Priory Dunes Ashington, Northumberland

24 addresses across 4 postcodes (NE63), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 28833633.

  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (B: 22).
  • Flood: 3 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 B; Band D in Northumberland costs £2,597 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 80% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ashington, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 0 m away, and Hirst Park (11 hectares) is about 410 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 26 to 29 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 24 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Seaton Park Medical Group, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 97% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 76 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 November 2020 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 94 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (8); House, detached (6); House, mid-terrace (6). Built: 2020 (22).

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 B (37% of about 1,580 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: 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
NE63 9XAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE63 9WJnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 3 unlikely
NE63 9XFnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely
NE63 9ZBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 24 addresses are between 26 m and 29 m above sea level (28 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
NE63 9WJ100%100%100%0%
NE63 9XA100%94%94%0%
NE63 9XF100%100%100%0%
NE63 9ZB100%80%80%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 stationsAshington 131,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pegswood 1,470 journeys in 2024–256 km (3.8 miles)
Widdrington 2,650 journeys in 2024–258 km (5 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Benedict's Middle School Hirst310 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Ashington1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksChurch Point Carpark3 km (1.8 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL18.2 km (11 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 Seaton Park Medical Group1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Crescent Pharmacy360 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Aqua Dental Care1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalWansbeck General Hospital450 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationNorthumbria Police6 km (3.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM750 m (0.5 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 garden6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,480 m²0 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Hirst Park 11 ha410 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 360 m²280 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.9 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.9 ha440 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 6 parks and gardens, 16 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Engine House Between Shafts 1 and 2, a listed building (Grade II*), 1 km (0.6 miles) north. 10 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Engine House Between Shafts 1 and 2Listed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north
Woodhorn CollieryScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Fan House to West of Shaft No 2Listed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north
Western Winding House and Shaft Head Gear (Winder and Shaft No 1)Listed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north
Eastern Winding House and Shaft Head Building (Winder and Shaft No 1)Listed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Paddock WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Castle IslandIsland1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Hawks CliffCliff or slope2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Holy Brae HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) north-east
Sandle HolesWetland3.2 km (2 miles) north-east
Long StreamLake or reservoir4.4 km (2.8 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)5.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.1205
Particles (PM10)8.44015

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 5920
Under 552224

2 of the street's 24 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 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
NCEA Thomas Bewick C of E Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11190 m Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Aidan's Catholic Primary School, Ashington Roman CatholicPrimary3–11290 m Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
NCEA Bishop's Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
NCEA Duke's Secondary School Church of EnglandSecondary11–19530 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Central AcademyPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
NCEA James Knott CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
NCEA Grace Darling CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ashington AcademySecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Ashington Grange NE63 9LJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises150 m5 Very good25 Apr 2025
Thomas Bewick C of E School NE63 9LPSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good10 Sep 2025
St Aidans RC Primary School NE63 9LRSchool/college/university340 m5 Very good27 Jan 2026
Park Stores NE63 9LBRetailers - other360 m3 Generally satisfactory20 May 2025
Crescent Pharmacy NE63 9LURetailers - other360 mExempt
Alexandra General Dealers NE63 9LARetailers - other390 m4 Good19 Jun 2023
Alexandra Fish Bar NE63 9LATakeaway/sandwich shop390 m4 Good29 May 2025
Glentons Bakery NE63 9LARetailers - other390 m5 Very good29 Oct 2024
Coffee Central NE63 9JJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Apr 2026
Kids 1st Day Nurseries - Wansbeck NE63 9JJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Oct 2025
Woodhorn Restaurant NE63 9JJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 Apr 2026
HVS Coffee Shop NE63 9JJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Mar 2026
Ashington Community Football Club NE63 9FWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good16 Jan 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.

76 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences21
Anti-social behaviour17
Shoplifting8
Public order7
Other theft5
Other crime5
Drugs4
Burglary4
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Faldo Drive (24); On or near Heatherhope (19); On or near Catcleugh Walk (15); On or near Garcia Drive (7); On or near Kidland Close (5).

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: 376 residents in 121 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 age3240
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)97%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented3%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work80%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)48%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications6%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 9 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.

  • NE63 9XA: 16 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • NE63 9WJ: 6 addresses of 27 in the postcode
  • NE63 9XF: 1 address of 9 in the postcode
  • NE63 9ZB: 1 address of 5 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Cruden Bay Close · Garcia Drive · Ryder Walk · Priory Dunes · Harrington Way · Montgomerie Court · Heatherhope · Catcleugh Walk · Waterville Grove · Garcia Drive · Waterville Grove · Faldo Drive

All the streets in NE63 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.