Humphreys Close Murdishaw, Halton

4 addresses across 3 postcodes (WA7), about 500 m (0.3 miles) long. USRN 16101049.

  • Sales: 11 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £130,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Halton cost £189,435 in August 2026 (-2.3% on a year); private rents averaged £754 a month.
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are 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.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Crest Hotel, is 340 m away.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Cholmondeley Road - Battery Storage, is 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the M56, carries 105,507 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Runcorn East, about 170 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 110 m away, and Town Park (104 hectares) is about 470 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 43 to 52 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 4 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Murdishaw, about 250 m away.
  • People: About 1,000 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 59% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 63 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20211£130,000£130,000£130,000
20201£93,000£93,000£93,000
20181£89,950£89,950£89,950
20162£87,000£85,000£89,000
20141£85,000£85,000£85,000
20111£85,000£85,000£85,000
20081£85,000£85,000£85,000
20041£22,500£22,500£22,500
19962£27,000£24,000£30,000
All 11 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Aug 20164 WA7 6HXTerraced£85,000
27 Jun 20084 WA7 6HXTerraced£85,000
30 Aug 19964 WA7 6HXTerraced£24,000
4 Oct 20217 WA7 6HXSemi-detached£130,000
14 Feb 202015 WA7 6HXTerraced£93,000
14 Mar 201416 WA7 6HXTerraced£85,000
2 Feb 201818 WA7 6HXTerraced£89,950
8 Jul 201618 WA7 6HXTerraced£89,000
21 Dec 201118 WA7 6HXTerraced£85,000
10 May 199618 WA7 6HXTerraced£30,000
2 Feb 200419 WA7 6HXTerraced£22,500

House prices and rents in Halton

A typical home in Halton cost £189,435 in August 2026, 2.3% less than a year before. That is 23% more than five years earlier and 57% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£316,315
Semi-detached£200,821
Terraced£156,208
Flat or maisonette£102,027
Bought by a first-time buyer£168,586

Private renters in Halton paid £754 a month on average in September 2026, 6.9% more than a year before. That is 33% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£549
Two bedrooms£690
Three bedrooms£832
Four or more bedrooms£1,169

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 7,592 kWh of it on average in 2024, 20% less than the district's 9,467 kWh, and 2,563 kWh of electricity, 13% less than the district's 2,932 kWh. There are gas meters for about 97% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WA7 6HX232,721 kWh 236,899 kWh
WA7 3FU182,155 kWh 189,221 kWh
WA7 6DT571,992 kWh 545,522 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 WA7.

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 Halton in 2026-27: Band D £2,367 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,578£1,841£2,104£2,367£2,893£3,418£3,944£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (48% of about 1,740 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 3 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): Halton Borough Council Article 4 - 1, Halton Borough Council Article 4 - A4D_1.
  • 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

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Cholmondeley Road - Battery Storage Halton 21/00565/FUL Battery storage 150 MW Permission granted, not yet built Aug 2022 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Runcorn EfW Energy from waste (incinerator) 100 MW Operational Jun 2013 4.1 km (2.5 miles)

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 31 October 2026 to 4 November 2026: BT, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 2 at medium risk and 26 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
WA7 6HXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA7 3FUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA7 6DTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 26 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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

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 340 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Crest Hotel Wood Lane, Sutton Weaver Not recorded Not recorded 340 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 4 addresses are between 43 m and 52 m above sea level (47 m on average); the ground rises about 9 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
WA7 3FU100%100%100%0%
WA7 6DT100%100%100%0%
WA7 6HX100%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 stationsRuncorn East 196,000 journeys in 2024–25170 m
Runcorn 732,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Frodsham 269,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 22 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Runcorn East Murdishaw90 m
Bus or coach stationWarrington Bus Interchange Stand T8.6 km (5.3 miles)
Car parksPremier Inn Runcorn Car Park1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station150 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL12.4 km (7.7 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Murdishaw Good Feb 2016250 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Murdishaw Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentistsDental Surgery1.8 km (1.1 miles)
HospitalHalton Hospital Good Jul 20192 km (1.3 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smithy Forge Good Aug 2026700 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationCheshire Constabulary2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Murdishaw, Murdishaw Cashzone300 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.9 ha110 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Town Park 104 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Play area6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 330 m²190 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 5,330 m²880 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsHaddocks Wood Allotments 2.0 ha2.6 km (1.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 140 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Augustinian Abbey known as Norton Priory, a scheduled monument, 2 km (1.2 miles) north-west. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Augustinian Abbey known as Norton PrioryScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Railway PlantationWood160 m west
Murdishaw ValleyValley680 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Windmill HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Sandymoor PoolLake or reservoir2 km (1.3 miles) north
Round ChevaralWetland3.2 km (2 miles) north
Wigg IslandIsland3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-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)8.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59300
Under 55141

