Chatham Machen, Caerphilly

50 addresses across 8 postcodes (CF83), about 570 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 47501106.

  • Sales: 51 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £328,300 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 13, E: 7, F: 1).
  • 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 C; Band D in Caerphilly costs £2,083 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Crosskeys, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 310 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 45 to 61 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 47 of its 50 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Risca Surgery, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 830 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 41% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 52 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
20252£328,300£155,000£501,600
20231£255,000£255,000£255,000
20224£226,250£141,000£285,000
20213£255,000£230,000£385,000
20192£199,000£178,000£220,000
20182£250,500£175,000£326,000
20151£162,000£162,000£162,000
20141£120,000£120,000£120,000
20131£75,000£75,000£75,000
20121£60,000£60,000£60,000
20091£230,000£230,000£230,000
20075£240,000£149,950£325,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 51)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Dec 202533B CF83 8SBTerraced£155,000
3 Nov 202529 CF83 8SBDetached£501,600
17 Feb 202325 CF83 8SBSemi-detached£255,000
28 Oct 2022PICKETT HOW HOUSE, 45 CF83 8SBSemi-detached£285,000
15 Sep 202213 CF83 8SASemi-detached£252,500
9 Mar 202243 CF83 8SBTerraced£200,000
28 Feb 202215 CF83 8SASemi-detached£141,000
20 Dec 20213 CF83 8SADetached£385,000
6 Oct 20217 CF83 8SASemi-detached£230,000
2 Jul 2021TRADESMAN'S HOUSE, 45A CF83 8SBOther£295,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 May 2021PICKETT HOW HOUSE, 45 CF83 8SBSemi-detached£255,000
6 Sep 201923 CF83 8SBSemi-detached£178,000
10 Jul 2019ORCHARD BUNGALOW CF83 8SBDetached£220,000
7 Jan 2019TRADESMAN'S HOUSE, 45A CF83 8SBOther£155,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Aug 201813 CF83 8SASemi-detached£175,000
29 Jun 201829 CF83 8SBDetached£326,000
8 May 201531 CF83 8SBTerraced£162,000
19 Dec 201421 CF83 8SBSemi-detached£120,000
12 Dec 201331 CF83 8SBTerraced£75,000
8 Nov 201243 CF83 8SBTerraced£60,000
12 Oct 20093 CF83 8SADetached£230,000
14 Sep 200747 CF83 8SBDetached£245,000
6 Aug 200755 CF83 8SLSemi-detached£149,950
13 Jul 200713 CF83 8SASemi-detached£166,000
12 Mar 200729 CF83 8SBDetached£325,000
8 Jan 200749 CF83 8SLSemi-detached£240,000
13 Jul 200635 CF83 8SBTerraced£158,000
15 Jun 200623 CF83 8SBSemi-detached£155,000
16 Sep 20057 CF83 8SASemi-detached£170,000
31 Mar 200553 CF83 8SLSemi-detached£220,000
31 Mar 2005ORCHARD BUNGALOW CF83 8SBDetached£150,000
3 Dec 200421 CF83 8SBTerraced£168,000
28 May 200453 CF83 8SLSemi-detached£135,000
2 Apr 200455 CF83 8SLSemi-detached£114,000
22 Aug 200335 CF83 8SBTerraced£98,000
22 Jul 200255 CF83 8SLSemi-detached£55,250
12 Jul 200223 CF83 8SBSemi-detached£84,000
14 Jun 200221 CF83 8SBTerraced£64,000
27 May 200233B CF83 8SBTerraced£52,500
17 Aug 200149 CF83 8SLSemi-detached£114,000
3 Aug 20013 CF83 8SADetached£155,000
14 Jul 200041 CF83 8SBTerraced£40,000
25 Feb 200049 CF83 8SLSemi-detached£93,000
19 Nov 199933B CF83 8SBTerraced£45,000
29 Sep 199923 CF83 8SBSemi-detached£52,500
13 Jul 1999ORCHARD BUNGALOW CF83 8SBDetached£95,000New build.
9 Feb 199925 CF83 8SBSemi-detached£52,000
22 Oct 199747 CF83 8SBDetached£88,500
29 Aug 199749 CF83 8SLSemi-detached£66,000
15 Dec 199533B CF83 8SBTerraced£40,500

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

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12); House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 1900-1929 (13); before 1900 (7); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (social) (3); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Caerphilly in 2026-27: Band D £2,083 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,389£1,620£1,851£2,083£2,546£3,009£3,471£4,166£4,860

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (37% of about 510 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: 1.
  • Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Listed buildings

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 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: of the 95 address points in this street's postcodes, 12 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 8 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: 4 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 8 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 9 at low risk.

