StreetDossier

Elsdon Drive Ashington, Northumberland

57 addresses across 2 postcodes (NE63), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42001067.

  • Sales: 38 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £65,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 48 homes have an energy certificate (C: 34, D: 10, E: 4).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Northumberland costs £2,597 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ashington, about 450 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Peoples Park, is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 33 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 57 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Seaton Park Medical Group, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 32% of households owned their home and 15% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 50 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
20231£65,000£65,000£65,000
20221£62,000£62,000£62,000
20201£35,000£35,000£35,000
20194£54,500£44,000£74,000
20181£77,000£77,000£77,000
20173£56,500£47,500£60,000
20161£77,000£77,000£77,000
20152£36,500£32,000£41,000
20122£61,750£47,500£76,000
20102£63,500£45,000£82,000
20091£57,500£57,500£57,500
20083£87,000£80,000£88,000
Most recent sales (38)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Mar 202331 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£65,000Leasehold.
18 Nov 202251 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£62,000Leasehold.
11 Sep 202023 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£40,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jan 202035 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£35,000Leasehold.
18 Oct 201932 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£44,000Leasehold.
26 Sep 20192 NE63 8DTSemi-detached£74,000
30 Apr 201924 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£54,000Leasehold.
1 Mar 201946 NE63 8DTTerraced£55,000
6 Apr 201842 NE63 8DTSemi-detached£77,000
16 Oct 201751 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£56,500Leasehold.
4 Aug 201736 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£47,500Leasehold.
20 Jan 201763 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£60,000Leasehold.
5 Aug 201616 NE63 8DTSemi-detached£77,000
18 Dec 201563 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£41,000Leasehold.
28 Jul 201563 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£32,000Leasehold.
5 Oct 201216 NE63 8DTSemi-detached£76,000
17 Aug 201236 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£47,500Leasehold.
21 Dec 201011 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£45,000Leasehold.
27 Aug 201016 NE63 8DTSemi-detached£82,000
30 Oct 200919 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£57,500Leasehold.
2 May 20082 NE63 8DTSemi-detached£88,000
18 Apr 20084 NE63 8DTTerraced£80,000
27 Feb 200842 NE63 8DTSemi-detached£87,000
18 Aug 200631 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£71,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 200651 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£71,000Leasehold.
24 Mar 200616 NE63 8DTSemi-detached£85,500
18 Nov 20057 NE63 8DTSemi-detached£65,000
1 Jul 20052 NE63 8DTSemi-detached£62,950
12 May 200547 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£69,000Leasehold.
19 Nov 20045 NE63 8DTTerraced£65,000
30 Apr 200463 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£55,000Leasehold.
18 Feb 200446 NE63 8DTTerraced£44,500
16 Feb 200442 NE63 8DTSemi-detached£24,120
22 Aug 200363 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£40,000Leasehold.
19 Mar 200359 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£30,000Leasehold.
19 Dec 20025 NE63 8DTTerraced£27,000
2 Dec 200251 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£13,440Leasehold.
22 Jun 200124 NE63 8DTFlat or maisonette£25,000Leasehold.

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 May 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

48 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: Flat (35); House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (3). Built: 1950-1966 (39); 1967-1975 (6); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (26); owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (98% of about 600 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

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

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

Roadworks

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 addresses are about 33 m above sea level.

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
NE63 8DR100%100%100%0%
NE63 8DT100%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 stationsAshington 131,000 journeys in 2024–25450 m (0.3 miles)
Pegswood 1,470 journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Morpeth 623,000 journeys in 2024–257 km (4.4 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Park Road Ashington Park180 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Ashington740 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations780 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL17.2 km (11 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 Seaton Park Medical Group1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots600 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Station Road (Dental Surgery)520 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalAshington Hospital570 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationNorthumbria Police5.2 km (3.2 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone470 m (0.3 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Peoples Park 8.8 ha110 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Wansbeck Riverside Park 103 ha610 m (0.4 miles)
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 180 m²280 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.4 ha370 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 112 hectares in all.

Landmarks

9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wellhead DeanWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-west
Castle IslandIsland2.2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Long StreamLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Hawks CliffCliff or slope3.8 km (2.4 miles) east
Brocks HillHill3.9 km (2.4 miles) west
Sandle HolesWetland4.7 km (2.9 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)5.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.1205
Particles (PM10)8.24015

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
55 to 5910
Under 555657

1 of the street's 57 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Northumberland: see them on the Northumberland page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Ashington AcademySecondary11–18210 m Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bothal AcademyPrimary2–11680 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Central AcademyPrimary2–11680 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
NCEA James Knott CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Stakeford Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
NCEA Thomas Bewick C of E Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Aidan's Catholic Primary School, Ashington Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ringway Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
NCEA Bishop's Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
NCEA Duke's Secondary School Church of EnglandSecondary11–192 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Dales School NE63 8BTSchool/college/university130 mAwaiting inspection
Langley News NE63 8DRRetailers - other140 m5 Very good9 Jan 2023
Kielder Fish Bar NE63 8DSTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good28 Oct 2025
Ashington Academy NE63 8DHSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good12 Sep 2025
Park Stores NE63 8DZRetailers - other340 m3 Generally satisfactory14 May 2025
The Hub @ Parkhead NE63 8EBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good17 Jun 2025
WildFox Day Nurseries Limited NE63 0SEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Jul 2026
Ashington Cricket Club NE63 8ABPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Mar 2026
Ashington Masonic Hall NE63 0SEPub/bar/nightclub480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Mar 2026
Retro Reptiles Limited NE63 8RNRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Aug 2024
Real Deal Plus Ltd NE63 8RNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Nov 2022
The Tipsy Bean NE63 8RNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 May 2026
The Haunted Headquarters NE63 8RNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Sep 2026
Taj Tandoori & Balti Takeaway NE63 8RNTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory28 Feb 2025
G G & Sons NE63 8RNRetailers - other490 m (0.3 miles)4 Good20 Nov 2024

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.

50 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Anti-social behaviour10
Public order6
Criminal damage and arson4
Bicycle theft2
Other theft2
Other crime1
Burglary1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Kielder Drive (11); On or near Green Lane (10); On or near Bamburgh Terrace (9); On or near Coupland Road (5); On or near Park Road (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 413 residents in 227 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 age4440
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)32%61%
Owned outright19%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented54%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%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)15%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%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 1 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, flat (lodged 25 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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.

  • NE63 8DT: 56 addresses of 57 in the postcode
  • NE63 8DR: 1 address of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wedderburn Square · Coupland Road · Park Road · Coupland Road · Darnley Road · Langley Road · Arundel Square · Kielder Drive · Ridsdale Square · Green Lane · Ashbourne Crescent · Holmdale

All the streets in NE63 and across Northumberland.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.