The Square Christleton, Cheshire West and Chester

27 addresses across 2 postcodes (CH3), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 6901764.

  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 14, D: 4).
  • Flood: 2 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 C; Band D in Cheshire West and Chester costs £2,517 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 97% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Chester, about 3.0 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.7 km away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 38 to 41 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 27 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Heath Lane Medical Centre, about 1.8 km away.
  • People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 74% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 12 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 41 m². Most common: Bungalow, mid-terrace (6); Flat (6); Bungalow, end-terrace (5). Built: 1950-1966 (18); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (15).

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire West and Chester in 2026-27: Band D £2,517 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,678£1,958£2,238£2,517£3,077£3,636£4,196£5,035

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (22% of about 670 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: yes, Cheshire West and Chester.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

  • White Lane Depot, White Lane, Christleton: up to 7 homes, not permissioned (630 m)
  • The Moorings, Rowton Bridge Road, Christleton, CH3 7AE: up to 7 homes, not permissioned (760 m)

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, 2 at medium risk and 3 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
CH3 7AWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH3 7AHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 3 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 27 addresses are between 38 m and 41 m above sea level (40 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
CH3 7AH100%97%97%0%
CH3 7AW100%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 stationsChester 5.3 million journeys in 2024–253.0 km
Bache 495,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km
Mouldsworth 26,000 journeys in 2024–258.6 km
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m, 19 within 800 m; nearest Village Hall Christleton240 m
Bus or coach stationChester Bus Interchange3.5 km
Car parksApcoa Parking2.2 km
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km; nearest Retirement Villages - Boughton Heath Chester1.1 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL16.5 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 surgeriesHeath Lane Medical Centre1.8 km
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Vicars Cross Pharmacy1.6 km
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Rock House Dental Practice310 m
HospitalGrosvenor Nuffield Hospital4.1 km
Police stationChester Town Hall Police Station3.8 km
Cash machinesMFG - Rowton, Rowton Cashzone1.3 km

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 gardenUnnamed 6,420 m²1.7 km
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,150 m²270 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest King George's Field 4.3 ha260 m
AllotmentsBoughton Heath Allotments 2.0 ha1.0 km

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Dixon's Almshouses, a listed building (Grade II*), 140 m east. 35 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Dixon's AlmshousesListed building, Grade II*140 m east
The Old HallListed building, Grade II*170 m south
Church of St JamesListed building, Grade II*190 m south-west
Roman camp at Stamford Lodge, 350m north west of Stamford Hollows FarmScheduled monument1.7 km north-east
Battle of Rowton Heath 1645Registered battlefield3.2 km south-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bellevue WoodWood1.8 km north
Gowy GorseWood2.3 km north-east
Gallows HillHill2.3 km west
Fox CovertWood3.0 km east
Waverton GorseWood3.6 km south-east
Mill PondLake or reservoir4.5 km 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)7.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

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: 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 5920
Under 552427

3 of the street's 27 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
Christleton Primary SchoolPrimary4–11430 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Christleton High SchoolSecondary11–18510 m Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oldfield Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km No published inspection
Boughton Heath AcademyPrimary4–111.7 km Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cherry Grove Primary SchoolPrimary3–112.0 km No published inspection
The Bishops' Blue Coat Church of England High SchoolSecondary11–182.0 km Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Birch Heath Lodge CH3 7APHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m5 Very good15 Oct 2025
St James Christleton PCC CH3 7ASOther catering premises240 m5 Very good20 Jul 2026
Ring O Bells CH3 7ASRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Christleton Newsagent And Stores CH3 7ASRetailers - other320 m5 Very good25 Feb 2024
Christleton Institute CH3 7ASOther catering premises320 mExempt
Koow Coffee CH3 7ASRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m4 Good12 Jun 2026
Christleton Primary School CH3 7AYSchool/college/university500 m5 Very good1 Dec 2025
S4YC out of school club CH3 7AYSchool/college/university500 m5 Very good26 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.

12 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences6
Other theft3
Public order2
Anti-social behaviour1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Church Walks (4); On or near Parking Area (3); On or near The Square (3); On or near Birch Heath Lane (1); On or near Little Heath (1).

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: 504 residents in 232 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 age4840
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)74%61%
Owned outright35%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)53%65%
Work 30 km or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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

What has changed

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.

Nearby streets

Church Walks · Little Heath · Little Mere · Little Heath Road · Village Road · Windmill Lane · Townsend Way · The Park · Hardwick Close · Plough Lane

All the streets in CH3 and across Cheshire West and Chester.

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.

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