsmouth Arms railway station · 3.3 km

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  Umberleigh railway station · 3.4 km

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