The Crescent Morpeth, Northumberland

11 addresses across 1 postcode (NE61), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6203328.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £325,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 2, E: 3).
  • 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 Northumberland costs £2,597 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Morpeth, about 880 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 250 m away, and The Farquhar Deuchar Park (3.1 hectares) is about 630 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 60 to 62 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 11 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Npc Central Northumberland, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 310 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 68% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 20 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often burglary.

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
20231£325,000£325,000£325,000
20221£480,000£480,000£480,000
20211£540,000£540,000£540,000
20191£385,000£385,000£385,000
20171£292,000£292,000£292,000
20162£327,750£280,500£375,000
20101£308,000£308,000£308,000
20061£305,000£305,000£305,000
20052£247,250£245,000£249,500
20041£250,000£250,000£250,000
20031£280,000£280,000£280,000
20021£190,000£190,000£190,000
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Jul 20236 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£325,000
31 Aug 20227 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£480,000
29 Jun 20212 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£540,000
30 Sep 20194 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£385,000
1 Dec 20178 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£292,000
16 Dec 20167 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£375,000
5 Dec 20162 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£280,500
17 Dec 20103 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£308,000
6 Nov 20065 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£305,000
25 Nov 20057 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£245,000
25 Apr 20057 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£249,500
24 Jun 20048 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£250,000
5 Sep 20031 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£280,000
27 Sep 20023 NE61 2DQDetached£190,000
7 Sep 20011 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£130,000
28 May 19994 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£126,000
7 Jul 19955 NE61 2DQSemi-detached£85,600

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 October 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 139 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6). Built: 1930-1949 (5); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Northumberland in 2026-27: Band D £2,597 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,731£2,020£2,308£2,597£3,174£3,751£4,328£5,194

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (29% of about 1,020 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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 13 protected trees on or by this street.
  • 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 7 September 2026 to 30 October 2026: NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major (paa) works)

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

© 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 11 addresses are between 60 m and 62 m above sea level (61 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
NE61 2DQ100%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 stationsMorpeth 623,000 journeys in 2024–25880 m (0.5 miles)
Pegswood 1,470 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Ashington 131,000 journeys in 2024–258 km (5 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Kylins Loansdean60 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Morpeth1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsNewcastle International Airport NCL13.1 km (8.1 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 Npc Central Northumberland1.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Stobhill Pharmacy790 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest James Rp Jones & Associates1.3 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalMorpeth Cottage Hospital330 m
Police stationBedlington Police Station6.6 km (4.1 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Pegswood - Morpeth Road, Pegswood Cashzone3.9 km (2.4 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 2,900 m²250 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The Farquhar Deuchar Park 3.1 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 310 m²460 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Storey Park 1.2 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 420 m²800 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 3.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade I), 490 m (0.3 miles) north. 15 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade I490 m (0.3 miles) north
Morpeth CastleScheduled monument890 m (0.6 miles) north
Morpeth CastleListed building, Grade I910 m (0.6 miles) north
Motte and bailey castle on Haw HillScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) north
Morpeth Old BridgeScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Grindle HillHill650 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Star PlantationWood920 m (0.6 miles) west
Haw HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) north
Watty's HoleLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Castle WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Climbingtree DeanValley3 km (1.9 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)4.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.0205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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 5980
Under 55211

9 of the street's 11 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 Northumberland: see them on the Northumberland page.

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
Morpeth First SchoolPrimary3–9280 m Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Morpeth Stobhillgate First SchoolPrimary3–91.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Abbeyfields First SchoolPrimary3–91.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Roberts Catholic First School, Morpeth Roman CatholicPrimary3–91.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Morpeth Newminster Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Morpeth Chantry Middle SchoolMiddle deemed secondary9–131.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Morpeth First School NE61 2APRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good24 Sep 2026
Foxton Court Care Home NE61 2BTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m4 Good2 Oct 2025
Morpeth Golf Club NE61 2BTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m5 Very good13 May 2025
Co-operative Group Food NE61 2FSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Mar 2026
Cooplands NE61 2FSTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Mar 2026
County Kitchen NE61 2EFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 May 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.

20 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Burglary5
Vehicle crime4
Shoplifting3
Anti-social behaviour3
Violence and sexual offences2
Public order2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Avenue (8); On or near Middle Gate (3); On or near Kendor Grove (2); On or near Loansdean Wood (2); On or near The Steads (2).

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: 306 residents in 121 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 age4640
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)44%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)40%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)68%34%
No qualifications5%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • NE61 2DQ: 11 addresses of 13 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Cross Way · Loansdean Wood · The Kylins · Middle Gate · The Avenue · Churchburn Drive · Fairway · Loansdean Wood · The Steads · Kendor Grove · The Turn · Long Drive

All the streets in NE61 and across Northumberland.

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.