Edgewood Close Widnes, Halton

18 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA8), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16107622.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £232,999 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 9).
  • 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 Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 79% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hough Green, about 940 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hough Green Park, is about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 11 to 12 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 7 of its 18 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Beeches Medical Ctr, about 390 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 440 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 53 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
20251£232,999£232,999£232,999
20231£170,000£170,000£170,000
20212£189,975£169,950£210,000
20182£155,500£151,000£160,000
20161£64,000£64,000£64,000
20141£148,000£148,000£148,000
20113£150,000£132,500£176,550
20102£159,203£148,455£169,950
20091£166,600£166,600£166,600
20083£160,000£140,000£189,950
20079£189,950£179,950£194,950
Most recent sales (27)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 Feb 20255 WA8 8WPDetached£232,999Leasehold.
21 Jun 202310 WA8 8WPDetached£170,000Leasehold.
30 Sep 20211 WA8 8WPSemi-detached£169,950
23 Sep 20219 WA8 8WPSemi-detached£210,000Leasehold.
21 May 201811 WA8 8WPDetached£151,000Leasehold.
11 May 20183 WA8 8WPDetached£160,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 201615A WA8 8WPDetached£64,000
2 Jul 20156 WA8 8WPTerraced£163,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Aug 20144 WA8 8WPDetached£148,000
8 Jul 20117 WA8 8WPTerraced£150,000Leasehold.
15 Apr 20117 WA8 8WPTerraced£132,500New build. Leasehold.
7 Jan 201118 WA8 8WPDetached£176,550New build.
28 May 201014 WA8 8WPDetached£169,950New build. Leasehold.
27 May 20108 WA8 8WPTerraced£148,455New build. Leasehold.
24 Jun 20091 WA8 8WPSemi-detached£166,600New build.
10 Dec 200815 WA8 8WPSemi-detached£189,950New build. Leasehold.
29 Aug 20085 WA8 8WPDetached£160,000New build. Leasehold.
29 Aug 200812 WA8 8WPDetached£140,000New build. Leasehold.
20 Dec 200710 WA8 8WPDetached£194,950Leasehold.
3 Dec 200711 WA8 8WPDetached£189,950New build. Leasehold.
2 Oct 200717 WA8 8WPDetached£189,950Leasehold.
14 Sep 20073 WA8 8WPDetached£179,950Leasehold.
23 Aug 20079 WA8 8WPSemi-detached£179,950New build. Leasehold.
21 Aug 20076 WA8 8WPSemi-detached£179,950New build. Leasehold.
10 Aug 200716 WA8 8WPDetached£179,950New build. Leasehold.
20 Jul 20072 WA8 8WPSemi-detached£189,950New build. Leasehold.
30 Apr 20074 WA8 8WPDetached£189,950New build.

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 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 96 m². Most common: House, detached (6); House, end-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 2003-2006 (4); 2007-2011 (3); 2007 onwards (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Halton in 2026-27: Band D £2,367 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,578£1,841£2,104£2,367£2,893£3,418£3,944£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (78% of about 810 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.

Roadworks

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

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

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 18 addresses are between 11 m and 12 m above sea level (11 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
WA8 8RF100%79%79%0%
WA8 8WP100%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 stationsHough Green 193,000 journeys in 2024–25940 m (0.6 miles)
Widnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Runcorn 732,000 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ditchfield Place Ditton40 m
Bus or coach stationBelle Vale Bus Station6.6 km (4.1 miles)
Car parksCaldwell Road Car Park2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL6.1 km (3.8 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Beeches Medical Ctr390 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Nicholson's Pharmacy420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 5 Danescroft [The Dental Practice]1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalHighfield Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationWidnes Police Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Hough Green, Hough Green810 m (0.5 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 Hough Green Park 3.1 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,080 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldHalebank Recreation Ground 1.7 ha1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 880 m²540 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 3.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Michael, a listed building (Grade II*), 740 m (0.5 miles) east. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MichaelListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) east
Lovel's Hall moated site and fishpond, WidnesScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Clincton WoodWood540 m (0.3 miles) west
Hale Gate MarshWetland2.9 km (1.8 miles) south
Runcorn GapTidal water2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Pex HillHill3.6 km (2.2 miles) north-east
Big PoolLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-east
Hale CliffCliff or slope5 km (3.1 miles) south-west

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)10.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 6410
55 to 5960
Under 551118

7 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 Halton: see them on the Halton page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Oakfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11410 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Michaels Catholic Primary & Nursery School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11580 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11580 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael with St Thomas CE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ormiston Chadwick AcademySecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Ditton Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Basil's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Halebank CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Ditton Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints Upton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Spar WA8 8RFRetailers - other20 m5 Very good7 Oct 2025
Oakfield Community Primary School - Orian Catering WA8 8BQSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good6 Nov 2024
Oakfield Community Nursery School and Supported Classroom WA8 8BQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good6 Nov 2024
Harry's Fish Bar WA8 8HRTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good3 Apr 2023
Hills Butchers WA8 8HRRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Jan 2026
Go Local WA8 8HRRetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jan 2024
Sainsbury's Argos Staff Cafe - Gather & Gather Ltd WA8 8HRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Dec 2023
Queens Pantry Community Shop WA8 8HRRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 May 2026
Tilly's Butty Bar WA8 8HRTakeaway/sandwich shop440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jun 2025
Grillionaire / Pizza Aroma WA8 8HRTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory25 Sep 2025
Beer Bellies WA8 8HRRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Nov 2023
New Inn WA8 8PZPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Widnes Hall and Lodge WA8 8BLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Jun 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.

53 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences24
Public order6
Criminal damage and arson6
Other theft5
Drugs4
Vehicle crime2
Other crime2
Possession of weapons2
Shoplifting1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Crown Avenue (22); On or near Rosewood Grove (8); On or near Philip Road (7); On or near Ditchfield Road (5); On or near Edgewood Close (3).

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: 435 residents in 180 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 age3940
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%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)19%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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.

  • WA8 8WP: 17 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • WA8 8RF: 1 address of 21 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Everite Road · Ditchfield Place · Westminster Close · Gavin Road · Rosewood Grove · Coronation Drive · Philip Road · Everite Road · Edinburgh Road · Heralds Close · Hazelwood Close · Crown Avenue

All the streets in WA8 and across Halton.

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.