Olden Lane Shropshire
23 addresses across 2 postcodes (SY4), about 1.7 km (1 mile) long, classed as a b road. USRN 29600263.
- Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £320,000 across 1 sale.
- Prices and rents: A typical home in Shropshire cost £277,521 in August 2026 (-0.9% on a year); private rents averaged £828 a month.
- Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (D: 2, E: 5).
- Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are 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.
- Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E, which costs £3,090 a year in Shropshire in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 21% to 65% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Yorton, about 12.6 km (7.8 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Nesscliffe Hill Country Park, is about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 3.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: Its addresses are 77 to 117 m above sea level.
- Noise: 14 of its 23 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Knockin Medical Centre, about 4.8 km (3 miles) away.
- People: About 450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Water: Supplied by Severn Trent.
- Policing: West Mercia Police: 10.7% of the crimes it recorded in 2025/26 had led to a charge or summons (England and Wales 9.3%); it answered 88.9% of 999 calls within 10 seconds (target 90%).
- MP: Helen Morgan, Liberal Democrat, MP for North Shropshire.
- Council: Ruyton & Baschurch ward, Shropshire: Liberal Democrat won its latest election, on 1 May 2025.
- Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.
£9.99 The Street Dossier Full Report for a home on Olden Lane: its own records, questions to ask the seller and everything on this page, in one PDF. Choose the home
House sales on this street
See any home on its own: in the list of sales below, tap an underlined house number to open that home's page, with every energy certificate lodged for it and every sale matched to it.
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | £320,000 | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | £225,000 | £225,000 | £225,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | £290,000 | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | £126,000 | £126,000 | £126,000 |
| 1997 | 2 | £230,000 | £160,000 | £300,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Feb 2026 | AVONDALE SY4 1JD | Detached | £750,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 23 May 1997 | AVONDALE SY4 1JD | Detached | £300,000 | |
| 23 Oct 2024 | BAWTRY SY4 1JD | Detached | £320,000 | |
| 8 Mar 2017 | DALE COTTAGE SY4 1JD | Detached | £290,000 | |
| 18 Mar 2016 | ELM COTTAGE SY4 1JD | Semi-detached | £126,000 | |
| 29 Sep 2022 | GLENDALE SY4 1JD | Detached | £225,000 | |
| 14 Jan 1997 | MANOR VIEW SY4 1JD | Detached | £160,000 |
House prices and rents in Shropshire
A typical home in Shropshire cost £277,521 in August 2026, 0.9% less than a year before. That is 16% more than five years earlier and 41% more than ten years earlier.
| Home | Typical price, Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Detached | £416,462 |
| Semi-detached | £259,969 |
| Terraced | £208,538 |
| Flat or maisonette | £135,574 |
| Bought by a first-time buyer | £224,381 |
Private renters in Shropshire paid £828 a month on average in September 2026, 4.8% more than a year before. That is 31% more than five years earlier.
| Home | Average rent a month, Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| One bedroom | £611 |
| Two bedrooms | £773 |
| Three bedrooms | £959 |
| Four or more bedrooms | £1,406 |
Energy performance certificates
7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 134 m². Most common: House, detached (5); House, semi-detached (1); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: before 1900 (4); 1991-1995 (1); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5); rented (private) (1).
Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)
Gas and electricity use
Homes with gas used 15,922 kWh of it on average in 2024, 40% more than the district's 11,370 kWh, and 4,098 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 95% of the homes.
| Postcode | Electricity meters | Typical electricity | Gas meters | Typical gas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY4 1JD | 11 | 4,297 kWh | 7 | 15,350 kWh |
| SY4 1JT | 44 | 3,103 kWh | 45 | 13,810 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 SY4.
Council tax
What each band costs in Shropshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,528 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £1,685 | £1,966 | £2,247 | £2,528 | £3,090 | £3,652 | £4,214 | £5,056 |
Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (22% of about 540 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
- 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.
Listed buildings
- CROSS AT JUNCTION OF CHURCH STREET AND SCHOOL ROAD, grade II
- FORMER COACH HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES EAST OF RUYTON HALL, grade II
- RUYTON HALL, grade II
- SMITHY HOUSE, grade II
Energy projects nearby
1 energy project near the street's postcodes.
| Project | Kind | Size | Stage | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbots moor Farm Anaerobic Digester (Farm AD) Shropshire 11/00421/MAW | Anaerobic digestion | 1 MW | Operational Nov 2012 | 4.8 km (3 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
Planned, as of 31 October 2026
- 9 November 2026: MANWEB, Disconnection or alteration of supply, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)
Finished in the last three months
- 14 August 2026 to 17 August 2026: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (immediate - urgent works)
Flood risk
Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 1 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.
| Postcode | Planning zone | Addresses at high / medium / low risk | Groundwater |
|---|---|---|---|
| SY4 1JD | not in 2 or 3 | 1 / 0 / 0 | unlikely |
| SY4 1JT | not in 2 or 3 | 0 / 1 / 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.
Coastal erosion
No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Storm overflows
No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Coal mining
No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.
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
No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.
Height above sea level
The street's 23 addresses are between 77 m and 117 m above sea level (90 m on average); the ground rises about 39 m from the lowest to the highest.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY4 1JD | 86% | 21% | 21% | 7% |
| SY4 1JT | 100% | 65% | 65% | 0% |
Water
This street's water is supplied by Severn Trent. The company gives the hardness and quality of the water at an address on its website.
Severn Trent does not publish the hardness of its tap samples as open data; only Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water do.
