Morpeth Avenue Pegswood, Northumberland
3 addresses across 2 postcodes (NE61), about 350 m long. USRN 28811607.
- Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2017 the median was £51,000 across 3 sales.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Northumberland cost £213,113 in August 2026 (+4.5% on a year); private rents averaged £696 a month.
- Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
- Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
- Coal mining: 2 of its postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
- Landfill: 5 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Whorral Bank, lies under part of it.
- Storm overflows: 4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 81 times (365 hours) in 2025.
- Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Ellington Road - Anaerobic Digestion Facility, is 4.9 km (3.1 miles) away.
- Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the Minor road, carries 1,128 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Northumberland costs £2,597 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Pegswood, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 930 m (0.6 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 62 to 64 m above sea level.
- Noise: 1 of its 3 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Greystoke Surgery, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
- People: About 650 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, and it was serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.
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House sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | £51,000 | £45,000 | £60,000 |
| 2015 | 1 | £85,000 | £85,000 | £85,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | £16,000 | £16,000 | £16,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Nov 2019 | 3 NE61 6RL | Semi-detached | £51,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 30 Aug 2017 | 3 NE61 6RL | Semi-detached | £45,000 | |
| 9 Mar 2017 | 5 NE61 6RL | Semi-detached | £51,000 | |
| 29 Sep 2017 | 7 NE61 6RL | Semi-detached | £60,000 | |
| 31 May 2002 | 13 NE61 6RL | Terraced | £16,000 | |
| 16 Jan 2015 | 21 NE61 6RL | Semi-detached | £85,000 | |
| 31 Jul 2019 | 23 NE61 6RL | Semi-detached | £44,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
House prices and rents in Northumberland
A typical home in Northumberland cost £213,113 in August 2026, 4.5% more than a year before. That is 24% more than five years earlier and 43% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £371,788 |
| Semi-detached | £206,101 |
| Terraced | £172,838 |
| Flat or maisonette | £106,485 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £175,253 |
Private renters in Northumberland paid £696 a month on average in September 2026, 7% more than a year before. That is 35% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £496 |
| Two bedrooms | £631 |
| Three bedrooms | £768 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,134 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
Gas and electricity use
Homes with gas used 11,031 kWh of it on average in 2024, 11% less than the district's 12,418 kWh, and 3,734 kWh of electricity, 14% more than the district's 3,285 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.
These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is NE61.
Council tax
What each band costs in Northumberland in 2026-27: Band D £2,597 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,731 | £2,020 | £2,308 | £2,597 | £3,174 | £3,751 | £4,328 | £5,194 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (55% of about 1,970 homes).
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: yes, Northumberland.
Energy projects nearby
2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.
| Project | Kind | Size | Stage | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North East Grains Site Northumberland 18/04533/FUL | Anaerobic digestion | 0.5 MW | Operational Oct 2021 | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) |
| Ellington Road - Anaerobic Digestion Facility Northumberland 22/03153/FUL | Anaerobic digestion | Permission granted, not yet built Jul 2023 | 4.9 km (3.1 miles) |
Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.
Flood risk
No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.
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.
Recorded floods
No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.
Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.
Coastal erosion
No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Storm overflows
4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 81 times, for 365 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Wansbeck, Tributary of the Bothal Burn.
| Overflow | Into | Spills | Hours | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morpeth Stw Northumbrian Water; monitored 38% of the year | River Wansbeck | 15 | 28 | 500 m (0.3 miles) |
| Morpeth Stw Northumbrian Water | River Wansbeck | 18 | 174 | 500 m (0.3 miles) |
| Stobs Ford Sps Northumbrian Water | River Wansbeck | 48 | 164 | 530 m (0.3 miles) |
| Pegswood Csocounty First School Northumbrian Water | Tributary of the Bothal Burn | 0 | 0 | 730 m (0.5 miles) |
A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.
Coal mining
2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground.
Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.
Radon
Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.
Historic landfill
5 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes: the nearest lies under part of it.
| Site | Waste went in | Waste | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whorral Bank Castle Morpeth, Northumberland | 1969 to 1983 | Inert, commercial, household | Under it |
| Quarry Woods Park House Farm, Morpeth, Northumberland | 1977 to 1982 | Inert, industrial, commercial | 140 m |
| Climbing Tree Morpeth, Northumberland | Not recorded | Not recorded | 150 m |
| West Pegswood Pegswood, Northumberland | until 1962 | Commercial, household | 330 m |
| Quarry Woods Near Disused Shaft, Waddle Bank | Not recorded | Not recorded | 360 m |
Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.
