Westward Ho!

What is it like to live in Westward Ho!?

Homes sold for a typical £290,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 72 of the 103 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 53 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 9 of its 103 postcodes. The nearest school is St George's CofE Infant and Nursery School, 1.4 km from the middle of its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Northam Surgery, 1.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Barnstaple, 12.6 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 Westward Ho!?

Homes in Westward Ho! sold for a typical £290,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 53 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £294,750 from 99 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £410,000 24 sales
• Semi-detached £270,000 9 sales
• Terraced £261,500 10 sales
• Flat or maisonette £140,000 10 sales

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

Across the whole EX39 district, Westward Ho!'s main postcode district: a typical £260,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Westward Ho!: 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 Westward Ho!?

5 of the 103 postcodes now in use in Westward Ho! came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 4 of the 99 homes sold in Westward Ho! were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the EX39 district, 16%.

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 Westward Ho!?

Ofcom reports on 103 of the 103 postcodes in Westward Ho!. At 72 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 Westward Ho! at risk of flooding?

9 of the 103 postcodes in Westward Ho! 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 53 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 Westward Ho!?

There is no primary school at the postcodes in Westward Ho!; these are the nearest to its middle. 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.

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

How far is the station from Westward Ho!?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Westward Ho! is Barnstaple Rail Station, 12.6 km away in a straight line.

• Barnstaple Rail Station Railway station 12.6 kmDrive
• Chapelton (Devon) Rail Station Railway station 14.9 kmDrive
• Umberleigh Rail Station Railway station 18.3 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 Westward Ho!?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Westward Ho!. 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.

• Northam Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report June 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01237 474994 1.4 kmCycle
• Bideford Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 01237 476363 3.0 kmCycle
• Wooda Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01237 471071 3.4 kmCycle

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

Is Westward Ho! safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 410 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Westward Ho! 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

Also: other crime 6, drugs 5, theft from the person 2, robbery 2, possession of weapons 2.

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 Westward Ho!?

District, borough or city council

Torridge

County council

Devon

Parliamentary constituency

Torridge and Tavistock

Police force area

Devon & Cornwall

Region

South West

Country

England

MP

Sir Geoffrey Cox (Conservative)

All 103 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.