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Living in Thorncombe with children

Thorncombe, Dorset. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date.

1schools in Thorncombe
61%gigabit broadband

Schools

1 schools: 1 state primary, 0 state secondaryThorncombe on the schools map →

No school in Thorncombe is in the league tables we hold.

Every school in Thorncombe, with inspection, league band and the last place offered

State primary schools (1)

SchoolInspectionLeague tableLast place offered
Thorncombe, St Mary's Church of England Primary AcademyRequires improvement——
Thorncombe rankings →Could we get in? →Catchments →

Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Homes and prices

Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)

We don't hold Land Registry sales for Thorncombe yet, so its typical prices are unknown here.

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Getting around

Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)
0railway stations within 2 km
7bus stops within 1 km of the middle of its schools

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.

Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 61% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 83%, on average across the 803 postcodes in TA20. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).

Safety and environment

The town centre; addresses vary
not heldCrimeWe don't hold police.uk figures for Thorncombe yet.
Flood zone 1FloodAt the middle of its schools, the area is in flood zone 1 for rivers and the sea on the Environment Agency's Flood Map for Planning (not in zone 2 or 3, the lowest of the three). Surface-water risk: we don't hold that map, so it is unknown here. One point says little about a whole town, and the zones describe the area, not a building: check the address on the Environment Agency's long-term flood risk service.Source: Environment Agency, Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea), read from its open download. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
NO₂ 3.5AirAt the middle of its schools, an annual mean on DEFRA's 1 km map: nitrogen dioxide 3.5 µg/m³ (2024); PM2.5 5.2 µg/m³ (2024); PM10 8.6 µg/m³ (2024). A background figure, not the air beside a busy road. Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Childcare

Ofsted early years register; published prices

We don't hold registered nurseries for Thorncombe.

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Key dates, Dorset

The next dates for families applying
Secondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027
Secondary offer day1 Mar 2027

Application deadlines and offer days: Dorset.

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.