Berry Square Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil

1 address across 1 postcode (CF48), about 110 m long. USRN 25103205.

  • Sales: 52 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £147,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Merthyr Tydfil costs £2,594 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Merthyr Tydfil, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Central Park, is about 60 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 309 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Morlais Medical Practice, about 70 m away.
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 61% of households owned their home and 23% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 142 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£147,000£147,000£147,000
20231£150,000£150,000£150,000
20221£195,000£195,000£195,000
20193£128,000£105,000£170,000
20171£84,000£84,000£84,000
20163£93,000£89,950£120,000
20151£89,000£89,000£89,000
20141£88,500£88,500£88,500
20132£89,500£87,000£92,000
20091£75,000£75,000£75,000
20081£110,000£110,000£110,000
20072£105,000£100,000£110,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 52)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Oct 20258 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£147,000
31 Aug 202323 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£150,000
7 Apr 202229 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£195,000
9 Oct 2019PEARNS PHARMACIES LTD, MORLAIS MEDICAL PRACTICE CF48 3ALOther£150,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 May 201913 CF48 3ALTerraced£128,000
10 May 2019PEN-Y-MYNYDD CF48 3ALDetached£170,000
5 Apr 201919 CF48 3ALTerraced£105,000
23 Nov 201736 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£78,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Mar 201721 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£84,000
1 Aug 20161 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£89,950
24 Jun 201610 CF48 3ALTerraced£93,000
8 May 20162 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£120,000
6 Nov 201537 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£89,000
22 Aug 201423 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£88,500
6 Dec 201312 CF48 3ALTerraced£92,000
18 Nov 201311 CF48 3ALTerraced£87,000
24 Apr 200933 CF48 3ALTerraced£75,000
18 Jan 20082 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£110,000
7 Aug 20072 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£110,000
22 Jan 20075 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£100,000
20 Oct 20067 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£86,000
30 Jun 200618 CF48 3ALTerraced£74,000
1 Jun 200629 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£127,000
19 Jan 200612 CF48 3ALTerraced£82,950
27 May 200514 CF48 3ALTerraced£69,000
11 Jun 200418 CF48 3ALTerraced£65,000
20 Nov 200212 CF48 3ALTerraced£40,500
4 Oct 200221 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£45,000
16 Aug 200213 CF48 3ALTerraced£54,000
14 Jun 200214 CF48 3ALTerraced£38,000
11 Feb 200225 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£40,000
6 Dec 200112 CF48 3ALTerraced£36,950
31 Oct 200136 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£43,700
26 Feb 200122 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£39,950
23 Feb 200124 CF48 3ALTerraced£43,000
5 Jul 200020 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£42,000
27 Mar 200032 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£44,950
22 Dec 199933 CF48 3ALTerraced£36,000
23 Jun 199931 CF48 3ALTerraced£44,500
27 Nov 199834 CF48 3ALTerraced£35,000
24 Oct 199725 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£36,000
4 Jul 199713 CF48 3ALTerraced£39,000
14 Feb 199712 CF48 3ALTerraced£34,500
20 Dec 199625 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£35,500
5 Dec 19967 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£35,000
28 Nov 19963 CF48 3ALDetached£47,000
31 Jul 199610 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£32,500
14 Jun 199625 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£35,000
26 Jan 19968 CF48 3ALSemi-detached£34,500
18 Aug 199533 CF48 3ALTerraced£32,750

Energy performance certificates

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Merthyr Tydfil in 2026-27: Band D £2,594 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,729£2,017£2,305£2,594£3,170£3,746£4,323£5,187£6,052

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (65% of about 920 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; Welsh 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 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted on or by this street. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Roadworks

Street works permits come from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, which covers England only.

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

None of the 46 address points in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water on Natural Resources Wales's map. Outside those areas the chance is under 0.1% (1 in 1,000) a year.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. 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 Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.

Height above sea level

The street's address is about 309 m above sea level.

