Middle Hey Much Hoole, South Ribble

35 addresses across 2 postcodes (PR4), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 36400945.

  • Sales: 36 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £183,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 11, E: 3, F: 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 C; Band D in South Ribble costs £2,443 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Croston, about 4.1 km (2.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Longton Grove, is about 2.5 km (1.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 11 to 13 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 35 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Beeches Medical Centre, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 730 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 88% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 43 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20242£183,500£172,000£195,000
20224£206,000£156,000£235,000
20202£207,000£174,000£240,000
20192£166,000£157,000£175,000
20171£141,000£141,000£141,000
20132£136,500£130,000£143,000
20121£154,000£154,000£154,000
20104£149,000£115,750£201,000
20091£145,000£145,000£145,000
20081£130,000£130,000£130,000
20041£127,000£127,000£127,000
20031£105,000£105,000£105,000
Most recent sales (36)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Apr 202432 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£172,000
16 Jan 20246 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£195,000
9 Dec 202225 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£205,000
1 Apr 202225 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£156,000
28 Feb 20224A PR4 4RHDetached£235,000
14 Feb 20227 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£207,000
11 Nov 202034 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£174,000
27 Mar 202022 PR4 4RHDetached£240,000
23 Aug 201916 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£157,000
2 May 201910 - 12 PR4 4RHOther£280,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 May 20197 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£175,000
8 Aug 20173 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£141,000
22 Jul 201313 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£143,000
14 Jun 201314 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£130,000
5 Oct 20127 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£154,000
24 Sep 201020 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£168,000
3 Sep 20104A PR4 4RHDetached£201,000
23 Jul 201013 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£115,750
7 Jun 201032 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£130,000
23 Apr 20091 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£145,000
26 Nov 200815 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£130,000
26 Feb 200428 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£127,000
7 Feb 200316 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£105,000
4 Jan 200220 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£89,500
27 Mar 200034 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£59,950
14 Feb 200020 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£52,500
3 Dec 199915 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£50,000
4 Nov 199927 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£52,500
8 Sep 19993 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£65,000
12 Aug 19994 PR4 4RHDetached£70,000
11 Jun 19996 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£66,500
29 Jan 19993 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£68,500
1 Jul 199828 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£50,000
6 Oct 199722 PR4 4RHDetached£56,500
23 May 199723 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£67,500
18 Apr 199634 PR4 4RHSemi-detached£57,000

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 May 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 93 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (11); House, semi-detached (4); House, detached (2). Built: 1950-1966 (12); 1967-1975 (4); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in South Ribble in 2026-27: Band D £2,443 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,628£1,900£2,171£2,443£2,985£3,528£4,071£4,885

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (40% of about 1,010 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: 1.
  • 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

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.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 15 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (minor works)
  • 10 August 2026 to 11 August 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Remedial works, some 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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 5 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 35 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 4 low and 0 very low.

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
PR4 4RHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
PR4 4GAnot in 2 or 3 4 / 1 / 3 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 35 addresses are between 11 m and 13 m above sea level (12 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
PR4 4GA100%0%0%0%
PR4 4RH100%0%0%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 stationsCroston 56,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Rufford 24,000 journeys in 2024–257.4 km (4.6 miles)
Leyland 451,000 journeys in 2024–257.7 km (4.8 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Smithy Inn Much Hoole140 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Preston City Centre9.6 km (6 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station2.3 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL40.9 km (25 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 surgeriesBeeches Medical Centre2.9 km (1.8 miles)
PharmaciesTrust Hesketh Bank Pharmacy2.4 km (1.5 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery2.4 km (1.5 miles)
HospitalRamsey Buckshawe Hospital8.8 km (5.5 miles)
Police stationLancashire Constabulary2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Tarleton, Tarleton Cashzone3.1 km (1.9 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 gardenLongton Grove 1.3 ha2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,200 m²140 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.0 ha90 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,540 m²2.8 km (1.7 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated site and two fishponds south of Manor House Farm, a scheduled monument, 880 m (0.5 miles) south. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated site and two fishponds south of Manor House FarmScheduled monument880 m (0.5 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rothwell's WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) east
One Acre WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Much Hoole MarshWetland1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Little Hoole MarshWetland1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Becconsall MarshWetland1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Black Pits PlantationWood2 km (1.3 miles) south

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)5.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

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 6410
Under 553435

1 of the street's 35 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 South Ribble: see them on the South Ribble page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Hoole St Michael CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Little Hoole Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Ribble Court Care Home PR4 4QBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises80 m5 Very good9 Dec 2025
Smithy Inn PR4 4GBPub/bar/nightclub130 mAwaiting inspection
Much Hoole Village Shop PR4 4GNRetailers - other140 m3 Generally satisfactory8 Jan 2026
The Poppy Lounge PR4 4QAMobile caterer340 m5 Very good6 Aug 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.

43 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour18
Violence and sexual offences15
Criminal damage and arson5
Vehicle crime2
Burglary2
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Middle Hey (21); On or near Liverpool Old Road (7); On or near Sports/Recreation Area (5); On or near Kirk Head (5); On or near Horrocks Fold (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: 725 residents in 294 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 age4740
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)88%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: United Utilities Water Ltd: Utility repair and maintenance works, 15 October 2026 to 19 October 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026

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

Green Hey · Great Hey · Fir Tree Close · Horrocks Fold · Swallowfield · Park Avenue · Kirk Head · Barnfield · Brook Lane · Northall · Windgate · Northern Avenue

All the streets in PR4 and across South Ribble.

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.