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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low risk
CF83 8SBnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 2
CF83 8SAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 1
CF83 8SGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0
CF83 8SLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1
CF83 8SFnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0
CF83 8SWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0
CF83 8PJnot in 2 or 3 7 / 0 / 4
CF83 8SUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0

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 50 addresses are between 45 m and 61 m above sea level (51 m on average); the ground rises about 15 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
CF83 8PJ100%87%87%0%
CF83 8SA100%75%75%0%
CF83 8SB100%100%100%0%
CF83 8SF100%100%100%0%
CF83 8SG100%100%100%0%
CF83 8SL100%100%100%0%
CF83 8SU100%0%0%0%
CF83 8SW100%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 stationsCrosskeys 92,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Risca and Pontymister 95,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Rogerstone 87,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Graig View Machen40 m
Bus or coach stationCaerphilly Interchange Stand 116.4 km (4 miles)
Ferry terminalNewport (S Wales) Ferry Terminal11.4 km (7.1 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations580 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL26.4 km (16 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 surgeriesRisca Surgery2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Machen Pharmacy370 m
NHS dentistsRisca Dental Practice2.7 km (1.7 miles)
HospitalYsbyty Ystrad Fawr8.2 km (5.1 miles)
Police stationRisca Police Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Machen Commercial Road Cashzone400 m (0.2 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 Unnamed 2,090 m²310 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 520 m²110 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.3 ha50 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,850 m²630 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Castell Meredydd, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Castell MeredyddScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
House Platforms to W of Mynydd MachenScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Machen Forge and Tinplate WorksScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) west
Machen HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Plas MachenRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Coed y FedwWood300 m north
Cwm FedwValley710 m (0.4 miles) north
Coed Pen-llwynWood750 m (0.5 miles) east
Y LlynLake or reservoir840 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Cwm-diffrwythValley910 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Mynydd MachenHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-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)6.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)8.54015

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: 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
70 to 7430
65 to 69310
60 to 6440
55 to 5990
Under 55350

47 of the street's 50 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 Caerphilly: see them on the Caerphilly 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
Machen Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School

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
Co-op CF83 8PGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets280 m5 Very good29 Jul 2025
Machen Stores CF83 8PGRetailers - other320 m1 Major improvement necessary9 Jan 2026
J.O.Williams Fruiterer CF83 8LFMobile caterer340 mAwaiting inspection
Machen Pharmacy CF83 8PGRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Good Fortune Takeaweay CF83 8PHTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory16 Jul 2026
Bombay Spice CF83 8PHTakeaway/sandwich shop460 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.

52 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Anti-social behaviour12
Public order7
Criminal damage and arson4
Burglary3
Other crime2
Robbery2
Shoplifting1
Other theft1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rhyd Y Gwern Isaf (20); On or near Llanarth Close (8); On or near Tyn Y Waun Road (4); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (4); On or near Graig View (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: 828 residents in 370 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 age5043
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over25%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%66%
Owned outright52%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented11%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work55%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)33%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)36%26%
Travel to work by car or van57%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus3%3%
On foot or by bicycle3%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)41%32%
No qualifications14%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)99%97%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

Nearby streets

Graig View · Min yr Afon · Chatham Street · Bovil View · Rectory Gardens · Rhyd y Gwern Isaf · Llanarth Street · Tyn y Waun Road · Llanarth Close · Llanarth Street · Ty Pucca Close · Chestnut Close

All the streets in CF83 and across Caerphilly.

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.