Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood

Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood is covered by postcode district OX7. It is in the West Oxfordshire council area, Oxfordshire.

Typical price £587,500 Homes sold in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 73 of 99 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 12 of 99 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 23 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in this place, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in this place, by flood risk Of the 99 postcodes in this place that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 4 are at low risk at worst and 87 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A361 OX7 6BA: not on the flood risk listOX7 6BE: not on the flood risk listOX7 6BF: not on the flood risk listOX7 6BG: not on the flood risk listOX7 6BL: not on the flood risk listOX7 6BN: not on the flood risk listOX7 6BS: not on the flood risk listOX7 6BT: not on the flood risk listOX7 6BU: not on the flood risk listOX7 6BX: not on the flood risk listOX7 6BY: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DA: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DE: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DF: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DG: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DH: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DJ: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DP: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DQ: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DR: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DS: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DT: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DX: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DY: not on the flood risk listOX7 6DZ: not on the flood risk listOX7 6EA: not on the flood risk listOX7 6EB: not on the flood risk listOX7 6EE: not on the flood risk listOX7 6EF: not on the flood risk listOX7 6EG: not on the flood risk listOX7 6EH: not on the flood risk listOX7 6EJ: not on the flood risk listOX7 6EN: not on the flood risk listOX7 6EP: not on the flood risk listOX7 6ER: not on the flood risk listOX7 6ES: not on the flood risk listOX7 6ET: not on the flood risk listOX7 6EU: not on the flood risk listOX7 6EW: not on the flood risk listOX7 6FA: not on the flood risk listOX7 6FB: not on the flood risk listOX7 6FG: not on the flood risk listOX7 6FN: not on the flood risk listOX7 6GF: not on the flood risk listOX7 6GG: not on the flood risk listOX7 6GZ: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JA: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JB: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JD: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JF: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JH: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JJ: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JL: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JN: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JP: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JQ: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JR: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JT: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JU: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JW: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JX: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JY: not on the flood risk listOX7 6JZ: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LA: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LB: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LD: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LE: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LJ: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LN: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LP: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LQ: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LS: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LT: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LU: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LW: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LX: not on the flood risk listOX7 6LY: not on the flood risk listOX7 6NS: not on the flood risk listOX7 6RF: not on the flood risk listOX7 6RG: not on the flood risk listOX7 6RQ: not on the flood risk listOX7 6SU: not on the flood risk listOX7 6SY: not on the flood risk listOX7 6SZ: not on the flood risk listOX7 6WL: not on the flood risk listOX7 6XU: not on the flood risk listOX7 6YY: not on the flood risk listOX7 6BD: low flood risk at worstOX7 6BP: low flood risk at worstOX7 6JG: low flood risk at worstOX7 6QU: low flood risk at worstOX7 6DD: medium flood risk at worstOX7 6LF: medium flood risk at worstOX7 6LH: medium flood risk at worstOX7 6BB: high flood riskOX7 6BW: high flood riskOX7 6EL: high flood riskOX7 6JS: high flood riskOX7 6LG: high flood risk Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood Map of every postcode in this place, by flood risk Of the 99 postcodes in this place that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 4 are at low risk at worst and 87 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Milton-under-Wychwood, Ascott and Shipton. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Milton-under-WychwoodAscott and Shipton
  • A home or business at high risk: 5
  • At medium risk at worst: 3
  • At low risk at worst: 4
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 87

Of the 99 postcodes in this place that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 4 are at low risk at worst and 87 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. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.8599, longitude -1.6082. 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.

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

OX7 6BB5 at high riskOX7 6LG3 at high riskOX7 6JS3 at high riskOX7 6EL2 at high riskOX7 6BW1 at high risk

What is it like to live in this place?

Homes sold for a typical £587,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 73 of the 99 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 23 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 12 of its 99 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Shipton, 1.2 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 this place?

Homes in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood sold for a typical £587,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 42 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £515,000 from 58 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£587,500 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£515,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £670,000 21 sales
  • Semi-detached £487,500 8 sales
  • Terraced £415,000 8 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £165,000 5 sales

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

Across the whole OX7 district, Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood's main postcode district: a typical £505,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in this place: 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 this place?

6 of the 99 postcodes now in use in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 1 of the 58 homes sold in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OX7 district, Under 1%.

The newest postcodes

OX7 6WLsince April 2025OX7 6SYsince December 2020OX7 6SZsince December 2020OX7 6EGsince February 2020OX7 6FAsince February 2020OX7 6FBsince February 2020

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn this placeAcross the OX7 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 42 (0%) 0 of 273 (0%)
The 12 months to September 2025 1 of 58 (2%) 1 of 399 (Under 1%)

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 Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood?

Ofcom reports on 99 of the 99 postcodes in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood. At 73 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit73 of 99
Postcodes where every home can get superfast95 of 99

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.

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

Is Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood at risk of flooding?

12 of the 99 postcodes in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood 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 23 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 12 of 99 postcodes High: 14Medium: 9Low: 42Very low: 4

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 this place?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in this place. 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

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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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 this place?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in this place is Shipton Rail Station, 1.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Shipton Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmCycle
  • Ascott-under-Wychwood Rail Station Railway station 3.1 kmCycle
  • Kingham Rail Station Railway station 4.9 kmCycle

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 this place?

The GP practices at the postcodes in this place. 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 this place safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 106 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in this place 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. 5 September 2025
  2. 6 October 2025
  3. 9 November 2025
  4. 18 December 2025
  5. 8 January 2026
  6. 8 February 2026
  7. 14 March 2026
  8. 3 April 2026
  9. 3 May 2026
  10. 14 June 2026
  11. 9 July 2026
  12. 9 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences47 reports
Burglary13 reports
Vehicle crime10 reports
Anti-social behaviour8 reports
Other theft7 reports
Public order6 reports
Shoplifting6 reports
Criminal damage and arson5 reports

Also: other crime 2, drugs 1, robbery 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 each way 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 this place?

District, borough or city council
West Oxfordshire
County council
Oxfordshire
Parliamentary constituency
Witney
Police force area
Thames Valley
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
Charlie Maynard (Liberal Democrat)

All 99 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.

Moving here

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Postcodes here

99 postcodes in use in this place, by district:

OX7 postcode district,99 postcodes

That district is in the OX postcode area.

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Places nearby

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside this place's £587,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Burford6.4 km, £558,750Upper Rissington6.5 km, £383,250Charlbury9.0 km, £495,000Chipping Norton9.9 km, £380,000Bourton-on-the-Water10.5 km, £361,750Carterton10.7 km, £337,500Stow-on-the-Wold11.0 km, £448,500Witney11.5 km, £335,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about this place

What is the postcode for Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood?
Postcode district OX7, with 99 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood in?
West Oxfordshire, with Oxfordshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood?
Charlie Maynard (Liberal Democrat), for Witney. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood?
A typical £587,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 42 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Wychwood Church of England Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Burford School, 6.7 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood have a railway station?
Yes: Shipton station, 1.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood?
Ofcom reports on 99 of the 99 postcodes in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood. At 73 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood at risk of flooding?
12 of the 99 postcodes in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood 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 23 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood?
6 of the 99 postcodes now in use in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 1 of the 58 homes sold in Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OX7 district, Under 1%. 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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