Mount Road Birkenhead, Wirral

97 addresses across 7 postcodes (CH42), about 640 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 44502442.

  • Sales: 93 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £198,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Wirral cost £221,673 in August 2026 (+5.8% on a year); private rents averaged £862 a month.
  • Energy: 64 homes have an energy certificate (C: 29, D: 31, E: 3, F: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas 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.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, HMS Eaglet, Sefton Street - Wind Turbine & Solar Panels, is 3.8 km (2.4 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Wirral costs £2,501 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Rock Ferry, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 43 to 61 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 82 of its 97 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Catherine's Surgery, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,010 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 67% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 87 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious.

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House 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£198,000£198,000£198,000
20251£208,561£208,561£208,561
20243£160,000£150,000£175,000
20233£235,000£185,000£250,000
20222£180,000£180,000£180,000
20215£136,500£135,000£150,000
20201£127,000£127,000£127,000
20196£141,250£103,000£190,000
20184£129,000£116,000£145,000
20173£150,000£121,500£150,000
20164£119,400£99,000£145,000
20142£157,500£108,000£207,000
All 93 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
25 Apr 2008126 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£154,750
21 Jul 2006126 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£126,000
14 Sep 2018128 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£116,000
30 Sep 1998130 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£32,500
31 Jul 1998130 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£30,000
1 Jun 2005132 CH42 8NNTerraced£115,000
26 Feb 2024138 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£175,000
13 Oct 2022138 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£180,000
25 Jul 2003138 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£74,950
20 Aug 1999138 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£37,000
26 Sep 2003139 CH42 8NJSemi-detached£95,950
12 Feb 1999139 CH42 8NJSemi-detached£46,000
21 Jun 2004140 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£120,000
30 Jul 1997140 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£34,000
15 Apr 2019141 CH42 8NJTerraced£137,500
5 Jun 2007141 CH42 8NJTerraced£121,000
2 Jul 2004142 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£114,950
11 Jun 1997142 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£34,650
9 Aug 2024143 CH42 8NJSemi-detached£160,000
28 Nov 2007143 CH42 8NJSemi-detached£125,000
3 Apr 1998143 CH42 8NJSemi-detached£36,000
3 Sep 2004145 CH42 8NJSemi-detached£110,000
29 Oct 1999145 CH42 8NJTerraced£48,500
23 Feb 2018148 CH42 8NNTerraced£130,000
27 Mar 2006149 CH42 8NJTerraced£122,950
24 May 2004149 CH42 8NJTerraced£91,500
8 Mar 2002149 CH42 8NJTerraced£64,950
13 Jun 1997149 CH42 8NJTerraced£27,000
9 Sep 2025152 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£208,561
12 Mar 2021152 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£149,000
15 Aug 2006152 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£142,450
29 Nov 2004152 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£137,000
16 Sep 2001153 CH42 8NJSemi-detached£39,000
9 Jul 2004154 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£114,000
20 Oct 2017156 CH42 8NNTerraced£150,000
20 Dec 2016157 CH42 8NJTerraced£99,000
25 Sep 1996157 CH42 8NJTerraced£30,000
7 Jun 2021159 CH42 8NJTerraced£135,000
27 Jan 2006159 CH42 8NJTerraced£119,950
31 Jul 2003159 CH42 8NJSemi-detached£74,000
13 Aug 2021162 CH42 8NNTerraced£136,000
30 Jul 2024163 CH42 8NLSemi-detached£150,000
3 Feb 2023166 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£185,000
24 Sep 2021166 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£150,000
8 Jan 2007166 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£127,950
23 Feb 2004166 CH42 8NNSemi-detached£102,000
8 Feb 2000166 CH42 8NNTerraced£37,000
21 Oct 2016169 CH42 8NLSemi-detached£145,000
21 Apr 2011169 CH42 8NLSemi-detached£129,950
9 Mar 2007169 CH42 8NLSemi-detached£119,500
3 May 2002170 CH42 8NWSemi-detached£59,000
1 Feb 2021171 CH42 8NLSemi-detached£136,500
7 Sep 2018172 CH42 8NWTerraced£128,000
12 Aug 2003172 CH42 8NWTerraced£71,500
2 Dec 2004174 CH42 8NWSemi-detached£105,000
11 Jun 2004176 CH42 8NWSemi-detached£95,000
4 Nov 2005180 CH42 8NWSemi-detached£106,000
15 Dec 2000180 CH42 8NWSemi-detached£42,000
22 Aug 2019181 CH42 8NLSemi-detached£131,500
8 Oct 2014185 CH42 8NLTerraced£108,000
22 Feb 2002190 CH42 8NWSemi-detached£39,000
6 Jul 2001190 CH42 8NWSemi-detached£39,000
19 May 2003193 CH42 8NLTerraced£39,000
12 Feb 2020194 CH42 8NWSemi-detached£127,000
23 May 2008194 CH42 8NWSemi-detached£126,500
28 Oct 2009195 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£150,500
24 Apr 2006195 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£140,000
3 May 2019196 CH42 8NWTerraced£103,000
1 Dec 2023197 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£250,000
27 Jan 2006197 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£149,000
13 Sep 2001197 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£69,000
20 Jul 2016198 CH42 8NWSemi-detached£103,800
5 Feb 2010198 CH42 8NWSemi-detached£90,000
13 Oct 2006198 CH42 8NWTerraced£83,000
23 Jan 1998198 CH42 8NWTerraced£20,000
12 Apr 2002200 CH42 8NWSemi-detached£53,500
8 Oct 1996201 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£36,000
27 Oct 2023203 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£235,000
18 Jan 2018203 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£145,000
12 Oct 2017204 CH42 8NWTerraced£121,500
14 Apr 2022207 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£180,000
25 Feb 2014210 CH42 8NPDetached£207,000
16 Aug 2019211 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£145,000
8 Dec 2016211 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£135,000
29 Jul 2013212 CH42 8NPDetached£250,000
27 Sep 2010214 CH42 8NPDetached£299,300
18 Jun 1999214 CH42 8NPDetached£148,000
28 Feb 2007217 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£145,500
30 Jan 2026219 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£198,000
17 Dec 2019221 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£190,000
18 Jun 1998221 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£42,000
28 Mar 2019223 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£183,500
20 Jul 2017223 CH42 6SDSemi-detached£150,000

