Saxty Way Sowerby, North Yorkshire

125 addresses across 8 postcodes (YO7), about 820 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 16200480.

  • Sales: 132 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £750,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 84 homes have an energy certificate (A: 18, B: 6, C: 13, D: 36, E: 9, F: 2).
  • 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 North Yorkshire costs £2,544 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Thirsk, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 33 to 35 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 125 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Thirsk Doctors Surgery, about 920 m (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 700 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 81% of households owned their home and 34% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 8 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£750,000£750,000£750,000
20254£614,995£395,000£614,995
20247£280,000£245,000£445,000
20233£235,000£220,000£270,000
20223£262,000£215,000£265,000
20214£215,500£200,000£275,000
20203£261,000£196,000£299,950
20193£245,000£207,500£285,000
20184£237,500£190,000£285,000
20175£200,000£165,000£235,000
20166£225,000£180,000£329,950
20156£204,000£182,500£277,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 132)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 May 202657A YO7 1SFDetached£750,000
30 Jan 202655C YO7 1SFDetached£775,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jan 202657A YO7 1SFDetached£775,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Sep 202557B YO7 1SFDetached£614,995
5 Sep 202557C YO7 1SFDetached£614,995
28 Aug 202557D YO7 1SFDetached£614,995
16 May 20253 YO7 1SGDetached£395,000
20 Dec 202428 YO7 1SASemi-detached£308,000
26 Sep 202436 YO7 1SBTerraced£260,000
7 Aug 20245 YO7 1SGDetached£445,000
19 Jun 2024100 YO7 1SESemi-detached£320,000
29 Apr 202423 YO7 1SGSemi-detached£245,000
22 Apr 202410 YO7 1SASemi-detached£263,000
11 Apr 202413 YO7 1SGDetached£280,000
11 Mar 202457A YO7 1SFOther£600,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Jan 202457A YO7 1SFOther£600,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Oct 202371 YO7 1SFSemi-detached£270,000
12 Oct 20238 YO7 1SASemi-detached£235,000
14 Jul 202338 YO7 1SBTerraced£220,000
4 Nov 202226 YO7 1SASemi-detached£265,000
19 Aug 202236 YO7 1SBTerraced£215,000
8 Feb 202231 YO7 1SGSemi-detached£262,000
23 Jul 202180 YO7 1SDDetached£275,000
30 Jun 202158 YO7 1SBSemi-detached£211,000
25 Jun 202158 YO7 1SBSemi-detached£210,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Feb 202168 YO7 1SBSemi-detached£200,000
25 Jan 2021104 YO7 1SESemi-detached£220,000
14 Oct 202032 YO7 1SBSemi-detached£196,000
30 Jun 20204A YO7 1SADetached£299,950
17 Feb 202030 YO7 1SBSemi-detached£261,000
18 Oct 201986 YO7 1SDSemi-detached£207,500
24 Jun 20191 YO7 1SGDetached£285,000
18 Apr 2019100 YO7 1SESemi-detached£245,000
7 Dec 201818 YO7 1SASemi-detached£235,000
23 Jul 201875 YO7 1SFSemi-detached£190,000
2 Jul 201812 YO7 1SADetached£285,000
29 Jun 201837 YO7 1SGDetached£240,000
26 May 201762 YO7 1SBSemi-detached£200,000
10 Mar 201758 YO7 1SBSemi-detached£165,000
3 Mar 201746 YO7 1SBDetached£235,000
24 Feb 201722 YO7 1SASemi-detached£196,000
14 Feb 201760 YO7 1SBTerraced£200,000
21 Dec 201696 YO7 1SEDetached£221,000
7 Dec 2016102 YO7 1SESemi-detached£229,000
18 Nov 201632 YO7 1SBSemi-detached£180,000
16 Jun 20165 YO7 1SGDetached£290,000
16 Mar 201618 YO7 1SASemi-detached£220,000
29 Jan 20167 YO7 1SGDetached£329,950
4 Dec 201596 YO7 1SEDetached£182,500
8 Oct 201524 YO7 1SADetached£208,000

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 February 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

84 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 88 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (40); House, detached (25); Bungalow, semi-detached (12). Built: 1967-1975 (30); 1950-1966 (21); 2024 (20). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (50); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (39 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North Yorkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,544 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,696£1,979£2,262£2,544£3,110£3,675£4,241£5,089

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (46% of about 2,200 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.

