Orchard Hill Prudhoe, Northumberland

15 addresses across 1 postcode (NE42), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41310162.

  • Sales: 26 recorded sales since 1995; in 2006 the median was £234,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 8 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 6).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Northumberland costs £2,597 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Prudhoe, about 740 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 870 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 50 to 55 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 15 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Prudhoe Medical Group, about 310 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 94% of households owned their home and 43% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 7 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
20061£234,000£234,000£234,000
20051£220,000£220,000£220,000
20041£187,000£187,000£187,000
20031£180,000£180,000£180,000
20013£112,000£90,000£112,500
20001£95,000£95,000£95,000
19995£94,995£79,950£112,995
19981£82,000£82,000£82,000
19974£84,698£68,995£104,995
19968£82,950£68,950£104,995
Most recent sales (26)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Dec 200614 NE42 5QFDetached£234,000
28 Jan 20051 NE42 5QFDetached£220,000
24 Jun 20043 NE42 5QFDetached£187,000
15 Aug 200312 NE42 5QFDetached£180,000
28 Sep 20017 NE42 5QFDetached£90,000
12 Sep 200114 NE42 5QFDetached£112,000
12 Jan 200115 NE42 5QFDetached£112,500
6 Dec 200012 NE42 5QFDetached£95,000
17 Dec 19998 NE42 5QFDetached£102,950
1 Oct 19991 NE42 5QFDetached£94,995New build.
2 Jul 19997 NE42 5QFDetached£79,950
18 Jun 19997 NE42 5QFDetached£81,000
23 Apr 19992 NE42 5QFDetached£112,995New build.
23 Jan 19983 NE42 5QFDetached£82,000
17 Mar 19978 NE42 5QFDetached£104,995New build.
24 Feb 19979 NE42 5QFDetached£68,995New build.
31 Jan 199710 NE42 5QFDetached£93,995New build.
29 Jan 199714 NE42 5QFDetached£75,400New build.
20 Dec 199611 NE42 5QFDetached£71,500
20 Dec 19967 NE42 5QFDetached£71,500New build.
19 Dec 19966 NE42 5QFDetached£93,995New build.
19 Dec 199612 NE42 5QFDetached£85,950New build.
17 Dec 19964 NE42 5QFDetached£68,950New build.
16 Dec 19965 NE42 5QFDetached£104,995New build.
1 Dec 19963 NE42 5QFDetached£79,950New build.
22 Nov 199615 NE42 5QFDetached£92,000New 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 May 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 114 m². Most common: House, detached (8). Built: 1996-2002 (7); 1991-1995 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7).

Each home's certificates and sales (6 addresses)

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.

ABCDEFGH
£1,731£2,020£2,308£2,597£3,174£3,751£4,328£5,194

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (34% of about 1,050 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

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 15 addresses are between 50 m and 55 m above sea level (52 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
NE42 5QF100%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 stationsPrudhoe 184,000 journeys in 2024–25740 m (0.5 miles)
Wylam 111,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Stocksfield 52,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Western Avenue Low Prudhoe210 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Winlaton8.1 km (5 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL13.3 km (8.3 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Prudhoe Medical Group310 m
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Prudhoe Pharmacy350 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Prudhoe Dental Practice390 m
HospitalPrudhoe Hospital Team C1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationNorthumbria Police - Etal Lane Police Station11.8 km (7.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Prudhoe Cashzone450 m (0.3 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenUnnamed 2.6 ha870 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 520 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldHighfield Park 3.9 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Castle Allotments 4,750 m²150 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Prudhoe Castle tower keep castle, a scheduled monument, 310 m west. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Prudhoe Castle tower keep castleScheduled monument310 m west
Prudhoe CastleListed building, Grade I320 m west
Bradley ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.8 km (1.7 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Orchard HillHill130 m north-west
Carrsclose DeneValley180 m north-east
Knows WoodWood690 m (0.4 miles) south
Bullshaugh WoodWood700 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Horseclose WoodWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Whirl DubLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-west

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)7.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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 5910
Under 551415

1 of the street's 15 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

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
Prudhoe West AcademyPrimary2–9570 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Matthew's Catholic Primary School, Prudhoe Roman CatholicPrimary2–11710 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Adderlane AcademyPrimary2–9770 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Highfield Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–13810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Prudhoe Castle First SchoolPrimary2–9860 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Prudhoe Community High SchoolSecondary13–191 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Ovingham Church of England First SchoolPrimary5–91.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ovingham Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Prudhoe Castle NE42 6NARetailers - other320 mExempt
Prudhoe Parish Hall NE42 5HHOther catering premises350 m5 Very good26 Mar 2018
Havendene Residential Home NE42 5HHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m5 Very good26 Nov 2025
Dessert Royale NE42 5HHTakeaway/sandwich shop350 m5 Very good11 Feb 2026
The Emporium NE42 5PURetailers - other390 m5 Very good13 Mar 2026
Heron Foods NE42 5HJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good1 Oct 2025
One Stop Stores Ltd NE42 5HJRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)4 Good30 Jun 2021
Prudhoe & District United Services Club NE42 5HJPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good16 Aug 2023
Prudhoe Snooker Club NE42 5HJPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good21 Feb 2019
Wor Local Micro Pub NE42 5HJPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good17 Jul 2023
Compass Group NE42 6HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Feb 2025
Glendinning Brothers NE42 6PLRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Jul 2023
Co-operative Group Food NE42 5HFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Mar 2026
Prudhoe West Academy NE42 6HRSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Nov 2025
West Road Tavern NE42 6HRPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good6 Feb 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

7 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Criminal damage and arson1
Burglary1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Carnaby Close (3); On or near Cockshott Dean (1); On or near Orchard Hill (1); On or near The Waggonway (1); On or near Well Dean (1).

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: 320 residents in 123 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4740
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)94%61%
Owned outright43%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work69%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)38%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)32%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)43%34%
No qualifications3%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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.

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.

  • NE42 5QF: 15 addresses of 16 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Well Dean · Cockshott Dean · The Waggonway · Well Dean · Appletree Drive · The Haughs · The Ford · Grey Lady Walk · Spetchells · Broomhouse Lane · Percy Lonnen · Carnaby Close

All the streets in NE42 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.
  • 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.