Height above sea level
The street's 3 addresses are between 62 m and 64 m above sea level (62 m on average).
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NE61 3BN | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| NE61 6RL | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Pegswood 1,470 journeys in 2024–25 | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) |
| Morpeth 623,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 2.4 km (1.5 miles) | |
| Ashington 131,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 6 km (3.7 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 1 stop within 400 m (0.2 miles), 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Whorral Bank roundabout Pegswood | 130 m |
| Bus or coach station | Bus Station Morpeth | 2 km (1.2 miles) |
| Car parks | Co-op Pegswood Car Park | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) |
| EV charging points | MFG Charging Station | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Newcastle International Airport NCL | 16 km (10 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Greystoke Surgery Good Aug 2026 | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) |
| Pharmacies | 2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wellway Pharmacy LTD | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| NHS dentists | Morpeth Dental Clinic | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) |
| Hospital | St Georges Hospital | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Care homes | 2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bentinck Crescent Good Oct 2025 | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Police station | Bedlington Police Station | 7.1 km (4.4 miles) |
| Cash machines | The Cooperative Food Pegswood - Morpeth Road, Pegswood Cashzone | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Unnamed 7,450 m² | 930 m (0.6 miles) |
| Play area | 1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 710 m² | 790 m (0.5 miles) |
| Playing field | Miners Welfare Park 3.2 ha | 1.6 km (1 mile) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 390 m² | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
Landmarks
3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Howburn Wood | Wood | 760 m (0.5 miles) west |
| Hell's Kettle | Lake or reservoir | 870 m (0.5 miles) south-west |
| Bluebell Wood | Wood | 1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west |
| Mill Stream | Lake or reservoir | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) south |
| Climbingtree Dean | Valley | 1.7 km (1 mile) south-east |
| Silver Hill | Hill | 2.2 km (1.3 miles) west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 3.6 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 4.8 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 9.0 | 40 | 15 |
All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.
Road and rail noise
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 60 to 64 | 1 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 2 | 3 |
1 of the street's 3 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 Northumberland: see them on the Northumberland page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pegswood Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) | No published inspection | 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 38% in 2023) |
| The King Edward VI School | Secondary | 13–18 | 1.8 km (1.1 miles) | No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good | GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 51.1 (52.2 in 2025 and 51.2 in 2024); 56.5% grade 5+ in English and maths A level 2025: average grade B-; 15.7% AAB or better; progress above average |
Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.
Nurseries and childcare
1 nursery, pre-school or club within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 1.4 km (0.9 miles) from the middle of the street.
| Provider | Kind | Places | Latest inspection | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pegswood Day Nursery NE61 6XG | Full day care | 25 | Not inspected yet | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
Ofsted also registers 90 childminders and 12 home childcarers (nannies) in Northumberland. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.
Food hygiene ratings nearby
| Business | Type | Distance | Rating | Rated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pegswood Village Store NE61 6RG | Retailers - other | 420 m (0.3 miles) | 5 Very good | 12 Nov 2024 |
| Pegswood & District Social Club NE61 6RE | Pub/bar/nightclub | 420 m (0.3 miles) | 5 Very good | 21 Mar 2025 |
| Co-operative Group Food NE61 6RE | Retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets | 420 m (0.3 miles) | 5 Very good | 2 Mar 2026 |
| Our Cafe by Cleaswell Hill School NE61 6RG | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 420 m (0.3 miles) | Awaiting inspection |
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (northumbria).
Road safety
1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.
| Year | Collisions | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Date | Severity | Who was hurt | Road | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Sep 2023 07:42 | Serious | 1 person: 1 pedestrian | B1337, 30 mph | Daylight |
Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.
Traffic on nearby roads
The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the Minor road, with 1,128 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 270 m from the street's postcodes.
| Road | Between | Vehicles a day | Lorries | Ten years before | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minor road | Not recorded | 1,128 counted 2025 | 0% | 270 m |
Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 47 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 14% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 21% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 66% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 37% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 24% | 17% |
| Private rented | 10% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 57% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 4% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 26% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 4% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 20% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 70% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | under 1% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 5% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 3% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 59% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 8% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 29% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 14% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 9% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 2% |
Deprivation
The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 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.
What has changed
- Food hygiene ratings Our Cafe by Cleaswell Hill School (restaurant/cafe/canteen, NE61 6RG) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 7 November 2026
Postcodes on this street
All the streets in NE61 and across Northumberland.
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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
- 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.