Aston Road Wem, Shropshire

120 addresses across 4 postcodes (SY4), about 580 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 28200029.

  • Sales: 144 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £164,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 46 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 12, D: 23, E: 6, F: 3).
  • Flood: 2 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 B; Band D in Shropshire costs £2,528 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wem, about 350 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 78 to 81 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 29 of its 120 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Wem And Prees Medical Practice, about 800 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 780 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 69% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 32 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
20261£164,000£164,000£164,000
20253£300,000£240,000£310,000
20242£302,500£210,000£395,000
20232£285,000£275,000£295,000
20222£322,500£310,000£335,000
20215£240,000£165,000£288,000
20204£194,250£188,000£270,000
20197£235,000£165,000£450,000
20183£219,950£150,000£233,500
20174£171,250£150,000£335,000
20163£158,000£143,000£224,950
20155£189,000£125,000£228,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 144)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Jan 202618 SY4 5BADetached£164,000
20 Nov 202518 SY4 5BADetached£131,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Nov 2025DRAYS HOUSE SY4 5JEDetached£310,000
29 Aug 202545 SY4 5AZSemi-detached£240,000
28 Aug 202530 SY4 5BASemi-detached£300,000
26 Sep 2024THE OAKS SY4 5JEDetached£395,000
28 Jun 20249 SY4 5AZTerraced£210,000
7 Sep 2023REDSTONE SY4 5JDDetached£295,000
16 Aug 202327 SY4 5AZSemi-detached£275,000
27 Oct 202220 SY4 5BASemi-detached£310,000
20 Sep 2022EASTERMORN SY4 5JDDetached£335,000
18 Nov 20219 SY4 5AZTerraced£165,000
1 Oct 202125 SY4 5AZSemi-detached£215,683
14 Sep 2021DILKUSH SY4 5JDDetached£288,000
28 May 202120 SY4 5BASemi-detached£255,000
27 May 202128 SY4 5BASemi-detached£240,000
18 Dec 2020STEPPING STONES SY4 5JDDetached£188,500
24 Jul 202041 SY4 5AZSemi-detached£200,000
5 Mar 2020FAIRHOLME SY4 5JDDetached£180,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jan 2020SUNRISE SY4 5JDDetached£188,000
24 Jan 20201 SY4 5AZDetached£270,000
18 Nov 201911 SY4 5AZDetached£245,500
11 Nov 2019TAIR ONEN SY4 5BASemi-detached£170,000
25 Oct 2019WHIMBLES SY4 5JDDetached£165,000
21 Oct 2019THE OAKS SY4 5JEDetached£390,000
16 Oct 2019THE CHESTNUTS SY4 5JDSemi-detached£450,000
27 Sep 2019DRAYS HOUSE SY4 5JEDetached£235,000
25 Jan 201925 SY4 5AZSemi-detached£190,000
4 Sep 2018STEPPING STONES SY4 5JDDetached£150,000
17 Aug 201830 SY4 5BASemi-detached£219,950
31 May 201843 SY4 5AZDetached£233,500
9 Oct 2017TAIR ONEN SY4 5BASemi-detached£150,000
21 Aug 2017WESTGATE, 15 SY4 5AZSemi-detached£335,000
8 Aug 2017STEPPING STONES SY4 5JDDetached£167,500
7 Jul 201736 SY4 5BAOther£630,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Jul 2017FERNLEA, 38 SY4 5BAOther£485,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Feb 2017FIELDWAY SY4 5JDDetached£175,000
20 Oct 201632 SY4 5BASemi-detached£158,000
17 Aug 201629 SY4 5AZTerraced£143,000
8 Jan 2016DWYFOR SY4 5JDDetached£224,950
26 Oct 201532 SY4 5BASemi-detached£125,000
9 Oct 20151 SY4 5AZDetached£228,000
7 Sep 201530 SY4 5BASemi-detached£189,000
7 Sep 201525 SY4 5AZSemi-detached£170,000
12 Jun 2015THE ORCHARDS SY4 5JDDetached£277,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Feb 201528 SY4 5BASemi-detached£192,000
28 Jul 201429 SY4 5AZSemi-detached£133,000
29 Apr 2014THE OAKS SY4 5JEDetached£315,000
14 Mar 2014LITTLE FIRS SY4 5BASemi-detached£160,000
27 Nov 201323 SY4 5AZSemi-detached£125,000

