Watermeade Eckington, North East Derbyshire

33 addresses across 2 postcodes (S21), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 27701497.

  • Sales: 51 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £265,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 11, E: 2).
  • 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 North East Derbyshire costs £2,467 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dronfield, about 6.3 km (3.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 124 to 125 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 33 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Valleys Medical Partnership, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 84% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 51 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£265,000£265,000£265,000
20241£265,000£265,000£265,000
20233£235,000£210,000£250,000
20222£295,000£240,000£350,000
20212£222,500£205,000£240,000
20201£220,250£220,250£220,250
20191£222,500£222,500£222,500
20182£210,500£176,000£245,000
20171£164,000£164,000£164,000
20163£176,000£168,000£178,000
20151£168,000£168,000£168,000
20141£158,475£158,475£158,475
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 51)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Jul 20252 S21 4HZDetached£265,000
30 Jan 202432 S21 4HZDetached£265,000
20 Dec 202311 S21 4HZSemi-detached£250,000
28 Sep 202324 S21 4HZDetached£210,000
1 Aug 202316 S21 4HZDetached£235,000
28 Apr 202324 S21 4HZDetached£242,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jul 202225 S21 4HZDetached£240,000
4 Mar 202228 S21 4HZDetached£350,000
24 Sep 202132 S21 4HZDetached£240,000
17 May 20219 S21 4HZDetached£205,000
17 Dec 202011 S21 4HZSemi-detached£220,250
5 Apr 20193 S21 4HZDetached£222,500
21 Sep 201826 S21 4HZDetached£176,000
14 Sep 20185 S21 4HZDetached£245,000
21 Jul 201719 S21 4HZSemi-detached£164,000
10 Oct 201611 S21 4HZSemi-detached£178,000
6 May 201621 S21 4HZDetached£176,000
2 Feb 20169 S21 4HZDetached£168,000
29 May 20157 S21 4HZDetached£168,000
16 Sep 201417 S21 4HZDetached£158,475
17 Feb 201221 S21 4HZDetached£159,000
18 Aug 201011 S21 4HZSemi-detached£163,000
2 Jun 20087 S21 4HZDetached£157,000
15 Jun 20075 S21 4HZDetached£190,000
23 Nov 200617 S21 4HZDetached£156,500
17 Feb 200619 S21 4HZSemi-detached£167,500
5 Sep 200530 S21 4HZDetached£200,000
18 Aug 20056 S21 4HZDetached£199,950
27 Aug 200418 S21 4HZDetached£165,500
5 Dec 20036 S21 4HZDetached£142,000
1 Mar 200220 S21 4HZDetached£82,500
28 Sep 200122 S21 4HZDetached£72,000
30 Jul 20014 S21 4HZDetached£94,000
1 Jun 200110 S21 4HZDetached£75,950
25 May 200127 S21 4HZDetached£115,000
25 May 20018 S21 4HZDetached£75,000
15 Dec 200016 S21 4HZDetached£70,000
1 Dec 200014 S21 4HZDetached£72,950
21 Mar 200019 S21 4HZSemi-detached£63,000
23 Feb 20004 S21 4HZDetached£92,000
21 Aug 19985 S21 4HZDetached£76,000
21 Aug 19989 S21 4HZDetached£60,000
19 Mar 199817 S21 4HZDetached£60,000
10 Dec 199722 S21 4HZDetached£59,950
30 May 199731 S21 4HZDetached£69,000
26 Mar 199719 S21 4HZSemi-detached£58,500
30 Sep 199624 S21 4HZDetached£61,500New build.
18 Apr 19969 S21 4HZDetached£57,900New build.
30 Nov 199522 S21 4HZDetached£59,500New build.
27 Oct 199525 S21 4HZDetached£59,995New build.

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 March 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, detached (13); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1991-1995 (7); 1983-1990 (4); 2003-2006 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11).

Each home's certificates and sales (8 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in North East Derbyshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,467 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,644£1,918£2,193£2,467£3,015£3,563£4,111£4,933

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (39% of about 890 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

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 33 addresses are between 124 m and 125 m above sea level (124 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
S21 4BQ100%100%100%0%
S21 4HZ100%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 stationsDronfield 230,000 journeys in 2024–256.3 km (3.9 miles)
Woodhouse 40,000 journeys in 2024–256.5 km (4.1 miles)
Chesterfield 1.8 million journeys in 2024–258.1 km (5.1 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fenton Street Eckington80 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Eckington1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksMarket Street Car Park1.4 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging pointsevyve Charging Station2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsEast Midlands Airport EMA52.9 km (33 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 The Valleys Medical Partnership1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Peak Pharmacy1.3 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalChesterfield Royal Hospital7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Police stationStaveley Police Station3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machinesCentral England Co-Op - Eckington, Eckington Cashzone1.2 km (0.8 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 gardenUnnamed 2,510 m²2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,360 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha450 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 770 m²610 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Plumbley Colliery including Seldom Seen engine house, 600m north east of Roundhill Cottages, a scheduled monument, 1.1 km (0.7 miles) north. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Plumbley Colliery including Seldom Seen engine house, 600m north east of Roundhill CottagesScheduled monument1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Renishaw HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2 km (1.3 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Eckington MarshWetland640 m (0.4 miles) south
High Bramley WoodWood770 m (0.5 miles) north
Whinnybank WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) south
Castle HillHill1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Foxstone DamLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south
Delves Wood BottomValley4 km (2.5 miles) north-west

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)7.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)12.44015

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
65 to 6910
60 to 6440
55 to 5930
Under 552533

8 of the street's 33 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 North East Derbyshire: see them on the North East Derbyshire 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
Birk Hill Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary3–7270 m Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Eckington SchoolSecondary11–18280 m Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Eckington Junior SchoolPrimary7–11900 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Marsh Lane Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Camms CofE (Aided) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection

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
Hutchison Catering Ltd @Eckington School S21 4BRSchool/college/university80 m5 Very good15 Sep 2025
Jade Garden S21 4BXTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory30 Apr 2026
Big Bite S21 4BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Dec 2025
Birk Hill Infant School S21 4BESchool/college/university330 m5 Very good5 Oct 2026
BeLocal Store /Revancar Convenience Store S21 4JNRetailers - other330 m5 Very good7 Jul 2023
Dong Fang Garden S21 4JNTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good24 Oct 2025
UK Pizza S21 4JNTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good3 Feb 2025
French & Siddall S21 4GARetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Oct 2022
One Stop S21 4GARetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Sep 2025
Birkhill Stores S21 4BYRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Nov 2022

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.

51 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences22
Anti-social behaviour9
Public order7
Other theft3
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime2
Other crime2
Drugs2
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Chester Court (15); On or near West End View (11); On or near Chesterfield Road (10); On or near Hawksway (3); On or near Sandown Close (2).

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: 536 residents in 250 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 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over26%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)84%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%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)26%34%
No qualifications16%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification10%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 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.

Nearby streets

Dronfield Road · Kestrel Drive · Hawksway · Curlew Avenue · Sandown Close · Randall Street · Ashmore Avenue · Chester Court · Aintree Avenue · Fenton Street · Marsh View · West Street

All the streets in S21 and across North East Derbyshire.

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.