Forge Road Llangynidr, Powys

38 addresses across 2 postcodes (NP8), about 530 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 4101821.

  • Sales: 40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £425,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 2, D: 4, E: 5, F: 5).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band F; Band D in Powys costs £2,352 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 76% to 97% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ebbw Vale Town, about 10.7 km (6.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 94 to 127 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 23 of its 38 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is War Memorial Health Centre, about 7 km (4.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 740 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 53% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 6 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often drugs.

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£425,000£425,000£425,000
20221£590,000£590,000£590,000
20213£385,000£298,500£415,000
20191£335,000£335,000£335,000
20181£495,000£495,000£495,000
20172£321,750£303,000£340,500
20162£159,500£154,000£165,000
20151£371,500£371,500£371,500
20131£212,750£212,750£212,750
20111£320,000£320,000£320,000
20101£218,000£218,000£218,000
20092£168,750£165,000£172,500
Most recent sales (40)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 May 2025GREEN DRIVE LODGE NP8 1LUOther£420,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jun 2023DAN-YR-EFAIL NP8 1LUDetached£425,000
6 Dec 2022THE OLD SMITHY NP8 1LUDetached£590,000
27 Aug 2021BRIGADOON NP8 1LUDetached£415,000
16 Jun 2021CHARNWOOD NP8 1LUDetached£385,000
12 Mar 20211, BRIGHTWELLS NP8 1LUSemi-detached£298,500
5 Jul 2019FORGE COTTAGE NP8 1LUDetached£335,000
16 Feb 2018BURNBRAE NP8 1LUDetached£495,000
22 Aug 2017GWYNFA NP8 1LUDetached£340,500
5 May 20171, HEN YSGOL NP8 1LUDetached£303,000
8 Jun 20164 HEN YSGOL NP8 1LUTerraced£154,000
26 Apr 2016FORGE COTTAGE NP8 1LUDetached£165,000
9 Jan 2015THE OLD SMITHY NP8 1LUDetached£371,500
19 Feb 20131, BRIGHTWELLS NP8 1LUSemi-detached£212,750
14 Jul 2011HILL CREST NP8 1LUDetached£320,000
6 Aug 2010BWTHYN CYNDIR NP8 1LUSemi-detached£218,000
9 Nov 20091, BRIGHTWELLS NP8 1LUDetached£172,500
23 Jan 20093, HEN YS GOL NP8 1LUFlat or maisonette£165,000
19 Dec 2007UPPER PENCOMMIN FARM NP8 1LUDetached£575,000
1 Oct 2007CANAL COTTAGE NP8 1LUSemi-detached£235,000
29 Jan 20074 HEN YSGOL NP8 1LUDetached£182,000
5 Dec 2006THE OLD SMITHY NP8 1LUDetached£403,000
6 Jul 2006OAKLANDS NP8 1LUDetached£300,000
26 May 20065, HEN YS GOL NP8 1LUFlat or maisonette£184,000
16 Nov 2004KILN HOUSE NP8 1LUDetached£385,000
2 Apr 20044 HEN YSGOL NP8 1LUDetached£146,500
19 Dec 2002FORGE COTTAGE NP8 1LUDetached£146,000
17 May 2002BRYNAWEL NP8 1LUDetached£45,000
2 May 2002WILLOW COTTAGE NP8 1LUDetached£144,000
12 Mar 20024 HEN YSGOL NP8 1LUDetached£75,000
12 Oct 2000THE OLD SMITHY NP8 1LUDetached£180,000
29 Sep 2000THE OLD SMITHY NP8 1LUDetached£185,000
26 Oct 1999KILN HOUSE NP8 1LUDetached£45,000
29 Mar 19995, HEN YS GOL NP8 1LUFlat or maisonette£66,500
14 Nov 1997CANAL COTTAGE NP8 1LUSemi-detached£86,500
25 Jul 19972, HEN YS GOL NP8 1LUSemi-detached£125,000
11 Jul 19972, BRIGHTWELLS NP8 1LUSemi-detached£73,750
30 Apr 1996PENLAN NP8 1LUDetached£8,000
26 Jan 19964 HEN YSGOL NP8 1LUDetached£56,000
8 Dec 1995CANAL COTTAGE NP8 1LUSemi-detached£55,000

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

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 121 m². Most common: House, detached (10); House, semi-detached (7); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: before 1900 (9); 1983-1990 (3); 1967-1975 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Powys in 2026-27: Band D £2,352 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,568£1,829£2,090£2,352£2,874£3,397£3,920£4,703£5,487

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band F (32% of about 500 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; Welsh 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: 3.
  • Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Listed buildings

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted on or by this street. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Roadworks

Street works permits come from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, which covers England only.

