Handlith Terrace Abermaw, Gwynedd

12 addresses across 3 postcodes (LL42), about 50 m long. USRN 46404894.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £200,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, E: 2, G: 1).
  • 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 B; Band D in Gwynedd costs £2,469 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Barmouth, about 430 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 440 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 1.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 18 to 45 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Minfor Surgery, about 200 m away.
  • People: About 520 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 29 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
20251£200,000£200,000£200,000
20181£87,000£87,000£87,000
20161£177,500£177,500£177,500
20141£127,000£127,000£127,000
20131£51,500£51,500£51,500
20121£50,000£50,000£50,000
20051£90,000£90,000£90,000
20031£43,500£43,500£43,500
20012£39,000£18,000£60,000
19971£55,000£55,000£55,000
Most recent sales (11)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Jan 2025FLAT 3, 4 LL42 1RDFlat or maisonette£200,000Leasehold.
16 Mar 2018FLAT 1, 4 LL42 1RDFlat or maisonette£87,000Leasehold.
2 Feb 20162 LL42 1RDTerraced£177,500
21 Oct 20143 LL42 1RDTerraced£127,000
26 Jul 2013FLAT 2, 4 LL42 1RDFlat or maisonette£51,500Leasehold.
28 May 2012FLAT 3, 4 LL42 1RDTerraced£50,000
23 Sep 20054 LL42 1RDTerraced£90,000Leasehold.
6 May 20034 LL42 1RDTerraced£43,500Leasehold.
7 Sep 2001FLAT 1, 4 LL42 1RDFlat or maisonette£18,000Leasehold.
4 Sep 20012 LL42 1RDTerraced£60,000
14 Aug 19972 LL42 1RDTerraced£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 July 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 99 m². Most common: Flat (3); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: before 1900 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Gwynedd in 2026-27: Band D £2,469 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,646£1,920£2,194£2,469£3,017£3,566£4,115£4,938£5,760

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (26% of about 1,410 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: none.
  • Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

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 61 address points in this street's postcodes, 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 13 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: 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 13 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
LL42 1RDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 7
LL42 1RLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0
LL42 1RBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6

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 12 addresses are between 18 m and 45 m above sea level (26 m on average); the ground rises about 27 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
LL42 1RB100%0%0%0%
LL42 1RD100%0%0%0%
LL42 1RL100%0%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 stationsBarmouth 237,000 journeys in 2024–25430 m (0.3 miles)
Llanaber 3,840 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Morfa Mawddach 14,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Eglwys St Tudwal Barmouth140 m
Ferry terminalBarmouth Ferry Landing940 m (0.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Black Patch Car Park500 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL106 km (66 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Minfor Surgery200 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy570 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest White Arcade Dental Practice300 m
HospitalDolgellau & Barmouth District Hospital12 km (7.4 miles)
Police stationDolgellau Police Station11.5 km (7.2 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Barmouth Cashzone290 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 850 m²440 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 580 m²100 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,220 m²90 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is St John's Church, a listed building (Grade II*), 430 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 47 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
St John's ChurchListed building, Grade II*430 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Plas MynachListed building, Grade II*440 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Morris & Co., General Cambrain Establishment (former Drapers Shop)Listed building, Grade II*670 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Glan Glasfor to the rear of Morris & CoListed building, Grade II*670 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Hut Circle at GellfawrScheduled monument900 m (0.6 miles) north-east
Ffridd Fechan FortScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north
Glan-y-MawddachRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Panorama Walk, BarmouthRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
GarnHill650 m (0.4 miles) east
Ynys y BrawdHeadland1 km (0.6 miles) south
Barmouth BeachBeach1 km (0.6 miles) south
Bar BachWetland1.1 km (0.7 miles) south
Orielton WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Arthog WaterfallsWaterfall4.1 km (2.6 miles) south-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)1.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.1205
Particles (PM10)6.44015

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 6430
55 to 5960
Under 55112

11 of the street's 12 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 Gwynedd: see them on the Gwynedd 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
Ysgol y Traeth Welsh mediumPrimary3–11340 m 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
Beachside Cafe LL42 1LPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good26 Mar 2024
Carries LL42 1LPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Twr Mynach B&B LL42 1RFHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house120 m5 Very good28 Sep 2021
M P Wholesale LL42 1PHRetailers - other260 m5 Very good20 May 2024
Oasis Nursery LL42 1PHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises290 m5 Very good11 Dec 2025
Co-op Abermaw LL42 1PHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets290 m5 Very good3 Apr 2025
Barmouth Foodbank LL42 1PHRetailers - other290 m5 Very good20 May 2024
Hafod Mawddach LL42 1NWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good28 May 2026
Ysgol Gynradd Abermaw LL42 1HHSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good7 Nov 2025
Min Y Mor LL42 1HWHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house390 m5 Very good25 Mar 2026
Dolphin Fish Bar LL42 1ADRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good22 Dec 2025
The Lemon Tree Barmouth LL42 1NERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen400 m (0.2 miles)3 Generally satisfactory4 Aug 2026
The Sandbanks Hotel LL42 1NEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good1 Jul 2026
Leamington House LL42 1NAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Jul 2022
Endeavour House LL42 1NAHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 May 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.

29 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences19
Anti-social behaviour5
Criminal damage and arson3
Other theft1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Cell-Fechan Road (17); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (4); On or near A496 (4); On or near Northfield Road (3); On or near Bryn Mynach Road (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: 516 residents in 253 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 age5343
Children under 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over29%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%66%
Owned outright49%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented24%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work51%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)32%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%26%
Travel to work by car or van58%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus1%3%
On foot or by bicycle23%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)54%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away21%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%32%
No qualifications17%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)99%97%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

  • LL42 1RD: 9 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • LL42 1RL: 2 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • LL42 1RB: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ffordd Dyrpac · Ffordd Gellfechan · Hafan Deg · Kings Crescent · Maesteg · Bryn Awel Terrace · Northfield Road · Coventry Terrace · King Edward Street · Ffordd Bryn Mynach · Mynach Road · Park Road

All the streets in LL42 and across Gwynedd.

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.