Acton Court Corkickle, Cumberland

15 addresses across 2 postcodes (CA28), about 10 m long. USRN 9203764.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £160,250 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Cumberland cost £172,654 in August 2026 (+4.1% on a year); private rents averaged £687 a month.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 9).
  • Flood: 18 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 16 times (17 hours) in 2025.
  • Coastal erosion: The nearest projected coastal erosion zone is 640 m (0.4 miles) from its postcodes.
  • Radon: An estimated 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A595, carries 15,641 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Cumberland costs £2,511 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Corkickle, about 360 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 15 to 16 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 15 of its 15 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lowther Medical Centre, about 230 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • MP: Josh MacAlister, Labour, MP for Whitehaven and Workington.
  • Council: Kells and Sandwith ward, Cumberland: Labour won its latest election, on 5 May 2022.
  • Crime: 107 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 2 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20252£160,250£147,500£173,000
20231£145,000£145,000£145,000
20221£161,500£161,500£161,500
20202£142,500£135,000£150,000
20181£150,000£150,000£150,000
20171£147,000£147,000£147,000
20152£133,000£118,000£148,000
20131£155,000£155,000£155,000
20111£156,000£156,000£156,000
20101£135,000£135,000£135,000
20071£147,000£147,000£147,000
200612£135,000£117,000£145,000
All 26 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 May 20221 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£161,500Leasehold.
27 Jan 20061 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£137,500New build. Leasehold.
18 Jul 20252 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£173,000Leasehold.
8 Jul 20132 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£155,000Leasehold.
27 Apr 20062 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£131,000New build. Leasehold.
25 Sep 20233 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£145,000Leasehold.
21 May 20103 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
17 Mar 20063 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£117,000Leasehold.
25 Nov 20254 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£147,500Leasehold.
7 Apr 20154 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£118,000Leasehold.
15 Nov 20064 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£125,000New build. Leasehold.
27 Jul 20065 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£127,500New build. Leasehold.
27 Feb 20156 CA28 7RDTerraced£148,000Leasehold.
9 Jun 20066 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£145,000New build. Leasehold.
12 Jun 20207 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£150,000Leasehold.
28 Jul 20067 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£145,000New build. Leasehold.
10 Oct 20188 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£150,000Leasehold.
7 Mar 20068 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£140,000New build. Leasehold.
25 Oct 20179 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£147,000Leasehold.
24 Feb 20069 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£135,000New build. Leasehold.
25 Apr 200610 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£140,000Leasehold.
14 Dec 202011 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
21 Jul 201111 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£156,000Leasehold.
4 May 200711 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£147,000Leasehold.
26 May 200611 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£135,000New build. Leasehold.
31 Mar 200612 CA28 7RDFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Cumberland

A typical home in Cumberland cost £172,654 in August 2026, 4.1% more than a year before. That is 21% more than five years earlier and 40% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£286,152
Semi-detached£179,276
Terraced£143,160
Flat or maisonette£94,927
Bought by a first-time buyer£152,989

Private renters in Cumberland paid £687 a month on average in September 2026, 7.2% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£512
Two bedrooms£649
Three bedrooms£792
Four or more bedrooms£1,103

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 dates from October 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 68 m². Most common: Flat (5); House, mid-terrace (4); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 2003-2006 (10); 2007-2011 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,115 kWh of it on average in 2024, 29% less than the district's 11,382 kWh, and 2,168 kWh of electricity, 28% less than the district's 2,997 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CA28 7RD121,503 kWh 124,694 kWh
CA28 7RE71,479 kWh 813,271 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is CA28.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Cumberland in 2026-27: Band D £2,511 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,674£1,953£2,232£2,511£3,069£3,627£4,186£5,023

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (44% of about 640 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, Whitehaven Town Centre (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • 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.

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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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, 8 addresses are in areas at high risk, 10 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 21 homes the Environment Agency counts, 8 are in areas at high risk, 10 medium, 1 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CA28 7RDzone 3 6 / 6 / 0 unlikely
CA28 7REnot in 2 or 3 2 / 4 / 1 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 15 November 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 15 November 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.

