Celandine Close Pontefract, Wakefield

38 addresses across 2 postcodes (WF8), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41800692.

  • Sales: 13 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £139,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Wakefield cost £199,283 in August 2026 (+2.9% on a year); private rents averaged £810 a month.
  • Energy: 16 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 6).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A639, carries 19,129 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Wakefield costs £2,297 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% to 96% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Pontefract Baghill, about 740 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Friarwood Valley Gardens, is about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 48 to 52 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 Friarwood Surgery, about 300 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 680 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 123 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House 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£139,000£139,000£139,000
20241£141,000£141,000£141,000
20171£60,000£60,000£60,000
20062£80,250£70,500£90,000
20051£64,000£64,000£64,000
20032£55,500£52,000£59,000
20021£42,950£42,950£42,950
19982£25,500£20,000£31,000
All 13 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Mar 20171 WF8 2SLTerraced£60,000
26 May 20051 WF8 2SLTerraced£64,000
25 Nov 20021 WF8 2SLTerraced£42,950
29 May 19981 WF8 2SLTerraced£31,000
11 Apr 20039 WF8 2SLSemi-detached£52,000
12 Mar 19989 WF8 2SLSemi-detached£20,000
6 Sep 200615 WF8 2SLTerraced£70,500
24 Jan 202518 WF8 2SLSemi-detached£139,000
24 Jul 200618 WF8 2SLSemi-detached£90,000
26 May 202319 WF8 2SLSemi-detached£133,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Dec 202019 WF8 2SLSemi-detached£95,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Apr 200320 WF8 2SLSemi-detached£59,000
17 Oct 202424 WF8 2SLSemi-detached£141,000

House prices and rents in Wakefield

A typical home in Wakefield cost £199,283 in August 2026, 2.9% more than a year before. That is 19% more than five years earlier and 54% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£314,988
Semi-detached£200,459
Terraced£159,794
Flat or maisonette£100,645
Bought by a first-time buyer£178,078

Private renters in Wakefield paid £810 a month on average in September 2026, 5.9% more than a year before. That is 31% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£579
Two bedrooms£730
Three bedrooms£874
Four or more bedrooms£1,224

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 April 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (16). Built: 1950-1966 (9); 1967-1975 (5); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (8); owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (16 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,948 kWh of it on average in 2024, 10% more than the district's 10,898 kWh, and 2,944 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WF8 2SL242,374 kWh 2411,852 kWh
WF8 2RY222,537 kWh 2212,338 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is WF8.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Wakefield in 2026-27: Band D £2,297 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,531£1,786£2,042£2,297£2,807£3,318£3,828£4,594

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (61% of about 890 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Ferrybridge Multifuel 1 (FM1) Wakefield 09/02103/OHL Energy from waste (incinerator) 68 MW Operational Aug 2015 3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Ferrybridge Multifuel 2 (FM2) The Planning Inspectorate - National Infrastructure EN010061 Energy from waste (incinerator) 70 MW Operational Dec 2019 3.8 km (2.4 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 3 to 5%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 38 addresses are between 48 m and 52 m above sea level (50 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
WF8 2RY96%96%96%0%
WF8 2SL96%96%96%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 stationsPontefract Baghill 18,000 journeys in 2024–25740 m (0.5 miles)
Pontefract Tanshelf 99,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Pontefract Monkhill 229,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops18 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 60 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Carleton Stores Chequerfield130 m
Bus or coach stationPontefract Bus Station820 m (0.5 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Market Place Upper Car Park670 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stuart Road Car Park GeniePoint1 km (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA30.8 km (19 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Friarwood Surgery Good Jan 2026300 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Friarwood Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ropergate Dental Practice640 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalPontefract General Infirmary Requires improvement Nov 2022550 m (0.3 miles)
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 1 Hill Close Requires improvement Dec 2023180 m
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police750 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Yorkshire Bank640 m (0.4 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Friarwood Valley Gardens 3.6 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,790 m²260 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha180 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,290 m²460 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 3.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Friarwood Valley Gardens, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 510 m (0.3 miles) north-west. 53 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 7 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Friarwood Valley GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II510 m (0.3 miles) north-west
The HermitageListed building, Grade I600 m (0.4 miles) north
Market Cross and Attached PumpListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Barclays Bank and attached railingsListed building, Grade II*720 m (0.4 miles) north
Church of St GilesListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Pontefract Castle: part of late Saxon cemetery and town ditch, Norman motte and bailey castle and later medieval enclosure castleScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
St John's PrioryScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Friar Wood HillHill470 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Priory WoodWood640 m (0.4 miles) west
Stony HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Dunhill's HillHill1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Willow IslandIsland4.7 km (2.9 miles) north-east
Thorp MarshWetland4.8 km (3 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)12.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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
Under 553838

