Castleford House Nursing Home
Castleford Gardens, Chepstow, NP16 7LF · Gloucestershire · South West
What the record says
Rated Outstanding overall, but 1 of this operator's 8 rated homes is below Good.
- This operator's rated services
- Of Milkwood Care Ltd's 8 rated homes, 1 is below Good — not this one.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home with nursing
- Beds
- 43
- Registered with CQC
- 17 Jan 2011
- Run by
- Milkwood Care Ltd
- Phone
- 01291629929
- Website
- www.elderlycare.co.uk
Contact details as recorded by CQC — we don’t hold fees, vacancies or waiting lists, so those are worth asking about directly.
Who this service supports
The groups this service is registered with CQC to support. Registration says who a service may care for — it is not a quality judgement, and it is not a recommendation.
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Care home with nursing
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Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Good | 5 Nov 2024 |
| Effective | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 22 Jun 2019 |
| Caring | Good | 5 Nov 2024 |
| Responsive | Outstanding | 5 Nov 2024 |
| Well-led | Outstandingrating 3+ yrs old | 22 Jun 2019 |
Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 7 other locations
Other active services registered to Milkwood Care Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Applewood Care Home | Good, published 28 Feb 2019rating 3+ yrs old | Hampshire |
| Braeburn Lodge | Good, published 28 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old | West Berkshire |
| Castleford Lodge | Good, published 14 Dec 2017rating 3+ yrs old | Gloucestershire |
| Chatterwood Nursing Home | Requires improvement, published 6 Mar 2026 | Hampshire |
| Ganarew House Care Home | Good, published 19 Aug 2024 | Herefordshire, County of |
| Milkwood House Care Home | Good, published 7 Apr 2018rating 3+ yrs old | West Sussex |
| The Orchard | Good, published 12 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old | Herefordshire, County of |
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
CQC publishes registrations and ratings. It holds nothing at all about fees, current vacancies, staffing levels, or the building itself — there is no field anywhere for door widths, hoists, wet rooms or ground-floor rooms. So no site, including this one, can tell you those. They are worth asking directly — the number is above.
- What are the fees, and what do they not include?
- Do you have a vacancy now, and would you hold a room?
- How many staff are on at night, and how are transfers staffed?
- What change in someone’s needs would mean they had to move, and can I see that in the contract?
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- Coming out of hospitalIf this follows a hospital stay: the discharge decision, reablement, and what to ask the ward.
- Ask the council for a needs assessmentFree, whatever the savings, and the formal route to arranged care and funding.
- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
- How to read this ratingWhat the words mean, the five key questions, and why the date matters.
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Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other care homes with nursing within 10 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Beech House Care Homeabout 7.1 miles · Bristol · 55 bedsOutstanding, published 28 Dec 2019rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- Grace Care Centreabout 7.5 miles · Bristol · 51 bedsOutstanding, published 26 Mar 2026
- Glebe House Care Homeabout 7.9 miles · Bristol · 47 bedsOutstanding, published 4 Jan 2020rating 3+ yrs oldinherited from a previous registration
- Arlington Groveabout 8.2 miles · Bristol · 64 bedsNot yet rated
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-143956733
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 1 Sep 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01 Sep 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.