Lynton

What is it like to live in Lynton?

Homes sold for a typical £280,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 54 of the 75 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 58 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 76 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes.

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. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Lynton?

Homes in Lynton sold for a typical £280,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 23 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £205,000 from 17 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached £387,500 8 sales
• Semi-detached 2 sales, too few to price
• Terraced £320,000 5 sales
• Flat or maisonette £231,000 8 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole EX35 district, Lynton's main postcode district: a typical £295,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Lynton: 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 Lynton?

None of the 76 postcodes now in use in Lynton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 17 homes sold in Lynton were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the EX35 district, 0%.

New homes among the homes sold

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 Lynton?

Ofcom reports on 75 of the 76 postcodes in Lynton. At 54 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

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.

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

Is Lynton at risk of flooding?

5 of the 76 postcodes in Lynton have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 58 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

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 Lynton?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Lynton. 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.

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

Is Lynton safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 34 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Lynton 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

By kind, over the 12 months

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.

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

Who runs Lynton?

District, borough or city council

North Devon

County council

Devon

Parliamentary constituency

North Devon

Police force area

Devon & Cornwall

Region

South West

Country

England

MP

Ian Roome (Liberal Democrat)

All 76 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.