Overburn Alston, Westmorland and Furness

20 addresses across 2 postcodes (CA9), about 200 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 13504489.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £75,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 10 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 2, E: 3, F: 3).
  • Flood: 2 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 Westmorland and Furness costs £2,508 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 12% to 90% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Haltwhistle, about 17.5 km (11 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 1.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 306 to 317 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 20 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Alston Medical Practice, about 220 m away.
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 76% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 77 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£75,000£75,000£75,000
20241£295,000£295,000£295,000
20231£168,000£168,000£168,000
20161£120,000£120,000£120,000
20141£202,500£202,500£202,500
20121£75,000£75,000£75,000
20111£195,000£195,000£195,000
20091£210,000£210,000£210,000
20081£110,000£110,000£110,000
20071£250,000£250,000£250,000
20031£115,000£115,000£115,000
20011£95,000£95,000£95,000
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jul 20254 CA9 3SHTerraced£75,000Leasehold.
28 Mar 2024JAYCOT CA9 3SHTerraced£295,000
4 May 2023CHAPEL HOUSE CA9 3SHSemi-detached£168,000Leasehold.
28 Jan 2022CHAPEL HOUSE CA9 3SHSemi-detached£157,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Mar 2016BROOK HOUSE CA9 3SHTerraced£120,000
28 Mar 2014FORGE COTTAGE CA9 3SHDetached£202,500
26 Mar 20143 CA9 3SHTerraced£110,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Mar 2014THE HOLLIES CA9 3SHTerraced£110,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jan 2012JAYCOT CA9 3SHTerraced£75,000
25 Oct 2011THE HOLLIES CA9 3SHTerraced£195,000Leasehold.
24 Dec 2009CHAPEL HOUSE CA9 3SHSemi-detached£210,000Leasehold.
21 May 2008OVERBURN HOUSE CA9 3SHTerraced£110,000
15 Jan 2007LORNE HOUSE CA9 3SHSemi-detached£250,000Leasehold.
12 Mar 2003CHAPEL HOUSE CA9 3SHSemi-detached£115,000Leasehold.
29 Aug 2001THE HOLLIES CA9 3SHTerraced£95,000Leasehold.
6 Oct 2000LORNE HOUSE CA9 3SHSemi-detached£77,500Leasehold.
12 Sep 1995HOLME LEA CA9 3SHSemi-detached£42,000Leasehold.

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 August 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

10 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 101 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (4); House, semi-detached (4); House, end-terrace (1). Built: before 1900 (8); 1900-1929 (1); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9).

Each home's certificates and sales (4 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Westmorland and Furness in 2026-27: Band D £2,508 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,672£1,951£2,229£2,508£3,065£3,623£4,180£5,016

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (47% of about 1,150 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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: yes, Alston (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • 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

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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 2 at medium risk and 0 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
CA9 3SHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
CA9 3SLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 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 20 addresses are between 306 m and 317 m above sea level (312 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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
CA9 3SH100%12%12%0%
CA9 3SL100%90%90%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 stationHaltwhistle 96,000 journeys in 2024–2517.5 km (11 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fire Station Alston60 m
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL54.1 km (34 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 Alston Medical Practice220 m
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alston Pharmacy230 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Alston Dental Practice170 m
HospitalAlston Hospital170 m
Police stationBrampton Police Station24.3 km (15 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
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,920 m²110 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.3 ha80 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,140 m²310 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is High Mill, a listed building (Grade II*), 190 m north-west. 41 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
High MillListed building, Grade II*190 m north-west
Market CrossListed building, Grade II*220 m north-west
Moated site, 340m north east of Moorwell BridgeScheduled monument660 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Low ForceWaterfall400 m (0.2 miles) north
Hallhill PlantationWood700 m (0.4 miles) north-west
High Spencycroft PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Mounthooly PlantationWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Low BottomValley3 km (1.9 miles) west
Horse EdgeHill3.6 km (2.2 miles) 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)1.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.3205
Particles (PM10)6.24015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 551920

1 of the street's 20 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 Westmorland and Furness: see them on the Westmorland and Furness 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
Alston Primary SchoolPrimary4–11200 m No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Samuel King's SchoolSecondary11–16200 m 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
Walter's Cafe & Bar CA9 3SERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good30 Oct 2025
Saddlers Bakery and Bistro CA9 3SFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m4 Good9 Apr 2026
Victoria Inn CA9 3SEHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house140 m5 Very good19 Sep 2025
Alston Post Office CA9 3HPRetailers - other150 mExempt
Grisedale Croft CA9 3QSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good19 Sep 2025
Alston Moor Federation also trading as Nenthead Primary School CA9 3QUSchool/college/university210 m5 Very good8 May 2024
Alston Wholefoods CA9 3QNRetailers - other210 m5 Very good22 Jan 2025
Cumbrian Co-op CA9 3HSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets230 m5 Very good4 Nov 2022
The Turk's Head CA9 3HSPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good27 Mar 2018
Cobbles Cafe CA9 3HSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good24 Apr 2026
Alston Pharmacy CA9 3QPRetailers - other230 mExempt
Alston House CA9 3RNHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house310 m5 Very good24 Apr 2026
Graham Eyes High Class Butchers CA9 3HYRetailers - other310 m5 Very good21 Sep 2021
Spar CA9 3HYRetailers - other310 m5 Very good22 Oct 2024
Alston Masonic Club CA9 3JFPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good20 Sep 2024

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.

77 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences43
Shoplifting10
Public order9
Criminal damage and arson8
Other crime2
Other theft2
Anti-social behaviour1
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hospital (19); On or near Parking Area (17); On or near Bruntley Meadows (12); On or near Front Street (8); On or near A689 (7).

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: 293 residents in 130 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 age5040
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)76%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented19%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)32%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away26%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%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 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.

  • CA9 3SH: 18 addresses of 21 in the postcode
  • CA9 3SL: 2 addresses of 31 in the postcode

Nearby streets

B6277 · Park View Lane · Front Street · Front Street · Hill House Lane · Jollybeard Lane · Jollybeard Gate · Kates Lane · Globe House · Church Road · Colliery Close · Market Place

All the streets in CA9 and across Westmorland and Furness.

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.