Priestfields Leigh, Wigan

106 addresses across 3 postcodes (WN7), about 440 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44121537.

  • Sales: 154 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £97,500 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 77 homes have an energy certificate (B: 16, C: 50, D: 11).
  • 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 Wigan costs £2,153 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Atherton, about 4.0 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 170 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 25 to 28 m above sea level.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Brookmill Medical Centre, about 390 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 800 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 60% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20263£97,500£95,000£215,000
20251£390,000£390,000£390,000
20244£380,750£222,000£565,000
20233£282,000£99,950£309,000
20222£169,975£129,950£210,000
20213£315,000£262,500£317,000
20201£93,000£93,000£93,000
20194£256,500£92,000£317,500
20188£245,000£197,500£318,000
20177£231,000£74,000£276,000
20166£210,000£152,500£275,000
20154£206,000£176,000£230,000
Most recent sales (154)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Mar 202661 WN7 2RGTerraced£215,000Leasehold.
13 Mar 2026APARTMENT 6, 78 WN7 2RXFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold.
17 Feb 2026APARTMENT 10, 78 WN7 2RXFlat or maisonette£97,500Leasehold.
10 Apr 2025APARTMENT 6, 78 WN7 2RXOther£1,910,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Apr 2025APARTMENT 10, 78 WN7 2RXOther£1,910,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 2025APARTMENT 3, 78 WN7 2RXFlat or maisonette£99,950Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Jan 202532 WN7 2RGDetached£390,000Leasehold.
17 Dec 202452 WN7 2RGDetached£381,500Leasehold.
30 Aug 202465 WN7 2RGTerraced£222,000Leasehold.
1 Jul 202469 WN7 2RGDetached£380,000Leasehold.
19 Apr 202419 WN7 2RGDetached£565,000Leasehold.
12 Oct 202341 WN7 2RGDetached£282,000Leasehold.
4 Oct 2023APARTMENT 5, 78 WN7 2RXFlat or maisonette£94,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Aug 2023APARTMENT 8, 80 WN7 2RXFlat or maisonette£99,950Leasehold.
30 Jun 202368 WN7 2RGDetached£309,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 2022APARTMENT 12, 78 WN7 2RXFlat or maisonette£129,950Leasehold.
31 Aug 202267 WN7 2RGSemi-detached£210,000Leasehold.
11 May 2022APARTMENT 4, 80 WN7 2RXFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Nov 202142 WN7 2RGDetached£262,500Leasehold.
30 Jun 202170 WN7 2RGDetached£317,000Leasehold.
12 Feb 202152 WN7 2RGDetached£315,000Leasehold.
9 Jan 2020APARTMENT 11, 78 WN7 2RXFlat or maisonette£93,000Leasehold.
29 Jul 2019APARTMENT 9, 80 WN7 2RXFlat or maisonette£92,000Leasehold.
5 Jul 20192 WN7 2RGDetached£317,500Leasehold.
28 Jun 201964 WN7 2RGDetached£268,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Apr 20196 WN7 2RGDetached£218,000Leasehold.
11 Jan 201951 WN7 2RGDetached£295,000Leasehold.
9 Nov 201833 WN7 2RGDetached£202,000Leasehold.
27 Jul 201877 WN7 2RGDetached£245,000Leasehold.
11 May 201862 WN7 2RGDetached£318,000Leasehold.
22 Mar 201837 WN7 2RGDetached£245,000Leasehold.
16 Mar 201839 WN7 2RGDetached£312,000Leasehold.
16 Mar 201871 WN7 2RGDetached£245,000Leasehold.
2 Mar 201826 WN7 2RGDetached£238,000Leasehold.
12 Jan 201841 WN7 2RGDetached£197,500Leasehold.
24 Nov 201763 WN7 2RGTerraced£158,000Leasehold.
6 Nov 2017APARTMENT 12, 80 WN7 2RXFlat or maisonette£74,000Leasehold.
8 Sep 20177 WN7 2RGDetached£255,000Leasehold.
16 Aug 201773 WN7 2RGDetached£210,000Leasehold.
24 Feb 201711 WN7 2RGDetached£231,000Leasehold.
20 Jan 20173 WN7 2RGDetached£276,000Leasehold.
6 Jan 201750 WN7 2RGDetached£264,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 201657 WN7 2RGSemi-detached£152,500Leasehold.
20 Oct 201653 WN7 2RGSemi-detached£275,000Leasehold.
7 Oct 201630 WN7 2RGDetached£190,000Leasehold.
30 Sep 201651 WN7 2RGDetached£258,000Leasehold.
23 Sep 201669 WN7 2RGDetached£230,000Leasehold.
21 Jun 201617 WN7 2RGDetached£188,000Leasehold.
25 Sep 201537 WN7 2RGDetached£227,000Leasehold.
19 Jun 201524 WN7 2RGDetached£185,000Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

77 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 101 m². Most common: House, detached (47); Flat (24); House, end-terrace (4). Built: 2003-2006 (61); 2007-2011 (13); 2007 onwards (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (47); rented (private) (22).

