Galway Close Royston, Barnsley

19 addresses across 1 postcode (S71), about 100 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 1803626.

  • Sales: 57 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £237,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 6, D: 7).
  • 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 Barnsley costs £2,326 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barnsley, about 5.5 km (3.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 120 m away, and Royston Park (7.7 hectares) is about 130 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 70 to 71 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Royston Group Practice, about 90 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 70% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 162 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
20262£237,500£155,000£320,000
20251£190,000£190,000£190,000
20241£225,000£225,000£225,000
20232£220,000£180,000£260,000
20223£191,500£159,000£210,000
20184£140,000£127,500£168,000
20163£117,500£110,000£132,000
20152£124,000£118,000£130,000
20142£147,500£110,000£185,000
20111£110,000£110,000£110,000
20101£139,995£139,995£139,995
20092£133,500£132,000£135,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 57)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Apr 202622 S71 4FRSemi-detached£155,000
19 Feb 20262 S71 4FRDetached£320,000
28 Aug 202518 S71 4FRSemi-detached£190,000
5 Sep 20245 S71 4FRDetached£225,000
4 Dec 20237 S71 4FRDetached£260,000
6 Oct 202320 S71 4FRSemi-detached£180,000
22 Dec 202222 S71 4FRSemi-detached£159,000
4 Nov 20229 S71 4FRDetached£210,000
23 Sep 20224 S71 4FRDetached£191,500
28 Oct 20212 S71 4FRDetached£280,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Sep 20188 S71 4FRDetached£168,000
16 Aug 201814 S71 4FRDetached£140,000
27 Jul 201820 S71 4FRSemi-detached£127,500
25 May 20186 S71 4FRDetached£140,000
8 Apr 20169 S71 4FRDetached£132,000
22 Feb 201618 S71 4FRSemi-detached£110,000
12 Feb 201622 S71 4FRSemi-detached£117,500
27 Nov 201520 S71 4FRSemi-detached£118,000
6 Mar 20156 S71 4FRDetached£130,000
1 Aug 20142 S71 4FRDetached£185,000
23 May 201420 S71 4FRSemi-detached£110,000
14 Oct 201116 S71 4FRSemi-detached£110,000
19 Nov 20105 S71 4FRDetached£139,995
3 Jul 200911 S71 4FRDetached£135,000
16 Apr 20094 S71 4FRDetached£132,000
3 Dec 200711 S71 4FRDetached£140,000
20 Aug 20077 S71 4FRDetached£139,500
29 Jun 20073 S71 4FRDetached£140,500
6 Jun 200711 S71 4FRDetached£120,000
25 May 20071 S71 4FRDetached£140,000
20 Oct 200610 S71 4FRDetached£135,000
24 Feb 20069 S71 4FRDetached£143,000
26 Jan 20067 S71 4FRDetached£130,000
15 Apr 200515 S71 4FRDetached£148,000
17 Sep 20043 S71 4FRDetached£124,950
21 Nov 200316 S71 4FRDetached£88,500
6 Dec 20028 S71 4FRDetached£95,000
25 Oct 20022 S71 4FRDetached£99,950
19 Apr 200210 S71 4FRDetached£79,950
23 Jan 200211 S71 4FRDetached£69,295New build.
21 Dec 20012 S71 4FRDetached£76,000New build.
21 Dec 20013 S71 4FRDetached£71,995New build.
7 Dec 20011 S71 4FRDetached£79,995New build.
23 Nov 200112 S71 4FRDetached£68,995New build.
23 Nov 200122 S71 4FRSemi-detached£57,750New build.
21 Nov 200120 S71 4FRSemi-detached£57,500New build.
16 Nov 200114 S71 4FRDetached£68,500New build.
16 Nov 200116 S71 4FRDetached£55,995New build.
9 Nov 200118 S71 4FRSemi-detached£56,995New build.
26 Oct 200115 S71 4FRDetached£73,995New build.

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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: House, detached (9); House, semi-detached (5). Built: 1996-2002 (14). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Barnsley in 2026-27: Band D £2,326 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,551£1,809£2,068£2,326£2,843£3,360£3,877£4,652

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (44% of about 1,120 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): 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 31 October 2026.

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

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.

© 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 19 addresses are between 70 m and 71 m above sea level (71 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
S71 4FR100%100%0%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 stationsBarnsley 1.5 million journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Darton 121,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Fitzwilliam 273,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.8 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Midland Road/Strawberry Gardens Royston80 m
Bus or coach stationBarnsley Interchange/A24 Barnsley Town Centre5.4 km (3.4 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA32.6 km (20 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Royston Group Practice90 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Weldricks Pharmacy90 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery330 m
HospitalBarnsley District Hospital5.7 km (3.5 miles)
Police stationSouth Yorkshire Police5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Royston - Yorks, Royston Cashzone600 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,770 m²120 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Royston Park 7.7 ha130 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 500 m²180 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha480 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Common Lane Allotments 4,990 m²160 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 9.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St John the Baptist, a listed building (Grade I), 480 m (0.3 miles) south. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade I480 m (0.3 miles) south
Wayside cross known as Kirk CrossScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Windmill HillHill650 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Chapel HillHill680 m (0.4 miles) west
Lund HillHill1 km (0.7 miles) east
Applehaigh WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Applehaigh CloughValley1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Cold Hiendley ReservoirLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) north

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)8.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.34015

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 5930
Under 551619

3 of the street's 19 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 Barnsley: see them on the Barnsley 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
Parkside Primary AcademyPrimary3–11280 m No published inspection
Royston St John Baptist CE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary5–11360 m Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lift MeadsteadPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Summerfields Primary AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Outwood Academy CarltonSecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Carlton Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
H. I. Weldrick S71 4QWRetailers - other90 mExempt
Albions S71 4QTTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Boxxed S71 4QTTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good27 Apr 2026
Royston Fish Bar S71 4QJTakeaway/sandwich shop130 mAwaiting inspection
Central Cafe S71 4PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good7 May 2025
Della Pizza S71 4PXTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m4 Good4 Sep 2025
One Stop S71 4PXRetailers - other210 m5 Very good6 Feb 2025
Pocket Snooker Club S71 4PXPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good20 Apr 2026
Mr Blue S71 4QNRetailers - other230 m5 Very good15 May 2026
Old Mounts S71 4BYPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good17 Jan 2026
Wise Owl Day Nursery & pre school S71 4QPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
Parkside Primary Academy S71 4QPSchool/college/university310 m5 Very good20 Apr 2026
Royston Pizza S71 4BYTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m5 Very good24 Oct 2023
Royston St John The Baptist Primary School S71 4QYSchool/college/university370 m5 Very good22 May 2026
Asda S71 4BPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets370 m5 Very good17 Jan 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.

162 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences57
Anti-social behaviour28
Criminal damage and arson24
Other crime10
Other theft8
Public order8
Shoplifting6
Robbery6
Burglary5
Vehicle crime4
Possession of weapons3
Drugs3

Most of these are attached to: On or near Midland Road (40); On or near Strawberry Gardens (37); On or near Milgate Street (15); On or near Supermarket (12); On or near Jack Close Orchard (11).

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: 252 residents in 115 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 age3740
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over16%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)70%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)20%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • S71 4FR: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Lane · Strawberry Gardens · Army Row · Shepherd Way · Rowland Street · Strawberry Gardens · Shepherd Way · Strawberry Gardens · Bromfield Court · Hawthorn Way · Kingsland Court · Milgate Street

All the streets in S71 and across Barnsley.

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.