Cliff Hill Road Shaw, Oldham

49 addresses across 2 postcodes (OL2), about 340 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29405956.

  • Sales: 57 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £333,750 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Oldham cost £217,214 in August 2026 (+4.6% on a year); private rents averaged £951 a month.
  • Energy: 32 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 9, D: 12, E: 8, F: 2).
  • Flood: 28 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
  • Landfill: 7 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Woodend Mill, is 130 m away.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Ellenroad Farm, Bentgate Street - Battery Energy Storage System, is 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A663, carries 10,864 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rochdale, about 5.2 km (3.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Dun Wood Park, is about 470 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 174 to 210 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 49 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Oak Gables Medical Practice, about 580 m (0.4 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 560 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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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
20262£333,750£305,000£362,500
20254£313,500£280,000£450,000
20242£305,000£282,000£328,000
20232£256,500£203,000£310,000
20221£194,000£194,000£194,000
20201£262,500£262,500£262,500
20191£343,000£343,000£343,000
20182£196,000£165,000£227,000
20174£198,575£190,000£232,500
20163£160,000£160,000£200,000
20152£158,000£145,000£171,000
20142£162,500£100,000£225,000
All 57 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Jul 20251 OL2 8DEDetached£450,000
7 Feb 20191 OL2 8DEDetached£343,000
28 Apr 20111 OL2 8DEDetached£148,000
20 Jul 20182 OL2 8DESemi-detached£227,000Leasehold.
1 Dec 20032 OL2 8DESemi-detached£136,000Leasehold.
7 Sep 20015 OL2 8DESemi-detached£71,000Leasehold.
17 Mar 20256 OL2 8DESemi-detached£292,000
28 Nov 20117 OL2 8DESemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
22 Apr 20248 OL2 8DESemi-detached£328,000Leasehold.
20 Feb 20158 OL2 8DESemi-detached£145,000Leasehold.
17 Oct 20189 OL2 8DESemi-detached£165,000Leasehold.
2 May 19979 OL2 8DESemi-detached£65,000Leasehold.
12 May 201610 OL2 8DESemi-detached£160,000Leasehold.
9 Dec 201111 OL2 8DESemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
26 May 202313 OL2 8DEDetached£310,000Leasehold.
10 Mar 201713 OL2 8DEDetached£190,000Leasehold.
22 Nov 201213 OL2 8DEDetached£148,000Leasehold.
3 Sep 200814 OL2 8DESemi-detached£170,000Leasehold.
4 Jun 202515 OL2 8DESemi-detached£280,000Leasehold.
18 May 202316 OL2 8DEDetached£203,000Leasehold.
3 Oct 201417 OL2 8DESemi-detached£100,000Leasehold.
9 Jul 201019 OL2 8DESemi-detached£217,500Leasehold.
22 Feb 202421 OL2 8DESemi-detached£282,000Leasehold.
21 Nov 202221 OL2 8DESemi-detached£194,000Leasehold.
14 Aug 202025 OL2 8DESemi-detached£262,500Leasehold.
23 Feb 200626 OL2 8DESemi-detached£175,000Leasehold.
9 Jul 200326 OL2 8DESemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
16 Jun 200427 OL2 8DEDetached£170,000Leasehold.
21 Apr 199527 OL2 8DEDetached£91,600Leasehold.
22 Jan 202628 OL2 8DESemi-detached£362,500Leasehold.
20 Mar 201728 OL2 8DESemi-detached£232,500Leasehold.
8 Sep 200428 OL2 8DESemi-detached£152,000Leasehold.
13 Dec 200128 OL2 8DESemi-detached£81,000Leasehold.
10 Apr 202629 OL2 8DESemi-detached£305,000Leasehold.
24 Feb 201729 OL2 8DESemi-detached£205,000Leasehold.
4 May 200729 OL2 8DESemi-detached£205,000Leasehold.
26 Sep 199730 OL2 8DESemi-detached£55,000Leasehold.
17 Nov 200032 OL2 8DESemi-detached£89,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 199932 OL2 8DESemi-detached£67,500Leasehold.
26 Jan 199632 OL2 8DESemi-detached£49,500Leasehold.
4 Jun 200433 OL2 8DEDetached£270,000
25 May 201634 OL2 8DESemi-detached£160,000Leasehold.
3 Dec 201538 OL2 8DESemi-detached£171,000Leasehold.
23 May 200838 OL2 8DESemi-detached£175,000Leasehold.
24 Feb 201740 OL2 8DESemi-detached£192,150Leasehold.
21 Feb 202542 OL2 8DESemi-detached£335,000Leasehold.
26 Jul 200242 OL2 8DESemi-detached£135,000Leasehold.
15 May 199842 OL2 8DESemi-detached£84,400Leasehold.
11 Apr 201443 OL2 8DEDetached£225,000
15 Aug 202546 OL2 8DEDetached£300,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Dec 201247 OL2 8DESemi-detached£155,000Leasehold.
9 Apr 201048 OL2 8DEDetached£222,500Leasehold.
26 Jan 199648 OL2 8DEDetached£84,000Leasehold.
9 Dec 201649 OL2 8DESemi-detached£200,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 200752 OL2 8DESemi-detached£220,000Leasehold.
3 Nov 200652 OL2 8DESemi-detached£225,000Leasehold.
4 Apr 199752 OL2 8DESemi-detached£70,000Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Oldham

A typical home in Oldham cost £217,214 in August 2026, 4.6% more than a year before. That is 33% more than five years earlier and 86% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£378,615
Semi-detached£247,700
Terraced£184,581
Flat or maisonette£132,991
Bought by a first-time buyer£198,052

Private renters in Oldham paid £951 a month on average in September 2026, 13.3% more than a year before. That is 59% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£708
Two bedrooms£888
Three bedrooms£1,078
Four or more bedrooms£1,466

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

32 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 92 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (11); Bungalow, detached (10); House, detached (6). Built: 1950-1966 (16); 1967-1975 (10); 1930-1949 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (22); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (32 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,129 kWh of it on average in 2024, 24% more than the district's 11,435 kWh, and 3,202 kWh of electricity, 9% more than the district's 2,951 kWh. There are gas meters for about 98% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
OL2 8DE463,208 kWh 4315,187 kWh
OL2 8DA422,243 kWh 4312,312 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 OL2.

