Bredward
Hamlet · 21 residents
64Good
Good · better than 6 in 10 hamlets
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 48 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 72, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Bredward
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Bredward a good place to live?
Bredward scores 64/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (77) and transport (72).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Bredward in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bredward
Bredward is the kind of place where detached houses sit on their own plots with room to breathe, and you're more likely to pass a tractor than a bus. There's no high street to speak of here, and with a population barely into double figures, this reads less as a village and more as a scattering of farms and homes that happen to share a name. It attracts people who've already decided that quiet matters more than convenience — the median age of 55 tells you this isn't a place full of young families finding their feet.
There isn't much of a commute picture to paint, because Bredward simply doesn't offer one in any conventional sense — two transport stops and no rail station in the data means you're driving, wherever you're going. Housing here is almost uniformly freehold and detached; of the handful of recent sales, five of seven were detached houses, all bought outright rather than leasehold, which is exactly what you'd expect in a rural hamlet where nobody's building flats. At a median of £285,000, it sits close to the Herefordshire average and just under the England-wide figure of £281,000 — not cheap for what you get, but not a premium either, more a reflection that rural land holds its value quietly rather than dramatically.
Day-to-day life here is self-directed rather than laid on for you. There's no named park, restaurant, or school in the picture to send you toward, which itself says something: this is a place you furnish your own weekends in, driving out to whatever village or market town does have the café, the GP surgery, the primary school. The broadband, at least, doesn't require compromise — full-fibre coverage above 83% means you can work from home here as easily as anywhere in Hereford itself. The crime figures need a careful read: the 12-month total is recorded as zero even as a breakdown lists individual offences, which suggests these are historic or low-count figures rather than a live crime wave, and the safety grade of A backs that up — this is not a place where you'll be looking over your shoulder.