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

46 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 107 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (17); House, detached (12); Bungalow, detached (9). Built: before 1900 (17); 1967-1975 (8); 1950-1966 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (34); rented (private) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (27 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Shropshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,528 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,685£1,966£2,247£2,528£3,090£3,652£4,214£5,056

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (32% of about 1,590 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

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 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: 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
SY4 5BAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SY4 5JDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
SY4 5AZnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 1 unlikely
SY4 5JEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 120 addresses are between 78 m and 81 m above sea level (79 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
SY4 5AZ100%100%100%0%
SY4 5BA100%100%100%0%
SY4 5JD100%100%100%0%
SY4 5JE100%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 stationsWem 112,000 journeys in 2024–25350 m
Prees 9,330 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.3 miles)
Yorton 8,550 journeys in 2024–255.3 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 23 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest No. 12 Wem150 m
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest High Street Car Park, Wem630 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL54.2 km (34 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 Wem And Prees Medical Practice800 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy800 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery690 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalWhitchurch Hospital13.4 km (8.3 miles)
Police stationWest Mercia Police - Whitchurch Police Station12.9 km (8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midcounties Co-Op Wem, Shopping Park Cashzone560 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,350 m²460 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 7,550 m²750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 480 m²190 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.9 ha390 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 820 m²800 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is PARK HOUSE (formerly listed as The Hall, New Street), a listed building (Grade II*), 620 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 89 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
PARK HOUSE (formerly listed as The Hall, New Street)Listed building, Grade II*620 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Hazlitt HouseListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) west
Church of St Peter and St PaulListed building, Grade II*790 m (0.5 miles) west
Wem Castle: a motte castle immediately south west of St Peter and St Paul's ChurchScheduled monument850 m (0.5 miles) west
Moated site 500m south east of Creamore CottageScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Palmshill RoughWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Brockhurst CovertWood2 km (1.3 miles) east
Black WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Lee HillsHills3.4 km (2.1 miles) south-east
SladeValley4.3 km (2.7 miles) east
The BogWetland5 km (3.1 miles) south-east

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)3.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)9.04015

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
65 to 6920
60 to 6431
55 to 59246
Under 5591113

29 of the street's 120 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 7 from railways, 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 Shropshire: see them on the Shropshire 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
St Peter's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11650 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Thomas Adams SchoolSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Wem Social Day Centre SY4 5XJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 mAwaiting inspection
Aston Lodge B&B SY4 5BGHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house370 m5 Very good23 Jul 2026
Wem Cricket Club SY4 5HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Jun 2026

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.

32 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences16
Public order3
Criminal damage and arson3
Anti-social behaviour3
Burglary3
Vehicle crime1
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cordwell Park (13); On or near Orchard Way (10); On or near Prince William Court (8); On or near Aston Road (1).

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: 779 residents in 342 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 age4440
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)69%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented14%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)34%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)28%34%
No qualifications16%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 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 7 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.

  • SY4 5BA: 45 addresses of 46 in the postcode
  • SY4 5JD: 39 addresses of 40 in the postcode
  • SY4 5AZ: 30 addresses of 40 in the postcode
  • SY4 5JE: 6 addresses

Nearby streets

Churchill Drive · Lacon Drive · Three Gates · Prince William Court · Cordwell Park · Orchard Way · Hawkstone Drive · Soulton Crescent · Harris Croft · Isherwoods Way

All the streets in SY4 and across Shropshire.

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.