House prices and rents in Wirral

A typical home in Wirral cost £221,673 in August 2026, 5.8% more than a year before. That is 21% more than five years earlier and 55% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£395,663
Semi-detached£252,118
Terraced£176,914
Flat or maisonette£125,172
Bought by a first-time buyer£190,039

Private renters in Wirral paid £862 a month on average in September 2026, 6.7% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£574
Two bedrooms£743
Three bedrooms£909
Four or more bedrooms£1,255

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

64 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (33); House, mid-terrace (13); House, end-terrace (9). Built: 1950-1966 (31); 1930-1949 (25); 1967-1975 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (33); rented (social) (20); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (64 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,976 kWh of it on average in 2024, 12% less than the district's 10,240 kWh, and 2,760 kWh of electricity, 5% less than the district's 2,919 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
CH42 8NN212,762 kWh 228,525 kWh
CH42 8NW182,191 kWh 188,546 kWh
CH42 6SD162,683 kWh 167,968 kWh
CH42 8NL162,473 kWh 179,620 kWh
CH42 8NJ142,679 kWh 147,705 kWh
CH42 8NP52,811 kWh 57,636 kWh
CH42 8NR262,185 kWh 277,596 kWh

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 CH42.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Wirral in 2026-27: Band D £2,501 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,667£1,945£2,223£2,501£3,056£3,612£4,168£5,001

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (31% of about 1,340 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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: in a protected area: County Borough of Birkenhead BK0092, County Borough of Birkenhead BK0092.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Bromborough Dock Landfill Scheme Landfill Gas 3 MW Operational Sep 1999 3.7 km (2.3 miles)
HMS Eaglet, Sefton Street - Wind Turbine & Solar Panels Liverpool 22LP/2379 Wind 1 turbine Planning application made Sep 2022 3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Bromborough Dock Landfill Gas 3.7 MW Operational Sep 1999 4 km (2.5 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.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 12 October 2026 to 16 October 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 9 September 2026 to 15 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 4 September 2026 to 10 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent 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, 1 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
CH42 8NNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH42 8NWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH42 6SDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 2 unlikely
CH42 8NLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH42 8NJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH42 8NPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH42 8NRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

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.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

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.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 97 addresses are between 43 m and 61 m above sea level (51 m on average); the ground rises about 18 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
CH42 6SD100%100%100%0%
CH42 8NJ100%100%100%0%
CH42 8NL100%100%100%0%
CH42 8NN100%100%100%0%
CH42 8NP100%100%100%0%
CH42 8NR100%100%100%0%
CH42 8NW100%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 stationsRock Ferry 686,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Green Lane 375,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Bebington 918,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 60 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mendip Road Cross Hill20 m
Bus or coach stationBirkenhead Bus Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Ferry terminalWoodside Birkenhead Ferry Terminal3.2 km (2 miles)
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL12.6 km (7.8 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Catherine's Surgery Good Nov 20161.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Victoria Park Pharmacy780 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Westbourne Dental Practice570 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSt. Catherines Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Care homes10 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Daleside Nursing Home Requires improvement Dec 2025560 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationPyramids Town Centre Police Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Tranmere, Higher Tranmere Cashzone200 m

