Hampton Drive Cronton, Knowsley

58 addresses across 4 postcodes (WA8), about 380 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 19500568.

47 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £272,500 across 2 sales. 22 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 13, E: 3). 8 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Knowsley costs £2,488 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Widnes, about 2.2 km away in a straight line. There is a small park or garden about 230 m away, and Pex Hill Country Park (7.6 hectares) is about 550 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 34 to 35 m above sea level. 20 of its 58 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Fir Park Medical Centre, about 1.4 km away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km. About 850 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 16 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
20242£272,500£250,000£295,000
20224£270,000£235,000£327,500
20213£241,500£235,000£250,000
20201£191,000£191,000£191,000
20191£255,000£255,000£255,000
20164£177,500£56,000£195,000
20142£156,525£153,050£160,000
20123£145,000£65,000£149,950
20111£158,000£158,000£158,000
20102£148,500£140,000£157,000
20095£115,000£67,000£161,500
20071£174,950£174,950£174,950
Most recent sales (47)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
11 Dec 20253 WA8 5BZOther£15,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Aug 202443 WA8 5DASemi-detached£295,000
28 Jun 202447 WA8 5DASemi-detached£250,000
16 Dec 202239 WA8 5DASemi-detached£327,500
30 Jun 202233 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£285,000
27 Jun 20228 WA8 5BZTerraced£235,000
19 Apr 20224 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£255,000
18 Jun 202135 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£250,000
4 Jun 202151 WA8 5DASemi-detached£235,000
25 May 202144 WA8 5DASemi-detached£241,500
24 Apr 202010 WA8 5BZTerraced£191,000
8 Apr 201949 WA8 5DADetached£255,000
22 Dec 201619 WA8 5BZFlat or maisonette£56,000Leasehold.
30 Nov 201639 WA8 5DASemi-detached£195,000
27 Jul 20166 WA8 5BZTerraced£175,000
29 Apr 201635 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£180,000
24 Nov 201449 WA8 5DADetached£153,050
7 Feb 201443 WA8 5DASemi-detached£160,000
8 Oct 201230 WA8 5DATerraced£145,000
27 Jun 20124 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£149,950
12 Jun 201235 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£65,000
25 Feb 201122 WA8 5DASemi-detached£158,000
19 Nov 201047 WA8 5DASemi-detached£157,000
18 Feb 20104 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£140,000
18 Dec 200924 WA8 5DASemi-detached£115,000
17 Dec 200945 WA8 5DASemi-detached£161,500
2 Dec 20094 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£122,000
30 Sep 20092 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£115,000
25 Mar 20095 WA8 5BZFlat or maisonette£67,000Leasehold.
22 Jun 200712 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£174,950
17 Nov 200620 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£148,000
23 Jun 200659 WA8 5DATerraced£180,000
3 May 200640 WA8 5DASemi-detached£172,000
23 Dec 200419 WA8 5BZFlat or maisonette£68,000Leasehold.
3 Aug 200419 WA8 5BZTerraced£80,000
6 Apr 200419 WA8 5BZTerraced£140,000
6 Apr 200419 WA8 5BZTerraced£108,000
23 Jan 200427 WA8 5BZTerraced£140,000
3 Jul 200337 WA8 5DADetached£117,500
31 May 200235 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£109,000
27 May 20024 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£98,000
12 Nov 200119 WA8 5BZTerraced£50,000
24 Nov 200036 WA8 5DATerraced£64,000
17 Mar 199951 WA8 5DASemi-detached£72,000
21 Aug 19986 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£59,500
19 Dec 199731 WA8 5BZTerraced£58,000
5 Feb 19974 WA8 5BZSemi-detached£60,000

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

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 101 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (13); Flat (2); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1950-1966 (11); 1967-1975 (10); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (5).

Council tax

What each band costs in Knowsley in 2026-27: Band D £2,488 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,659£1,935£2,212£2,488£3,041£3,594£4,147£4,977

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (30% of about 1,460 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 2 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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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 30 September 2026

  • 20 October 2026 to 21 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 7 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
WA8 5BZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
WA8 5DAnot in 2 or 3 2 / 5 / 3 unlikely
WA8 5DEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
WA8 9BZnot 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 58 addresses are between 34 m and 35 m above sea level (34 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
WA8 5BZ100%100%100%0%
WA8 5DA100%100%100%0%
WA8 5DE100%100%100%0%
WA8 9BZ100%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 stationsWidnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km
Hough Green 193,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km
Rainhill 186,000 journeys in 2024–253.0 km
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m, 15 within 800 m; nearest Cronton Park Avenue170 m
Bus or coach stationPrescot Bus Station5.3 km
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station1.7 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL8.6 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Fir Park Medical Centre1.4 km
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Allied Pharmacy (Upton Rocks)1.4 km
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest 5 Danescroft [The Dental Practice]1.5 km
HospitalHighfield Hospital2.4 km
Police stationWidnes Police Station3.5 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Morrisons Daily - Sandbach Sanbec Way140 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 garden2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 440 m²230 m
Largest park within 800 mPex Hill Country Park 7.6 ha550 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 140 m²170 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha140 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,610 m²2.1 km

Within 800 m: 2 parks and gardens, 7.6 hectares in all.

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)10.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)11.04015

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: 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
60 to 6420
55 to 59180
Under 553858

20 of the street's 58 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Holy Family Catholic Primary School & Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary2–11100 m No published inspection
Cronton Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–11210 m Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
All Saints Upton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Basil's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.8 km Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–112.0 km No published inspection

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
Dandelion Tavern WA8 5QGPub/bar/nightclub120 m4 Good27 Feb 2025
Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Cronton WA8 5DWSchool/college/university150 m4 Good5 Dec 2025
The Village Store WA8 5BZRetailers - other160 m1 Major improvement necessary30 Jan 2026
Cronton Church Of England Primary School WA8 5DFSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good5 Dec 2025
Unicorn Inn WA8 5QFPub/bar/nightclub280 m5 Very good28 Nov 2024
The Unicorn Parlour WA8 5QFMobile caterer280 m5 Very good27 Oct 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.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Anti-social behaviour3
Public order2
Drugs1
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Smithy Lane (5); On or near Malton Close (2); On or near Lambourn Avenue (2); On or near Cronton Road (2); On or near Iver Close (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 846 residents in 356 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 age3840
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 6 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

  • Food hygiene ratings The Unicorn Parlour (mobile caterer, WA8 5QF) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 27 October 2026) found 31 October 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.

  • WA8 5BZ: 32 addresses
  • WA8 5DA: 24 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • WA8 5DE: 1 address of 48 in the postcode
  • WA8 9BZ: 1 address of 11 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Kenley Avenue · Malton Close · Woburn Drive · Cronton Park Avenue · Lambourn Avenue · Sanbec Gardens · Iver Close · Cronton Park Close · Smithy Lane · The Roundabout · Brook Close · Forge Close

All the streets in WA8 and across Knowsley.

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.