Freestone Close Bury

16 addresses across 1 postcode (BL8), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 5100836.

  • Sales: 21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £235,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 7, E: 1).
  • 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 Bury costs £2,555 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hall-I'-Th'-Wood, about 7.2 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Woodbank Garden, is about 310 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 86 to 88 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Woodbank Surgery, about 680 m away, with 7 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 270 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 29% 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
20251£235,000£235,000£235,000
20202£162,750£145,500£180,000
20181£136,000£136,000£136,000
20164£136,500£120,000£150,000
20141£140,000£140,000£140,000
20121£120,000£120,000£120,000
20071£120,000£120,000£120,000
20063£119,995£117,500£159,950
20051£140,000£140,000£140,000
20031£80,000£80,000£80,000
20021£74,000£74,000£74,000
19982£42,875£40,000£45,750
Most recent sales (21)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jun 20259 BL8 1USSemi-detached£235,000Leasehold.
9 Aug 20246 BL8 1USOther£245,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Nov 20205 BL8 1USSemi-detached£145,500Leasehold.
29 Jun 202015 BL8 1USSemi-detached£180,000Leasehold.
30 Aug 20187 BL8 1USSemi-detached£136,000Leasehold.
23 May 20167 BL8 1USSemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
15 Apr 201614 BL8 1USDetached£135,000Leasehold.
31 Mar 20169 BL8 1USSemi-detached£138,000Leasehold.
29 Jan 201610 BL8 1USSemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
10 Sep 201415 BL8 1USSemi-detached£140,000Leasehold.
17 Aug 20129 BL8 1USSemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 20077 BL8 1USSemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
3 Nov 20068 BL8 1USSemi-detached£159,950Leasehold.
14 Jul 20066 BL8 1USSemi-detached£119,995Leasehold.
29 Mar 20067 BL8 1USSemi-detached£117,500Leasehold.
4 Feb 200510 BL8 1USSemi-detached£140,000Leasehold.
17 Apr 200312 BL8 1USSemi-detached£80,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 20029 BL8 1USSemi-detached£74,000Leasehold.
15 May 19981 BL8 1USSemi-detached£45,750Leasehold.
6 Feb 19987 BL8 1USSemi-detached£40,000Leasehold.
11 Sep 199515 BL8 1USSemi-detached£48,500Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 71 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); House, detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (4); 1976-1982 (2); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (1).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (50% of about 660 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): Bury borough HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 16 addresses are between 86 m and 88 m above sea level (87 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
BL8 1US100%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 stationsHall-I'-Th'-Wood 196,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km
Bromley Cross (Lancs) 312,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km
Kearsley (Manchester) 55,000 journeys in 2024–257.7 km
Underground, metro or tramBury (Manchester Metrolink)1.1 km
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m, 42 within 800 m; nearest Logwood Avenue Woodhill130 m
Bus or coach stationBury Interchange1.0 km
Car parksQ-Park Knowsley Place1.2 km
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km; nearest Be.EV Charging Station840 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN27.9 km

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 surgeries7 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Woodbank Surgery680 m
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy610 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery890 m
HospitalAlpha Hospital Bury1.6 km
Police stationBury Police Station420 m
Cash machinesCash machine 29-33 The Rock Halifax850 m

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; nearest Woodbank Garden 990 m²310 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 1,100 m²660 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 370 m²650 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha440 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 2,750 m²820 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 0.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Medieval moated site and later fortified manor house known as Bury Castle 100m west of the parish church, a scheduled monument, 740 m south-east. 35 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade I and 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Medieval moated site and later fortified manor house known as Bury Castle 100m west of the parish churchScheduled monument740 m south-east
Parish Church of Saint MaryListed building, Grade I790 m south-east
Bury War MemorialListed building, Grade II*800 m south-east
War Memorial to the Lancashire Fusiliers, Gallipoli GardensListed building, Grade II*890 m south-east
Promontory fort called Castlesteads on the east bank of the Irwell 550m SSE of Banks FarmScheduled monument1.5 km north
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Woodhill BrookLake or reservoir360 m west
Deardens LodgeLake or reservoir1.3 km south-west
The LidoLake or reservoir1.4 km north-east
Starkies WoodWood2.2 km south
Gallows HillHill3.1 km east
Sunny CloughValley3.6 km north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)12.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, 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
Under 551616

None of the street's 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road or rail traffic.

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
Woodbank Primary SchoolPrimary3–11500 m No published inspection
St John with St Mark CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11750 m No published inspection
Elton Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11780 m No published inspection
Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–111.0 km 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
St Gabriel's RC High School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.2 km Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bury College16 plus16–991.2 km No published inspection
Holy Trinity Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.3 km Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St. Marie's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km 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
Bury Church of England High SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km Report card (May 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; Safeguarding standards: Met
Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyPrimary4–111.5 km No published inspection
The Elton High SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Chesham Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.6 km Inadequate (Mar 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
The Little Luxe Soft Play Centre Ltd BL8 1ATRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m5 Very good5 Aug 2026
Help Me Thro BL8 1ALPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Subway BL8 1AUTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good23 Oct 2024
Taste of India BL8 1LBTakeaway/sandwich shop460 m5 Very good28 Jul 2025
Suru Bury BL8 1LBOther catering premises470 m3 Generally satisfactory2 Feb 2026
Woodbank County Primary School BL8 1AXSchool/college/university470 m5 Very good16 Dec 2024
Woodbank Oscars After School Club BL8 1AXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m5 Very good15 Sep 2016
Vujon Grill Ltd BL8 1LBTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m4 Good14 Jan 2026
Golden Fish BL8 1LNTakeaway/sandwich shop490 m2 Improvement necessary15 Dec 2025
LJ's Butties BL8 1LNRetailers - other490 m5 Very good16 Dec 2024
Man Lung BL8 1NYTakeaway/sandwich shop500 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Feb 2026
First Steps Day Nursery BL8 1PBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises500 m5 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.

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

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: 269 residents in 122 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 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented21%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)29%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%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 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

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.

Nearby streets

Orwell Close · Branch Close · Woodhill Fold · Riverbank Drive · Logwood Avenue · Ely Drive · Truro Close · Norwich Drive · Woodhill Street · Lichfield Drive · Lower Woodhill Road · Magdalene Road

All the streets in BL8 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

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