The Balk Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire

106 addresses across 23 postcodes (YO42), about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 45911725.

  • Sales: 33 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £445,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 29 homes have an energy certificate (B: 6, C: 7, D: 7, E: 6, F: 2, G: 1).
  • 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 B; Band D in East Riding of Yorkshire costs £2,466 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Howden, about 17.9 km (11 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 590 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 20 to 34 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 57 of its 106 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pocklington Group Practice, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 3,120 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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£445,000£445,000£445,000
20242£292,500£285,000£300,000
20211£487,500£487,500£487,500
20194£311,750£235,000£650,000
20161£290,000£290,000£290,000
20141£324,000£324,000£324,000
20133£345,000£330,000£480,000
20121£330,000£330,000£330,000
20102£378,750£355,000£402,500
20091£320,000£320,000£320,000
20081£500,000£500,000£500,000
20071£473,000£473,000£473,000
Most recent sales (33)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Sep 20253, WRENHAM VALE YO42 2WSSemi-detached£445,000New build.
24 May 20242, WRENHAM VALE YO42 2WSSemi-detached£285,000New build.
19 Apr 20241, WRENHAM VALE YO42 2WSSemi-detached£300,000New build.
16 Jun 2022SOUTH LEA YO42 2NXOther£2,965,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Feb 202127 YO42 2QQSemi-detached£487,500
30 Jul 20197 YO42 2QJSemi-detached£251,000
26 Jun 20199 YO42 2QJDetached£650,000
5 Jun 201915 YO42 2QQDetached£235,000
15 Feb 201937 YO42 2NZDetached£372,500
17 Sep 201815 YO42 2QQDetached£205,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Sep 201815 YO42 2QQOther£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Nov 2016JANSFIELD YO42 2NZDetached£290,000
28 Aug 2014RANELAGH HOUSE YO42 2NZDetached£324,000
31 Oct 2013WOODLANDS YO42 2NZDetached£480,000
14 Jun 201337 YO42 2NZDetached£330,000New build.
22 Mar 201341 YO42 2NZDetached£345,000New build.
13 Dec 201239 YO42 2NZDetached£330,000New build.
30 Jul 2010GARDEN COTTAGE YO42 2NZDetached£355,000
24 Mar 2010WOODLANDS YO42 2NZDetached£402,500
11 Jun 200919 YO42 2QQSemi-detached£320,000
23 May 2008ASHDENE YO42 2NYDetached£500,000
23 Nov 200721 YO42 2QQDetached£473,000
1 Oct 20045 YO42 2QJSemi-detached£189,950
18 Dec 2003RANELAGH HOUSE YO42 2NZDetached£303,000
11 Sep 200317 YO42 2QQDetached£327,500
21 Oct 200211 YO42 2QQSemi-detached£149,995
15 Feb 2002SOUTHLEA YO42 2NXDetached£375,000
25 May 200111A YO42 2QQTerraced£79,950
6 Oct 2000CARRINGTON HOUSE YO42 2NZDetached£128,500
30 Apr 1999RANELAGH HOUSE YO42 2NZDetached£128,000
28 Oct 1996POCELA HOUSE YO42 2NZDetached£98,000
19 Aug 1996SOUTHLEA YO42 2NXDetached£142,000
1 Mar 1995SOUTHLEA YO42 2NXDetached£130,000

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

29 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 159 m². Most common: House, detached (12); House, semi-detached (8); Bungalow, detached (4). Built: before 1900 (6); 1983-1990 (4); 2022 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (16 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in East Riding of Yorkshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,466 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,644£1,918£2,192£2,466£3,014£3,562£4,110£4,932

