Presteigne

What is it like to live in Presteigne?

Homes sold for a typical £243,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 14 of the 71 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 10 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 2 postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Knighton, 8.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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

What do homes cost in Presteigne?

Homes in Presteigne sold for a typical £243,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 16 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £268,750 from 26 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 £270,000 7 sales
• Semi-detached £240,000 5 sales
• Terraced 4 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole LD8 district, Presteigne's main postcode district: a typical £270,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Presteigne: 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 Presteigne?

4 of the 71 postcodes now in use in Presteigne came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 26 homes sold in Presteigne were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LD8 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

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

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 Presteigne?

Ofcom reports on 71 of the 71 postcodes in Presteigne. At 14 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 Presteigne at risk of flooding?

2 of the 2 postcodes in Presteigne that are in England 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 10 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.

How far is the station from Presteigne?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Presteigne is Knighton Rail Station, 8.4 km away in a straight line.

• Knighton Rail Station Railway station 8.4 kmDrive
• Bucknell Rail Station Railway station 10.2 kmDrive
• Knucklas Rail Station Railway station 11.5 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 Presteigne?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Presteigne. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Presteigne Medical Practice Phone 01544 267985 250 mWalk

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Who runs Presteigne?

Councils

Powys (69) and County of Herefordshire (2)

Parliamentary constituencies

Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (69) and North Herefordshire (2)

Police force areas

Dyfed-Powys (69) and West Mercia (2)

Countries

Wales (69) and England (2)

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.