Tennyson Road Widnes, Halton

42 addresses across 4 postcodes (WA8), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 16102381.

  • Sales: 34 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £310,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 13, E: 1).
  • 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 Halton costs £2,367 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Widnes, about 700 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 190 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 24 to 31 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 42 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Peelhouse Medical Plaza, about 850 m (0.5 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 690 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 41 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
20251£310,000£310,000£310,000
20241£335,000£335,000£335,000
20231£246,000£246,000£246,000
20201£153,333£153,333£153,333
20191£236,000£236,000£236,000
20182£237,500£230,000£245,000
20171£250,000£250,000£250,000
20161£225,000£225,000£225,000
20112£254,250£228,000£280,500
20102£192,475£155,000£229,950
20072£216,000£215,000£217,000
20064£200,000£168,000£241,000
Most recent sales (34)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Oct 202517 WA8 7DASemi-detached£310,000
25 Oct 202423 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£335,000
20 Jan 20237 WA8 7DASemi-detached£246,000
17 Mar 20202 WA8 7DADetached£153,333
28 Jun 201934 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£236,000
30 Nov 201821 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£245,000
1 Oct 201839 WA8 7DBDetached£230,000
10 Feb 201735 WA8 7DBDetached£250,000
3 Oct 201629 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£225,000
25 Jul 201122 WA8 7DBDetached£280,500
16 Jun 201141 WA8 7DBDetached£228,000
2 Sep 20101 WA8 7DADetached£155,000
9 Aug 201026 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£229,950
30 Apr 20074 WA8 7DASemi-detached£215,000
29 Mar 200723 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£217,000
8 Nov 200641 WA8 7DBDetached£220,000
30 Jun 200618 WA8 7DASemi-detached£168,000
5 May 200633 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£180,000
10 Feb 200628 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£241,000
9 Dec 200532 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£214,000
26 Aug 200523 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£200,000
15 Oct 200427 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£195,000
1 Sep 200431 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£160,000
18 Jul 200321 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£162,500
18 Mar 200341 WA8 7DBDetached£155,000
1 Feb 200223 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£99,000
7 Dec 200128 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£125,000
20 Sep 20016 WA8 7DASemi-detached£100,000
4 Aug 200035 WA8 7DBDetached£123,000
19 Jun 200022 WA8 7DBDetached£90,000
4 Aug 199732 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£60,000
14 Jun 199637 WA8 7DBDetached£65,000
15 May 199619 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£60,000
1 Dec 199523 WA8 7DBSemi-detached£53,210

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.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 112 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (12); House, detached (6). Built: 1930-1949 (16); 1950-1966 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15).

Each home's certificates and sales (12 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 neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (41% of about 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 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 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 7DBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA8 7DAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA8 7DFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
WA8 7SXnot 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 42 addresses are between 24 m and 31 m above sea level (28 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
WA8 7DA100%100%100%0%
WA8 7DB100%100%100%0%
WA8 7DF100%100%100%0%
WA8 7SX100%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 stationsWidnes 428,000 journeys in 2024–25700 m (0.4 miles)
Hough Green 193,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Runcorn 732,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Horse & Jockey Widnes160 m
Bus or coach stationPrescot Bus Station7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Car parksCaldwell Road Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations320 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL8.7 km (5.4 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Peelhouse Medical Plaza850 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Appleton Village Pharmacy450 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery650 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalHighfield Hospital200 m
Police stationWidnes Police Station930 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Grangepan Food Store, Grangepans550 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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 14 ha190 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)King George's Park 20 ha560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,030 m²250 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,000 m²280 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 540 m²730 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 46 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porch, a scheduled monument, 1.4 km (0.9 miles) north. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Standing cross in St Luke's churchyard, Farnworth, beside the south porchScheduled monument1.4 km (0.9 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Spike IslandIsland2 km (1.3 miles) south
Bower's PoolTidal water2.3 km (1.5 miles) south
Runcorn SandsWetland2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Pex HillHill2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-west
The FieldWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) north-west
Big PoolLake or reservoir3.8 km (2.4 miles) south

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)11.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.6205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 554042

2 of the street's 42 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
St Bede's Catholic Junior School Roman CatholicPrimary7–11270 m Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Bede's Catholic Infant School Roman CatholicPrimary5–7320 m Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wade Deacon High SchoolSecondary11–16320 m Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–16390 m No published inspection
Birchfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–5590 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Fairfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–11680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Kingsway Primary Academy SchoolPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Riverside College Halton16 plus16–99930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Ditton Primary SchoolPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Gerard's Catholic Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Ditton Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Farnworth Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2023, 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
Horse & Jockey Inn WA8 7SUPub/bar/nightclub200 m4 Good15 Jun 2026
Burguritos WA8 7SUOther catering premises200 mAwaiting inspection
Appleton Village Store WA8 6PURetailers - other220 m5 Very good19 Oct 2023
Widnes Golf Club WA8 7DTPub/bar/nightclub230 m5 Very good19 Apr 2024
Esposito's Ice Cream Parlour WA8 6PXMobile caterer290 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Aug 2026
Village Care Club Ltd WA8 6ELHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good22 Jan 2024
St Bede's Catholic Primary School - Mellors WA8 6ELSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good8 Nov 2024
Aros Kitchen WA8 6ELTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m4 Good13 Nov 2025
Wade Deacon High School - Caterlink WA8 7TDSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good8 Sep 2026
Daisy Maisies Appleton WA8 6ELHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good27 Mar 2025
The Crown Inn WA8 7TEPub/bar/nightclub380 m4 Good12 Feb 2026
Widnes Tennis Academy / Cafe Deuce WA8 7DWOther catering premises390 m5 Very good17 Jun 2025
Saints Peter & Paul Catholic High School - Caterlink WA8 7DWSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good15 Sep 2026
The New Albion WA8 7ERPub/bar/nightclub450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Sep 2026
Paul's Widnes Fish Bar WA8 7DUTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 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.

41 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Anti-social behaviour5
Other theft4
Public order3
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime2
Burglary2
Other crime2
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Tennyson Road (12); On or near Leigh Avenue (11); On or near Addison Square (7); On or near Shakespeare Road (6); On or near Highfield Road (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: 692 residents in 292 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 age5040
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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 7DB: 22 addresses of 26 in the postcode
  • WA8 7DA: 18 addresses
  • WA8 7DF: 1 address of 32 in the postcode
  • WA8 7SX: 1 address of 14 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Shelley Road · Shakespeare Road · Addison Square · Highfield Crescent · Leigh Avenue · St Bedes View · Kingsway · Towneley Court · Highfield Road · Bradshaw Street · Birchfield Avenue · St. Bedes View

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.