Low Bank Embsay, North Yorkshire

19 addresses across 1 postcode (BD23), about 210 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 9602263.

  • Sales: 35 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £425,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 4, D: 12, E: 1).
  • 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 D; Band D in North Yorkshire costs £2,544 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Skipton, about 3.8 km (2.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 167 to 170 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dyneley House Surgery, about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 51% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£425,000£425,000£425,000
20243£395,000£342,500£435,000
20231£407,000£407,000£407,000
20213£330,000£305,000£437,075
20201£420,000£420,000£420,000
20181£260,000£260,000£260,000
20172£282,500£270,000£295,000
20151£289,000£289,000£289,000
20141£275,000£275,000£275,000
20133£249,950£244,000£280,000
20121£249,950£249,950£249,950
20112£279,000£195,000£363,000
Most recent sales (35)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jun 202514 BD23 6SQDetached£425,000
17 Dec 202410 BD23 6SQDetached£395,000
7 Aug 202415 BD23 6SQDetached£435,000
20 Feb 20242 BD23 6SQDetached£342,500
13 Jan 20237 BD23 6SQDetached£407,000
29 Sep 202117 BD23 6SQDetached£437,075
30 Apr 20214 BD23 6SQDetached£330,000
25 Mar 20218 BD23 6SQDetached£305,000
29 Oct 202019 BD23 6SQDetached£420,000
27 Apr 201810 BD23 6SQDetached£260,000
12 Jun 201721 BD23 6SQDetached£295,000
24 Jan 201712 BD23 6SQDetached£270,000
7 May 201514 BD23 6SQDetached£289,000
31 Jul 201414 BD23 6SQDetached£275,000
26 Jul 201310 BD23 6SQDetached£244,000
8 Jul 20131 BD23 6SQDetached£249,950
29 May 201311 BD23 6SQDetached£280,000
3 Dec 201213 BD23 6SQDetached£249,950
31 Aug 20118 BD23 6SQDetached£195,000
17 Jun 201119 BD23 6SQDetached£363,000
4 Apr 200815 BD23 6SQDetached£315,000
21 Feb 200810 BD23 6SQDetached£243,000
10 Aug 200719 BD23 6SQDetached£355,000
15 Oct 20048 BD23 6SQDetached£188,000
19 Sep 200321 BD23 6SQDetached£187,500
31 Jan 20033 BD23 6SQDetached£169,500
17 Sep 20029 BD23 6SQDetached£155,000
10 Aug 200111 BD23 6SQDetached£121,500
7 Jun 200110 BD23 6SQDetached£125,000
7 Sep 20008 BD23 6SQDetached£105,000
30 Jul 19994 BD23 6SQDetached£94,000
30 Jul 19996 BD23 6SQDetached£82,500
21 Jul 19998 BD23 6SQDetached£84,500
8 Nov 199612 BD23 6SQDetached£93,000
12 Oct 19959 BD23 6SQDetached£105,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 85 m². Most common: Bungalow, detached (16); House, detached (2). Built: 1976-1982 (7); 1983-1990 (6); 1950-1966 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (16).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Yorkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,544 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,696£1,979£2,262£2,544£3,110£3,675£4,241£5,089

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (28% of about 970 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: 2.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

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, 6 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 19 addresses are between 167 m and 170 m above sea level (168 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
BD23 6SQ100%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 stationsSkipton 1.3 million journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.3 miles)
Cononley 183,000 journeys in 2024–257.3 km (4.5 miles)
Gargrave 41,000 journeys in 2024–258.1 km (5 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Laurel Croft Embsay320 m
Car parksBailey Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA24.6 km (15 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 surgeriesDyneley House Surgery3.1 km (1.9 miles)
PharmaciesPool Pharmacy3.1 km (1.9 miles)
NHS dentistsMuirhead Dental Practice2.9 km (1.8 miles)
HospitalSkipton Hospital3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationNorth Yorkshire Police2.8 km (1.8 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 gardenUnnamed 1,710 m²2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²200 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,650 m²200 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,080 m²300 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Manor House, a listed building (Grade II*), 770 m (0.5 miles) west. 22 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Manor HouseListed building, Grade II*770 m (0.5 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Green BottomValley120 m north-east
Milking Hill WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Eastby CragHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Castle WoodsWood1.6 km (1 mile) south-west
Embsay ReservoirLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Stonycliff BottomValley1.8 km (1.1 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)3.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.3205
Particles (PM10)8.34015

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
55 to 5940
Under 551519

4 of the street's 19 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 North Yorkshire: see them on the North Yorkshire 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
Embsay Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11540 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Embsay With Eastby Pre-School Playgroup BD23 6RESchool/college/university320 m5 Very good1 Aug 2025
Elm Tree Inn BD23 6RBPub/bar/nightclub420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good1 Aug 2025
The Paper Shop BD23 6QXRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Jun 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (north-yorkshire).

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: 310 residents in 149 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 age5840
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over38%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright58%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)45%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)48%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycleunder 1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)46%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)51%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%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

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.

  • BD23 6SQ: 19 addresses of 20 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Moorland Close · Moorland Rise · Beacon View · Shires Lane · Harbour Butts · Fell View · Countryfields Way · Priory View · Countryfields Way · Haw Park · Low Acres · Main Street

All the streets in BD23 and across North Yorkshire.

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.