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: of the 88 address points in this street's postcodes, 3 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: none is in an area at risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 3 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. 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. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low risk
NP8 1LUnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 0
NP8 1NAnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. 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 Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.

Height above sea level

The street's 38 addresses are between 94 m and 127 m above sea level (114 m on average); the ground rises about 33 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
NP8 1LU100%97%97%0%
NP8 1NA95%76%76%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 stationsEbbw Vale Town 249,000 journeys in 2024–2510.7 km (6.6 miles)
Ebbw Vale Parkway 41,000 journeys in 2024–2512.9 km (8 miles)
Rhymney 123,000 journeys in 2024–2513.1 km (8.1 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Village Hall Llangynidr410 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationBrynmawr Bus Station Stand19.1 km (5.7 miles)
EV charging pointsEvolt Network6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL53.3 km (33 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 surgeriesWar Memorial Health Centre7 km (4.3 miles)
PharmaciesBoots6.7 km (4.2 miles)
NHS dentistsWorcester House Dental Surgery8.9 km (5.5 miles)
HospitalYsbyty Tri Chwm8.9 km (5.5 miles)
Police stationBrynmawr Police Station8.9 km (5.5 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 gardenUnnamed 2,080 m²2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²370 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha400 m (0.2 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Llangynidr Bridge (partly in Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine community), a listed building (Grade I), 380 m north. 23 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Llangynidr Bridge (partly in Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine community)Listed building, Grade I380 m north
Llangynidr Bridge (partly in Llangynidr community)Listed building, Grade I430 m (0.3 miles) north
Llwyn-y-Fedwen Standing StoneScheduled monument630 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Llangynidr Deserted Medieval Village (part of)Scheduled monument660 m (0.4 miles) south
GliffaesRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pwll yr HesgWaterfall740 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Pwll Cil-wichLake or reservoir760 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Glaw-coed WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Buckland HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Cwm CleisferValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Pant SerthfaWetland4.7 km (2.9 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)3.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.6205
Particles (PM10)6.84015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

Road and rail noise

Source: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: 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 aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6920
60 to 64150
55 to 5960
Under 551538

23 of the street's 38 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 Powys: see them on the Powys page.

Nearest schools

Source: Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Llangynidr C.p. School English mediumPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School

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
Coach & Horses NP8 1LSPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
Llangynidr Village Hall NP8 1LSOther catering premises100 mExempt
Oaklands Care Home NP8 1LURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good24 Oct 2025
Walnut Tree Stores NP8 1NARetailers - other330 m5 Very good6 Mar 2020

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.

6 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Drugs2
Other crime1
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Erw Bant (2); On or near Forge Road (2); On or near Petrol Station (1); On or near Bryn Celyn Way (1).

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: 741 residents in 317 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 streetWales
Median age5643
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over35%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%66%
Owned outright57%38%
Shared ownershipunder 1%under 1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented11%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work51%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)37%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%26%
Travel to work by car or van46%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%under 1%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%3%
On foot or by bicycle5%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)20%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away31%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)53%32%
No qualifications9%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)100%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh 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.

  • NP8 1LU: 37 addresses of 59 in the postcode
  • NP8 1NA: 1 address of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bryn Celyn Way · Hen Ysgol · Cwm Crawnon Road · Erw Bant · Bryn Celyn Way · B4558 · Blaen-y-Myarth · Pen yr Ale Lane · Orchard Lane · Castle Road · Dol-Fach · Pen yr Ale Lane

All the streets in NP8 and across Powys.

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.