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 Oldham in 2026-27: Band D £2,602 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,735£2,024£2,313£2,602£3,181£3,759£4,337£5,204

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (34% of about 1,420 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Ellenroad Farm, Bentgate Street - Battery Energy Storage System Rochdale 24/00917/FUL Battery storage 30 MW Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2025 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Scouthead Power Plant Oldham 40861 Landfill Gas 2.9 MW Operational Sep 2003 4.7 km (2.9 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 8 September 2026 to 11 September 2026: OLDHAM METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Works for road purposes, road closure, on the carriageway (standard works)
  • 25 August 2026 to 1 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (standard works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 25 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 8 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 90 homes the Environment Agency counts, 24 are in areas at high risk, 4 medium, 5 low and 1 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
OL2 8DEnot in 2 or 3 4 / 0 / 4 unlikely
OL2 8DAzone 2 21 / 3 / 4 unlikely

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 5 to 10%: 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

7 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 130 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Woodend Mill Milnrow Road, Shaw, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 130 m
Park Mills Milnrow Road, Shaw, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 140 m
Arley Drive Shaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 250 m
Harewood Road Shaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 330 m
Whitefield Dairy Farm Duchess Street, Shaw, Greater Manchester Not recorded Industrial, commercial, household 370 m
George Street Shaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester 1970 to 1985 Inert 430 m (0.3 miles)
Whitefield Dairy Farm Duchess Street, Shaw, Greater Manchester Not recorded Industrial, commercial, household 500 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 49 addresses are between 174 m and 210 m above sea level (181 m on average); the ground rises about 37 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
OL2 8DA100%100%100%0%
OL2 8DE100%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 stationsRochdale 1.6 million journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.3 miles)
Smithy Bridge 191,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Littleborough 378,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramShaw and Crompton (Manchester Metrolink)1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Newhey (Manchester Metrolink)1.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest George Street Buckstones Estate110 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Mumps Interchange5.2 km (3.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN29.6 km (18 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oak Gables Medical Practice Good Nov 2022580 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Everest Pharmacy Shaw1.4 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalThe Royal Oldham Hospital4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Care homesNewhey Manor Residential Care Home Inadequate Aug 20261.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationGreater Manchester Police5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Cash machinesBest One, Shaw1.2 km (0.7 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 Dun Wood Park 8.6 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,400 m²450 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.8 ha230 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 970 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 8.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ley WoodWood750 m (0.5 miles) north
Jep WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Brushes Clough ReservoirLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Brushes CloughValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Dog HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Top o' th' Dog HillHill1.5 km (0.9 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)9.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.34015

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 554849

1 of the street's 49 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 Oldham: see them on the Oldham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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
Buckstones Primary SchoolPrimary4–11490 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 83% in 2024 and 78% in 2023)
East Crompton St George's CofE School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11770 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 44% in 2023)
Rushcroft Primary SchoolPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 76% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
East Crompton St James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Beal Vale Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
St Thomas' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
The Crompton House Church of England AcademySecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 50.5 (46.8 in 2025 and 48.6 in 2024); 56.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 6.7% AAB or better; progress above average
Newhey Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 37% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
St Mary's CofE Primary School High Crompton Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection None published
Crompton Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 37% in 2024 and 77% 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

9 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 560 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Squirrels @ Buckstones OL2 8HN Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 560 m (0.3 miles)
Buckies Out Of School Club OL2 8LS Out-of-school day care 18 Not inspected yet 710 m (0.4 miles)
Dandelions Pre-school OL2 8AX Sessional day care 26 Not inspected yet 770 m (0.5 miles)
Sparkles at St Georges OL2 8AX Out-of-school day care 18 Not inspected yet 770 m (0.5 miles)
Beal Vale Pre-School Nursery OL2 7SY Full day care 34 Good (May 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
The Childcare Village OL2 7TD Full day care 80 Requires improvement (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
The Childcare Village Preschool OL2 7RY Sessional day care 32 Requires improvement (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Holyrood Day Nursery Shaw OL2 8AP Full day care 83 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
The Rises OL2 8PQ Full day care 47 Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 114 childminders and 59 home childcarers (nannies) in Oldham. 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 5 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
The Park Inn OL2 8DWPub/bar/nightclub110 m4 Good20 Feb 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (lancashire).

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.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 1 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist. 50% happened in the dark, and 50% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202211
202310
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
3 Jan 2023 18:35 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A663, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
8 May 2022 10:30 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist A663, 30 mph Daylight

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 A663 between A671 and LA Boundary, with 10,864 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 260 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A663 A671 to LA Boundary 10,864 estimated; counted 2024 3% -20% since 2015 260 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: 561 residents in 242 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 age5040
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright52%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification11%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 9 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

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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.