E Row Forge Side, Torfaen

18 addresses across 1 postcode (NP4), about 90 m long. USRN 40802692.

  • Sales: 8 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £102,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 3, E: 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 A; Band D in Torfaen costs £2,156 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ebbw Vale Parkway, about 6.9 km (4.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Iron Bridge Picnic Area, is about 670 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 368 to 371 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 17 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Blaenavon Medical Practice, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 36% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 54 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
20241£102,500£102,500£102,500
20211£90,000£90,000£90,000
20151£58,000£58,000£58,000
20111£99,950£99,950£99,950
20032£43,750£40,000£47,500
20021£14,750£14,750£14,750
20001£24,950£24,950£24,950
Most recent sales (8)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Mar 202410 NP4 9DQTerraced£102,500
12 Nov 202117 NP4 9DQTerraced£90,000
20 Nov 201512 NP4 9DQTerraced£58,000
20 May 20116 NP4 9DQTerraced£99,950
1 Oct 200317 NP4 9DQTerraced£47,500
18 Jul 200314 NP4 9DQTerraced£40,000
28 Aug 200217 NP4 9DQTerraced£14,750
3 Mar 200014 NP4 9DQTerraced£24,950

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (9); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (7); before 1900 (2); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3); rented (social) (2); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Torfaen in 2026-27: Band D £2,156 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,437£1,677£1,916£2,156£2,635£3,114£3,593£4,311£5,030

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (70% of about 740 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: none.
  • Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

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 25 address points in this street's postcodes, 10 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: none is in an area at risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 10 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

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 18 addresses are between 368 m and 371 m above sea level (369 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
NP4 9DQ100%0%0%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 stationsEbbw Vale Parkway 41,000 journeys in 2024–256.9 km (4.3 miles)
Ebbw Vale Town 249,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km (4.5 miles)
Abergavenny 423,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (5 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Coity Terrace Forgeside90 m
Bus or coach stationBrynmawr Bus Station Stand 36 km (3.7 miles)
Car parks97 Broad Street Parking1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points7 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shared Resource Centre610 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL44.9 km (28 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 Blaenavon Medical Practice1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well940 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Clinic1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalYsbyty Aneurin Bevan7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Police stationBlaina Police Station4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Blaenavon, Blaenavon Cashzone920 m (0.6 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 Iron Bridge Picnic Area 3,780 m²670 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 100 m²130 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha200 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,360 m²50 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Pit Head Building, Headframe and Tram Circuit, a listed building (Grade II*), 480 m (0.3 miles) north-west. 37 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pit Head Building, Headframe and Tram CircuitListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Engine Pit, BlaenavonScheduled monument500 m (0.3 miles) north
Miners Baths and CanteenListed building, Grade II*590 m (0.4 miles) west
Aaron Brute's Level and Iron BridgeScheduled monument600 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Former St Peter's School (Original School)Listed building, Grade II*810 m (0.5 miles) east
St Peter's ChurchListed building, Grade II*850 m (0.5 miles) east
Coity Sandstone Quarry and InclineScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) west
Blaenavon Industrial LandscapeWorld Heritage Site2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Forge PondLake or reservoir180 m north-west
Coity PondLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Mynydd CoetyHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Bunkers HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Cwm DarrenfelenValley2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Blaenavon Community WoodlandWood2.6 km (1.6 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)4.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.1205
Particles (PM10)7.74015

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
55 to 59170
Under 55118

17 of the street's 18 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 Torfaen: see them on the Torfaen 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
Blaenavon Heritage VC Primary School Church in Wales English mediumPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 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
Forgeside Community Hall NP4 9DHOther catering premises110 m5 Very good11 Feb 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.

54 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Anti-social behaviour14
Public order7
Criminal damage and arson3
Other crime1
Drugs1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Coity Terrace (34); On or near Forge Side (10); On or near Martin Terrace (4); On or near Oxford Terrace (2); On or near Forge Road (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 281 residents in 119 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 age3743
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over18%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)36%66%
Owned outright25%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented54%17%
Private rented9%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work42%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)22%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%26%
Travel to work by car or van69%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus2%3%
On foot or by bicycle9%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%32%
No qualifications36%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)100%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • NP4 9DQ: 18 addresses of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

E Row · D Row · C Row · Coity Terrace · Martin Terrace · Forge Road · Forge Road · Oxford Terrace · Clapham Terrace · Forge Road

All the streets in NP4 and across Torfaen.

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.