Heskin Lane Ormskirk, West Lancashire

44 addresses across 4 postcodes (L39,L40), about 490 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 43301286.

  • Sales: 40 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £310,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (A: 1, C: 5, D: 9, E: 2).
  • Flood: 6 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 C; Band D in West Lancashire costs £2,456 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ormskirk, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 140 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 32 to 36 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 34 of its 44 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ormskirk Medical Practice, about 1.4 km (0.8 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 37% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 17 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
20243£310,000£178,000£400,000
20231£215,000£215,000£215,000
20212£177,750£158,000£197,500
20201£290,000£290,000£290,000
20181£310,000£310,000£310,000
20172£168,500£160,000£177,000
20152£185,475£171,000£199,950
20141£232,500£232,500£232,500
20121£125,000£125,000£125,000
20111£135,000£135,000£135,000
20101£147,000£147,000£147,000
20091£335,000£335,000£335,000
Most recent sales (40)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
13 Dec 202446 L39 1LRSemi-detached£310,000Leasehold.
15 Mar 202412 L39 1LRSemi-detached£178,000
19 Jan 202428 L39 1LRSemi-detached£400,000
11 Sep 20234 L39 1LRSemi-detached£215,000
16 Feb 20214 L39 1LRSemi-detached£158,000
5 Feb 20218 L39 1LRSemi-detached£197,500
16 Jul 202041 L39 1LRDetached£290,000
28 Sep 201828 L39 1LRSemi-detached£310,000
9 Oct 20172 L39 1LRSemi-detached£177,000
25 Aug 20173 L39 1LRDetached£160,000
3 Feb 2017EDEN HOUSE, 34 L39 1LROther£235,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Dec 20158 L39 1LRSemi-detached£171,000
6 Nov 201522 L39 1LRSemi-detached£199,950
9 Dec 201410 L39 1LRSemi-detached£232,500
29 May 20124 L39 1LRSemi-detached£125,000
29 Jul 20113 L39 1LRDetached£135,000
29 Nov 20107 L39 1LRSemi-detached£147,000
7 Aug 200942 L39 1LRDetached£335,000
18 Jan 200828 L39 1LRSemi-detached£225,000
30 Nov 200720 L39 1LRSemi-detached£278,000
28 Jul 20062 L39 1LRSemi-detached£171,500
5 Jul 20068 L39 1LRSemi-detached£132,500
3 Jun 2004ELLERAY, 44 L39 1LRDetached£185,000Leasehold.
11 Feb 20042 L39 1LRSemi-detached£103,000
12 Sep 200347 L39 1LRSemi-detached£120,000
28 May 200312 L39 1LRSemi-detached£95,000
13 Feb 200224 L39 1LRDetached£190,000
8 Feb 20025 L39 1LRSemi-detached£94,000
26 Nov 200142 L39 1LRDetached£128,000
30 Oct 200049 L39 1LRSemi-detached£82,500
15 Sep 200010 L39 1LRSemi-detached£51,500
15 Oct 199914 L39 1LRSemi-detached£95,000
9 Aug 199945 L39 1LRDetached£84,000
3 Nov 199732 L39 1LRDetached£103,500
30 May 199738 L39 1LRDetached£85,000
20 Nov 19965A L39 1LRDetached£180,000
10 Jun 199614 L39 1LRSemi-detached£90,000
26 Apr 199613 L39 1LRSemi-detached£73,000
9 Aug 199528 L39 1LRSemi-detached£79,000
28 Apr 199538 L39 1LRDetached£98,500

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.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12); House, detached (4); Bungalow, semi-detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (10); 1950-1966 (6); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in West Lancashire in 2026-27: Band D £2,456 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,183£2,456£3,002£3,548£4,094£4,912

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (58% of about 530 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: yes, West Lancashire.

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

Finished in the last three months

  • 15 September 2026 to 18 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 5 at medium risk and 23 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 55 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 2 medium, 21 low and 0 very low.

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
L39 1LRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
L39 1LGnot in 2 or 3 1 / 4 / 20 unlikely
L39 1PBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 unlikely
L40 8HTnot 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.

© 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 44 addresses are between 32 m and 36 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
L39 1LG100%100%100%0%
L39 1LR100%100%100%0%
L39 1PB100%100%100%0%
L40 8HT100%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 stationsOrmskirk 2.3 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Aughton Park 186,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
New Lane 2,140 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Marians Drive Ormskirk70 m
Bus or coach stationConcourse Skelmersdale8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Car parksMorrisons Car Park - Ormskirk1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station510 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL27.4 km (17 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 Ormskirk Medical Practice1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Clocktower Pharmacy1.3 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oak Dental Care Limited1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalOrmskirk And District General Hospital2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationLancashire Constabulary1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Cash machinesCardiff Gate, North Pentwyn3.9 km (2.4 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha140 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 230 m²340 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha310 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,880 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 2.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Smithy WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
The SpinneyWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) east
Lady's Walk WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) east
Meadow Hey WoodWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-west
The LakeLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) north-west
Halsall HillHill4.1 km (2.6 miles) 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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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
60 to 6440
55 to 59300
Under 551044

34 of the street's 44 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 West Lancashire: see them on the West Lancashire page.

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
Ormskirk West End SchoolPrimary5–11370 m No published inspection
Ormskirk Asmall Primary SchoolPrimary4–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Ormskirk Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Ormskirk St Anne's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Dec 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moorgate Nursery SchoolNursery3–51.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bede's Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Courtfield Lodge L39 1LGHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m4 Good3 Mar 2026
Shell Dingle Bells L39 1LZRetailers - other330 m5 Very good11 Nov 2024
Graham Eyes High Class Butchers L39 1LZRetailers - other330 m5 Very good3 Dec 2024
Kicking Donkey Inn L40 8HYPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jan 2025

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.

17 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Public order3
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime2
Anti-social behaviour2
Other crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ludlow Drive (9); On or near Petrol Station (3); On or near Marians Drive (3); On or near Rutland Crescent (1); On or near Heskin Lane (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: 610 residents in 256 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 age4840
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright50%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)51%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)37%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

  • L39 1LR: 41 addresses of 42 in the postcode
  • L39 1LG: 1 address of 58 in the postcode
  • L39 1PB: 1 address of 48 in the postcode
  • L40 8HT: 1 address

Nearby streets

Heskin Lane · Marians Drive · Rutland Crescent · Haslam Drive · Narrow Moss Lane · Ludlow Drive · Douglas Drive · Southport Road · Renfrey Close

All the streets in L39, L40 and across West Lancashire.

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.