Millbrook Close Skelmersdale, West Lancashire

56 addresses across 3 postcodes (WN8), about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 43300311.

  • Sales: 38 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £150,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 27 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 17, E: 2, F: 1).
  • Flood: 4 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 A; Band D in West Lancashire costs £2,456 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rainford, about 4.1 km (2.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Kiln Lane Playing Fields, is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 54 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 56 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Beacon Primary Care, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 600 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 80% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 76 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
20252£150,500£110,000£191,000
20231£140,000£140,000£140,000
20222£156,250£152,500£160,000
20215£110,000£72,000£129,995
20182£130,000£130,000£130,000
20171£84,000£84,000£84,000
20161£105,000£105,000£105,000
20101£90,000£90,000£90,000
20091£106,000£106,000£106,000
20081£169,000£169,000£169,000
20071£190,000£190,000£190,000
20053£85,000£65,000£102,500
Most recent sales (38)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Dec 2025133 WN8 8QSTerraced£191,000
21 Oct 2025129 WN8 8QSTerraced£110,000
17 Mar 202385 WN8 8QSTerraced£140,000
12 Aug 202279 WN8 8QSTerraced£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 May 2022169 WN8 8QSSemi-detached£160,000
6 May 202267 WN8 8QSTerraced£152,500
3 Dec 2021163 WN8 8QSDetached£129,995
23 Jul 202181 WN8 8QSTerraced£93,000
18 Jun 202183 WN8 8QSTerraced£72,000
9 Jun 202173 WN8 8QSTerraced£115,000
30 Apr 2021237 WN8 8QSDetached£243,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Apr 2021129 WN8 8QSTerraced£110,000
9 May 201886 WN8 8QSDetached£130,000
2 Mar 201867 WN8 8QSTerraced£130,000
15 Dec 201787 WN8 8QSTerraced£84,000
26 May 2017169 WN8 8QSSemi-detached£165,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jan 2016131 WN8 8QSTerraced£105,000
1 Apr 201079 WN8 8QSTerraced£90,000
6 Nov 200967 WN8 8QSTerraced£106,000
4 Apr 2008233 WN8 8QSDetached£169,000
29 Aug 2007106 WN8 8QSSemi-detached£190,000
24 Oct 2005133 WN8 8QSTerraced£102,500
18 Apr 2005133 WN8 8QSTerraced£65,000
18 Mar 2005119 WN8 8QSTerraced£85,000
8 Oct 200481 WN8 8QSTerraced£79,995
24 Sep 2004169 WN8 8QSSemi-detached£134,950
25 Jun 200479 WN8 8QSTerraced£73,500
27 Feb 2004131 WN8 8QSTerraced£71,500
12 Apr 200191 WN8 8QSTerraced£42,000
26 Jan 200188 WN8 8QSDetached£63,500
26 Jan 200179 WN8 8QSTerraced£39,950
17 Mar 2000167 WN8 8QSDetached£45,000
28 Aug 1998237 WN8 8QSDetached£70,000Leasehold.
31 Jul 1998141 WN8 8QSTerraced£33,000
11 Dec 1996131 WN8 8QSTerraced£36,000
26 Apr 1996233 WN8 8QSDetached£59,950
8 Mar 199686 WN8 8QSDetached£35,000
21 Jul 1995133 WN8 8QSTerraced£28,000

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 2010 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 84 m². Most common: House, detached (10); House, mid-terrace (10); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 1967-1975 (19); 1950-1966 (7); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (20); rented (private) (2); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in West Lancashire in 2026-27: Band D £2,456 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,183£2,456£3,002£3,548£4,094£4,912

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (43% of about 530 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 3 October 2026 to 8 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 9 September 2026 to 11 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 4 September 2026 to 8 September 2026: BT, New service connection, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 27 August 2026: BT, Utility asset 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 61 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
WN8 8QSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 29 unlikely
WN8 8QTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 3 / 24 unlikely
WN8 8QGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 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 addresses are about 54 m above sea level.

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
WN8 8QG100%100%100%0%
WN8 8QS100%100%100%0%
WN8 8QT100%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 stationsRainford 26,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
Parbold 99,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Upholland 28,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Millbrook Close Pennylands60 m
Bus or coach stationConcourse Skelmersdale1.3 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station60 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL24.7 km (15 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beacon Primary Care1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy930 m (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalOrmskirk And District General Hospital5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Police stationSkelmersdale Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dan News730 m (0.5 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kiln Lane Playing Fields 3.8 ha300 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Tawd Valley Park 70 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 460 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,840 m²380 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,240 m²780 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 78 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Earthworks in Spa Roughs Wood, a scheduled monument, 2 km (1.2 miles) north-west. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Earthworks in Spa Roughs WoodScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cobb's Brow WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Skelmersdale Hall CloughValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Cobb's CloughValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Goose Island PondLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Goose IslandIsland2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Ashhurst's HillHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-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)8.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

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 6420
55 to 59110
Under 554356

13 of the street's 56 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 West Lancashire: see them on the West Lancashire 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
Crow Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary2–11210 m No published inspection
Trinity Church of England/Methodist SchoolPrimary2–11280 m No published inspection
St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11530 m (0.3 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Brookfield Park Primary SchoolPrimary2–11700 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Lathom High School : A Technology CollegeSecondary11–16790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Cobbs Brow SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Richard's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Woodland Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Delph Side Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St James' Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 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
Skelmersdale Crow Orchard Primary School WN8 8QGSchool/college/university50 m5 Very good12 Sep 2025
Tawd Vale Inn WN8 8QZPub/bar/nightclub170 m5 Very good28 Feb 2025
Beacon View Nursing Home WN8 8PWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good30 Apr 2025
Trinity Church Of England And Methodist School WN8 8PWSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
The Busy Bee WN8 8PQPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good22 Dec 2023
Indulge desserts skelmersdale WN8 8NSRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Dec 2019
Tongbarn Convenience Store WN8 8ELRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory10 Sep 2026

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.

76 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences32
Anti-social behaviour20
Criminal damage and arson6
Other theft5
Other crime4
Public order3
Burglary3
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Teversham (20); On or near Poplar Drive (15); On or near Berry Close (13); On or near Greenway Close (6); On or near Berry Street (4).

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: 596 residents in 245 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 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)80%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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, 3 October 2026 to 8 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) 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.

  • WN8 8QS: 53 addresses of 63 in the postcode
  • WN8 8QT: 2 addresses of 62 in the postcode
  • WN8 8QG: 1 address of 35 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Thorpe · Thirsk · Millrose Close · Neverstitch Close · Teversham · Thornby · Teviot · Tewkesbury · Templemartin · Tenby · Teversham · Willow Drive

All the streets in WN8 and across West Lancashire.

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.