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Yorton 8,550 journeys in 2024–25 | 12.6 km (7.8 miles) |
| Gobowen 248,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 13.3 km (8.3 miles) | |
| Shrewsbury 2.3 million journeys in 2024–25 | 15 km (9.3 miles) | |
| Bus stops | None within 800 m (0.5 miles) | |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Liverpool John Lennon Airport LPL | 60.1 km (37 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | Knockin Medical Centre Good Jul 2026 | 4.8 km (3 miles) |
| Hospital | Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital Good Oct 2025 | 12.3 km (7.6 miles) |
| Care homes | 1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Kynaston Farm Good Aug 2019 | 1.3 km (0.8 miles) |
| Police station | Oswestry Police Station | 10.9 km (6.8 miles) |
| Cash machines | MFG - Nesscliffe Services, Nesscliffe Cashzone | 2.8 km (1.7 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Nesscliffe Hill Country Park 37 ha | 2.9 km (1.8 miles) |
| Play area | Unnamed 1,040 m² | 1.6 km (1 mile) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 2.2 ha | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Tower keep castle immediately west of St John the Baptist's Church, a scheduled monument, 1.6 km (1 mile) east. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Tower keep castle immediately west of St John the Baptist's Church | Scheduled monument | 1.6 km (1 mile) east |
| Churchyard cross, St John the Baptist's Church | Scheduled monument | 1.6 km (1 mile) east |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Grug Hill | Hill | 490 m (0.3 miles) north |
| Little Heath Plantations | Wood | 760 m (0.5 miles) south-west |
| Moss Plantation | Wood | 910 m (0.6 miles) west |
| Coton Side | Hill | 920 m (0.6 miles) south |
| Milldale | Valley | 2.4 km (1.5 miles) east |
| Paddock Pool | Lake or reservoir | 2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 3.2 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 5.1 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 9.8 | 40 | 15 |
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
| Level | Road traffic | Railways |
|---|---|---|
| 65 to 69 | 1 | 0 |
| 60 to 64 | 4 | 0 |
| 55 to 59 | 9 | 0 |
| Under 55 | 9 | 23 |
14 of the street's 23 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 Shropshire: see them on the Shropshire page.
Nearest schools
| School | Phase | Ages | Distance | Inspection | Exam results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 2–11 | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Happy Faces Day Care Nursery Ltd SY4 1HX | Full day care | 35 | Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
Ofsted also registers 92 childminders and 10 home childcarers (nannies) in Shropshire. 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
No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).
Crime within 250 m
No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (West Mercia Police).
Policing
This street is policed by West Mercia Police. Of the 79,786 crimes it recorded in 2025/26 (April to March), 10.7% had led to someone being charged or summonsed to court, against 9.3% across England and Wales.
In the 12 months November 2025 to October 2026 it answered 88.9% of its 189,385 999 calls within 10 seconds, against a national target of 90% and 89.6% across England and Wales.
| Outcome | West Mercia Police | England and Wales |
|---|---|---|
| Charged or summonsed | 10.7% | 9.3% |
| Dealt with out of court (caution, community resolution, penalty notice) | 3.1% | 4.4% |
| Closed with no suspect identified | 26.3% | 37.8% |
| Closed: the victim did not support further action | 38.2% | 25.4% |
| Closed: suspect identified, but not enough evidence | 15.2% | 15.1% |
| Other outcomes (not in the public interest, transferred elsewhere) | 3.2% | 3.9% |
| No outcome yet (still under investigation) | 3.3% | 4.0% |
Each crime is counted under the outcome it had been given when the figures were taken, a few months after the year ended, so some recorded late in the year were still being investigated. Forces differ in the crimes they deal with (a city force has more shoplifting and fewer rural thefts), which changes these shares, so a difference from England and Wales is not by itself a measure of how well a force investigates. Fraud is not included: it is recorded nationally.
Road safety
No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.
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.
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 43 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 26% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 20% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 66% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 37% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | 22% | 17% |
| Private rented | 13% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 54% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | 3% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 27% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 8% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 24% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 64% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 0% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | under 1% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 9% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 32% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 13% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 36% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 22% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 6% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | under 1% | 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.
Politics
This street is in the North Shropshire constituency. Its MP is Helen Morgan, Liberal Democrat.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Morgan (elected) | Liberal Democrat | 26,214 | 52.9% | +42.4 |
| Simon Baynes | Conservative | 10,903 | 22.0% | -39.7 |
| Mark Whittle | Reform UK | 7,687 | 15.5% | |
| Natalie Rowley | Labour | 3,423 | 6.9% | -15.5 |
| Craig Emery | Green Party | 1,234 | 2.5% | -0.8 |
| Samuel Cladingbowl | Independent | 133 | 0.3% |
Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative, with a majority of 15,311 votes (30.9%). 49,594 valid votes from an electorate of 77,573, a turnout of 64.1%.
Change is in percentage points of the vote on 2019, recalculated for the 2024 boundaries (the notional result), so it compares like with like where the constituency changed shape; it is blank where the party or candidate did not stand in 2019.
Council: Ruyton & Baschurch ward, Shropshire
This street is in this ward. Its latest election was on 1 May 2025.
| Candidate | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Robert John Jones (elected) | Liberal Democrat | 769 |
| Tamarin Bibow | Conservative | 360 |
| Samuel James Ansloos | Reform UK | 353 |
| Marina Ann Churm | Green Party | 45 |
| Paul David Hollington | Labour | 28 |
Councils elect all their members every four years or a third of them in three years out of four, so the members for a ward can come from more than one election; a councillor may have changed party since being elected.
What has changed
Postcodes on this street
All the streets in SY4 and across Shropshire.
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.