None of the street's 38 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 Wakefield: see them on the Wakefield page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Ark Carleton Park Primary SchoolPrimary4–11550 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 87% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 23% at the higher standard (2025; 93% in 2024 and 97% in 2023)
Ark The King's SchoolSecondary11–16730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 51.8 (49.9 in 2025 and 49.0 in 2024); 57.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
Harewood Centre Nursery SchoolNursery2–4860 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Pontefract Roman CatholicPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
Ark De Lacy Primary SchoolPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18% at the higher standard (2025; 77% in 2024 and 79% in 2023)
Ark The Rookeries Carleton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 32% at the higher standard (2025; 84% in 2024 and 85% in 2023)
Ark Larks Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 97% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 53% at the higher standard (2025; 93% in 2024 and 93% in 2023)
St Giles C of E Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 78% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 80% in 2024 and 76% in 2023)
Ark Carleton High SchoolSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.3 (47.5 in 2025 and 47.4 in 2024); 45.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
Ark Halfpenny Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 93% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 26% at the higher standard (2025; 88% in 2024 and 90% in 2023)
Cherry Tree AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Requires improvement (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 49% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 26% in 2023)
Holy Family and St Michael's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 35% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 45% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 650 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Kip McGrath Pontefract WF8 1SL Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 650 m (0.4 miles)
Sunshine Kids WF8 1NB Full day care 26 Outstanding (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 770 m (0.5 miles)
Little Rainbow Nursery WF8 1JL Sessional day care 44 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 900 m (0.6 miles)
Pomfret Woodland Community Nursery WF8 2DD Full day care 55 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Stepping Stones Day Nursery WF8 4DA Full day care 88 Outstanding (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Stagecoach Pontefract WF8 3NW Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
The Grange Nursery WF8 3RJ Full day care 36 Good (Aug 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Young Minds Matter WF8 4AY Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Engineering & Sports Alternative Provision WF8 4FU Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cherry Blossom Pre-School WF8 2HN Full day care 40 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 190 childminders and 13 home childcarers (nannies) in Wakefield. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Carleton Stores WF8 2RXRetailers - other160 m4 Good26 Apr 2022
Carleton Self Service Store WF8 2SERetailers - other220 m5 Very good29 Jan 2018
Fortune House WF8 2SETakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good15 Oct 2024
Tuck In at Swanhill WF8 2SETakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good2 Apr 2026
Nanny G's WF8 2ADTakeaway/sandwich shop270 m5 Very good2 Jul 2025
Tesco Express WF8 2BERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good19 May 2026
Slimming World WF8 2AFRetailers - other340 mExempt
Go Local Extra Angling Superstore WF8 1EERetailers - other370 m4 Good14 May 2024
Canton Chef WF8 1EETakeaway/sandwich shop370 m3 Generally satisfactory30 Oct 2025
Young Peoples Empowerment Project WF8 4HYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good15 Oct 2026
Slimming World WF8 3PPRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Carleton Fisheries WF8 3PRTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Dec 2025
Pontefract Masonic Hall Company Limited WF8 3PAPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 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.

123 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences58
Shoplifting18
Anti-social behaviour13
Other theft8
Public order5
Criminal damage and arson5
Robbery4
Other crime3
Burglary3
Possession of weapons2
Drugs2
Vehicle crime1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hill Close (26); On or near Grove Lea Walk (24); On or near Grove Lea Crescent (17); On or near Swanhill Lane (11); On or near Bluebell Close (9).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A639 between A645 and A628, with 19,129 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 370 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A639 A645 to A628 19,129 estimated; counted 2020 1% +6% since 2015 370 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 675 residents in 259 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 age4040
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright22%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented38%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)12%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%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)19%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

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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.

Nearby streets

Sorrel Close · Campion Close · Bluebell Close · Coltsfoot Close · Starwort Close · Ashleigh Avenue · Carleton Glen · Grove Lea Crescent · Hill Close · Avens Close · Grove Lea Walk · Primrose Close

All the streets in WF8 and across Wakefield.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.