Horseshoe Way Morpeth, Northumberland

22 addresses across 2 postcodes (NE61), about 290 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28812600.

  • Sales: 56 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £440,000 across 5 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Northumberland cost £213,113 in August 2026 (+4.5% on a year); private rents averaged £696 a month.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (B: 19).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Farquhar Deuchar Park, is 290 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 7 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 26 times (10 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Piramal Healthcare, Whalton Road - Solar Farm, is 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Northumberland costs £2,597 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Morpeth, about 590 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, The Farquhar Deuchar Park, is about 270 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 56 to 58 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Npc Central Northumberland, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 89% of households owned their home and 49% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 16 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, and it was serious.

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House 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
20255£440,000£180,000£580,000
20244£411,500£175,000£449,950
20222£480,000£450,000£510,000
20212£170,250£157,500£183,000
20201£420,000£420,000£420,000
20198£331,248£77,000£484,995
201822£339,998£97,375£505,000
20175£299,995£175,000£451,745
All 56 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Dec 20171 NE61 2GPSemi-detached£285,000New build.
6 Nov 20182 NE61 2GPDetached£359,995New build.
8 Dec 20173 NE61 2GPSemi-detached£299,995New build.
26 Jul 20244 NE61 2GPDetached£438,000
29 Jun 20184 NE61 2GPDetached£364,995New build.
26 Sep 20255 NE61 2GPDetached£565,000
30 Aug 20195 NE61 2GPDetached£484,995New build.
11 Mar 20226 NE61 2GPDetached£510,000
8 Jan 20196 NE61 2GPDetached£480,000New build.
15 Aug 20197 NE61 2GPDetached£374,995New build.
30 Nov 20188 NE61 2GPDetached£359,995New build.
26 Apr 20249 NE61 2GPDetached£449,950
6 Jul 20189 NE61 2GPDetached£369,995New build.
14 Dec 201810 NE61 2GPDetached£372,995New build.
29 Jun 201811 NE61 2GPDetached£369,995New build.
17 Dec 201812 NE61 2GPDetached£372,995New build.
30 Jun 201713 NE61 2GPDetached£451,745New build.
10 Apr 202514 NE61 2GPDetached£580,000
20 Dec 201814 NE61 2GPDetached£505,000New build.
19 Dec 202515 NE61 2GPDetached£440,000
16 Sep 202215 NE61 2GPDetached£450,000
13 Oct 201715 NE61 2GPDetached£382,995New build.
7 Jul 202016 NE61 2GPDetached£420,000
25 May 201816 NE61 2GPDetached£394,995New build.
6 Dec 201817 NE61 2GPDetached£320,000New build.
28 Jun 201918 NE61 2GPDetached£469,995New build.
22 Sep 201719 NE61 2GPFlat or maisonette£175,000
8 Jun 201820 NE61 2GPDetached£369,995New build.
16 Apr 201821 NE61 2GPSemi-detached£290,000New build.
28 Sep 201822 NE61 2GPDetached£367,500New build.
29 Mar 201823 NE61 2GPSemi-detached£285,000New build.
5 Apr 201924 NE61 2GPSemi-detached£287,500New build.
26 Feb 202426 NE61 2GPSemi-detached£385,000
9 May 201826 NE61 2GPSemi-detached£299,900New build.
16 Dec 20201, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNOther£31,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Sep 20181, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£110,000New build. Leasehold.
31 Aug 20182, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£151,000New build. Leasehold.
14 Dec 20183, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£155,000New build. Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Dec 20184, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£97,375New build. Leasehold.
30 Aug 20195, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£50,100New build. Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Dec 20186, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£162,500New build. Leasehold.
7 Dec 20187, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£143,000New build. Leasehold.
28 Jun 20198, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£77,000Leasehold.
28 Jun 20198, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£46,200New build. Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Jul 20259, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNOther£202,034Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 May 20209, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£102,000New build. Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Sep 202410, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£175,000Leasehold.
17 Dec 202110, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£157,500Leasehold.
7 Jun 201910, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£147,000New build. Leasehold.
20 Mar 202511, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£180,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 201811, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£160,000New build. Leasehold.
29 May 202012, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£90,000New build. Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jun 201913, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£160,000New build. Leasehold.
28 Apr 202514, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£207,500Leasehold.
16 Jul 202114, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£183,000Leasehold.
2 Oct 201814, ASTON COURT NE61 2GNFlat or maisonette£168,000New build. Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Northumberland

A typical home in Northumberland cost £213,113 in August 2026, 4.5% more than a year before. That is 24% more than five years earlier and 43% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£371,788
Semi-detached£206,101
Terraced£172,838
Flat or maisonette£106,485
Bought by a first-time buyer£175,253

Private renters in Northumberland paid £696 a month on average in September 2026, 7% more than a year before. That is 35% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£496
Two bedrooms£631
Three bedrooms£768
Four or more bedrooms£1,134

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 September 2017 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 128 m². Most common: House, detached (9); Flat (8); House, semi-detached (2). Built: 2017 (14); 2018 (3); 2016 (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (19 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,415 kWh of it on average in 2024, 8% less than the district's 12,418 kWh, and 2,482 kWh of electricity, 24% less than the district's 3,285 kWh. There are gas meters for about 98% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
NE61 2GN15992 kWh 144,476 kWh
NE61 2GP252,530 kWh 2510,853 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is NE61.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Northumberland in 2026-27: Band D £2,597 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,731£2,020£2,308£2,597£3,174£3,751£4,328£5,194

