Main Road Lea, Amber Valley

92 addresses across 3 postcodes (DE4), about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 601674.

  • Sales: 21 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £400,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 27 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 7, D: 12, E: 6, G: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 B; Band D in Amber Valley costs £2,408 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 65% to 93% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cromford, about 2 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Lovers' Walks, is about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 143 to 196 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 39 of its 92 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lime Grove Medical Centre, about 3.6 km (2.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 45% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1 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
20211£400,000£400,000£400,000
20201£356,000£356,000£356,000
20191£295,000£295,000£295,000
20171£345,000£345,000£345,000
20161£290,000£290,000£290,000
20152£265,000£260,000£270,000
20141£299,950£299,950£299,950
20102£248,250£196,500£300,000
20091£190,000£190,000£190,000
20082£260,000£220,000£300,000
20072£220,000£200,000£240,000
20051£240,000£240,000£240,000
Most recent sales (21)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Apr 2024JUG & GLASS INN DE4 5GJOther£480,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Jul 2021CATMINT COTTAGE DE4 5GJDetached£400,000
25 Sep 2020SPRINGFIELDS DE4 5GJSemi-detached£356,000
25 Jun 20193 DE4 5GJSemi-detached£295,000
20 Nov 2017CATMINT COTTAGE DE4 5GJDetached£345,000
8 Jan 2016WELL SPRINGS DE4 5GJDetached£290,000
20 Aug 2015BEECH COTTAGE DE4 5GJDetached£270,000
6 Mar 2015WATER WORKS HOUSE DE4 5GJDetached£260,000
22 Jul 2014COPPERSMITH HOUSE DE4 5GJDetached£299,950
21 Oct 2010SPRINGFIELD DE4 5GJSemi-detached£300,000
12 Feb 2010COPPERSMITH HOUSE DE4 5GJDetached£196,500
6 Aug 2009COWLEY HOUSE DE4 5GJSemi-detached£190,000
11 Aug 20083 DE4 5GJSemi-detached£220,000
12 Mar 2008COWLEY HOUSE DE4 5GJSemi-detached£300,000
10 Oct 2007SPRING COTTAGE DE4 5GJTerraced£200,000
27 Jul 20074 DE4 5GJSemi-detached£240,000
12 Aug 2005THE FOLLY DE4 5GJSemi-detached£240,000
18 Aug 2003HOME FARM DE4 5GJDetached£449,000
23 Aug 2002BLACKSMITH COTTAGE DE4 5GJDetached£140,000
19 Jun 19984 DE4 5GJSemi-detached£74,000
13 Feb 19982 DE4 5GJSemi-detached£59,950

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 May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

27 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, detached (12); House, semi-detached (9); House, end-terrace (2). Built: before 1900 (15); 2007 onwards (2); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (17 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Amber Valley in 2026-27: Band D £2,408 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,605£1,873£2,140£2,408£2,943£3,478£4,013£4,815

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (18% of about 510 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: yes, Dethick, Lea and Holloway (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 13.
  • 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 19 October 2026 to 30 October 2026: DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)
  • 19 October 2026 to 30 October 2026: DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)
  • 2 November 2026 to 4 November 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 21 September 2026 to 22 September 2026: Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd), Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (minor works)
  • 16 September 2026 to 18 September 2026: Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd), Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway, verge (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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
DE4 5GJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
DE4 5GRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
DE4 5ATnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 92 addresses are between 143 m and 196 m above sea level (175 m on average); the ground rises about 54 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
DE4 5AT100%82%82%0%
DE4 5GJ100%93%93%0%
DE4 5GR100%65%65%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 stationsCromford 50,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Matlock Bath 84,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Whatstandwell 28,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lea Green160 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Matlock3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Car parksMarket Place Car Park2.8 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA33.9 km (21 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 surgeriesLime Grove Medical Centre3.6 km (2.3 miles)
PharmaciesBoots3.5 km (2.2 miles)
NHS dentistsDale Road Dental Practice3.5 km (2.2 miles)
HospitalWhitworth Hospital Utc5.6 km (3.5 miles)
Police stationMatlock Police Station3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Cash machines*Deposit & Withdrawal* Rontec Esso Matlock Green Cashzone3.1 km (2 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 gardenLovers' Walks 8.2 ha2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 860 m²80 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,220 m²380 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Christ Church, a listed building (Grade II*), 510 m (0.3 miles) south. 23 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Christ ChurchListed building, Grade II*510 m (0.3 miles) south
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Manor FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Workshops, offices and terminus (Cromford and High Peak Railway)Scheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Aqueduct, 328m south east of Aqueduct CottageScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Cromford Canal engine house, engine and aqueductScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) south
Willersley CastleRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) west
Lovers WalksRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.8 km (1.7 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Beech WoodWood80 m south-east
Nether Doe Carr WoodWood200 m north-west
Beamore WoodWood260 m south-west
Mill PondLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Bilberry KnollHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Matlock DaleValley3 km (1.9 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)5.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6460
55 to 59330
Under 555392

39 of the street's 92 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 Amber Valley: see them on the Amber Valley 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
Lea Primary SchoolPrimary3–11400 m (0.2 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, 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
Lea Gardens Tea Shop DE4 5GHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good24 Jun 2024
The Jug And Glass DE4 5GJPub/bar/nightclub430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Apr 2026
Lea Green Development & Conference Centre DE4 5GJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Jul 2026
Lea Out Of School Club DE4 5JPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Jun 2017

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.

1 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Church Street (1).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 530 residents in 243 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 age5740
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over36%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright60%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)38%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)41%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)31%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)45%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

  • DE4 5GJ: 56 addresses of 60 in the postcode
  • DE4 5GR: 33 addresses of 40 in the postcode
  • DE4 5AT: 3 addresses of 48 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Bakers Lane · Church Street · Littlemoor Lane · Riber Road · Holt Lane

All the streets in DE4 and across Amber Valley.

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.