Coastal erosion

The nearest projected erosion zone is 640 m (0.4 miles) from the street's postcodes (by 2105, if defences are not maintained or built).

ProjectionPolicy for the frontageErosionDistance
By 2055, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Great Ormes Head to Scotland none (the line is held)680 m (0.4 miles)
By 2105, with the shoreline management plan carried outHold the line Great Ormes Head to Scotland none (the line is held)680 m (0.4 miles)
By 2105, if defences are not maintained or builtNo intervention Great Ormes Head to Scotland up to 36 m640 m (0.4 miles)

Each shoreline management plan sets a policy for each stretch of coast: hold the line (keep defences where they are), managed realignment (let the shore move back in a controlled way), advance the line, or no active intervention. Erosion is the distance the shore may move back, counted from today, for the higher central climate change allowance. The maps are guidance from national modelling, not a survey of any one home; the council's coastal team can say more.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 16 times, for 17 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Un-Named Trib of Pow Beck.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Esk Avenue Mirehouse Cso United Utilities Un-Named Trib of Pow Beck 16 17 610 m (0.4 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 15 addresses are between 15 m and 16 m above sea level (16 m on average).

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
CA28 7RD100%100%100%0%
CA28 7RE100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 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 stationsCorkickle 66,000 journeys in 2024–25360 m
Whitehaven 285,000 journeys in 2024–25940 m (0.6 miles)
Parton 13,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Whitehaven90 m
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Car Park - Whitehaven140 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station260 m
Airport with scheduled flightsGlasgow Prestwick Airport PIK124 km (77 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lowther Medical Centre Good Jan 2026230 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Morrisons Pharmacy100 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Flatt Walks Health Centre240 m
HospitalWest Cumberland Hospital Requires improvement Nov 20232.1 km (1.3 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bethany House Limited Good Mar 2019270 m
Police stationCumbria Constabulary - Whitehaven Police Station340 m
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Applegreen - Corkickle Service Station Cashzone370 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 15 ha140 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 820 m²120 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Whitehaven Playground 3.6 ha430 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha350 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Somerset House, a listed building (Grade II*), 340 m north. 158 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Somerset HouseListed building, Grade II*340 m north
Catherine MillListed building, Grade II*340 m west
14, Scotch StreetListed building, Grade II*350 m north-west
44,45, Roper StreetListed building, Grade II*440 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Duke Pit fan houseScheduled monument780 m (0.5 miles) west
Old quay and old quay lighthouseScheduled monument940 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Haig CollieryScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Crowpark WoodWood200 m north-east
South BeachBeach1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Richmond HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Bellhouse GillValley3.2 km (2 miles) south
Stanley PondLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) south
Lowca PointWetland3.8 km (2.3 miles) north

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)3.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.3205
Particles (PM10)7.94015

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
65 to 6950
60 to 64100
Under 55015

15 of the street's 15 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 Cumberland: see them on the Cumberland page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 15 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
St Begh's Catholic Junior School Roman CatholicPrimary7–11190 m No published inspection 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
St James' CofE Infant and Nursery School Church of EnglandPrimary3–7650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection None published
St James' CofE Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–11720 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 79% in 2023)
Monkwray Junior SchoolPrimary7–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 41% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 37% in 2023)
St Gregory and St Patrick's Catholic Infant School Roman CatholicPrimary3–7940 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Jericho Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 89% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 89% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
St Benedict's Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.8 (41.2 in 2025 and 42.6 in 2024); 39.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 14.3% AAB or better; progress below average
Kells Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good None published
Hensingham Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 40% in 2024 and 44% in 2023)
St Mary's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 78% in 2024 and 79% in 2023)
Bransty Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 44% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
The Whitehaven AcademySecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.0 (39.7 in 2025 and 41.7 in 2024); 37.6% grade 5+ in English and maths