Council tax

What each band costs in Wigan in 2026-27: Band D £2,153 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,435£1,674£1,913£2,153£2,631£3,109£3,588£4,305

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (47% of about 1,000 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 1.0 km

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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 32 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
WN7 2RGnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 6 unlikely
WN7 2RXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 24 unlikely
WN7 2RTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 106 addresses are between 25 m and 28 m above sea level (26 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
WN7 2RG100%100%100%0%
WN7 2RT100%100%100%0%
WN7 2RX100%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 stationsAtherton 218,000 journeys in 2024–254.0 km
Hag Fold 74,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km
Daisy Hill 195,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m, 44 within 800 m; nearest Peregrine Drive Bedford220 m
Bus or coach stationLeigh Bus Station950 m
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km; nearest Be.EV Charging Station700 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN22.1 km

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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Brookmill Medical Centre390 m
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Peak Pharmacy410 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery630 m
HospitalLeight Infirmary1.0 km
Police stationLeigh Police Station450 m
Cash machinesCash machine 52-54 Bradshawgate Halifax850 m

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 garden1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3,290 m²170 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,230 m²380 m
Playing field4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 4,540 m²290 m
AllotmentsLilford Park 1.1 ha890 m

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 0.3 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Leigh Mill, a listed building (Grade II*), 800 m south-east. 10 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Leigh MillListed building, Grade II*800 m south-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bedford WoodWood1.2 km north
Red WatersLake or reservoir1.3 km north
Atherton WoodWood1.5 km north
Hope CarrWetland1.6 km south
Taylor's HoleLake or reservoir1.8 km south-west
Fir Tree FlashLake or reservoir2.8 km west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)10.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.84015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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).

Noise figures are still being loaded.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
St Thomas' CofE Primary School, Leigh Church of EnglandPrimary4–11430 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
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Leigh Roman CatholicPrimary4–11460 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bedford High SchoolSecondary11–16930 m Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Leigh CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.0 km Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bedford Hall Methodist Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.1 km Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Christ Church CofE Primary School, Pennington Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Leigh St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km No published inspection
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Leigh Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Leigh Central Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Leigh St John's CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.3 km No published inspection
St Gabriel's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Little Rainbows' Day Nursery WN7 2RSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises160 m5 Very good13 May 2026
Gola Convenience Store/Premier Express WN7 2HGRetailers - other170 m4 Good31 Oct 2025
Josephs Care Home WN7 2AEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good20 May 2026
High Peak Lodge Residential & Nursing Home WN7 2AAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises210 m5 Very good22 Oct 2026
Bedford Care Home WN7 2AHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good13 Oct 2026
Leigh Bowling Club No2 Limited WN7 2HAPub/bar/nightclub240 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Feb 2025
Brewery Inn WN7 2RJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m5 Very good31 Jan 2025
Spice Lounge limited WN7 2DARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m2 Improvement necessary31 Mar 2026
The Crispy Bun WN7 2ALTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good18 Dec 2025
The Weekender WN7 2ALRetailers - other330 m4 Good22 May 2025
Wok Haven WN7 2ALTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Jun 2025
All Hail the Burger WN7 2ALRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good26 Jun 2025
Xotica Badboy Kebabs Leigh WN7 2ALTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good4 Feb 2026
Lucky Star WN7 2ALTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Jun 2025
Nellies Bistro WN7 2ALRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good22 Oct 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (lancashire).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 799 residents in 280 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 age4640
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)60%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented8%17%
Private rented32%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)31%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 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.

  • WN7 2RG: 77 addresses of 82 in the postcode
  • WN7 2RX: 26 addresses
  • WN7 2RT: 3 addresses of 7 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Holden Brook Close · Spires Croft · Drummond Way · Guest Street · North Street · Battersby Street · Pownall Street · Lingard Street · Speakman Avenue · Widdow's Street · Clough House Drive · Prestwich Avenue

All the streets in WN7 and across Wigan.

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.