Churchfields Barnton, Cheshire West and Chester

13 addresses across 2 postcodes (CW8), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41700376.

  • Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £192,750 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (D: 6).
  • Flood: 3 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 West and Chester costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Greenbank, about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 45 to 50 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 13 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Oakwood Medical Centre, about 190 m away.
  • People: About 520 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 65 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
20242£192,750£190,500£195,000
20221£250,000£250,000£250,000
20182£147,750£137,500£158,000
20141£145,000£145,000£145,000
20091£150,000£150,000£150,000
20071£150,000£150,000£150,000
20061£123,000£123,000£123,000
20052£149,500£135,000£164,000
20031£75,800£75,800£75,800
20021£77,000£77,000£77,000
20011£76,500£76,500£76,500
19991£57,500£57,500£57,500
Most recent sales (20)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Sep 202410 CW8 4URSemi-detached£195,000
31 May 20248 CW8 4URSemi-detached£190,500
28 Mar 20248 CW8 4URSemi-detached£150,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Dec 20221 CW8 4URDetached£250,000
24 Jul 20189 CW8 4URSemi-detached£137,500
14 May 20181 CW8 4URDetached£158,000
24 Oct 201411 CW8 4URDetached£145,000
6 Nov 20096 CW8 4URSemi-detached£150,000
7 Aug 200710 CW8 4URSemi-detached£150,000
27 Oct 20061 CW8 4URDetached£123,000
16 Sep 20054 CW8 4URDetached£135,000
1 Jun 200511 CW8 4URDetached£164,000
5 Nov 200310 CW8 4URSemi-detached£75,800
25 Jan 20024 CW8 4URDetached£77,000
24 May 20013 CW8 4URDetached£76,500
23 Apr 19993 CW8 4URDetached£57,500
30 Oct 19984 CW8 4URDetached£57,000
30 Oct 19986 CW8 4URSemi-detached£54,000
11 Feb 19988 CW8 4URSemi-detached£24,500
26 May 199511 CW8 4URDetached£52,450

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 August 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 64 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (3); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1983-1990 (4); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire West and Chester in 2026-27: Band D £2,517 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,678£1,958£2,238£2,517£3,077£3,636£4,196£5,035

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (52% of about 580 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 4 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
CW8 4URnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CW8 4JXnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 4 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 13 addresses are between 45 m and 50 m above sea level (49 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
CW8 4JX100%100%100%0%
CW8 4UR100%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 stationsGreenbank 215,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Northwich 189,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Hartford (Cheshire) 218,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hayes Drive Barnton60 m
Car parksZion Street Car Park2.3 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsPark Street Car Park GeniePoint2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN19.5 km (12 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 Oakwood Medical Centre190 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well190 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest White The Dentist690 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalVictoria Infirmary Northwich Cdc2 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationNorthwich Police Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Barnton, Barnton Cashzone280 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,860 m²560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 770 m²90 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha30 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,560 m²120 m

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

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Winnington Hall, a listed building (Grade I), 790 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Winnington HallListed building, Grade I790 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Anderton Boat Lift, aqueduct, basins, meter building, toll houses and buried remains of salt chutes, inclined planes, the east basin and dockside featuresScheduled monument820 m (0.5 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gunners CloughValley240 m north-east
Nursery WoodWood260 m south
Bestway WoodWood310 m south-east
Bandshed WoodlandWood310 m north
Barnton CutLake or reservoir930 m (0.6 miles) south
Castle HillHill2.1 km (1.3 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)6.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)9.84015

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
55 to 5910
Under 551213

1 of the street's 13 addresses is 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 West and Chester: see them on the Cheshire West and Chester 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
Barnton Community Nursery and Primary SchoolPrimary2–11800 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
MARMARIS PIZZA & KEBAB CW8 4JSTakeaway/sandwich shop190 mAwaiting inspection
The Paper Shop CW8 4JSRetailers - other220 m4 Good23 Feb 2026
Eastern spice CW8 4JSTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m1 Major improvement necessary13 Aug 2025
Co-op CW8 4JRRetailers - other280 m5 Very good21 Sep 2026
Building Blocks Day Nursery CW9 6ABHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good22 Jul 2025
Barnton Football Club CW8 4LHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Mar 2026
The Barn Owl CW8 4ETPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good13 Aug 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.

65 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences46
Shoplifting6
Anti-social behaviour4
Criminal damage and arson4
Other crime3
Public order2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lydyett Lane (29); On or near Supermarket (11); On or near Churchfields (6); On or near Ashwood Crescent (5); On or near Crocus Street (3).

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: 521 residents in 254 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 age4940
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)31%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 van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

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.

  • CW8 4UR: 12 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • CW8 4JX: 1 address of 77 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Churchfields · Lydyett Lane · Nursery Road · Bracken Way · Yew Tree Drive · Goodwood Close · Broadway · Ashwood Crescent · Hayes Drive · Crocus Street · Crocus Street · Orchard Close

All the streets in CW8 and across Cheshire West and Chester.

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.