Ampleforth Way Darlington

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (DL3), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 10402529.

24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £130,000 across 1 sale. 21 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 10, D: 8). 9 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Darlington costs £2,494 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is North Road (Darlington), about 2.8 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 240 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 56 to 58 m above sea level. 2 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Moorlands Surgery, about 1.3 km away. About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 47% of households owned their home and 15% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 110 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20241£130,000£130,000£130,000
20221£85,000£85,000£85,000
20212£98,000£86,000£110,000
20201£90,000£90,000£90,000
20181£64,000£64,000£64,000
20141£81,000£81,000£81,000
20122£72,500£65,000£80,000
20091£103,000£103,000£103,000
20071£110,000£110,000£110,000
20043£94,995£83,000£110,950
20031£48,000£48,000£48,000
20021£39,500£39,500£39,500
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Dec 202429 DL3 9SGSemi-detached£130,000
7 Jun 20232 DL3 9SGSemi-detached£127,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 20225 DL3 9SGTerraced£85,000
12 Nov 202120 DL3 9SGTerraced£86,000
30 Sep 202121 DL3 9SGTerraced£110,000
11 Nov 20202 DL3 9SGSemi-detached£90,000
30 Jul 201823 DL3 9SGTerraced£64,000
14 Apr 201616 DL3 9SGTerraced£72,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Aug 20142 DL3 9SGSemi-detached£81,000
14 Dec 20126 DL3 9SGSemi-detached£80,000
31 Jan 201221 DL3 9SGTerraced£65,000
25 Feb 20092 DL3 9SGSemi-detached£103,000
6 Jul 200727 DL3 9SGSemi-detached£110,000
29 Oct 200427 DL3 9SGSemi-detached£83,000
24 Sep 200412 DL3 9SGSemi-detached£110,950
19 Jul 20046 DL3 9SGSemi-detached£94,995
14 Jan 200321 DL3 9SGTerraced£48,000
12 Mar 200221 DL3 9SGTerraced£39,500
11 Dec 200116 DL3 9SGTerraced£39,995
9 Nov 200123 DL3 9SGTerraced£35,000
21 Jan 20009 DL3 9SGTerraced£30,000
26 Mar 199916 DL3 9SGTerraced£28,000
11 Dec 19986 DL3 9SGSemi-detached£38,000
12 Jul 19962 DL3 9SGSemi-detached£30,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

21 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); House, mid-terrace (7); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 1950-1966 (17); 1967-1975 (2); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (social) (6); rented (private) (3).

Council tax

What each band costs in Darlington in 2026-27: Band D £2,494 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,663£1,940£2,217£2,494£3,048£3,602£4,156£4,988

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (97% 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: 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 1.0 km

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, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 7 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
DL3 9SGnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 3 unlikely
DL3 9SJnot in 2 or 3 5 / 3 / 4 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 25 addresses are between 56 m and 58 m above sea level (57 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
DL3 9SG100%100%100%0%
DL3 9SJ100%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 stationsNorth Road (Darlington) 51,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km
Darlington 2.8 million journeys in 2024–253.8 km
Heighington 37,000 journeys in 2024–256.6 km
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m, 30 within 800 m; nearest Wyvern Academy Branksome210 m
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station2.7 km
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME11.3 km
Nearest large airportNewcastle International Airport NCL55.9 km

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; nearest Moorlands Surgery1.3 km
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest West Park Pharmacy1.2 km
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Smile At West Park1.2 km
HospitalWest Park Hospital680 m
Police stationDurham Police - Cockerton Police Office1.3 km
Cash machinesNisa, Tillage Green Cashzone1.2 km

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 garden2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 12 ha240 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 14 ha690 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 160 m²630 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.0 ha830 m
AllotmentsCockerton Allotments 2.2 ha930 m

Within 800 m: 2 parks and gardens, 27 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Archdeacon Newton moated site, deserted manorial settlement and section of rig and furrow, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km north-west. 1 listed building is within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Archdeacon Newton moated site, deserted manorial settlement and section of rig and furrowScheduled monument1.4 km north-west
West Cemetery, DarlingtonRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.2 km south-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Sugar HillHill1.0 km east
Morley HillHill1.8 km west
Copshaw HillHill2.2 km north
Thornton PlantationWood2.3 km west
Baydale WoodWood2.5 km south
Swallow HoleLake or reservoir4.9 km north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 552325

2 of the street's 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Wyvern AcademySecondary11–1680 m Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mount Pleasant Primary SchoolPrimary2–11280 m Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's Cockerton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11930 m Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mowden Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.0 km Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Holy Family Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km No published inspection
West Park AcademyPrimary2–111.1 km No published inspection
Mowden Infant SchoolPrimary5–71.1 km No published inspection
Carmel College Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.7 km No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Hummersknott AcademySecondary11–161.9 km Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Wyvern Academy DL3 9SHSchool/college/university110 m5 Very good28 Jan 2026
Parmesan House DL3 9UHTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good29 Oct 2026
Captain Wok Chinese Takeaway DL3 9UHTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good8 Jan 2026
Dhadly Supermarket DL3 9UHRetailers - other220 m4 Good21 Jan 2026
Ali Store DL3 9UHRetailers - other220 m5 Very good10 May 2024
Branksome Booze DL3 9RURetailers - other270 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Apr 2026
Mount Pleasant Primary School DL3 9HESchool/college/university280 m5 Very good14 Feb 2025
Friends Lunch Club DL3 9SROther catering premises330 m5 Very good18 Jan 2024

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.

110 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour43
Violence and sexual offences28
Criminal damage and arson16
Other crime4
Vehicle crime4
Public order4
Burglary4
Other theft3
Drugs2
Possession of weapons2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Atherstone Way (25); On or near Dunster Close (19); On or near Ampleforth Way (17); On or near Whitby Way (15); On or near Bylands Way (14).

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: 268 residents in 114 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 age3540
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)47%61%
Owned outright24%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented35%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)80%65%
Work 30 km or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)15%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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 Parmesan House (takeaway/sandwich shop, DL3 9UH) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 29 October 2026) found 31 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.

  • DL3 9SG: 24 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • DL3 9SJ: 1 address of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Blanchland Green · Selby Crescent · Dunster Close · Atherstone Way · Roche Walk · Whitby Way · Sawley Close · Bylands Way · Whitby Way · Branksome Hall Drive · Kelso Walk · Sherborne Close

All the streets in DL3 and across Darlington.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

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