Whernside Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire

24 addresses across 1 postcode (NN8), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 42900150.

  • Sales: 14 recorded sales since 1995; in 2020 the median was £340,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 6, E: 1).
  • 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 D; Band D in North Northamptonshire costs £2,424 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wellingborough, about 2.8 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 190 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 95 to 100 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 24 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Queensway Medical Centre, about 530 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 87% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 35 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20201£340,000£340,000£340,000
20192£323,000£288,500£357,500
20171£350,000£350,000£350,000
20151£237,500£237,500£237,500
20141£247,000£247,000£247,000
20121£235,000£235,000£235,000
20091£237,500£237,500£237,500
20061£237,500£237,500£237,500
20002£122,000£118,000£126,000
19972£93,000£90,000£96,000
19961£85,000£85,000£85,000
Most recent sales (14)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Sep 20208 NN8 5QQDetached£340,000
3 Jun 20193 NN8 5QQDetached£357,500
31 Jan 201912 NN8 5QQDetached£288,500
10 Feb 20172 NN8 5QQDetached£350,000
21 Dec 201523 NN8 5QQDetached£237,500
16 Jan 201427 NN8 5QQDetached£247,000
14 Dec 201229 NN8 5QQDetached£235,000
30 Apr 20099 NN8 5QQDetached£237,500
8 Sep 200614 NN8 5QQDetached£237,500
11 May 200013 NN8 5QQDetached£126,000
21 Jan 20009 NN8 5QQDetached£118,000
5 Sep 199721 NN8 5QQDetached£96,000
18 Apr 199717 NN8 5QQDetached£90,000
20 May 19967 NN8 5QQDetached£85,000

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

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 145 m². Most common: House, detached (9). Built: 1983-1990 (4); 1991-1995 (2); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8).

Council tax

What each band costs in North Northamptonshire in 2026-27: Band D £2,424 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,616£1,885£2,155£2,424£2,963£3,501£4,040£4,848

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band D (48% of about 770 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: 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 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 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 24 addresses are between 95 m and 100 m above sea level (98 m on average); the ground rises about 5 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
NN8 5QQ100%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 stationsWellingborough 981,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.8 miles)
Kettering 1.1 million journeys in 2024–259.4 km (5.8 miles)
Bus stops21 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 51 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Queensway Wellingborough120 m
Car parksCommercial Way Car Park2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station590 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon Luton Airport LTN54 km (34 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Queensway Medical Centre530 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Day Lewis520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Redhill Dental Care1.2 km (0.8 miles)
HospitalIsebrook Hospital2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Police stationWellingborough Police Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM550 m (0.3 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,290 m²190 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 17 ha280 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 740 m²600 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 11 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsBreezehill Allotments 9,870 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 31 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Tithe barn, a scheduled monument, 1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tithe barnScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Great Harrowden HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Stanwell SpinneyWood730 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Vivian's CovertWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) west
Blackberry Fox CovertWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Cromwell SpinneyWood1.9 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Red HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Sywell BottomValley4.8 km (3 miles) 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)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.6205
Particles (PM10)13.24015

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, 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
55 to 5910
Under 552324

1 of the street's 24 addresses is 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 Northamptonshire: see them on the North Northamptonshire 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
Olympic PrimaryPrimary2–11590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Redwell Primary SchoolPrimary4–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Weavers AcademySecondary11–18880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Freemans Endowed Church of England Junior AcademyPrimary7–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Ruskin AcademyPrimary7–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ruskin Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Glenvale Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Barnabas Church of England SchoolPrimary5–71.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Sir Christopher Hatton AcademySecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Croyland Nursery School & Day NurseryNursery0–41.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Croyland Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oakway AcademyPrimary2–111.7 km (1 mile) Good (Jan 2023, 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Bitz & Bites Catering NN8 3XARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m4 Good9 Jul 2026
Anchor Trust NN8 3FRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good29 Jan 2026
Pink Dolphin Fish And Chips NN8 3QETakeaway/sandwich shop460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good19 Dec 2025
Peri Hubb NN8 3QETakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)4 Good24 Jun 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.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour18
Violence and sexual offences8
Public order3
Drugs2
Vehicle crime2
Other crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Kendal Close (14); On or near Conway Close (10); On or near Sywell Avenue (4); On or near Penrith Drive (2); On or near Sywell Way (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: 298 residents in 117 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 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over23%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)87%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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.

  • NN8 5QQ: 24 addresses of 25 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Malham Court · Littledale · Ribble Close · Dene Close · Beck Court · Fell Walk · Kendal Close · Spey Close · Tyne Close · Gleneagles Drive · Penrith Drive · Tees Close

All the streets in NN8 and across North Northamptonshire.

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.