Ferngrove Bury

132 addresses across 10 postcodes (BL9), about 1.8 km (1.1 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 5100791.

  • Sales: 21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £152,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 118 homes have an energy certificate (A: 8, B: 82, C: 11, D: 16, E: 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 A; Band D in Bury costs £2,555 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Castleton (Manchester), about 6.5 km (4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Hoyles Park, is about 320 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 106 to 153 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 130 of its 132 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Huntley Mount Medical Centre, about 470 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 2,040 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 36% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20241£152,000£152,000£152,000
20232£135,000£130,000£140,000
20211£127,000£127,000£127,000
20201£60,000£60,000£60,000
20181£81,000£81,000£81,000
20151£79,950£79,950£79,950
20131£41,000£41,000£41,000
20101£68,500£68,500£68,500
20074£49,610£41,140£80,000
20062£75,498£63,000£87,995
20051£73,000£73,000£73,000
20031£30,000£30,000£30,000
Most recent sales (21)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Oct 2024162 BL9 6JWSemi-detached£152,000
22 Sep 2023155 BL9 6JNSemi-detached£140,000
15 Sep 202385 BL9 6JYSemi-detached£130,000
8 Sep 2023176 BL9 6JWSemi-detached£125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Sep 2021162 BL9 6JWSemi-detached£127,000
10 Jan 2020175 BL9 6JNSemi-detached£60,000
5 Dec 2018176 BL9 6JWSemi-detached£81,000
24 Mar 2015169 BL9 6JNSemi-detached£79,950
13 Sep 201390 BL9 6JXSemi-detached£41,000
28 Jan 2010155 BL9 6JNSemi-detached£68,500
15 Jun 2007176 BL9 6JWSemi-detached£44,220New build.
12 Jun 2007175 BL9 6JNSemi-detached£55,000
2 Apr 200782 BL9 6JXSemi-detached£41,140
22 Feb 2007169 BL9 6JNSemi-detached£80,000
11 Aug 2006110 BL9 6JWSemi-detached£87,995
11 Aug 2006166 BL9 6JWTerraced£63,000
28 Oct 2005112 BL9 6JWSemi-detached£73,000
3 Jun 200385 BL9 6JYSemi-detached£30,000
22 Nov 200287 BL9 6JYSemi-detached£23,950
2 Dec 199985 BL9 6JYSemi-detached£28,000
9 Dec 199785 BL9 6JYSemi-detached£12,000

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 March 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

118 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (97); House, mid-terrace (11); House, end-terrace (9). Built: 1930-1949 (101); 2007 onwards (6); 1950-1966 (6). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (94); owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (20 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bury in 2026-27: Band D £2,555 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,703£1,987£2,271£2,555£3,123£3,691£4,259£5,110

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (80% of about 2,100 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 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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): Bury borough HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: yes, Bury.

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 12 November 2026 to 16 November 2026: IX WIRELESS LIMITED, Statutory Infrastructure Works, multi-way signals, on the footway, verge (minor works)
  • 3 December 2026 to 4 December 2026: NATIONAL HIGHWAYS, Works for road purposes, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 30 September 2026 to 2 October 2026: IX WIRELESS LIMITED, Statutory Infrastructure Works, multi-way signals, on the footway, verge (minor works)
  • 8 September 2026 to 14 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
BL9 6JWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BL9 6JNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BL9 6JYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BL9 6ATnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BL9 6JLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BL9 6JXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BL9 7LSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BL9 6JPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BL9 7LEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BL9 7LRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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 132 addresses are between 106 m and 153 m above sea level (125 m on average); the ground rises about 47 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
BL9 6AT0%0%0%0%
BL9 6JL100%100%100%0%
BL9 6JN100%100%100%0%
BL9 6JP100%100%100%0%
BL9 6JW100%100%100%0%
BL9 6JX100%100%100%0%
BL9 6JY100%100%100%0%
BL9 7LE100%100%100%0%
BL9 7LR100%100%100%0%
BL9 7LS100%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 stationsCastleton (Manchester) 141,000 journeys in 2024–256.5 km (4 miles)
Rochdale 1.6 million journeys in 2024–258 km (5 miles)
Mills Hill (Manchester) 304,000 journeys in 2024–258.9 km (5.5 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kingfisher Drive Fern Grove130 m
Bus or coach stationBury Interchange2 km (1.2 miles)
Car parksVillage Hotel Bury, Manchester Car Park Pre Book1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station560 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN28.3 km (18 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Huntley Mount Medical Centre470 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Huntley Mount Pharmacy470 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 1 -5 Parsonage Street910 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalFairfield Gen Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationBury Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM660 m (0.4 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 Hoyles Park 5.9 ha320 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Clarence Park 23 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,870 m²130 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.5 ha800 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,720 m²440 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 30 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lower Chesham, a listed building (Grade II*), 740 m (0.5 miles) south-west. 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
Lower CheshamListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Medieval moated site and later fortified manor house known as Bury Castle 100m west of the parish churchScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gallows HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) east
The LidoLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Broad Oak WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Smethurst WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Tack Lee WoodWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) east
Ashworth ValleyValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) east

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)14.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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
75 dB or more390
70 to 74510
65 to 69180
60 to 6460
55 to 59160
Under 552132

130 of the street's 132 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 Bury: see them on the Bury 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
St Joseph and St Bede RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11340 m Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Hoyle Nursery SchoolNursery2–4380 m No published inspection
St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11490 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fairfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11840 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
East Ward Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11920 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Chesham Primary AcademyPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Inadequate (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hazel Wood High SchoolSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John with St Mark CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Heap Bridge Village Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St. Marie's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good

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
Carnival Ices BL9 6UGRetailers - other210 m5 Very good16 Oct 2023
Chaffinch House BL9 6JUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises270 m5 Very good23 Oct 2023
Best-One Fazeel Trading Ltd BL9 6JZRetailers - other280 m4 Good1 Sep 2026
Chesham Fold TRA /Community Centre BL9 6JZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good21 Feb 2025
Lotus Garden Chinese Takeaway BL9 6JZTakeaway/sandwich shop290 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Nov 2025
Hoyle Nursery School BL9 6HRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good2 Mar 2026
St.Pauls C.E. Primary School BL9 6LJSchool/college/university490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (lancashire).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 6 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 2,042 residents in 770 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 age3240
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)36%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented49%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work51%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)86%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 3 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: IX WIRELESS LIMITED: Statutory Infrastructure Works, 12 November 2026 to 16 November 2026 (multi-way signals) found 3 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.

Nearby streets

Goldfinch Drive · Plover Drive · Wren Drive · Kingfisher Drive · Bullfinch Drive · Thrush Drive · Swallow Drive · Chaffinch Drive · Linnet Drive · Huntley Court · Dove Drive · Kestrel Drive

All the streets in BL9 and across Bury.

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.