Mill Lane Widnes, Halton

27 addresses across 6 postcodes (WA8), about 710 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a a road. USRN 16102470.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £510,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 5, D: 3, E: 3).
  • Flood: 3 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 E; Band D in Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Widnes, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Crow Wood Park, is about 910 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 41 to 42 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 27 of its 28 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bevan Group Practice, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 560 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 12 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
20261£510,000£510,000£510,000
20251£342,000£342,000£342,000
20151£140,000£140,000£140,000
20143£228,000£195,000£239,950
20111£164,000£164,000£164,000
20042£315,250£135,500£495,000
20011£165,000£165,000£165,000
20001£62,500£62,500£62,500
19991£220,000£220,000£220,000
19982£74,975£59,950£90,000
Most recent sales (14)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 May 2026192 WA8 3ULDetached£510,000
29 Sep 2025214 WA8 3UWSemi-detached£342,000
2 Sep 2015220 WA8 3ULSemi-detached£140,000
5 Sep 2014252 WA8 3ULDetached£228,000
14 Aug 2014246 WA8 3ULDetached£239,950
24 Apr 2014218 WA8 3ULSemi-detached£195,000
17 Mar 2011240 WA8 3UNSemi-detached£164,000
17 Sep 2004192 WA8 3ULDetached£495,000
6 Aug 2004220 WA8 3ULSemi-detached£135,500
23 Jul 2001212 WA8 3UWSemi-detached£165,000
30 Nov 2000242 WA8 3ULSemi-detached£62,500
22 Dec 1999192 WA8 3ULDetached£220,000
30 Sep 1998252 WA8 3ULDetached£90,000
26 Jan 1998212 WA8 3UWSemi-detached£59,950

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 114 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12); House, detached (3). Built: 2012 (4); before 1900 (3); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (social) (2).

Council tax

What each band costs in Halton in 2026-27: Band D £2,367 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,578£1,841£2,104£2,367£2,893£3,418£3,944£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (26% of about 1,280 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: none.
  • 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.

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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 6 October 2026 to 8 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Disconnection or alteration of supply, two-way signals, on the footway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 1 September 2026 to 3 September 2026: BT, New service connection, lane closure, on the 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, 3 at medium risk and 12 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
WA8 3ULnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
WA8 3EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA8 3UNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA8 3UWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
WA8 3ADnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
WA8 3FJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 8 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 28 addresses are between 41 m and 42 m above sea level (41 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
WA8 3AD100%100%100%0%
WA8 3EB100%100%100%0%
WA8 3FJ100%77%82%0%
WA8 3UL100%63%63%0%
WA8 3UN100%100%100%0%
WA8 3UW100%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 stationsWidnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Lea Green 401,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Sankey For Penketh 1,200 journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Everglades Barrows Green370 m
Bus or coach stationSt Helens Bus Station7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Car parksMorrisons Car Park - Widnes2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsRoutledge Street2 km (1.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL10.8 km (6.7 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 Bevan Group Practice1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Widnes Pharmacy1.3 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalHighfield Hospital2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationWidnes Police Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Cash machinesMorrisons Daily - Farnworth, Farnworth Cashzone1.2 km (0.8 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 gardenCrow Wood Park 21 ha910 m (0.6 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 850 m²380 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.4 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,000 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cranshaw Hall moated site, a scheduled monument, 950 m (0.6 miles) north-west. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cranshaw Hall moated siteScheduled monument950 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porchScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite 380m east of South Lane FarmScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
School Lane WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Bold Heath PlantationWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Pex HillHill2.5 km (1.6 miles) west
Lingley Mere PondLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-east
The HempstonesWetland3.6 km (2.2 miles) south
Fiddler's Ferry ReachTidal water4 km (2.5 miles) south-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)10.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)12.04015

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
70 to 7420
65 to 6970
60 to 6460
55 to 59120
Under 55128

27 of the street's 28 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 Halton: see them on the Halton 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
Moorfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lunts Heath Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fairfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Birchfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

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
Rivendell Garden Centre - Notcutts WA8 3ULRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Everglades Hotel WA8 3UJHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Aug 2026
Pathaan Resturant WA8 5SQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Nov 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.

12 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences7
Vehicle crime2
Public order2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rivenmill Close (4); On or near Rivenmill Place (4); On or near Rivenmill Way (4).

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: 564 residents in 239 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 age3540
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work77%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)57%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications7%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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.

  • WA8 3UL: 18 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • WA8 3EB: 3 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • WA8 3UN: 2 addresses of 4 in the postcode
  • WA8 3UW: 2 addresses of 3 in the postcode
  • WA8 3AD: 1 address of 10 in the postcode
  • WA8 3FJ: 1 address of 41 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Rivenmill Close · Rivenmill Way · Rivenmill Place · Mill Lane · Mill Lane · Wielands Lane · Mill Lane · Mill Lane · Trones Wood Lane · Derby Road · Mc Stay Close · Lunts Heath Road

All the streets in WA8 and across Halton.

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.