3 of the street's 4 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 Halton: see them on the Halton page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
St Martin's Catholic Primary School and Preschool Roman CatholicPrimary2–11260 m Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 54% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Gorsewood Primary SchoolPrimary4–11300 m No published inspection 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
Murdishaw West Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–11470 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 47% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
St Berteline's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good None published
Ormiston Bolingbroke AcademySecondary11–19900 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 37.0 (35.9 in 2025 and 37.3 in 2024); 31.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 7.7% AAB or better; progress below average
Windmill Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 75% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 71% in 2023)
Brookvale Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 45% in 2023)
Palace Fields Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
Our Lady Mother of the Saviour Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 81% in 2023)
Bridgewater Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 42% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 36% in 2023)
St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 58% in 2023)

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

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 250 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Gorsewood Pre-School Playgroup WA7 6ES Sessional day care 28 Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 250 m
Murdishaw West Pre-School Playgroup WA7 6EP Sessional day care 26 Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 800 m (0.5 miles)
Preston Brook Preschool WA7 3AW Sessional day care 24 Good (Apr 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Windmill Hill Nursery WA7 6QE Full day care 55 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Palacefields Daycare Centre WA7 2QW Full day care 30 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Brookvale Nursery WA7 6BJ Full day care 73 Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 52 childminders and 2 home childcarers (nannies) in Halton. 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 4 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
Murdishaw West Community Primary Breakfast Club WA7 6EPSchool/college/university90 m5 Very good16 Oct 2024
Murdishaw Play Building WA7 6JWSchool/college/university240 m5 Very good15 Dec 2023
Gorsewood Primary School - Orian Catering WA7 6ESSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good21 Nov 2025
Gorsewood Pre-School WA7 6ESHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m4 Good21 Nov 2025
Murdishaw Pharmacy WA7 6ESRetailers - other250 mExempt
St Martins R C Primary School Edsential Catering WA7 6HZSchool/college/university260 m5 Very good1 Jul 2026
St Martins Breakfast and AfterSchool Club WA7 6HZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good1 Mar 2024
Tiny Steps Pre-School WA7 6HZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good14 Dec 2023
Co-operative Group WA7 6ERRetailers - other300 m5 Very good29 Jul 2025
Murdishaw Supper Bar WA7 6ERTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m4 Good23 Jan 2026
Gorsewood Primary School - Snack Kitchen WA7 6ESHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Sep 2024
Aldi WA7 6SARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Jun 2023
Subway WA7 6SATakeaway/sandwich shop490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Jul 2024

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.

63 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences38
Public order10
Criminal damage and arson7
Anti-social behaviour4
Vehicle crime1
Possession of weapons1
Other crime1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Starling Close (12); On or near Petersgate (9); On or near Micklegate (9); On or near Moresby Close (6); On or near Baxter Close (5).

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.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. 50% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202210
202310
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
7 Apr 2023 17:27 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
13 Aug 2022 02:22 Slight 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights on

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

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the M56 between 12 and LA Boundary, with 105,507 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 350 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
M56 12 to LA Boundary 105,507 counted 2025 11% +7% since 2015 350 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

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 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 999 residents in 435 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 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)59%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented28%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BT: New service connection, 31 October 2026 to 4 November 2026 (no carriageway incursion) found 3 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.

  • WA7 6HX: 2 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • WA7 3FU: 1 address of 22 in the postcode
  • WA7 6DT: 1 address of 76 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Robin Close · Baxter Close · Baxter Close · Baxter Close · Humphrey's Close · Starling Close · Humphrey's Close · Aldersgate Avenue · Petersgate · Hitchen's Close · Sabre Close · Chiswick Close

All the streets in WA7 and across Halton.

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.