Ambleside Road Maghull, Sefton

41 addresses across 2 postcodes (L31), about 250 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 34100074.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £250,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 12, E: 1).
  • Flood: 22 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 C; Band D in Sefton costs £2,583 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Maghull North, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Dodd's Park, is about 190 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 18 to 20 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 41 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Maghull Family Surgery, about 360 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 49 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£250,000£250,000£250,000
20242£224,000£223,000£225,000
20231£248,000£248,000£248,000
20221£203,000£203,000£203,000
20211£222,500£222,500£222,500
20201£229,000£229,000£229,000
20171£210,000£210,000£210,000
20161£169,950£169,950£169,950
20132£163,750£158,000£169,500
20121£163,500£163,500£163,500
20081£165,000£165,000£165,000
20071£175,000£175,000£175,000
Most recent sales (26)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 May 202515 L31 6BYTerraced£250,000
8 Nov 202413 L31 6BYTerraced£225,000
21 Aug 202419 L31 6BYSemi-detached£223,000
22 Sep 202311 L31 6BYSemi-detached£248,000
29 Jul 202215 L31 6BYTerraced£203,000
30 Sep 20211 L31 6BYTerraced£222,500
16 Jan 20205 L31 6BYTerraced£229,000
28 Jun 20195 L31 6BYTerraced£255,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Apr 201737 L31 6BYSemi-detached£210,000
22 Jan 20168 L31 6BYTerraced£169,950
30 Aug 20134 L31 6BYSemi-detached£158,000
28 Jun 201337 L31 6BYSemi-detached£169,500
31 Oct 201243 L31 6BYTerraced£163,500
27 May 20081 L31 6BYTerraced£165,000
8 May 20075 L31 6BYTerraced£175,000
18 Dec 200622 L31 6BYSemi-detached£168,000
18 Oct 200414 L31 6BYDetached£215,000
25 Jun 20042 L31 6BYSemi-detached£165,000
26 Sep 200310 L31 6BYTerraced£135,000
16 Sep 200325 L31 6BYSemi-detached£135,000
2 Aug 20021 L31 6BYSemi-detached£105,000
7 Dec 200126 L31 6BYSemi-detached£90,000
29 Jun 200118 L31 6BYSemi-detached£88,500
27 Apr 200130 L31 6BYDetached£92,000
9 Mar 199828 L31 6BYSemi-detached£65,000
9 Sep 19978 L31 6BYSemi-detached£77,000

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 March 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 100 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15). Built: 1950-1966 (13); 1967-1975 (1); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Sefton in 2026-27: Band D £2,583 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,722£2,009£2,296£2,583£3,157£3,731£4,305£5,166

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (44% of about 1,240 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • 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.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 19 August 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 13 addresses are in areas at high risk, 9 at medium risk and 13 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
L31 6BYnot in 2 or 3 8 / 6 / 11 unlikely
L31 6BRnot in 2 or 3 5 / 3 / 2 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 41 addresses are between 18 m and 20 m above sea level (19 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
L31 6BR100%100%100%0%
L31 6BY100%100%100%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 stationsMaghull North 614,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Maghull 1.3 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Old Roan 963,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eastway Maghull70 m
Bus or coach stationBootle Bus Station8 km (5 miles)
Ferry terminalLiverpool Belfast Ferry Terminal Bootle9.3 km (5.8 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest M Central Square Car Park310 m
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest PoGo Charge1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL21.1 km (13 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Maghull Family Surgery360 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Eastway Dental Surgery130 m
HospitalAshworth Hospital Healthcare Registry1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationMaghull Police Station280 m
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Deyes Lane, Maghull460 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dodd's Park 1.2 ha190 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Glenn Park 3.6 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Play area8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,850 m²210 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,120 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 6.7 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Maghull Chapel, a listed building (Grade II*), 800 m (0.5 miles) south. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Maghull ChapelListed building, Grade II*800 m (0.5 miles) south
Maghull Manor moated siteScheduled monument1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Holt GreenWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-east
Big WoodWood2.8 km (1.7 miles) east
Massam's WoodWood2.9 km (1.8 miles) east
Lydiate WoodWood3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-west
Carr WoodWood3.9 km (2.4 miles) north-west
Buckley HillHill4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-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)9.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5980
Under 553241

9 of the street's 41 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 Sefton: see them on the Sefton page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Deyes High SchoolSecondary11–18330 m No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Northway Primary SchoolPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Andrews Church of England Primary School, MaghullPrimary4–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas Church of England Primary School, LydiatePrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Green Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Maricourt Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181 km (0.6 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St John Bosco Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Lydiate Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St George's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Summerhill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Maghull High SchoolSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
The Frank Hornby L31 6BRPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good25 Sep 2026
Costa L31 0DQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good7 Oct 2026
One Central L31 0AERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m4 Good23 Sep 2025
Maghull Post Office L31 0AERetailers - other260 m5 Very good22 Nov 2023
Domino's Pizza L31 0AETakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good21 Sep 2026
Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd L31 0AERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets300 m5 Very good19 May 2023
Superdrug Stores Plc L31 0AERetailers - other310 mExempt
G Callaghan & Son L31 0AERetailers - other330 m4 Good11 Mar 2026
Waterfields (Leigh) Ltd L31 0AERetailers - other330 m4 Good16 Feb 2026
Pound Bakery L31 0AERetailers - other330 m5 Very good17 Sep 2024
Furusato Bar & Grill L31 0DQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good23 Sep 2025
K & K Meats L31 0AERetailers - other340 m5 Very good21 Oct 2026
Boots L31 2PQRetailers - other340 mExempt
Card Factory L31 0AERetailers - other340 mExempt
Go Local Extra L31 9AGRetailers - other370 m5 Very good23 Oct 2019

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.

49 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Public order6
Other theft6
Drugs4
Vehicle crime4
Criminal damage and arson3
Shoplifting2
Burglary1
Other crime1
Bicycle theft1
Possession of weapons1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dodd'S Lane (16); On or near Parking Area (14); On or near Ravenglass Avenue (6); On or near Coniston Road (5); On or near Howells Close (2).

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: 514 residents in 234 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 age5240
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright57%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 8 to 9 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

  • Food hygiene ratings K & K Meats (retailers - other, L31 0AE) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 21 October 2026) found 30 October 2026

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.

  • L31 6BY: 40 addresses of 42 in the postcode
  • L31 6BR: 1 address of 42 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ravenglass Avenue · Grasmere Road · Kendal Drive · Sandford Drive · Westway · Coniston Road · Howells Close · Hillary Crescent · Roedean Close · Scott Close · Dodds Lane · Eskdale Drive

All the streets in L31 and across Sefton.

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.