East Lane Embsay, North Yorkshire

72 addresses across 6 postcodes (BD23), about 400 m (0.2 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 9602244.

  • Sales: 70 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £265,000 across 3 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in North Yorkshire cost £270,080 in August 2026 (+1.7% on a year); private rents averaged £852 a month.
  • Energy: 40 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9, D: 19, E: 10, F: 2).
  • Flood: 2 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.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Tannery Dam, is 160 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 130 times (934 hours) in 2025.
  • 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.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the Minor road, carries 905 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band D; Band D in North Yorkshire costs £2,544 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 94% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Skipton, about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 142 to 171 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 37 of its 72 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dyneley House Surgery, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,000 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 76% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 13 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20263£265,000£240,000£360,000
20251£294,000£294,000£294,000
20242£302,000£229,000£375,000
20234£285,000£225,000£522,500
20222£362,500£235,000£490,000
20212£247,500£163,000£332,000
20192£207,750£130,000£285,500
20182£282,500£275,000£290,000
20171£235,000£235,000£235,000
20164£207,250£170,000£422,000
20155£238,000£175,500£330,000
20142£322,250£254,500£390,000
All 70 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Sep 20073 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£292,500
2 Nov 20013 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£122,000
7 Oct 20164 BD23 6QADetached£422,000
24 Feb 20124 BD23 6QADetached£350,000
31 Aug 20014 BD23 6QADetached£202,000
5 Aug 19984 BD23 6QADetached£140,000
22 Apr 20027 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£108,000
2 Mar 19997 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£56,500
2 Jun 20038 BD23 6QATerraced£195,000
24 Oct 20239 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£522,500
4 Feb 20149 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£390,000
12 Apr 201910 BD23 6QASemi-detached£130,000
4 Dec 201512 BD23 6QATerraced£225,000
1 Jun 201012 BD23 6QATerraced£160,000
27 Mar 201513 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£249,950
4 Mar 201115 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£222,500
20 May 200515 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£215,000
16 Jun 201716 BD23 6QATerraced£235,000
31 Jul 202620 BD23 6QATerraced£240,000
10 Aug 201620 BD23 6QATerraced£170,000
31 Jan 200320 BD23 6QATerraced£91,557
3 Feb 202621 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£360,000
3 Feb 202621 BD23 6QXOther£10,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Apr 202121 BD23 6QXOther£4,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Aug 201921 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£285,500
4 Nov 201321 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£210,000
16 Mar 200921 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£120,000
11 Nov 202222 BD23 6QATerraced£235,000
30 Jun 200622 BD23 6QATerraced£169,950
2 Dec 199622 BD23 6QATerraced£66,500
1 Apr 202123 BD23 6QXOther£5,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Aug 201823 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£290,000
28 Oct 201323 BD23 6QXSemi-detached£192,500
3 Sep 202124 BD23 6QATerraced£163,000
21 Dec 200524 BD23 6QATerraced£143,500
28 Jun 199924 BD23 6QATerraced£54,000
11 Apr 199524 BD23 6QATerraced£45,000
11 Oct 199625 BD23 6QXDetached£82,000
22 Jun 202227 BD23 6QXDetached£490,000
2 Jan 201527 BD23 6QXDetached£330,000
28 Feb 200327 BD23 6QXDetached£186,500
17 Dec 202530 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£294,000
25 May 202332 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£265,000
22 Oct 200232 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£90,000
29 Mar 201834 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£275,000
1 Jun 201534 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£238,000
22 Jun 199534 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£54,000
21 Jul 201638 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£225,000
14 May 199940 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£60,000
2 Sep 201642 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£189,500
21 Feb 202344 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£305,000
2 Feb 200744 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£227,500
16 Aug 200244 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£90,000
19 Jun 202650 BD23 6QDTerraced£265,000
5 Jun 201550 BD23 6QDTerraced£175,500
19 Oct 200650 BD23 6QDTerraced£145,000
28 Feb 200650 BD23 6QDTerraced£145,000
25 Feb 200552 BD23 6QDTerraced£126,000
20 Jun 202458 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£229,000
4 May 202360 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£225,000
31 Mar 202162 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£332,000
22 Dec 201462 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£254,500
18 Mar 201162 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£230,000
20 Dec 200462 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£215,000
8 Nov 200262 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£165,000
14 Dec 200062 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£45,100
22 Nov 2024INGLENOOK COTTAGE, 62 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£375,000
10 Oct 201164 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£250,000
11 May 200764 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£275,000
1 Sep 199564 BD23 6QDSemi-detached£82,000

House prices and rents in North Yorkshire

A typical home in North Yorkshire cost £270,080 in August 2026, 1.7% more than a year before. That is 12% more than five years earlier and 32% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£431,122
Semi-detached£269,527
Terraced£219,836
Flat or maisonette£142,783
Bought by a first-time buyer£218,075

Private renters in North Yorkshire paid £852 a month on average in September 2026, 2.3% more than a year before. That is 24% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£595
Two bedrooms£771
Three bedrooms£945
Four or more bedrooms£1,361

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 September 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

40 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 92 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (18); House, mid-terrace (15); House, end-terrace (4). Built: before 1900 (16); 1950-1966 (9); 1900-1929 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (26); rented (private) (5); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (40 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,241 kWh of it on average in 2024, 9% more than the district's 12,105 kWh, and 3,334 kWh of electricity, 13% less than the district's 3,846 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
BD23 6QD213,457 kWh 2111,721 kWh
BD23 6QX162,699 kWh 1714,175 kWh
BD23 6QA112,242 kWh 1010,587 kWh
BD23 6QB74,217 kWh 67,782 kWh
BD23 6QE112,700 kWh 119,508 kWh
BD23 6RA172,736 kWh 1813,508 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 BD23.

