Banwell

Banwell is covered by postcode district BS29. It is in the North Somerset council area, England.

Typical price £335,000 Homes sold in Banwell, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 54 of 67 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Banwell, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Banwell, by flood risk Of the 67 postcodes in Banwell that ONS places, 67 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Banwell. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A368 BS29 6AA: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AB: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AD: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AE: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AF: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AG: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AH: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AJ: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AQ: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AS: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AU: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AX: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AY: not on the flood risk listBS29 6AZ: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BA: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BB: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BD: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BE: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BG: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BH: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BJ: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BL: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BN: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BP: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BQ: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BS: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BT: not on the flood risk listBS29 6BW: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DA: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DB: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DD: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DE: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DF: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DG: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DH: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DJ: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DN: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DP: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DQ: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DR: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DS: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DT: not on the flood risk listBS29 6DW: not on the flood risk listBS29 6EA: not on the flood risk listBS29 6EX: not on the flood risk listBS29 6EY: not on the flood risk listBS29 6EZ: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HA: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HB: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HD: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HE: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HF: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HG: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HH: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HJ: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HL: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HN: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HP: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HQ: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HW: not on the flood risk listBS29 6HX: not on the flood risk listBS29 6NP: not on the flood risk listBS29 6NR: not on the flood risk listBS29 6NX: not on the flood risk listBS29 6NY: not on the flood risk listBS29 6PD: not on the flood risk listBS29 6PG: not on the flood risk list Banwell Map of every postcode in Banwell, by flood risk Of the 67 postcodes in Banwell that ONS places, 67 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Banwell. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Banwell
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 67

Of the 67 postcodes in Banwell that ONS places, 67 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.3284, longitude -2.8705. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.

What is it like to live in Banwell?

Homes sold for a typical £335,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 54 of the 67 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 67 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Winscombe Surgery, 3.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Worle, 4.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Banwell?

Homes in Banwell sold for a typical £335,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 17 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £282,000 from 31 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

£335,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£282,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £380,000 9 sales
  • Semi-detached 4 sales, too few to price
  • Terraced 3 sales, too few to price
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole BS29 district, Banwell's main postcode district: a typical £355,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Banwell: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Banwell?

None of the 67 postcodes now in use in Banwell came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 31 homes sold in Banwell were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BS29 district, 55%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn BanwellAcross the BS29 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 17 (0%) 16 of 54 (30%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 31 (0%) 71 of 129 (55%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Banwell?

Ofcom reports on 67 of the 67 postcodes in Banwell. At 54 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit54 of 67
Postcodes where every home can get superfast67 of 67

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Banwell at risk of flooding?

None of the 67 postcodes in Banwell is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Banwell?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Banwell. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Banwell?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Banwell is Worle Rail Station, 4.3 km away in a straight line.

  • Worle Rail Station Railway station 4.3 kmCycle
  • Weston Milton Rail Station Railway station 5.5 kmDrive
  • Weston-super-Mare Rail Station Railway station 7.2 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Banwell?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Banwell. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Banwell safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 148 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Banwell over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 13 September 2025
  2. 11 October 2025
  3. 13 November 2025
  4. 3 December 2025
  5. 20 January 2026
  6. 15 February 2026
  7. 10 March 2026
  8. 8 April 2026
  9. 13 May 2026
  10. 19 June 2026
  11. 8 July 2026
  12. 15 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences79 reports
Criminal damage and arson16 reports
Anti-social behaviour13 reports
Public order12 reports
Burglary9 reports
Other theft9 reports
Vehicle crime5 reports
Drugs4 reports

Also: possession of weapons 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Banwell?

Parliamentary constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills
Police force area
Avon and Somerset
Region
South West
Country
England
MP
Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat)

All 67 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

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Banwell postcodes

67 postcodes in use in Banwell, by district:

BS29 postcode district,67 postcodes

That district is in the BS postcode area.

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Places near Banwell

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Banwell's £335,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Locking2.8 km, £263,000Winscombe and Sandford2.9 km, £467,500Hutton4.2 km, £328,500Axbridge6.0 km, £315,000Weston-super-Mare6.0 km, £260,000Lower Langford6.2 km, £445,000Congresbury6.4 km, £375,000Yatton7.6 km, £347,500 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Banwell

What is the postcode for Banwell?
Postcode district BS29, with 67 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Banwell in?
North Somerset. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Banwell?
Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat), for Wells and Mendip Hills. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Banwell?
A typical £335,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 17 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Banwell?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Banwell Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Sidcot School, 3.8 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Banwell have a railway station?
The nearest is Worle station, 4.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Banwell?
Ofcom reports on 67 of the 67 postcodes in Banwell. At 54 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Banwell at risk of flooding?
None of the 67 postcodes in Banwell is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Banwell?
None of the 67 postcodes now in use in Banwell came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 31 homes sold in Banwell were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BS29 district, 55%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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