Sparkford

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• Today: 10° / 8° · 26% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:07Sunset 16:39

9h 32m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Bristol St Paul's, United Kingdom

• 5.5 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.2% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

9 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences5
• Burglary2
• Other theft1
• Vehicle crime1

Neighbourhood team: Wincanton Rural West · Avon And Somerset

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

856 reported road collisions (2025)

248 killed or seriously injured · 1,148 casualties · 15 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

22 food businesses within 2 miles

• 18 rated 4–5 ★ (15 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Castle Cary (7.6 km)
• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£282,498 average▲ 2.8% YoY

Across Somerset · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,016 average monthly rent▲ 6.2% YoY

• 1 bed £692
• 2 bed £913
• 3 bed £1,135

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

8.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.0 times median annual pay (7.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

8,075 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

• Cheapest petrol: 153.9p · BP (9.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.9p · BP (9.8 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

6 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 148 kW
• Nearest: Haynes International Motor Museum (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches7
• Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Somerset Council joins £9.8 million robotics project to help businesses innovate and grow· 4 Nov 2026
• Share your views on Wellington improvements· 4 Nov 2026
• Share your experience of SEND services with Ofsted· 4 Nov 2026
• Somerset celebrates care leavers and calls on communities to Wear It Blue this November· 4 Nov 2026
• Ham Hill Visitor Centre celebrates regional building excellence award success· 3 Nov 2026

Source: Somerset Council

571,548 residents in Somerset

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 58%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK25,114
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK20,841
• Net moves+4,273

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

Around the average in England

Ranked 134 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,561 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (27% of 272,060)

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

306 schools · 76,894 pupils

218 primary · 28 secondary · 60 other

Ofsted: 100 of 137 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (73%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Somerset

555 CQC-registered services

• Care homes197
• GP practices73
• Dentists106
• Homecare agencies126
• Hospitals & hospices25

CQC ratings: 94% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 2 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Somerset

• Not in the Green Belt
• 39 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

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

762 applications decided

89% granted · 678 granted, 84 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Liberal Democrat majority

• Lab 5
• Con 31
• LD 61
• Grn 5
• Ref 2
• Oth 6

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

• Schools1
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

28,585 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

2 jobs advertised · £29,390 avg

e.g. Machine Operator, Purchasing and Goods-In Assistant

Source: Adzuna

£711 median full-time weekly pay

2.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,473 disposable income per head (2024)

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

58% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 50,033 certificates

10.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

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

Life expectancy: 84.4 yrs women · 80.6 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 63 women · 62.8 men

68% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

3 GP surgeries · 1 pharmacy in BA22

• Heron Medical Centre
• Queen Camel Medical Centre
• West Coker Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Glastonbury and Somerton:

• Permanent driving ban on intoxicated drivers guilty of causing death554 local signatures · 29,985 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks426 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases313 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately251 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND184 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide

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

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  Sparkford railway station · 0.3 km

  Sparkford railway station served the village of Sparkford, Somerset, England from 1856 to 1966 on the Heart of Wessex Line.

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  Sparkford · 0.4 km

  Sparkford is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. The parish includes the village of Weston Bampfylde.

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  Haynes Motor Museum · 0.6 km

  Haynes Motor Museum at Sparkford near Yeovil in Somerset, England, contains over 300 cars and motorcycles and a collection of other automobilia.

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  Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sparkford · 0.7 km

  The Anglican Church of St Mary Magdalene in Sparkford, Somerset, England was built in the 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.

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  Hazlegrove House · 1.1 km

  Hazlegrove House is a 17th-century Grade II listed building located in the parish of Queen Camel near Sparkford, Somerset, England. It was largely rebuilt by Carew Mildmay in 1730. After being used as a hospital facil…

• Hazlegrove Preparatory School · 1.1 km

  Hazlegrove Preparatory School is a non-selective co-educational preparatory school at Sparkford, Somerset in the south west of England. Hazlegrove is part of a foundation which also incorporates King's School, Bruton…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)