Maeslan Rhos, Neath Port Talbot

33 addresses across 2 postcodes (SA8), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 47701327.

  • Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £185,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 9, E: 5).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Neath Port Talbot costs £2,541 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 98% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Neath, about 6 km (3.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 119 to 128 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 33 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pontardawe Primary Care Centre, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 740 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 34 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

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

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£185,000£185,000£185,000
20221£208,000£208,000£208,000
20213£155,000£144,000£175,000
20192£172,100£169,950£174,250
20181£162,000£162,000£162,000
20172£125,000£117,000£133,000
20162£151,750£147,500£156,000
20151£146,500£146,500£146,500
20142£126,250£117,500£135,000
20133£106,000£92,500£137,000
20121£143,000£143,000£143,000
20102£134,000£129,000£139,000
Most recent sales (41)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Feb 202518 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£185,000
4 Aug 202225 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£208,000
9 Jul 202112 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£175,000
14 May 20213 SA8 3HHDetached£155,000
7 Apr 202125 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£144,000
5 Dec 201929 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£174,250
24 May 201910 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£169,950
20 Apr 201810 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£162,000
8 Sep 201723 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£117,000
12 Jun 201724 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£133,000
15 Jul 201627 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£156,000Leasehold.
6 Jul 201630 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£147,500
26 Jun 201528 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£146,500
19 Mar 20142 SA8 3HHDetached£117,500
20 Jan 201422 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£135,000Leasehold.
2 Aug 201328 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£137,000
28 Jun 201321 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£106,000
10 Jan 20132 SA8 3HHDetached£92,500
2 Mar 201210 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£143,000
8 Oct 201010 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£139,000
19 Mar 201028 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£129,000
11 Sep 20096 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£131,000
31 Jul 2008BRYN BRYCH FARM SA8 3HHDetached£120,000
15 May 200817 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£142,500
25 Jan 20081 SA8 3HHDetached£130,000
7 Dec 200730 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£143,000
17 Sep 200328 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£95,000
28 Mar 200313 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£78,000
24 Jan 200326 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£85,000
13 Dec 200220 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£78,000
14 Dec 20013 SA8 3HHDetached£65,000
26 Oct 200128 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£58,250
26 Apr 20016 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£57,000
1 Jun 20001 SA8 3HHDetached£67,500
19 Nov 19999 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£44,000Leasehold.
15 Oct 199917 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£48,000
5 Feb 199926 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£47,000
21 Nov 199720 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£44,000
23 May 19976 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£51,000
12 Jul 19969 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£39,000Leasehold.
2 May 199628 SA8 3HHSemi-detached£53,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from February 2010 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 102 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (8); House, semi-detached (7); Bungalow, detached (3). Built: 1950-1966 (10); 1967-1975 (6); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15).

Council tax

What each band costs in Neath Port Talbot in 2026-27: Band D £2,541 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,694£1,977£2,259£2,541£3,106£3,671£4,236£5,083£5,930

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (31% of about 610 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Welsh Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted on or by this street. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Roadworks

Street works permits come from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, which covers England only.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 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: of the 79 address points in this street's postcodes, 4 at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: none is in an area at risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 4 at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 0 at low risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low risk
SA8 3HHnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 0
SA8 3HDnot in 2 or 3 2 / 1 / 0

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.

Height above sea level

The street's 33 addresses are between 119 m and 128 m above sea level (123 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
SA8 3HD100%98%98%0%
SA8 3HH100%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 stationsNeath 839,000 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.8 miles)
Skewen 44,000 journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Llansamlet 38,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km (4.5 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rhos Village Hall200 m
Bus or coach stationNeath Bus Station 16.2 km (3.8 miles)
Ferry terminalSwansea Queens Dock Ferry Terminal Swansea Ferry Terminal13.3 km (8.3 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station5.7 km (3.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL48.8 km (30 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pontardawe Primary Care Centre1.4 km (0.9 miles)
PharmaciesPontardawe Pharmacy1.6 km (1 mile)
NHS dentistsHerbert Street (Dental Surgery)1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalTonna Hospital5.8 km (3.6 miles)
Police stationNeath Police Station6.2 km (3.8 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Pontardawe, Pontardawe Cashzone1.7 km (1.1 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 700 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 280 m²140 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha240 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cilybebyll Community Gardens 2,580 m²390 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Standing Stones 300m W of Cefncelfi, a scheduled monument, 460 m (0.3 miles) south-east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Standing Stones 300m W of CefncelfiScheduled monument460 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Burial Chamber at Pen-yr-AlltwenScheduled monument710 m (0.4 miles) west
Cilybebyll Auxiliary Unit Operational BaseScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rhos Service ReservoirLake or reservoir720 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Coed-y-brainWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) east
Coed-y-wigfaWood1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
CoedalltachamWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Cwm SiônValley2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Mynydd MarchywelHill3 km (1.9 miles) 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)4.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.7205
Particles (PM10)7.64015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 553233

1 of the street's 33 addresses is 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 Neath Port Talbot: see them on the Neath Port Talbot page.

Nearest schools

Source: Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Rhos Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11210 m Estyn reports · My Local School
Alltwen Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Cwmtawe Community School English mediumSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Estyn reports · My Local School
Llangiwg Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School

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
Hearty Home Meals SA8 3HDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
Jane's Balloon Blossom SA8 3FARetailers - other100 m5 Very good23 Jun 2023
Sweets, Treat & Balloons SA8 3FARetailers - other110 m5 Very good29 Jul 2024
Rhos Primary School SA8 3EBSchool/college/university210 m4 Good9 Jul 2025
Lullaby's Pre-School SA8 3EBSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
Mansellsmakes SA8 3ELRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m4 Good29 Jul 2026
Guided Spirits SA8 3HBOther catering premises390 mAwaiting inspection
Mac-n-Cheezy SA8 3EAMobile caterer400 m (0.2 miles)Awaiting inspection
Fat Boy Wingz Ltd SA8 3DYRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Jul 2025
AN Retailers Ltd T/A Texaco SA8 3DYRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory15 Apr 2026
Rhos Stores SA8 3EHRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Oct 2022
Smiths Arms SA8 3HBPub/bar/nightclub480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Nov 2023

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.

34 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences18
Public order9
Possession of weapons1
Anti-social behaviour1
Burglary1
Vehicle crime1
Criminal damage and arson1
Other theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near March Hywel (10); On or near Plas Road (8); On or near Ffordd Cynon (4); On or near Fern Field (4); On or near Heol Cynfeli (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 735 residents in 305 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetWales
Median age3743
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over15%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%66%
Owned outright33%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented10%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work65%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)17%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%26%
Travel to work by car or van67%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%under 1%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%3%
On foot or by bicycle3%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)53%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away12%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%32%
No qualifications15%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)99%97%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Maes Rhosyn · Heol Alfred Wallace · Ffordd Cynon · March Hywel · Heol Cynfeli · Cae Rhedyn · Rhos Meadow · Heol-y-Nant · Tirbach Drive · Lon-yr-Ysgol · New Road · Maes y Cornel

All the streets in SA8 and across Neath Port Talbot.

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.