Winkleigh

What is it like to live in Winkleigh?

Homes sold for a typical £315,000 in the 12 months to August 2026. At 4 of the 51 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 53 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 Wallingbrook Health Centre, 8.2 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Eggesford, 6.1 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Winkleigh?

Homes in Winkleigh sold for a typical £315,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 21 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £302,500 from 28 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 £325,000 13 sales
• Semi-detached 3 sales, too few to price
• Terraced 4 sales, too few to price
• Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole EX19 district, Winkleigh's main postcode district: a typical £308,750.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Winkleigh: 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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Winkleigh?

4 of the 53 postcodes now in use in Winkleigh came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 2 of the 28 homes sold in Winkleigh were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the EX19 district, 4%.

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.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Winkleigh?

Ofcom reports on 51 of the 53 postcodes in Winkleigh. At 4 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

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, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Winkleigh at risk of flooding?

None of the 53 postcodes in Winkleigh 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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Winkleigh?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Winkleigh. 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.

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

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Winkleigh?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Winkleigh is Eggesford Rail Station, 6.1 km away in a straight line.

• Eggesford Rail Station Railway station 6.1 kmDrive
• Kings Nympton Rail Station Railway station 9.3 kmDrive
• Lapford Rail Station Railway station 9.5 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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Winkleigh?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Winkleigh. 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.

• Wallingbrook Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01769 580295 8.2 kmDrive

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Winkleigh safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 59 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Winkleigh 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: theft from the person 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.

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Winkleigh?

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

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026. See all our data sources