Valley Road Crewe, Cheshire East

2 addresses across 2 postcodes (CW2), about 60 m long. USRN 9801577.

  • Sales: 50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £220,000 across 1 sale.
  • 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 A; Band D in Cheshire East costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Crewe, about 2.4 km (1.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 47 to 48 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 2 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Millcroft Medical Centre, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 560 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 71% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 42 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
20261£220,000£220,000£220,000
20252£119,000£113,000£125,000
20244£182,125£152,000£215,000
20212£120,250£78,000£162,500
20192£157,975£136,000£179,950
20182£92,500£80,000£105,000
20152£138,750£110,000£167,500
20141£151,000£151,000£151,000
20133£140,000£90,000£140,000
20081£159,000£159,000£159,000
20072£105,000£85,000£125,000
20062£175,500£126,000£225,000
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Aug 202633 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£220,000
29 Oct 202533 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£113,000
26 Aug 202533 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£103,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 May 202551 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£125,000
8 Nov 202461 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£152,000
30 Apr 202457 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£215,000
9 Apr 20249 CW2 8JZTerraced£204,250
1 Feb 202447 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£160,000
30 Sep 202113 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£162,500
22 Jun 202127 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£78,000
8 Nov 201957 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£179,950
30 Aug 201957 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£175,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Aug 201917 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£136,000
23 Aug 201855 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£105,000
11 Apr 201835 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£80,000
6 Aug 201531 CW2 8JZDetached£167,500
3 Aug 201521 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£110,000
21 Feb 201465 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£151,000
29 Nov 201343 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£140,000
23 Aug 201341 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£140,000
13 May 20139 CW2 8JZTerraced£90,000
20 Jun 200857 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£159,000
30 Aug 200743 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£125,000
18 May 20077 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£85,000
14 Jul 20065 CW2 8JZDetached£225,000
10 Feb 200627 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£126,000
15 Sep 200557 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£135,000
27 Aug 200465 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£136,500
16 Jul 200441 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£132,000
4 Jun 200461 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£129,950
18 Jul 20035 CW2 8JZDetached£172,000
6 Dec 200243 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£83,000
4 Oct 200257 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£92,000
13 Sep 200229 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£92,750
25 Jul 200263 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£93,950
15 Mar 200227 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£57,000
13 Feb 200237 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£76,000
28 Sep 200157 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£55,000
15 Jun 200165 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£59,950
8 Jun 200141 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£55,000
24 Nov 200065 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£54,000
25 Aug 200031 CW2 8JZDetached£59,000
7 Jul 200027 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£46,000
18 May 200037 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£58,000
24 Sep 199927 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£60,000
9 Jul 199937 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£56,500
7 May 19999 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£40,000
27 Mar 199729 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£30,000
4 Oct 199663 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£46,950
24 Mar 199513 CW2 8JZSemi-detached£32,500

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Cheshire East in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,909£2,182£2,455£3,000£3,546£4,091£4,910

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (72% of about 1,400 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 2 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: 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.

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 31 October 2026.

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

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 on this street 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 2 addresses are between 47 m and 48 m above sea level (48 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
CW2 8JZ100%100%100%0%
CW2 8RQ100%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 stationsCrewe 3.4 million journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Nantwich 223,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Sandbach 295,000 journeys in 2024–258.6 km (5.4 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 31 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wood End Wistaston Green60 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Crewe2 km (1.3 miles)
Car parksHolly Bank Car Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN31.8 km (20 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 surgeriesMillcroft Medical Centre1.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well350 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dane Bank House Dental Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalLeighton Hospital3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationCrewe Police Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Readesdale Avenue, Readesdale Ave 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 (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.7 ha420 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²230 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7.0 ha140 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wistaston Green Road Allotments 7,430 m²790 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 2.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is West End, a listed building (Grade II*), 910 m (0.6 miles) west. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
West EndListed building, Grade II*910 m (0.6 miles) west
Queen's Park, CreweRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rookerybank CovertWood130 m west
Joey the SwanLake or reservoir300 m south-west
Old CovertWood350 m west
Hinging Bank CovertWood500 m (0.3 miles) west
Old Gorse CovertWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Slaughter HillHill5 km (3.1 miles) 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)6.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)9.74015

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
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 5502

2 of the street's 2 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 Cheshire East: see them on the Cheshire East 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 Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe Roman CatholicPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Wistaston AcademyPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas More Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–16530 m (0.3 miles) 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
Vine Tree Primary SchoolPrimary4–11710 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Wistaston Church Lane AcademyPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Gainsborough Primary & Nursery AcademyPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Oaks AcademySecondary11–16920 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cheshire College - South & West16 plus16–991.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Edleston Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Pebble Brook Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Ruskin Community High SchoolSecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
The Berkeley AcademyPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2019, 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
The Pantree CW2 8UROther catering premises360 m5 Very good14 Jan 2026
Co-op CW2 8URRetailers - other360 m5 Very good25 May 2026
Bennys Fish & Chips CW2 8URTakeaway/sandwich shop360 m5 Very good14 Jan 2026
The Oblate Retreat CW2 8JSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good10 Feb 2025
Owens General Stores CW2 8PTRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Dec 2024
Rainbow Cheesecakes CW2 8PTOther catering premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Feb 2025
The Wisatston Fryer CW2 8PTTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 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.

42 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Anti-social behaviour7
Public order6
Other theft4
Burglary2
Drugs2
Vehicle crime2
Possession of weapons1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Woodford Close (11); On or near Woodside Lane (8); On or near Hawthorn Lane (5); On or near Wistaston Avenue (5); On or near Beech Drive (4).

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: 559 residents in 256 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 age4340
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)71%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented18%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)92%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 4 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.

  • CW2 8JZ: 1 address of 35 in the postcode
  • CW2 8RQ: 1 address of 15 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Willow Crescent · Laurel Drive · Hawthorn Lane · Beech Drive · Wistaston Green Road · Woodside Lane · Moreton Road · Field Avenue · Laburnum Avenue · Woodford Close · Wistaston Avenue · Woodside Avenue

All the streets in CW2 and across Cheshire East.

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.