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (29% of about 1,020 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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Piramal Healthcare, Whalton Road - Solar Farm Northumberland 23/03856/RENE Solar farm 4.3 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jun 2024 1.6 km (1 mile)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 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
NE61 2GNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE61 2GPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

7 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 26 times, for 10 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Church Burn, Wansbeck, River Wansbeck.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
The Kylins Combined Sewer Overflow Northumbrian Water Church Burn 0 0 160 m
Storey Park Cso Northumbrian Water Church Burn 4 2 230 m
Elder Cottages Cso Northumbrian Water; monitored 47% of the year Church Burn 0 0 230 m
Sunn Inn Cso Northumbrian Water Church Burn 17 8 260 m
Mafeking Combined Sewer Overflow Northumbrian Water Church Burn 1 0 630 m (0.4 miles)
Morpeth Cso D Northumbrian Water Wansbeck 0 0 910 m (0.6 miles)
Bennetts Walk Cso Northumbrian Water River Wansbeck 4 0 940 m (0.6 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 290 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Farquhar Deuchar Park Castle Morpeth, Northumberland 1950 to 1960 Household 290 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 22 addresses are between 56 m and 58 m above sea level (57 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
NE61 2GN100%0%0%0%
NE61 2GP100%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 stationsMorpeth 623,000 journeys in 2024–25590 m (0.4 miles)
Pegswood 1,470 journeys in 2024–253.6 km (2.3 miles)
Ashington 131,000 journeys in 2024–257.9 km (4.9 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morpeth Cottage Hospital Loansdean90 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Morpeth1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL13.4 km (8.4 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Npc Central Northumberland Good Oct 20231.2 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stobhill Pharmacy660 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest James Rp Jones & Associates940 m (0.6 miles)
HospitalMorpeth Cottage Hospital130 m
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Foxton Court Good Jul 2026130 m
Police stationBedlington Police Station6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Pegswood - Morpeth Road, Pegswood Cashzone3.7 km (2.3 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Farquhar Deuchar Park 3.1 ha270 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Carlisle Park 18 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 130 m²490 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Storey Park 1.2 ha330 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 420 m²440 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade I), 180 m north-west. 41 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I180 m north-west
Morpeth CastleScheduled monument540 m (0.3 miles) north
Morpeth CastleListed building, Grade I560 m (0.3 miles) north
Motte and bailey castle on Haw HillScheduled monument660 m (0.4 miles) north
The Court HouseListed building, Grade II*770 m (0.5 miles) north
Morpeth Old BridgeScheduled monument880 m (0.5 miles) north
New Bridge (Telford Bridge)Listed building, Grade II*900 m (0.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Haw HillHill670 m (0.4 miles) north
Watty's HoleLake or reservoir740 m (0.5 miles) north
Castle WoodWood770 m (0.5 miles) north
Grindle HillHill920 m (0.6 miles) south-west
Star PlantationWood1 km (0.6 miles) west
Climbingtree DeanValley2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-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)4.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.0205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 6420
55 to 59110
Under 55922

13 of the street's 22 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 Northumberland: see them on the Northumberland page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Morpeth First SchoolPrimary3–9500 m (0.3 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Abbeyfields First SchoolPrimary3–9930 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good None published
St Roberts Catholic First School, Morpeth Roman CatholicPrimary3–91 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection None published
Morpeth Stobhillgate First SchoolPrimary3–91.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good None published
Morpeth Newminster Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
Morpeth Chantry Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.5 km (1 mile) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
The King Edward VI SchoolSecondary13–181.8 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: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 51.1 (52.2 in 2025 and 51.2 in 2024); 56.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 15.7% AAB or better; progress above average

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

5 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 840 m (0.5 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Sunshine Pre-School (Kirkhill) NE61 2BD Full day care 12 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 840 m (0.5 miles)
Morpeth Explorers NE61 2LZ Full day care 95 Not inspected yet 870 m (0.5 miles)
Goosehill Private Nursery NE61 1TL Full day care 60 Jan 2026: Exceptional in 1 area, Strong standard in 5 900 m (0.6 miles)
Stobhillgate Explorers NE61 2HA Full day care 95 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
KUMON MORPETH NE61 1BH Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 90 childminders and 12 home childcarers (nannies) in Northumberland. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Foxton Court Care Home NE61 2BTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises60 m5 Very good13 Oct 2026
Morpeth Golf Club NE61 2BTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good13 May 2025
Mace NE61 2QFRetailers - other240 m5 Very good20 Feb 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 offences8
Anti-social behaviour3
Burglary2
Other crime1
Criminal damage and arson1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hospital (10); On or near Kendor Grove (2); On or near Rectory Park (2); On or near Horseshoe Way (1); On or near Rectory Dene (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202400
202511
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
23 May 2025 14:41 Serious 1 person B1337, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 373 residents in 156 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 age5140
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)89%61%
Owned outright54%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)33%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)34%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)49%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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 Foxton Court Care Home (hospitals/childcare/caring premises, NE61 2BT) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 13 October 2026) found 4 November 2026

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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.

  • NE61 2GN: 11 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • NE61 2GP: 11 addresses of 26 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Rectory Dene · Kendor Grove · Rectory Park · Hillside · Loansdean Wood · St Marys Field · B1337 · Sweethope Dene · Whiteacres · Park Drive · Loansdean Wood · St Mary's Field

All the streets in NE61 and across Northumberland.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.