Northcroft Shafton, Barnsley

24 addresses across 2 postcodes (S72), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 1804075.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £267,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 13, D: 1).
  • Flood: 11 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 Barnsley costs £2,326 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 45% to 65% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Fitzwilliam, about 5.2 km (3.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 74 to 77 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 24 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Rose Tree Pms Practice, about 1.5 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 530 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 61 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
20251£267,500£267,500£267,500
20241£127,500£127,500£127,500
20221£190,000£190,000£190,000
20212£180,000£125,000£235,000
20191£140,000£140,000£140,000
20181£125,000£125,000£125,000
20171£125,000£125,000£125,000
20161£156,500£156,500£156,500
20142£136,500£110,000£163,000
20122£107,975£104,950£111,000
20071£136,500£136,500£136,500
20062£102,750£98,000£107,500
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Feb 20255 S72 8WNDetached£267,500
27 Sep 202418 S72 8WNTerraced£127,500
28 Oct 20226 S72 8WNTerraced£190,000
27 Oct 202112 S72 8WNTerraced£125,000
10 Sep 202110 S72 8WNTerraced£143,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Jul 202121 S72 8WNDetached£235,000
29 Nov 20192 S72 8WNTerraced£140,000
25 Jul 20184 S72 8WNTerraced£125,000
23 Mar 20181 S72 8WNDetached£175,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Aug 20174 S72 8WNTerraced£125,000
26 Feb 201615 S72 8WNDetached£156,500
27 Jun 20142 S72 8WNTerraced£105,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 May 201416 S72 8WNTerraced£110,000
15 Apr 20145 S72 8WNDetached£163,000
4 Sep 201222 S72 8WNTerraced£111,000
3 Feb 20124 S72 8WNTerraced£104,950
13 Jul 20074 S72 8WNTerraced£136,500
5 Dec 200620 S72 8WNTerraced£107,500
12 May 200612 S72 8WNTerraced£98,000
26 Aug 20055 S72 8WNDetached£175,000New build.
30 Jun 20051 S72 8WNDetached£160,000New build.
10 Jun 200522 S72 8WNDetached£123,000
6 May 20053 S72 8WNDetached£165,000New build.
22 Apr 20057 S72 8WNDetached£180,000New build.
15 Apr 20059 S72 8WNDetached£180,000New build.
24 Mar 200517 S72 8WNDetached£180,000New build.
24 Mar 200511 S72 8WNDetached£170,000New build.
18 Mar 200519 S72 8WNDetached£195,000New build.
18 Mar 200515 S72 8WNDetached£160,000New build.
25 Feb 200521 S72 8WNDetached£180,000New build.
18 Feb 200523 S72 8WNDetached£155,000New build.
11 Feb 200525 S72 8WNDetached£170,000New build.
11 Feb 200522 S72 8WNDetached£118,500New build.
28 Jan 200520 S72 8WNTerraced£97,500New build.
21 Jan 200518 S72 8WNTerraced£99,500New build.
4 Jan 200512 S72 8WNTerraced£95,500New build.
10 Dec 200416 S72 8WNTerraced£114,500New build.
10 Dec 200414 S72 8WNTerraced£95,500New build.
3 Dec 200410 S72 8WNTerraced£114,500New build.
26 Nov 20046 S72 8WNTerraced£121,500New build.
26 Nov 20048 S72 8WNTerraced£114,500New build.
19 Nov 20044 S72 8WNTerraced£121,500New build.
12 Nov 20042 S72 8WNTerraced£112,500New build.

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 June 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 88 m². Most common: House, detached (7); House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (2). Built: 2003-2006 (13); 1991-1995 (1); 1996-2002 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Barnsley in 2026-27: Band D £2,326 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,551£1,809£2,068£2,326£2,843£3,360£3,877£4,652

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (37% of about 940 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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, 11 at medium risk and 16 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
S72 8WNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 4 unlikely
S72 8WLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 10 / 12 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 24 addresses are between 74 m and 77 m above sea level (76 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
S72 8WL97%97%45%0%
S72 8WN100%65%65%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 stationsFitzwilliam 273,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Barnsley 1.5 million journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Moorthorpe 208,000 journeys in 2024–256.9 km (4.3 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High Street/High Gate Way Shafton190 m
Bus or coach stationHemsworth Bus Station4.5 km (2.8 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA34.8 km (22 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 The Rose Tree Pms Practice1.5 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shafton Pharmacy190 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cudworth Dental Surgery1.5 km (1 mile)
HospitalKendray Hospital5.7 km (3.6 miles)
Police stationWest Yorkshire Police6 km (3.7 miles)
Cash machinesSantander1.7 km (1 mile)

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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha330 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,570 m²110 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha50 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brierley Road Allotments 1.0 ha510 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 3.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gander HillHill880 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Frickley PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Windmill HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) east
Lund HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Addey BottomsValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) east
Wintersett ReservoirLake or reservoir4.4 km (2.7 miles) north

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)8.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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
55 to 5920
Under 552224

2 of the street's 24 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 Barnsley: see them on the Barnsley 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
Lift ShaftonPrimary3–11270 m No published inspection
Outwood Academy ShaftonSecondary11–16570 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Cherry Dale Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Churchfield Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Sainsbury's S72 8WBRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets170 m5 Very good20 Oct 2025
Premier S72 8NFRetailers - other180 m5 Very good6 Dec 2024
Two Gates Fisheries S72 8PZTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good24 Jul 2025
The Butty Box S72 8PZTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Nov 2025
Shafton Village WMC S72 8QAPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good17 Mar 2025
Impact Food Group t/a Hutchison Catering Ltd @ Shafton Primary S72 8QASchool/college/university280 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Go Local Extra (Shafton Costcutter) S72 8QBRetailers - other330 m4 Good16 Sep 2026
G Haslehurst & Son S72 8NHRetailers - other340 m3 Generally satisfactory31 Mar 2026
Playworks Shafton Ltd S72 8QEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good24 Nov 2025
Tots Explore S72 8QEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m5 Very good8 Dec 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.

61 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Anti-social behaviour9
Other theft4
Shoplifting4
Public order3
Other crime3
Burglary3
Criminal damage and arson2
Possession of weapons2
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near High Street (19); On or near Northcroft (8); On or near Bleak Avenue (6); On or near Gilder Way (5); On or near Two Gates 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: 533 residents in 237 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 age4540
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

  • S72 8WN: 23 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • S72 8WL: 1 address of 47 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Two Gates Way · Plumpton Park · Bleakley Close · Gilder Way · Longcliffe Close · Netherfield Croft · Broomcliffe Gardens · Granham Acre · Barnfold Place · Bleak Avenue · High Gate Way · High Street

All the streets in S72 and across Barnsley.

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.