Pontfaen Pont-Faen, Shropshire
1 address across 1 postcode (LL14), about 40 m long. USRN 46933392.
- Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 1998 the median was £102,000 across 1 sale.
- 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 C; Band D in Shropshire costs £2,528 a year in 2026-27.
- Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
- Transport: The nearest railway station is Chirk, about 880 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
- Green space: The nearest park or garden, Maes Owen Glyndŵr, is about 1.7 km (1 mile) away.
- Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
- Height: It is about 82 m above sea level.
- Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
- Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Chirk Surgery, about 1.4 km (0.8 miles) away.
- People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
- Crime: 1 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often public order.
Sales on this street
| Year | Sales | Median price | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 1 | £102,000 | £102,000 | £102,000 |
| Date | Address | Type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Sep 2025 | PENYLAN LL14 5EN | Detached | £375,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 5 Jan 2021 | BIG TREHOWELL FARM LL14 5EN | Other | £380,000 | Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer). |
| 9 Sep 1998 | WOODSIDE LL14 5EN | Detached | £102,000 |
Energy performance certificates
No certificates found for addresses on this street.
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 C (29% of about 620 homes).
Planning and heritage
- Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
- Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
- 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
- Pont-faen (continued into England), grade II
- PONT-FAEN BRIDGE (THAT PART IN WESTON RHYN CP), grade II
Roadworks
No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.
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.
Height above sea level
The street's address is about 82 m above sea level.
Broadband
| Postcode | Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+) | Gigabit | Below 10 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LL14 5EN | 88% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Getting around
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Railway stations | Chirk 107,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 880 m (0.5 miles) |
| Gobowen 248,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 4.4 km (2.7 miles) | |
| Ruabon 117,000 journeys in 2024–25 | 7 km (4.4 miles) | |
| Bus stops | 2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pont-faen Bridge Chirk | 20 m |
| Bus or coach station | Bus Station Oswestry | 7.3 km (4.5 miles) |
| EV charging points | InstaVolt Charging Station | 3.3 km (2.1 miles) |
| Airport with scheduled flights | Liverpool John Lennon Airport LPL | 47.8 km (30 miles) |
Local services
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| GP surgeries | 1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chirk Surgery | 1.4 km (0.8 miles) |
| Pharmacies | 1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy | 1.4 km (0.8 miles) |
| NHS dentists | 1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Talking Teeth | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
| Hospital | Chirk Community Hospital | 2.3 km (1.5 miles) |
| Police station | Police | 1.7 km (1.1 miles) |
| Cash machines | The Cooperative Food Holyhead Road - Chirk, Chirk Cashzone | 1.4 km (0.9 miles) |
Parks and green space
| Nearest | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Park or garden | Maes Owen Glyndŵr 1.5 ha | 1.7 km (1 mile) |
| Play area | Unnamed 3,050 m² | 920 m (0.6 miles) |
| Playing field | Unnamed 1.7 ha | 1 km (0.6 miles) |
| Allotments | Unnamed 1.8 ha | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) |
Landmarks
The nearest historic landmark is Chirk Castle Gates, Screen and Piers, a listed building (Grade I), 600 m (0.4 miles) north. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Chirk Castle Gates, Screen and Piers | Listed building, Grade I | 600 m (0.4 miles) north |
| Railway Viaduct over River Ceiriog | Listed building, Grade II* | 690 m (0.4 miles) east |
| Chirk Viaduct | Listed building, Grade II* | 690 m (0.4 miles) east |
| Chirk Aqueduct (continued into England) | Listed building, Grade II* | 710 m (0.4 miles) east |
| Motte castle adjacent to Oaklands Hall, Chirk Bank | Scheduled monument | 1 km (0.6 miles) east |
| The Holyhead Road: the Chirk Embankment and earlier trackways | Scheduled monument | 1 km (0.6 miles) east |
| A 1.43km length of the Ellesmere Canal and associated features at Chirk Bank | Scheduled monument | 1.2 km (0.7 miles) east |
| Chirk Castle | Registered park or garden, Grade I | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west |
| Brynkinalt | Registered park or garden, Grade II* | 2.3 km (1.4 miles) east |
| Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal | World Heritage Site | 3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-west |
| Name | What it is | From the middle of the street |
|---|---|---|
| Baddy's Wood | Wood | 140 m north |
| The Belt | Wood | 470 m (0.3 miles) north |
| Reservoir Wood | Wood | 540 m (0.3 miles) north-east |
| Newhall Reservoir | Lake or reservoir | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) north |
| Glynmorlas | Valley | 3.4 km (2.1 miles) east |
| Selattyn Hill | Hill | 3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-west |
Air quality
| Pollutant | Here | UK limit | WHO guideline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) | 8.1 | 40 | 10 |
| Fine particles (PM2.5) | 5.2 | 20 | 5 |
| Particles (PM10) | 8.0 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Under 55 | 1 | 1 |
None of the street's 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weston Rhyn Primary School | Primary | 3–11 | 1.5 km (0.9 miles) | Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) |
| Ysgol Y Waun English medium | Primary | 3–11 | 1.9 km (1.2 miles) | Estyn reports · My Local School |
Food hygiene ratings nearby
No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).
Crime within 250 m
| Category | Crimes |
|---|---|
| Public order | 1 |
Most of these are attached to: On or near Quinta Crescent (1).
People and work
Who lives here
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Median age | 56 | 40 |
| Children under 15 | 13% | 17% |
| Aged 65 and over | 32% | 18% |
Homes
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned (outright or with a mortgage) | 86% | 61% |
| Owned outright | 60% | 33% |
| Shared ownership | 0% | 1% |
| Social rented | under 1% | 17% |
| Private rented | 14% | 21% |
Work and commuting
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Adults (16 and over) in work | 53% | 57% |
| Unemployment (of those working or looking for work) | under 1% | 6% |
| Retired (of adults) | 37% | 22% |
| Long-term sick or disabled (of adults) | 2% | 4% |
| Work mainly from home (of those in work) | 30% | 32% |
| Travel to work by car or van | 63% | 48% |
| By train, Underground, metro or tram | 0% | 4% |
| By any public transport, including bus | 0% | 8% |
| On foot or by bicycle | 6% | 10% |
| Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work) | 53% | 65% |
| Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away | 25% | 8% |
Education and languages
| Around this street | England | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults) | 40% | 34% |
| No qualifications | 16% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship as highest qualification | 4% | 5% |
| Main language English (aged 3 and over) | 99% | 91% |
| Cannot speak English well or at all | 0% | 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.
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.
Postcodes on this street
- LL14 5EN: 1 address of 22 in the postcode
Nearby streets
All the streets in LL14 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.
- 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.