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

4 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 260 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Sure Start Children's Centre CA28 7PA Full day care 20 Good (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 260 m
ABC Day Nursery CA28 7PG Full day care 54 Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 310 m
Little Explorers Whitehaven CA28 9HX Full day care 88 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HowGill Centre Nursery CA28 9PQ Full day care 20 Feb 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 57 childminders and 3 home childcarers (nannies) in Cumberland. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 15 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
Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited CA28 7RWRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets100 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
Morrisons Whitehaven Service Station CA28 7RWRetailers - other100 m5 Very good20 Feb 2026
Castle Knights CA28 7RPPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good6 Dec 2023
Greggs CA28 7RQRetailers - other150 m5 Very good14 Nov 2023
Mcdonalds Restaurants Ltd CA28 7RQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good29 May 2025
B & M Retail CA28 7RQRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets160 m5 Very good1 Feb 2024
Applegreen CA28 7TSRetailers - other170 m5 Very good18 Apr 2023
Marchon Sports & Social Club CA28 7TEPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good20 Apr 2023
St Beghs Social Centre CA28 7TEPub/bar/nightclub210 m4 Good11 Feb 2023
The Lowther Club CA28 7RFPub/bar/nightclub220 m5 Very good27 May 2024
Foyer Bar CA28 7SHPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good27 Mar 2026
St Beghs RC Junior School CA28 7TDSchool/college/university270 m5 Very good20 May 2025
Bethany House Residential Home CA28 8AAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good30 Jan 2026
Chase Hotel CA28 8AAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house280 m5 Very good6 Mar 2024
Whitehaven Rugby League Supporters C CA28 7RBPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good22 Nov 2023

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.

107 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences28
Shoplifting27
Public order21
Anti-social behaviour15
Criminal damage and arson6
Other theft5
Drugs4
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (37); On or near Flatt Walks (22); On or near Shopping Area (18); On or near Petrol Station (10); On or near Station Road (7).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. 2 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202210
202300
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
22 Apr 2024 19:50 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
23 Jan 2022 15:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child A5094, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A595 between A5094 and A5094, with 15,641 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 340 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A595 A5094 to A5094 15,641 counted 2025 3% -4% since 2015 340 m
A5094 Lowther St to Tangier St 9,602 estimated; counted 2018 1% -6% since 2015 440 m (0.3 miles)
A5094 A595 to A5094 Scotch st 15,159 estimated; counted 2021 0% -6% since 2015 460 m (0.3 miles)
A5094 Scotch St to George St 3,685 estimated; counted 2019 1% -30% since 2015 480 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 297 residents in 153 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 age5340
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over32%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van46%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)64%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

Politics

This street is in the Whitehaven and Workington constituency. Its MP is Josh MacAlister, Labour.

2024 general election in Whitehaven and Workington
CandidatePartyVotesShareChange
Josh MacAlister (elected)Labour22,173 53.0% +8.9
David SurteesReform UK8,887 21.2% +19.7
Andrew JohnsonConservative8,455 20.2% -28.2
Jill PerryGreen Party1,207 2.9% +1.7
Chris WillsLiberal Democrat1,118 2.7% -1.3

Labour gain from Conservative, with a majority of 13,286 votes (31.8%). 41,840 valid votes from an electorate of 73,198, a turnout of 57.4%.

Change is in percentage points of the vote on 2019, recalculated for the 2024 boundaries (the notional result), so it compares like with like where the constituency changed shape; it is blank where the party or candidate did not stand in 2019.

Sources: UK Parliament, election results for the 2024 general election, and the Members API for the current MP (as at 15 November 2026). Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

Council: Kells and Sandwith ward, Cumberland

This street is in this ward. Its latest election was on 5 May 2022.

5 May 2022 in Kells and Sandwith
CandidatePartyVotes
Emma Louise Williamson (elected)Labour1,046
Arthur LambConservative302
Tanisha DobinsonIndependent73

Turnout 29%.

Councils elect all their members every four years or a third of them in three years out of four, so the members for a ward can come from more than one election; a councillor may have changed party since being elected.

Source: council election candidates and results from Democracy Club, CC BY 4.0.

What has changed

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Postcodes on this street

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

Nearby streets

Castle Mews · Flatt Walks · Low Corkickle · James Drive · Park Drive · Front Corkickle · Coach Road · Pendle Drive · Calder Avenue · Castle Meadows · Corkickle · Station Road

All the streets in CA28 and across Cumberland.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.