Mill Lane Blakenhall, Cheshire East

69 addresses across 3 postcodes (CW5), about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 9800850.

  • Sales: 53 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £934,480 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 26 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 3, E: 9, F: 5, G: 1).
  • Flood: 5 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 G; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 89% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Crewe, about 7.4 km (4.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 58 to 88 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 19 of its 69 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Rope Green Medical Centre, about 5.3 km (3.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 43% 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
20252£934,480£270,000£1,598,960
20243£262,000£225,000£467,000
20232£332,500£240,000£425,000
20221£492,500£492,500£492,500
20215£282,500£244,000£1,225,000
20191£495,000£495,000£495,000
20181£320,000£320,000£320,000
20171£615,000£615,000£615,000
20161£340,000£340,000£340,000
20151£755,000£755,000£755,000
20143£280,000£184,500£284,000
20132£231,000£180,000£282,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 53)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Nov 2025THE OLD MILL CW5 7NNDetached£1,598,960
4 Nov 202511, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£270,000
30 Aug 20242, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£225,000
19 Aug 202411, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£262,000
3 Apr 2024BARLEYFIELDS COTTAGE CW5 7NPSemi-detached£467,000
7 Sep 202310, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£240,000
15 Feb 20232 CW5 7NNSemi-detached£425,000
4 Feb 2022MELROSE CW5 7NPDetached£492,500
10 Dec 2021THE OLD MILL CW5 7NNDetached£1,225,000
10 Dec 202111, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£282,500
30 Sep 202112, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£244,000
25 Jun 20212 CW5 7NNSemi-detached£385,000
10 Jun 2021SUNNYSIDE CW5 7NPOther£290,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 May 20217, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£257,000
17 Mar 20219, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£217,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jan 2021DODDINGTON MILL CW5 7NNOther£775,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Sep 2020NO 1 HOLDING CW5 7NPOther£475,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Feb 2019THE OLD HAY BARN CW5 7NPDetached£495,000
7 Dec 20182 CW5 7NNSemi-detached£320,000
7 Dec 201812, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPOther£154,440Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Aug 2018MILL COVERT CW5 7NNOther£750,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Jul 2018BLAKENHALL FARM CW5 7NPOther£525,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jul 20186, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£180,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Nov 2017HAYES FARM CW5 7NPDetached£615,000
4 Nov 2016BARLEYFIELDS COTTAGE CW5 7NPSemi-detached£340,000
13 Oct 2015HILL TOP CW5 7NNDetached£755,000
10 Sep 2014MILL COTTAGE CW5 7NNSemi-detached£280,000
6 Jun 2014DAMSON COTTAGE CW5 7NPSemi-detached£284,000
12 Mar 20143, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£184,500
21 Nov 201311, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£180,000
19 Jul 20132 CW5 7NNSemi-detached£282,000
10 Feb 2012THE OLD MILKING PARLOUR CW5 7NPDetached£230,000
9 Sep 2010THE OLD HAY BARN CW5 7NPDetached£249,950
21 May 20103, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£139,950
9 Apr 201011, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£187,500
27 Aug 200911, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£120,000
24 Jul 20092, C W S COTTAGE CW5 7NPSemi-detached£160,000
3 Dec 2004HILL TOP CW5 7NNDetached£750,000
20 Feb 200410, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£173,000
30 Aug 2002ROSEMARY COTTAGE CW5 7NPDetached£420,000
25 Jul 2002BARLEYFIELDS COTTAGE CW5 7NPSemi-detached£112,000
28 May 20022 CW5 7NNDetached£196,000
16 Apr 2002YEW TREE FARM CW5 7NPDetached£385,000
10 Aug 2001HILL TOP CW5 7NNDetached£245,000
4 Apr 20013, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£23,000
22 Mar 2001BLAKENHALL BARNS WEST CW5 7NPDetached£300,000
26 May 199910, MILL LANE END CW5 7NPSemi-detached£85,000
12 Aug 1998BLAKENHALL BARNS WEST CW5 7NPDetached£249,999
31 Oct 1997MILL COTTAGE CW5 7NNSemi-detached£94,000
12 Sep 1997THE OLD MILL CW5 7NNDetached£275,000

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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

26 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 116 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15); House, detached (10); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1930-1949 (6); 1950-1966 (5); before 1900 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band G (38% of about 990 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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

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 31 October 2026

  • 5 October 2026 to 11 December 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway, verge (major (paa) works)
  • 11 November 2026 to 20 January 2027: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the footway, carriageway, verge (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 23 October 2026: BT, Utility repair and maintenance works, temp obstruction 15 minute delay, on the verge (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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
CW5 7NPnot in 2 or 3 4 / 0 / 2 unlikely
CW5 7NNnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CW5 7NRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 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 72 addresses are between 58 m and 88 m above sea level (76 m on average); the ground rises about 29 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
CW5 7NN89%89%89%0%
CW5 7NP95%95%95%5%
CW5 7NR100%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 stationsCrewe 3.4 million journeys in 2024–257.4 km (4.6 miles)
Nantwich 223,000 journeys in 2024–258.1 km (5.1 miles)
Alsager 115,000 journeys in 2024–2511 km (6.8 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chapel Blakenhall510 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationBus Station Crewe8.4 km (5.2 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN37.3 km (23 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 surgeriesRope Green Medical Centre5.3 km (3.3 miles)
PharmaciesWell5.3 km (3.3 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery5.8 km (3.6 miles)
HospitalLeighton Hospital11.1 km (6.9 miles)
Police stationMadeley Police Station, Madeley5.8 km (3.6 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.

No parks, play areas, playing fields or allotments within 3 km (1.9 miles).

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Doddington Hall, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Doddington HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Robin Knight's RoughWood370 m west
MilldaleValley600 m (0.4 miles) west
Mill CovertWood760 m (0.5 miles) west
Blakenhall MossWood870 m (0.5 miles) north
Black MereLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Hunter's HillHill1.5 km (1 mile) 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)4.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.8205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

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
55 to 59180
Under 555069

19 of the street's 69 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 Cheshire East: see them on the Cheshire East 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
Bridgemere CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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 (cheshire).

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: 447 residents in 181 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 age5140
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright41%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)47%32%
Travel to work by car or van47%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)28%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%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 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: Utility repair and maintenance works, 23 October 2026 (temp obstruction 15 minute delay) 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.

  • CW5 7NP: 62 addresses of 67 in the postcode
  • CW5 7NN: 4 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • CW5 7NR: 3 addresses of 40 in the postcode

All the streets in CW5 and across Cheshire East.

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.