Crown Street Morpeth, Northumberland

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (NE61), about 130 m long. USRN 6220420.

  • Sales: 4 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £117,000 across 1 sale.
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 A; Band D in Northumberland costs £2,597 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Morpeth, about 410 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Mafeking Park, is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 26 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Npc Central Northumberland, about 580 m (0.4 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 65% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 71 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
20201£117,000£117,000£117,000
20011£57,000£57,000£57,000
19971£42,500£42,500£42,500
19951£25,000£25,000£25,000
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Aug 20205 NE61 1ULTerraced£117,000
22 Mar 20015 NE61 1ULTerraced£57,000
14 Nov 19975 NE61 1ULTerraced£42,500
5 Jul 19954 NE61 1ULSemi-detached£25,000

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Northumberland in 2026-27: Band D £2,597 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,731£2,020£2,308£2,597£3,174£3,751£4,328£5,194

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (30% of about 1,640 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

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

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 28 September 2026 to 29 September 2026: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER, Utility asset works, road closure, on the carriageway (major 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 40 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 40 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 40 low and 0 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 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
NE61 1UJzone 3 0 / 0 / 33 unlikely
NE61 1ULzone 3 0 / 0 / 7 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 addresses are about 26 m above sea level.

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
NE61 1UJ100%100%100%0%
NE61 1UL100%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 stationsMorpeth 623,000 journeys in 2024–25410 m (0.3 miles)
Pegswood 1,470 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Ashington 131,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km (4.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Castle Square Morpeth210 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Morpeth520 m (0.3 miles)
Car parksCo-op Pegswood Car Park2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station320 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL14.3 km (8.9 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Npc Central Northumberland580 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots360 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Morpeth Dental Clinic190 m
HospitalMorpeth Cottage Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationBedlington Police Station6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Pegswood - Morpeth Road, Pegswood Cashzone2.8 km (1.8 miles)

Parks and green space

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

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mafeking Park 3.6 ha170 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Carlisle Park 18 ha230 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 480 m²380 m
Playing fieldStorey Park 1.2 ha910 m (0.6 miles)
Allotments5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Allery Banks Allotment Gardens 2.8 ha160 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Court House, a listed building (Grade II*), 190 m south-west. 76 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Court HouseListed building, Grade II*190 m south-west
New Bridge (Telford Bridge)Listed building, Grade II*240 m west
The ChantryListed building, Grade I280 m west
Morpeth Old BridgeScheduled monument280 m west
Motte and bailey castle on Haw HillScheduled monument370 m south-west
Morpeth CastleListed building, Grade I400 m (0.2 miles) south-west
Morpeth CastleScheduled monument410 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Haw HillHill350 m south-west
Stobs FordLake or reservoir360 m north
Watty's HoleLake or reservoir590 m (0.4 miles) west
Farcy HolesLake or reservoir640 m (0.4 miles) north
Castle WoodWood730 m (0.5 miles) west
Climbingtree DeanValley2.1 km (1.3 miles) 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)4.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.0205
Particles (PM10)8.34015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 5920
Under 5502

2 of the street's 2 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 Northumberland: see them on the Northumberland page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
St Roberts Catholic First School, Morpeth Roman CatholicPrimary3–9660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Morpeth Stobhillgate First SchoolPrimary3–9930 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Abbeyfields First SchoolPrimary3–91.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
The King Edward VI SchoolSecondary13–181.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Morpeth Chantry Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Morpeth First SchoolPrimary3–91.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Morpeth Newminster Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Morpeth All Saints Church of England First SchoolPrimary3–91.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (May 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: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Morpeth Sports and Leisure Centre NE61 1SRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good29 Jul 2025
Goose Hill Private Nursery NE61 1TLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good7 Jan 2026
Slimming World Franchise NE61 1UERetailers - other180 m5 Very good22 Sep 2023
Courthouse Cafe NE61 1YJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good7 Jan 2026
The Toll House NE61 1YBPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good3 Feb 2020
Bikes Cafe @ Morpeth NE61 1SURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good19 Jan 2026
The Garage NE61 1SURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m1 Major improvement necessary28 Apr 2026
The Waterford Lodge NE61 1YDPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Joiners Arms NE61 1XZPub/bar/nightclub280 mAwaiting inspection
Nikos Mediterranean Taberna NE61 1PQTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good20 Oct 2026
Paddys Bar NE61 1PQPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good22 Oct 2018
Ephesus NE61 1PQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
The Auction House NE61 1PQHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house290 m5 Very good13 Feb 2026
Chatter Box Cafe NE61 1TDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
Morpeth Tourist Information NE61 1PJRetailers - other300 mExempt

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.

71 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Anti-social behaviour15
Criminal damage and arson12
Other theft8
Other crime6
Public order5
Vehicle crime2
Burglary2
Drugs1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near West Greens (16); On or near Castle Square (15); On or near Parking Area (7); On or near Alexandra Road (7); On or near Damside (5).

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: 596 residents in 337 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 age5540
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over34%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)65%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%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)37%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 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.

  • NE61 1UJ: 1 address of 37 in the postcode
  • NE61 1UL: 1 address of 9 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Alexandra Place · Castle Street · Burt Terrace · Bennetts Walk · Alexandra Road · Grey Place · Jackson Terrace · Castle Street · West Greens · Jackson Terrace · Tenter Terrace · Alexandra Road

All the streets in NE61 and across Northumberland.

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.