Ravenfield Drive Widnes, Halton

40 addresses across 3 postcodes (WA8), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16101190.

  • Sales: 50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £109,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 10, D: 9, E: 2).
  • Flood: 16 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 Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 90% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hough Green, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 120 m away, and Upton Rocks (11 hectares) is about 600 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 23 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 40 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hough Green Health Park, about 270 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 63 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
20261£109,000£109,000£109,000
20242£259,000£245,000£273,000
20231£235,000£235,000£235,000
20221£254,000£254,000£254,000
20211£155,000£155,000£155,000
20191£185,000£185,000£185,000
20181£135,000£135,000£135,000
20171£150,000£150,000£150,000
20152£98,000£80,000£116,000
20111£153,000£153,000£153,000
20081£89,000£89,000£89,000
20072£152,498£135,000£169,995
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
9 Jan 202624 WA8 4SJTerraced£109,000
24 Oct 20252 WA8 4SJFlat or maisonette£32,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Apr 20258 WA8 4SJFlat or maisonette£32,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Apr 20254 WA8 4SJFlat or maisonette£32,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Oct 202415 WA8 4SJDetached£245,000
16 Aug 202427 WA8 4SJDetached£273,000
15 Dec 202330 WA8 4QUSemi-detached£235,000
10 May 202320 WA8 4SJTerraced£69,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Feb 202235 WA8 4SJDetached£254,000
9 Feb 20215 WA8 4SJSemi-detached£155,000
19 Jul 201936 WA8 4QUDetached£185,000
29 Mar 201842 WA8 4QUSemi-detached£135,000
11 Oct 201729 WA8 4SJDetached£150,000
23 Mar 201534 WA8 4QUSemi-detached£116,000
23 Jan 201524 WA8 4SJTerraced£80,000
5 Oct 201135 WA8 4SJDetached£153,000
25 Jan 200826 WA8 4SJSemi-detached£89,000
28 Sep 200735 WA8 4SJSemi-detached£169,995
27 Apr 200736 WA8 4QUDetached£135,000
20 Dec 200640 WA8 4QUDetached£170,000
12 Oct 200642 WA8 4QUSemi-detached£154,000
28 Jul 200626 WA8 4SJSemi-detached£74,950
27 Jul 200533 WA8 4SJDetached£157,000
24 May 20049 WA8 4SJSemi-detached£88,500
1 Aug 200331 WA8 4SJDetached£110,000
9 May 200334 WA8 4QUSemi-detached£82,950
17 Apr 200312 WA8 4SJFlat or maisonette£16,000Leasehold.
29 Nov 200227 WA8 4SJDetached£107,000
24 May 200231 WA8 4SJDetached£96,500
20 Mar 200240 WA8 4QUDetached£99,995
19 Oct 200117 WA8 4SJDetached£73,000
31 Aug 200125 WA8 4SJDetached£75,500
31 Aug 200124 WA8 4SJSemi-detached£33,000
20 Jul 200128 WA8 4SJFlat or maisonette£31,500
23 Feb 200127 WA8 4SJDetached£59,995
5 Jan 200124 WA8 4SJSemi-detached£26,000
17 Nov 20001 WA8 4SJSemi-detached£52,000
12 Oct 200034 WA8 4QUSemi-detached£51,950
20 Jun 200026 WA8 4SJSemi-detached£25,500
6 Jan 200036 WA8 4QUDetached£59,000
20 Dec 199922 WA8 4SJTerraced£26,750
1 Oct 199919 WA8 4SJDetached£65,000
17 Aug 199915 WA8 4SJDetached£55,000
11 May 199927 WA8 4SJDetached£59,450
13 Nov 199831 WA8 4SJDetached£65,500
13 Jul 199828 WA8 4SJFlat or maisonette£27,500
19 Feb 199821 WA8 4SJDetached£64,950
9 Aug 199621 WA8 4SJDetached£59,950
3 May 199620 WA8 4SJTerraced£27,000
31 Jul 199534 WA8 4QUSemi-detached£39,000

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 July 2009 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 66 m². Most common: House, detached (8); Flat (5); House, enclosed end-terrace (3). Built: 1983-1990 (11); 1976-1982 (5); 1991-1995 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (11 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Halton in 2026-27: Band D £2,367 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,578£1,841£2,104£2,367£2,893£3,418£3,944£4,733

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (39% of about 1,200 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 14 at medium risk and 34 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
WA8 4SJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 14 unlikely
WA8 4QUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 7 unlikely
WA8 4SLnot in 2 or 3 2 / 10 / 13 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 addresses are about 23 m above sea level.

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
WA8 4QU100%100%100%0%
WA8 4SJ100%90%90%0%
WA8 4SL100%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 stationsHough Green 193,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Widnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Rainhill 186,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Haddon Drive Upton90 m
Bus or coach stationHuyton Bus Station5.9 km (3.7 miles)
Car parksCaldwell Road Car Park2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging pointsConnected Kerb Charging Stations2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL7.5 km (4.7 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 Hough Green Health Park270 m
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hough Green Pharmacy270 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest 5 Danescroft [The Dental Practice]430 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalHighfield Hospital2 km (1.3 miles)
Police stationWidnes Police Station3 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Daily - Widnes Bechers Road, Upton Estate Cashzone520 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,630 m²120 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Upton Rocks 11 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,090 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9.6 ha330 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 6,610 m²880 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
George's WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
The FieldWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Pex HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Big WaterLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-west
Spike IslandIsland3.6 km (2.2 miles) south-east
Church BankWetland4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-east

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)10.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.74015

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 59110
Under 552940

11 of the street's 40 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 Halton: see them on the Halton 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
All Saints Upton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–11350 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Basil's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ormiston Chadwick AcademySecondary11–16900 m (0.6 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cronton Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Family Catholic Primary School & Nursery Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Ditton Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael with St Thomas CE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oakfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Ditton Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Birchfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–52 km (1.2 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
Parklands Club WA8 4NQPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good13 Oct 2023
Madeline McKenna Court HBC WA8 4DYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
The Route@Upton Cafe WA8 4PFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 mAwaiting inspection
Four Topped Oak WA8 4PEPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good30 Mar 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.

63 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences31
Anti-social behaviour7
Vehicle crime7
Burglary5
Criminal damage and arson5
Public order3
Other theft3
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Dunsford (18); On or near Hambleton Close (13); On or near Deepdale (11); On or near Rainbow Close (6); On or near Haddon Drive (3).

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: 503 residents in 256 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 age5640
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over35%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)40%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 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.

  • WA8 4SJ: 32 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • WA8 4QU: 7 addresses
  • WA8 4SL: 1 address of 27 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Chatsworth Drive · Burnham Close · Parklands · Hambleton Close · Aubourn Close · Tiverton Close · Mortlake Close · Haddon Drive · Arley Drive · Astley Close · Blackbrook Close · Deepdale

All the streets in WA8 and across Halton.

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.