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (22% of about 3,530 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 4 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: yes, Pocklington (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 30 July 2026 to 7 August 2026: EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (major 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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 28 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 47 homes the Environment Agency counts, 2 are in areas at high risk, 2 medium, 8 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
YO42 2NXzone 2 0 / 1 / 5 unlikely
YO42 2QQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
YO42 2NYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO42 2NZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO42 2GPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO42 2QJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO42 2WSnot in 2 or 3
YO42 1UJnot in 2 or 3 2 / 2 / 4 unlikely
YO42 2FTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO42 2QFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO42 1BPnot in 2 or 3
YO42 1DEnot in 2 or 3
YO42 1NTnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO42 1ULnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO42 2FRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 4 unlikely
YO42 2GDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO42 2GGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO42 2GRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
YO42 2GXnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
YO42 2PBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 7 unlikely
YO42 2PHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
YO42 2TGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 unlikely
YO42 2TPnot 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 107 addresses are between 20 m and 34 m above sea level (27 m on average); the ground rises about 15 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
YO42 1BP100%50%50%0%
YO42 1DE100%100%100%0%
YO42 1NT93%0%0%0%
YO42 1UJ88%53%53%0%
YO42 1UL100%100%100%0%
YO42 2FR100%100%100%0%
YO42 2FT100%100%100%0%
YO42 2GD100%100%100%0%
YO42 2GG100%100%100%0%
YO42 2GP100%100%100%0%
YO42 2GR100%100%100%0%
YO42 2GX100%100%100%0%
YO42 2NX80%0%0%0%
YO42 2NY100%100%100%0%
YO42 2NZ100%100%100%0%
YO42 2PB100%100%100%0%
YO42 2PH100%100%100%0%
YO42 2QF100%100%100%0%
YO42 2QJ100%100%100%0%
YO42 2QQ100%100%100%0%
YO42 2TG100%100%100%0%
YO42 2TP100%100%100%0%
YO42 2WS100%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 stationHowden 136,000 journeys in 2024–2517.9 km (11 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Pocklington The Balk360 m
Car parksThe Parking Consultancy1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station6.6 km (4.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsHumberside Airport HUY47 km (29 miles)
Nearest large airportLeeds Bradford Airport LBA58.7 km (37 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pocklington Group Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Burnby Lane (Dental Surgery)1.5 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalWhitecross Court Community Hospital20.9 km (13 miles)
Police stationHumberside Police - Pocklington Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesPocklington Service Station, Pocklington1.9 km (1.2 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,400 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 380 m²660 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 6.3 ha840 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsPocklington Allotments 5.0 ha2.4 km (1.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Duck WoodWood440 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Duck BeltWood740 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Balk BeltWood850 m (0.5 miles) east
Hunger HillHill2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Church PondLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-east
The GlenValley4.1 km (2.5 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)4.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
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
70 to 7410
65 to 6950
60 to 64230
55 to 59280
Under 5549106

57 of the street's 106 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 East Riding of Yorkshire: see them on the East Riding of 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
Woldgate School and Sixth Form CollegeSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Mary & St Joseph Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academy Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pocklington Junior SchoolPrimary7–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pocklington Church of England Voluntary Controlled Infant SchoolPrimary3–72 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement

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
Yorkway Motel YO42 2NXPub/bar/nightclub480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good22 May 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (humberside).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 9 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 3,124 residents in 1,375 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 age4140
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)24%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%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 bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)41%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away18%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 4 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, detached (lodged 16 October 2026) found 2 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.

  • YO42 2NX: 39 addresses of 43 in the postcode
  • YO42 2QQ: 14 addresses of 15 in the postcode
  • YO42 2NY: 10 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • YO42 2NZ: 9 addresses of 10 in the postcode
  • YO42 2GP: 6 addresses
  • YO42 2QJ: 5 addresses of 6 in the postcode
  • YO42 2WS: 4 addresses of 5 in the postcode
  • YO42 1UJ: 2 addresses of 57 in the postcode
  • YO42 2FT: 2 addresses of 38 in the postcode
  • YO42 2QF: 2 addresses
  • YO42 1BP: 1 address of 19 in the postcode
  • YO42 1DE: 1 address of 12 in the postcode
  • YO42 1NT: 1 address of 43 in the postcode
  • YO42 1UL: 1 address of 23 in the postcode
  • YO42 2FR: 1 address of 52 in the postcode
  • YO42 2GD: 1 address of 20 in the postcode
  • YO42 2GG: 1 address of 5 in the postcode
  • YO42 2GR: 1 address of 47 in the postcode
  • YO42 2GX: 1 address of 10 in the postcode
  • YO42 2PB: 1 address of 55 in the postcode
  • YO42 2PH: 1 address of 14 in the postcode
  • YO42 2TG: 1 address of 50 in the postcode
  • YO42 2TP: 1 address of 8 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Balk · Gresman Grove · Gresman Grove · Weaver Nook · Stoppard Gate · Edmondson Green · Richardson Place · Bailiff Grove · Yeoman Haven · Reeve Dale · Ineson Chase

All the streets in YO42 and across East Riding of 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.