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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 11 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 40 m²890 m (0.6 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha640 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,800 m²220 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Dell, the Diamond and the Causeway, Port Sunlight, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Dell, the Diamond and the Causeway, Port SunlightRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Marsh Hey CovertWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Storeton HillHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Prenton DellValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Cow Hey CovertWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Tranmere BeachBeach2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Outer BasinLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 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)9.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 64190
55 to 59620
Under 551597

82 of the street's 97 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 Wirral: see them on the Wirral page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 7 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Prenton High School for GirlsSecondary11–16330 m No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 40.8 (38.9 in 2025 and 41.2 in 2024); 27.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
Bedford Drive Primary SchoolPrimary3–11450 m (0.3 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 38% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 37% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Devonshire Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11690 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 47% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 42% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 41% in 2024 and 46% in 2023)
Well Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Inadequate (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Mersey Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 76% in 2024 and 67% in 2023)
Woodchurch Road AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025)
St Anne's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 45% in 2023)
Prenton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
Rock Ferry Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 28% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 32% in 2024 and 33% in 2023)
Town Lane Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.5 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection None published

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

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 460 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Tennis Vision Holiday Club CH42 8LY Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 460 m (0.3 miles)
Firbobs@Bedford Drive CH42 6RT Full day care 30 Not inspected yet 490 m (0.3 miles)
First Class Nursery School (Wirral) Limited CH42 8NA Full day care 79 Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 570 m (0.4 miles)
Partou Victoria Park Day Nursery & Pre-School CH42 4QJ Full day care 82 Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 780 m (0.5 miles)
Helen Goodbody @ Kumon Bebington CH63 5ND Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 870 m (0.5 miles)
Firbobs@St Joseph's CH43 5UT Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 950 m (0.6 miles)
Em's Stars Pre-School at St Joseph's Primary CH43 5UT Sessional day care 26 Not inspected yet 950 m (0.6 miles)
Best Start Tots CH42 0LJ Sessional day care 23 May 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 950 m (0.6 miles)
Rose Tree Day Nursery Ltd CH42 4PE Full day care 30 Good (Aug 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Firbobs@ Mersey Park CH42 0PH Out-of-school day care 24 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 120 childminders and 12 home childcarers (nannies) in Wirral. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 7 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
Morrisons Daily CH42 6RERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets200 m5 Very good2 Jul 2019
Hursts Bakery, Keylex Ltd CH42 6RERetailers - other220 m4 Good30 Oct 2025
Mount General Store CH42 6RERetailers - other220 m5 Very good14 Nov 2018
Poco loco prenton CH42 6RETakeaway/sandwich shop230 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Aug 2025
Prenton Lawn Tennis Club CH42 8LYPub/bar/nightclub290 m5 Very good4 Sep 2024
Shaftesbury Youth Club CH42 8NURetailers - other390 m4 Good4 Dec 2025
Firbobs Out Of School Club CH42 6RTOther catering premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Jul 2018

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.

87 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences63
Public order6
Other crime3
Anti-social behaviour3
Criminal damage and arson3
Shoplifting3
Burglary2
Other theft2
Vehicle crime1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Mount Road (22); On or near Mendip Road (19); On or near Chiltern Road (13); On or near Clee Hill Road (12); On or near The Wiend (9).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 3 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 2 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 20% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202111
202210
202311
202410
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
25 Apr 2025 14:10 Slight 3 people B5151, 30 mph Daylight
17 Jun 2024 16:40 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
13 Jun 2023 14:29 Serious 1 person: 1 cyclist B5151, 30 mph Daylight
19 May 2022 15:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
24 Apr 2021 20:51 Serious 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on

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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,005 residents in 424 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 age4840
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)67%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: United Utilities Water Ltd: Utility repair and maintenance works, 12 October 2026 to 16 October 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, bungalow, end-terrace (lodged 22 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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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

Mount Road · Chiltern Road · Cheviot Road · Mendip Road · Cheviot Close · Borough Road · Borough Road · The Wiend · The Wiend · Pennine Road · Clee Hill Road · Cotswold Road

All the streets in CH42 and across Wirral.

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.