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CF48 3AL100%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 stationsMerthyr Tydfil 413,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Pentre-Bach 30,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
Rhymney 123,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops20 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 49 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dowlais Police Station40 m
Bus or coach stationMerthyr Bus Station 14 Merthyr Tydfil2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dowlais Library Car Park230 m
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL40.6 km (25 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 Morlais Medical Practice70 m
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Knights Dowlais Pharmacy70 m
NHS dentistsCyfarthfa Dental Care1.8 km (1.1 miles)
HospitalPrince Charles Hospital2 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationMerthyr Police Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM150 m

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 garden8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Central Park 7,500 m²60 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 14 ha280 m
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,420 m²140 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,360 m²930 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 8 parks and gardens, 26 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Dowlais Works Blast Engine House, a listed building (Grade II*), 480 m (0.3 miles) east. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dowlais Works Blast Engine HouseListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) east
Former Guest Memorial LibraryListed building, Grade II*530 m (0.3 miles) east
Cyfarthfa CastleRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.2 km (1.3 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pen-y-garn WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) west
Morlais HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Castle WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Bunker's Hill WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Pitwellt PondLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Cwm BlacsValley2.6 km (1.6 miles) south

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.1205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: 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 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
Under 5511

None of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Merthyr Tydfil: see them on the Merthyr Tydfil page.

Nearest schools

Source: Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Gellifaelog Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11460 m (0.3 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Dowlais Primary School English mediumPrimary4–11720 m (0.4 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Pantysgallog Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Blessed Carlo Acutis Catholic School Roman Catholic English mediumAll-through3–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Gwaunfarren Primary English mediumPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Ysgol Santes Tudful Welsh mediumPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Pen-Y-Dre High School English mediumSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Cyfarthfa High School English mediumSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Goetre Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School

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
Lady Charlotte Cafe CF48 3EHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m4 Good29 May 2025
Knights Chemist Ltd CF48 3ALRetailers - other80 mExempt
Railway Cafe CF48 3LWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good10 Mar 2026
Han Sing CF48 3LTTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m4 Good28 Jan 2026
Londis CF48 3LTRetailers - other140 m4 Good15 Jan 2026
Morlais Tavern CF48 3AFPub/bar/nightclub140 m5 Very good19 Jun 2026
GetStuft Cafe CF48 3RNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m4 Good23 Apr 2026
Dowlais Pharmacy CF48 3RNRetailers - other160 mExempt
Bessemer Hotel CF48 3DPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Nov 2025
Hendersons Newsagents CF48 3RWRetailers - other310 m5 Very good25 Sep 2024
Flames Kebab House CF48 3RWTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m4 Good7 Apr 2026
Bruce Hotel CF48 3RWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good3 Feb 2025
Richards Fruiters & Florist CF48 3SHRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)Awaiting inspection
Complete Co-Packing Services CF48 3TDRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
Ty Dysgu PRU CF48 3HWSchool/college/university440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Jan 2025

Crime within 250 m

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

142 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences63
Criminal damage and arson24
Anti-social behaviour18
Public order15
Burglary6
Other theft6
Other crime4
Drugs3
Vehicle crime2
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Overton Street (11); On or near Gwernllwyn Close (10); On or near Gerddi Glanmor (10); On or near Y Ganolfan (9); On or near Bryn Carwyn (9).

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: 251 residents in 121 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 streetWales
Median age4243
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over14%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)61%66%
Owned outright32%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented23%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work63%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)17%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%26%
Travel to work by car or van75%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus2%3%
On foot or by bicycle5%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)23%32%
No qualifications33%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)95%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh 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.

  • CF48 3AL: 1 address of 46 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Morgan Street · Y Ganolfan · Y Ganolfan · Sgwar Berry · Bryn-Seion Street · Stryd Bryn Hyfryd · Stryd Bryn Hyfryd · Broad Street · Mary Street · Vaughan Street · Lower Union Street · Lower Union Street

All the streets in CF48 and across Merthyr Tydfil.

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.