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

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 29 October 2026 to 2 November 2026: YORKSHIRE WATER, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 4 November 2026 to 5 November 2026: NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the carriageway (minor works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 16 August 2026 to 20 August 2026: YORKSHIRE WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, no carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 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
YO7 1SFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO7 1SGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO7 1SAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
YO7 1SBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO7 1SEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO7 1SDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO7 1RWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 4 unlikely
YO7 1RXnot 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 125 addresses are between 33 m and 35 m above sea level (34 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
YO7 1RW100%100%100%0%
YO7 1RX100%100%100%0%
YO7 1SA100%100%100%0%
YO7 1SB100%100%100%0%
YO7 1SD100%100%100%0%
YO7 1SE100%100%100%0%
YO7 1SF100%100%100%0%
YO7 1SG100%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 stationsThirsk 288,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Northallerton 798,000 journeys in 2024–2513.4 km (8.3 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Thirsk Secondary School Sowerby300 m
Car parksMarage Car Park1.2 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsTeesside International Airport MME32 km (20 miles)
Nearest large airportLeeds Bradford Airport LBA44.8 km (28 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Thirsk Doctors Surgery920 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Tesco Instore Pharmacy630 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalLambert Memorial Community Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationNorth Yorkshire Police13.5 km (8.4 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Thirsk Cashzone1.1 km (0.7 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,510 m²330 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 520 m²340 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,890 m²400 m (0.2 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 2.6 ha1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Oswald, a listed building (Grade II*), 810 m (0.5 miles) east. 26 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St OswaldListed building, Grade II*810 m (0.5 miles) east
Thirsk Castle: a motte and bailey castleScheduled monument930 m (0.6 miles) north-east
A moated site 100m east of St Mary Magdalene's ChurchScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Pudding Pie Hill: a bowl barrow 650m south-east of St Oswald's ChurchScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pudding Pie HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) east
Ox Moor PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Bown Crofts PlantationWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
Pickering WoodWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Hagg WoodWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
Underwood PlantationWood2.8 km (1.8 miles) north

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)5.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.5205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6440
55 to 5960
Under 55114125

11 of the street's 125 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 North Yorkshire: see them on the North Yorkshire 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
Thirsk School & Sixth Form CollegeSecondary11–18370 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; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Sowerby Primary AcademyPrimary2–11420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
All Saints Catholic Primary School, a Catholic Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11530 m (0.3 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Keeble Gateway AcademyPrimary3–11690 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Thirsk Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Laburnum House YO7 1RXHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house300 m5 Very good2 Jun 2025

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.

8 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences4
Other crime2
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Evergreen Way (5); On or near Saxty Way (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 698 residents in 313 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 age5140
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over29%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)81%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)34%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)42%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away21%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)34%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 6 to 8 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: YORKSHIRE WATER: New service connection, 29 October 2026 to 2 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 4 November 2026 to 5 November 2026 (give and take) found 3 November 2026

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.

  • YO7 1SF: 38 addresses of 47 in the postcode
  • YO7 1SG: 24 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • YO7 1SA: 21 addresses
  • YO7 1SB: 21 addresses
  • YO7 1SE: 13 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • YO7 1SD: 6 addresses
  • YO7 1RW: 1 address of 12 in the postcode
  • YO7 1RX: 1 address of 21 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Chariot Way · Yew Tree Way · Rowan Tree Close · Evergreen Way · Danum Avenue · Larch Wood Close · Admirals' Court · Woodland Way · Acacia Drive · Green Lane West · Cocked Hat Park · Cherryoak Street

All the streets in YO7 and across North Yorkshire.

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.