A174 Whitby, North Yorkshire

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (YO21), about 60 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 33780518.

  • Flood: 29 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in North Yorkshire costs £2,544 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 51% to 88% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Whitby, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Pannett Park, is about 30 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 40 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whitby Group Practice, about 100 m away.
  • People: About 470 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 57% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 86 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in North Yorkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,544 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,696£1,979£2,262£2,544£3,110£3,675£4,241£5,089

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (48% of about 1,630 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Whitby (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 24 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
YO21 3AEnot in 2 or 3 5 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO21 3EAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 24 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 40 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
YO21 3AE100%88%88%0%
YO21 3EA100%51%51%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWhitby 153,000 journeys in 2024–25450 m (0.3 miles)
Ruswarp 4,110 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Sleights 6,850 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 54 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chubbhill Harrisons Garage West Cliff70 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cliff Street Car Park440 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest West Cliff Car Park270 m
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME52.4 km (33 miles)
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL92.1 km (57 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whitby Group Practice100 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy100 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Havelock Dental Practice360 m
HospitalWhitby Hospital440 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationWhitby police station460 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Post Office Whitby, Endeavour Wharf Cashzone490 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pannett Park 3.2 ha30 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 13 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Play area10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,040 m²40 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.2 ha350 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Stakesby Vale Allotments 6,820 m²340 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 22 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is 1-6, St Hildas Terrace, a listed building (Grade II*), 40 m. 424 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 9 of them Grade I and 22 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
1-6, St Hildas TerraceListed building, Grade II*40 m
7-10, St Hildas TerraceListed building, Grade II*70 m east
11 and 12, St Hildas TerraceListed building, Grade II*90 m east
13 and 14, St Hildas TerraceListed building, Grade II*110 m east
Whitby Abbey HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II880 m (0.5 miles) east
The Wishing Chair Cross cross base at junction of Stakesby Road and Westbourne RoadScheduled monument890 m (0.6 miles) west
Whitby Abbey: Saxon double-house, post-Conquest Benedictine monastery, C17 manor house and C14 cross.Scheduled monument940 m (0.6 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Upper HarbourTidal water640 m (0.4 miles) east
Scotch HeadWetland690 m (0.4 miles) north-east
West CliffCliff or slope1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Windmill HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Whitehall WoodWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-east
The LakeLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.9205
Particles (PM10)8.54015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7420
Under 5502

2 of the street's 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for North Yorkshire: see them on the North Yorkshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
West Cliff Primary SchoolPrimary2–11240 m Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whitby SchoolSecondary11–19520 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Stakesby Primary AcademyPrimary2–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Airy Hill Primary SchoolPrimary2–11870 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
East Whitby Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ruswarp Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Number Six Bed And Breakfast YO21 3AEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house60 m5 Very good19 Feb 2020
Autumn Leaves YO21 1JPHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house60 m5 Very good18 May 2022
Corra Lynn YO21 3EWHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house90 m5 Very good25 Jun 2025
Crescent Lodge YO21 3EWHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house90 m5 Very good6 Nov 2025
Allied Pharmacy Whitby YO21 1SDRetailers - other100 mExempt
Whitehaven YO21 3EWHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house120 m5 Very good14 Oct 2025
Boulmer Guest House YO21 3EDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house140 m4 Good26 Nov 2018
The Waverley Guest House YO21 3EDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house190 m5 Very good19 Dec 2018
Norman Guest House YO21 3EDHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house200 m5 Very good10 Apr 2025
Everyone Active YO21 3EWRetailers - other200 mExempt
Endeavour House YO21 3EDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good29 Oct 2024
Ellies Guest House YO21 3EEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house230 m5 Very good11 Oct 2023
Broomfield House YO21 1QPHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house240 m5 Very good28 Feb 2020
The Florence Guest House YO21 1QPHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house240 m5 Very good24 Feb 2018
Dillons Of Whitby YO21 1JUHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house260 m5 Very good18 Sep 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

86 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences49
Anti-social behaviour15
Criminal damage and arson7
Public order5
Vehicle crime3
Other theft3
Theft from the person2
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near St Hilda'S Gardens (29); On or near Well Close Terrace (17); On or near (13); On or near Bagdale (9); On or near Petrol Station (5).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 470 residents in 255 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age6040
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over37%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)57%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented34%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work42%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van32%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle30%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • YO21 3AE: 1 address of 120 in the postcode
  • YO21 3EA: 1 address of 60 in the postcode

Nearby streets

St Hilda's Terrace · Chubb Hill Road · St Hilda's Gardens · Back St Hilda's Terrace · Spring Vale · Crescent Avenue · Rievaulx Road · Well Close Terrace · St Hildas Terrace · Caygill Street · Langdale Terrace · Union Road

All the streets in YO21 and across North Yorkshire.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.