Boothfields Knutsford, Cheshire East

85 addresses across 3 postcodes (WA16), about 520 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 24100270.

  • Sales: 112 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £305,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 65 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 18, D: 36, E: 7, F: 1).
  • Flood: 9 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Knutsford, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 70 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 52 to 57 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 85 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Knutsford Medical Partnership, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 920 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 67% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 54 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£305,000£270,000£340,000
20251£488,000£488,000£488,000
20244£355,000£340,000£500,000
20237£342,294£222,500£460,000
20221£262,000£262,000£262,000
20214£305,000£270,000£435,000
20204£346,250£207,200£365,000
20194£263,050£225,000£299,950
20183£260,000£230,000£277,500
20174£220,100£119,000£350,000
20163£297,500£203,500£325,000
20158£237,500£113,500£325,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 112)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jan 202629 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£270,000
20 Jan 202639 WA16 8JUTerraced£340,000
21 Mar 202535 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£488,000
13 Dec 202442 WA16 8JUTerraced£340,000
6 Dec 202419 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£365,000
18 Oct 202433 WA16 8JUTerraced£345,000
11 Jul 202444 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£500,000
11 Dec 202322 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£290,000
24 Jul 202366 WA16 8JYDetached£341,456Leasehold.
24 Jul 202336 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£222,500
17 Jul 202364 WA16 8JYDetached£342,294
31 May 202375 WA16 8JYTerraced£460,000
17 Jan 202355 WA16 8JYTerraced£420,000Leasehold.
9 Jan 202337 WA16 8JUTerraced£355,000
14 Feb 202274 WA16 8JYSemi-detached£262,000
8 Nov 202141 WA16 8JUTerraced£330,000
30 Sep 202113A WA16 8JUTerraced£177,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Jul 202133A WA16 8JUSemi-detached£435,000
30 Jun 202133 WA16 8JUTerraced£270,000
7 May 202117 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£280,000
11 Dec 202056 WA16 8JUDetached£337,500
10 Dec 202046 WA16 8JUTerraced£355,000
29 May 202032 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£207,200
14 Feb 202039A WA16 8JUTerraced£365,000
18 Dec 201939 WA16 8JUTerraced£275,000
1 Nov 201954 WA16 8JUDetached£299,950
4 Oct 201931 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£251,100
1 Apr 201919 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£225,000
18 Dec 201843 WA16 8JUDetached£260,000
9 Nov 201833A WA16 8JUSemi-detached£240,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Oct 201869 WA16 8JYTerraced£277,500Leasehold.
13 Apr 201840 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£230,000
13 Oct 201755 WA16 8JYTerraced£350,000Leasehold.
6 Oct 201731 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£235,200
21 Mar 201713 WA16 8JUTerraced£119,000Leasehold.
28 Feb 201739A WA16 8JUTerraced£205,000
6 Jun 201660 WA16 8JYDetached£325,000
18 Mar 201656 WA16 8JUDetached£297,500
15 Jan 201629 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£203,500
30 Nov 201573 WA16 8JYTerraced£325,000
23 Nov 201531 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£180,000
15 Oct 201515 WA16 8JUTerraced£113,500Leasehold.
29 Sep 201561 WA16 8JYDetached£290,000Leasehold.
15 Sep 201560 WA16 8JYDetached£300,379
29 Jun 201521 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£189,000
22 May 201575 WA16 8JYTerraced£260,000Leasehold.
20 Mar 201519 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£215,000
24 Jul 201435 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£235,000
18 Jul 201417 WA16 8JUSemi-detached£215,000
14 Mar 201476 WA16 8JYDetached£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

65 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (23); Bungalow, semi-detached (15); House, detached (14). Built: 1967-1975 (34); 1950-1966 (23); 1976-1982 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (38); rented (social) (18); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (33% of about 1,720 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 2 October 2026 to 6 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 14 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
WA16 8JUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 5 unlikely
WA16 8JYnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 3 unlikely
WA16 8JTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 6 / 6 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 85 addresses are between 52 m and 57 m above sea level (55 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
WA16 8JT100%100%100%0%
WA16 8JU100%100%100%0%
WA16 8JY100%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 stationsKnutsford 371,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Mobberley 23,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Plumley 19,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shaw Drive Shaw Heath70 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Knutsford1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Car parksKing Street Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station870 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN7.1 km (4.4 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 Knutsford Medical Partnership1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery620 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalKnutsford Community Hospital1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Police stationCheshire Police - Altrincham Police Station9.5 km (5.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Mobberley Road Cashzone530 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8.9 ha70 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,050 m²370 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sparrow Lane Allotments 9,590 m²740 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Site of St John's Church and surrounding burial ground, 400m NW of Booths Mere, a scheduled monument, 360 m east. 26 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Site of St John's Church and surrounding burial ground, 400m NW of Booths MereScheduled monument360 m east
Church of St CrossListed building, Grade II*670 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Brook Street Unitarian ChapelListed building, Grade I1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Norbury Booths Hall moated site, fishponds and connecting channels.Scheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Tatton ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Jodrell Bank ObservatoryWorld Heritage Site8.8 km (5.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St John's WoodWood180 m east
Dog WoodWood730 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Booths MereLake or reservoir750 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Higmere PlantationWood840 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Mobberley BottomsValley2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Birch IslandIsland3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-west

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59200
Under 55838585

2 of the street's 85 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 Cheshire East: see them on the Cheshire East page.

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
Manor Park Primary School and NurseryPrimary2–11170 m Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11450 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Egerton Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Knutsford AcademySecondary11–181.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bexton Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Parkgate Oriental WA16 8HGTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m5 Very good27 Nov 2025
Williamsons Bakery WA16 8HGRetailers - other240 m5 Very good2 Oct 2024
Co-op Food WA16 8HGRetailers - other250 m5 Very good3 Jun 2024
Kids Allowed Knutsford WA16 8HYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Knutsford convenience store Go local WA16 8BZRetailers - other380 m5 Very good29 Jun 2026
Sister Barista WA16 8DLMobile caterer450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 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.

54 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences28
Public order6
Other theft5
Anti-social behaviour4
Criminal damage and arson3
Drugs3
Burglary3
Vehicle crime2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Churchfields (18); On or near Manor Park North (12); On or near Townfields (6); On or near Mobberley Road (5); On or near Bellingham Close (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 917 residents in 396 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 age4240
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)67%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented23%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%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 6 to 8 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.

  • WA16 8JU: 58 addresses of 59 in the postcode
  • WA16 8JY: 26 addresses of 28 in the postcode
  • WA16 8JT: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Churchfields · Helena Close · St. Johns Court · Townfields · Forester Avenue · Hayfields · Bellingham Close · Norbury Close · Autumn Avenue · Manor Park North · Kenilworth Avenue · Mobberley Road

All the streets in WA16 and across Cheshire East.

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.