Elm Tree Square Embsay, North Yorkshire

28 addresses across 4 postcodes (BD23), about 80 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 9602245.

  • Sales: 24 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £176,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 12 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 5, E: 4, F: 1).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 D; Band D in North Yorkshire costs £2,544 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Skipton, about 3.4 km (2.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2 km (1.2 miles) 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 170 to 173 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 22 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dyneley House Surgery, about 2.8 km (1.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,010 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: 8 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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£176,500£176,500£176,500
20241£176,000£176,000£176,000
20221£225,000£225,000£225,000
20212£194,000£170,000£218,000
20201£320,000£320,000£320,000
20191£231,000£231,000£231,000
20173£248,000£180,000£557,500
20121£124,950£124,950£124,950
20101£235,000£235,000£235,000
20071£229,000£229,000£229,000
20062£287,500£125,000£450,000
20051£227,000£227,000£227,000
Most recent sales (24)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Jul 2025ELM GARTH COTTAGE, 15 BD23 6RATerraced£176,500
16 Aug 20248 BD23 6RBTerraced£176,000
7 Oct 202227 BD23 6RASemi-detached£225,000
29 Sep 202113 BD23 6RATerraced£170,000
5 Mar 202118 BD23 6RATerraced£218,000
28 Sep 202011 BD23 6RATerraced£320,000
15 Jul 20197 BD23 6RBTerraced£231,000
12 Jul 201724 BD23 6RADetached£557,500
28 Feb 201711 BD23 6RATerraced£248,000
27 Jan 201714 BD23 6RATerraced£180,000
29 Jun 201218 BD23 6RATerraced£124,950
15 Apr 201019 BD23 6RATerraced£235,000
9 Nov 200721 BD23 6RATerraced£229,000
19 Dec 20066 BD23 6RBTerraced£125,000
6 Dec 200624 BD23 6RADetached£450,000
24 May 200531 BD23 6RASemi-detached£227,000
2 Sep 200419 BD23 6RATerraced£197,250
12 Mar 200422 BD23 6RATerraced£159,950
10 Mar 200318 BD23 6RATerraced£99,500
28 Mar 200117 BD23 6RATerraced£129,000
10 Jul 200012 BD23 6RATerraced£110,000
16 Jul 199924 BD23 6RADetached£190,000
27 Nov 199826 BD23 6RADetached£185,000
17 Jul 199521 BD23 6RATerraced£73,950

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 January 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

12 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (6); House, end-terrace (4); House, enclosed end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (11); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (4).

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: yes, Embsay. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 28 September 2026 to 2 October 2026: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (standard works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 15 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, road closure, on the verge (immediate - emergency works)

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: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 4 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 6RAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BD23 6RBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
BD23 6QAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BD23 6RQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 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 28 addresses are between 170 m and 173 m above sea level (171 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
BD23 6QA100%100%100%0%
BD23 6RA100%100%100%0%
BD23 6RB100%100%100%0%
BD23 6RQ100%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 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cononley 183,000 journeys in 2024–257.1 km (4.4 miles)
Gargrave 41,000 journeys in 2024–257.7 km (4.8 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Laurel Croft Embsay120 m
Car parksBailey Car Park2.2 km (1.4 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station3 km (1.9 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. 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 Surgery2.8 km (1.7 miles)
PharmaciesPool Pharmacy2.7 km (1.7 miles)
NHS dentistsMuirhead Dental Practice2.6 km (1.6 miles)
HospitalSkipton Hospital3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationNorth Yorkshire Police2.5 km (1.6 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 gardenUnnamed 1,710 m²2 km (1.2 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²240 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,650 m²260 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,080 m²310 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Manor House, a listed building (Grade II*), 360 m west. 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*360 m west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Green BottomValley510 m (0.3 miles) east
Milking Hill WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Castle WoodsWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Embsay ReservoirLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Stonycliff BottomValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Eastby CragHill1.8 km (1.1 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 64160
55 to 5960
Under 55628

22 of the street's 28 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), 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
Embsay Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11140 m Good (Feb 2020, 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
Elm Tree Inn BD23 6RBPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good1 Aug 2025
The Paper Shop BD23 6QXRetailers - other120 m5 Very good4 Jun 2025
Embsay With Eastby Pre-School Playgroup BD23 6RESchool/college/university120 m5 Very good1 Aug 2025
Big Mouth Gyoza Events Limited BD23 6QRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good8 Oct 2026
Clean Eats Kitchen BD23 6QRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good17 Sep 2026
Cavendish Arms BD23 6QTPub/bar/nightclub470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 Jul 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

8 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour3
Violence and sexual offences3
Burglary2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Elm Tree Square (4); On or near Dalacres Crescent (3); On or near Dalacres Drive (1).

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: 1,010 residents in 466 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 age5240
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over31%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)76%61%
Owned outright48%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)37%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)40%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%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

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.

  • BD23 6RA: 21 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • BD23 6RB: 5 addresses of 7 in the postcode
  • BD23 6QA: 1 address of 18 in the postcode
  • BD23 6RQ: 1 address of 28 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Laurel Croft · Laurel Close · Boundary Terrace · Shires Croft · West Lane · Main Street · Hawks Wood View · Dalacres Drive · Priory View · Tannery Lane · Haw Park · Baynes Way

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.
  • 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.