Blaguegate Lane Blaguegate, West Lancashire

116 addresses across 6 postcodes (L40,WN8), about 810 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 43303655.

  • Sales: 123 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £481,250 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 68 homes have an energy certificate (C: 13, D: 38, E: 10, F: 6, G: 1).
  • 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 A; Band D in West Lancashire costs £2,456 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ormskirk, about 4.2 km (2.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Stanley Coronation Park, is about 1.4 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 60 to 67 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 93 of its 116 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Beacon Primary Care, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,110 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 7 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
20262£481,250£267,500£695,000
20253£278,000£227,000£437,000
202410£190,000£120,000£320,000
20231£155,000£155,000£155,000
20223£262,000£195,000£280,000
20214£282,500£225,000£405,000
20202£191,000£182,000£200,000
20192£233,250£226,500£240,000
20182£187,500£135,000£240,000
20172£227,500£225,000£230,000
20164£189,000£138,000£273,000
20153£290,000£118,000£325,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 123)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Jul 202653 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£267,500
19 Feb 2026147 WN8 8TXDetached£695,000
3 Nov 2025SKELMERSDALE WARDENS SOCIAL CLUB, 244 WN8 8TXOther£210,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Jun 2025128 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£278,000
5 Jun 2025155 WN8 8TXDetached£128,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 May 2025163 WN8 8TXSemi-detached£227,000
16 May 20253, BLAGUEGATE COTTAGES WN8 8TXFlat or maisonette£437,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 2024144 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£220,000
25 Oct 2024118 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£160,000
8 Oct 2024226 WN8 8TXTerraced£155,000
19 Jul 202455 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£220,000
24 May 202469 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£140,000
24 May 202467 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£140,000
17 May 2024174 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£120,000
3 May 2024159 WN8 8TXSemi-detached£320,000
17 Apr 202491 WN8 8TYDetached£245,000
22 Mar 2024159 WN8 8TXSemi-detached£305,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Feb 202453 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£240,000
24 Apr 20231, BLAGUEGATE COTTAGES WN8 8TXTerraced£155,000
3 Oct 2022150 WN8 8TYTerraced£262,000
26 Jul 2022156 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£280,000
7 Apr 2022SOUTH WEST LANCASHIRE FARMERS LTD WN8 8TZOther£1,013,135Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Mar 2022149 WN8 8TXSemi-detached£195,000
29 Oct 2021123 WN8 8TXDetached£405,000
8 Sep 2021120 WN8 8TYOther£245,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 May 2021132 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£270,000
17 Mar 2021126 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£295,000
19 Feb 2021161 WN8 8TXSemi-detached£225,000
13 Mar 2020138 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£182,000
30 Jan 2020114 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£200,000
7 Oct 2019SOUTH WEST LANCASHIRE FARMERS LTD WN8 8TZOther£1,000,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jul 2019132 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£226,500
29 Apr 2019159 WN8 8TXSemi-detached£240,000
30 Nov 2018163 WN8 8TXSemi-detached£135,000
27 Jul 2018167 WN8 8TYOther£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Feb 201881 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£240,000
10 Nov 2017168 WN8 8TYDetached£230,000
8 Sep 2017135 WN8 8TXDetached£225,000
25 Nov 20163, BLAGUEGATE COTTAGES WN8 8TXOther£340,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Sep 2016178 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£158,000
27 Jul 2016234 WN8 8TXSemi-detached£220,000
21 Jun 2016166 WN8 8TYDetached£273,000
16 May 2016148 WN8 8TYTerraced£138,000
16 Oct 2015170 WN8 8TYDetached£325,000
14 Aug 2015163 WN8 8TXSemi-detached£118,000
2 Apr 2015105 WN8 8TYDetached£290,000
3 Nov 2014142 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£165,000
4 Oct 2013172 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£130,000
4 Oct 2013136 WN8 8TYSemi-detached£115,000Leasehold.
27 Sep 2013170 WN8 8TYDetached£332,000

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 July 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

68 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 97 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (40); House, detached (12); Bungalow, detached (9). Built: 1930-1949 (29); 1950-1966 (14); 1967-1975 (9). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (62); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (34 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Lancashire in 2026-27: Band D £2,456 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,183£2,456£3,002£3,548£4,094£4,912

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (34% of about 1,990 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: yes, West Lancashire.

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 19 November 2026 to 20 November 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Remedial works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 15 September 2026 to 16 September 2026: BT, New service connection, two-way signals, on the footway (minor works)
  • 8 September 2026 to 9 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 1 September 2026 to 3 September 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the footway (minor works)
  • 17 August 2026 to 18 August 2026: BT, Utility asset works, two-way signals, 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 12 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
WN8 8TYnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 2 unlikely
WN8 8TXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WN8 8TZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
L40 6JXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WN8 8ASnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WN8 8TRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 9 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 116 addresses are between 60 m and 67 m above sea level (64 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
L40 6JX100%100%100%0%
WN8 8AS100%100%100%0%
WN8 8TR100%100%100%0%
WN8 8TX100%100%100%0%
WN8 8TY100%100%100%0%
WN8 8TZ100%0%0%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 stationsOrmskirk 2.3 million journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Rainford 26,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.9 miles)
Aughton Park 186,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hollands Lane Lathom10 m
Bus or coach stationConcourse Skelmersdale3.3 km (2 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL24.4 km (15 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beacon Primary Care1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy1.3 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalOrmskirk And District General Hospital3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationSkelmersdale Police Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone1.3 km (0.8 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 gardenStanley Coronation Park 7,780 m²1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 200 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha150 m
AllotmentsLiverpool Road Allotments 5,190 m²1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Halfpenny PlantationWood540 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Stanley's FirsWood720 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Postillion CapLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Goose IslandIsland2 km (1.3 miles) north
Cobb's CloughValley3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Lowry HillHill4 km (2.5 miles) north

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
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
65 to 69110
60 to 64740
55 to 5980
Under 5523116

93 of the street's 116 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 West Lancashire: see them on the West Lancashire 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 Richard's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Brookfield Park Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Westhead Lathom St James' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Trinity Church of England/Methodist SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

7 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences3
Anti-social behaviour1
Public order1
Other crime1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Holland'S Lane (5); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (1); On or near Blaguegate Lane (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,109 residents in 477 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 age4740
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%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 4 to 6 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: CADENT GAS LIMITED: Remedial works, 19 November 2026 to 20 November 2026 (two-way signals) found 3 November 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.

  • WN8 8TY: 68 addresses
  • WN8 8TX: 40 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • WN8 8TZ: 4 addresses
  • L40 6JX: 2 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • WN8 8AS: 1 address of 43 in the postcode
  • WN8 8TR: 1 address of 75 in the postcode

Nearby streets

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All the streets in L40, WN8 and across West Lancashire.

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.