Shepherds Row Castlefields, Halton

96 addresses across 1 postcode (WA7), about 170 m long. USRN 16100716.

  • Sales: 34 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £68,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 66 homes have an energy certificate (B: 11, C: 19, D: 34, E: 2).
  • Flood: 13 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 Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Runcorn East, about 2.4 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Halton Village Millennium Green, is about 530 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 29 to 43 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 82 of its 138 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Castlefields Health Centre, about 300 m away.
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 17% of households owned their home and 18% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 37 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
20252£68,500£50,000£87,000
20242£93,500£92,000£95,000
20231£50,000£50,000£50,000
20191£73,000£73,000£73,000
20151£59,000£59,000£59,000
20132£55,500£54,000£57,000
20074£69,975£59,950£79,000
20062£67,500£60,000£75,000
20052£61,000£57,000£65,000
20041£35,000£35,000£35,000
20022£34,000£33,000£35,000
20011£25,000£25,000£25,000
Most recent sales (34)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Oct 202548 WA7 2LGTerraced£50,000
28 Mar 202536 WA7 2LGTerraced£87,000
9 Dec 202421 WA7 2LGTerraced£92,000
8 May 202439 WA7 2LGTerraced£95,000
8 Mar 20243 WA7 2LGTerraced£89,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Nov 202356 WA7 2LGTerraced£50,000
20 Sep 202330 WA7 2LGTerraced£91,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Jun 202223 WA7 2LGTerraced£85,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Feb 202223 WA7 2LGTerraced£73,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Jul 202010 WA7 2LGTerraced£71,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Jun 202023 WA7 2LGTerraced£73,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 May 202051 WA7 2LGTerraced£59,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Jul 201964 WA7 2LGTerraced£73,000
31 May 201940 WA7 2LGTerraced£62,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Feb 201510 WA7 2LGTerraced£59,000
16 Dec 20134 WA7 2LGTerraced£57,000
28 May 201336 WA7 2LGTerraced£54,000
3 Aug 200730 WA7 2LGTerraced£79,000
6 Jun 200730 WA7 2LGTerraced£59,950
22 Feb 20073 WA7 2LGTerraced£69,950
25 Jan 200721 WA7 2LGTerraced£70,000
29 Sep 200658 WA7 2LGTerraced£75,000
13 Apr 200647 WA7 2LGTerraced£60,000
22 Jul 200523 WA7 2LGTerraced£57,000
24 Mar 200558 WA7 2LGTerraced£65,000
23 Dec 200430 WA7 2LGTerraced£35,000New build.
20 Dec 200258 WA7 2LGTerraced£35,000
30 Aug 200263 WA7 2LGTerraced£33,000
30 Nov 200145 WA7 2LGTerraced£25,000
10 Mar 200047 WA7 2LGTerraced£21,950
15 Feb 199959 WA7 2LGTerraced£13,750
2 May 19976 WA7 2LGTerraced£24,995
4 Jul 199651 WA7 2LGTerraced£28,000
19 Apr 199612 WA7 2LGTerraced£28,000

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

66 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 87 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (30); House, mid-terrace (30); Flat (6). Built: 1967-1975 (23); 2012 onwards (16); 1950-1966 (12). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (38); owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (10).

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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (99% of about 720 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): Halton Borough Council Article 4 - 1, Halton Borough Council Article 4 - A4D_1.
  • 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, 10 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 21 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 138 addresses are between 29 m and 43 m above sea level (35 m on average); the ground rises about 13 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
WA7 2LG100%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 stationsRuncorn East 196,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km
Runcorn 732,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km
Widnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–255.0 km
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m, 26 within 800 m; nearest Castlefields Avenue North40 m
Bus or coach stationWarrington Bus Interchange Stand U8.8 km
Car parks40 Wellington Street Parking2.7 km
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.2 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL10.3 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Castlefields Health Centre300 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Runcorn Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Halton Road Family Dental Practice790 m
HospitalHalton Hospital1.9 km
Police stationCheshire Constabulary1.3 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Morrisons Daily - Runcorn Castlefield Centre, Castlefields Cashzone300 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 garden2 within 800 m; nearest Halton Village Millennium Green 9,560 m²530 m
Largest park within 800 mHalton Common 2.6 ha770 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 350 m²330 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 6,750 m²240 m
AllotmentsHaddocks Wood Allotments 2.0 ha1.0 km

Within 800 m: 2 parks and gardens, 3.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Seneschal's House, a listed building (Grade II*), 550 m south. 16 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade I and 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Seneschal's HouseListed building, Grade II*550 m south
Halton CastleListed building, Grade I730 m south
Halton Castle: a ruined shell keep castle on the site of an earlier motte and baileyScheduled monument740 m south
The Castle Hotel Public HouseListed building, Grade II*770 m south
The VicarageListed building, Grade II*870 m south
Augustinian Abbey known as Norton PrioryScheduled monument1.2 km east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Haddock's WoodWood650 m north-east
Wigg IslandIsland1.2 km north
Astmoor Salt MarshWetland1.6 km north
Windmill HillHill1.6 km south-east
Big PoolLake or reservoir2.0 km west
Murdishaw ValleyValley3.2 km south-east

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)11.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 59810
Under 5556138

82 of the street's 138 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

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
Astmoor Primary SchoolPrimary4–11250 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11390 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Brow Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11580 m Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bridgewater Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11780 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.0 km No published inspection
Castle View Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.3 km Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Grange SchoolAll-through3–161.4 km Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Windmill Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Halton Lodge Nursery & Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km Requires improvement (Sep 2021, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Berteline's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.8 km 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
Woodside Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.9 km Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Inglefield WA7 2LHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m5 Very good30 Oct 2024
Acorn Day Nursery - Main Kitchen WA7 2JEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good24 Sep 2026
Astmoor Primary School - Edsential WA7 2JESchool/college/university250 m5 Very good28 Apr 2025
Castlefields Fish Bar WA7 2STTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Aug 2026
Morrisons Daily WA7 2STRetailers - other300 m3 Generally satisfactory12 Jun 2025
The Route@Castlefields Cafe WA7 2STOther catering premises300 mAwaiting inspection
The Bridge School - Caterlink WA7 1PWSchool/college/university300 mAwaiting inspection
Astmoor Primary School - Breakfast Club WA7 2JEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School & Nursery - Impact Food Group WA7 2JJSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good26 Mar 2025
Riverside Spirits Ltd WA7 1NUManufacturers/packers400 m5 Very good28 May 2025
S4yc@St Mary's WA7 2NRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m5 Very good10 Oct 2023
St Mary's C Of E School Orian Catering WA7 2NRSchool/college/university420 m5 Very good8 May 2024
The Bridge School Vocational Centre WA7 1NUSchool/college/university440 m5 Very good27 Feb 2024
McNamara's Sports Bar & Academy WA7 1NUPub/bar/nightclub440 m2 Improvement necessary1 Jul 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.

37 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences25
Criminal damage and arson3
Anti-social behaviour2
Other theft2
Public order1
Drugs1
Possession of weapons1
Burglary1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Castlefields Avenue North (15); On or near Pendennis Court (12); On or near Muncaster Way (7); On or near Astmoor Bridge Lane (3).

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: 413 residents in 193 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 age3340
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)17%61%
Owned outright12%33%
Shared ownership5%1%
Social rented73%17%
Private rented6%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)17%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)18%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)97%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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.

  • WA7 2LG: 96 addresses of 116 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Keepers Walk · Astmoor Cottage · Pendennis Court · The Butts

All the streets in WA7 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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.