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 North Yorkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,544 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,696£1,979£2,262£2,544£3,110£3,675£4,241£5,089

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (28% of about 970 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.

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

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Skibeden Landfill Gas 2 MW Operational May 2009 1 km (0.6 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 9 November 2026 to 11 November 2026: QUICKLINE COMMUNICATIONS LTD, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (minor works, permit applied for)

Finished in the last three months

  • 19 October 2026 to 23 October 2026: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (standard works)
  • 2 September 2026 to 4 September 2026: QUICKLINE COMMUNICATIONS LTD, Utility repair and maintenance works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)
  • 26 August 2026: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 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
BD23 6QDnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BD23 6QXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
BD23 6QAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BD23 6QBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BD23 6QEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BD23 6RAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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

4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 130 times, for 934 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Embsay Beck, Green Bottom Beck, Trib of Haw Beck.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Newlands No 2 Cso Yorkshire Water Embsay Beck 5 12 70 m
Embsay Cso Yorkshire Water Embsay Beck 49 109 110 m
Fell View Cso Yorkshire Water Green Bottom Beck 2 5 470 m (0.3 miles)
Embsay Wwtw Yorkshire Water Trib of Haw Beck 74 808 870 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

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

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 160 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Tannery Dam Pasture Road, Embsay, Near Skipton, North Yorkshire from 1916 Industrial 160 m

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 72 addresses are between 142 m and 171 m above sea level (160 m on average); the ground rises about 29 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
BD23 6QA100%100%100%0%
BD23 6QB100%100%100%0%
BD23 6QD100%100%100%0%
BD23 6QE100%100%100%0%
BD23 6QX100%94%94%0%
BD23 6RA100%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 stationsSkipton 1.3 million journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Cononley 183,000 journeys in 2024–256.8 km (4.2 miles)
Gargrave 41,000 journeys in 2024–257.5 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dalacres Drive Embsay60 m
Car parksBailey Car Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA25 km (16 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. 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 surgeriesDyneley House Surgery Outstanding Sep 20162.4 km (1.5 miles)
PharmaciesPool Pharmacy2.4 km (1.5 miles)
NHS dentistsMuirhead Dental Practice2.2 km (1.4 miles)
HospitalSkipton Hospital3 km (1.9 miles)
Care homesThe Mill House Good Oct 20172.8 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationNorth Yorkshire Police2.1 km (1.3 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 gardenUnnamed 1,710 m²1.6 km (1 mile)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²580 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,080 m²420 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Manor House, a listed building (Grade II*), 420 m (0.3 miles) north. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Manor HouseListed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Green BottomValley830 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Castle WoodsWood860 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Milking Hill WoodWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) north
Embsay ReservoirLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Long DamLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Eastby CragHill2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)3.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.4205
Particles (PM10)8.14015

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
60 to 6450
55 to 59320
Under 553572

37 of the street's 72 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 North Yorkshire: see them on the North Yorkshire page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Embsay Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11410 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) None published

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

2 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 350 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Embsay Children's Centre BD23 6RQ Full day care 85 Feb 2026: Strong standard in 6 areas 350 m
Embsay with Eastby Pre-School Playgroup BD23 6RE Full day care 20 Outstanding (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 490 m (0.3 miles)

Ofsted also registers 205 childminders and 32 home childcarers (nannies) in North Yorkshire. 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 4 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
Big Mouth Gyoza Events Limited BD23 6QRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good8 Oct 2026
Clean Eats Kitchen BD23 6QRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Cavendish Arms BD23 6QTPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good22 Jul 2026
Station Coffee Shop BD23 6QXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good24 Feb 2026
Dales Dining BD23 6QXOther catering premises160 m5 Very good30 Jun 2026
The Paper Shop BD23 6QXRetailers - other280 m5 Very good4 Jun 2025
Elm Tree Inn BD23 6RBPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Aug 2025
Embsay With Eastby Pre-School Playgroup BD23 6RESchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 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.

13 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Anti-social behaviour4
Burglary3
Other theft1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near West Lane (6); On or near Dalacres Crescent (3); On or near Bow Bridge Drive (2); On or near Dalacres Drive (1); On or near Embsay (1).

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.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. 1 involved a cyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202400
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
8 Mar 2025 14:25 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 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 Minor road, with 905 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 250 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
Minor road Not recorded 905 counted 2025 0% 250 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 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 997 residents in 453 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 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over27%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)76%61%
Owned outright47%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)34%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: QUICKLINE COMMUNICATIONS LTD: Utility asset works, 9 November 2026 to 11 November 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 November 2026

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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

Dalacres Crescent · Dalacres Drive · Wood View · Baynes Way · Bow Bridge Drive · Tannery Lane · West Lane · Millholme Rise · Brackenley Grove · Rockville Drive · Dales Avenue · Park Crescent

All the streets in BD23 and across North Yorkshire.

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.