Winchester Drive Whitehaven, Cumberland

53 addresses across 2 postcodes (CA28), about 200 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 9200750.

  • Sales: 137 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £177,500 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 37 homes have an energy certificate (C: 14, D: 20, E: 3).
  • Flood: 4 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 B; Band D in Cumberland costs £2,511 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Corkickle, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 560 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 2.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 134 to 138 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 53 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lowther Medical Centre, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 95% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 17 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
20253£177,500£146,000£180,000
20242£165,000£160,000£170,000
20232£199,975£169,950£230,000
20222£159,500£141,000£178,000
20216£150,975£133,000£205,000
20204£149,750£136,250£210,000
20194£168,500£136,000£197,500
20183£127,000£125,000£133,000
20175£130,000£125,000£147,500
20166£127,475£115,000£178,000
20153£113,000£105,000£127,000
20142£131,000£125,000£137,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 137)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Jun 20251 CA28 6XSSemi-detached£146,000
28 Feb 202528 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£177,500
21 Feb 202576 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£180,000
12 Sep 202484 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£170,000
28 Jun 202454 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£160,000
21 Jun 20238 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£230,000
6 Jan 20239 CA28 6XSSemi-detached£169,950
1 Dec 202274 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£178,000
14 Nov 202276 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£141,000
21 Dec 202112 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£162,000
14 Dec 202190 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£148,000
11 Jun 202132 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£205,000
18 May 202136 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£133,000
26 Feb 202158 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£152,000
15 Jan 20212 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£149,950
30 Oct 202028 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£159,500
25 Aug 202082 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£210,000
7 Jul 202060 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£136,250
14 Feb 202040 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£140,000
31 May 201924 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£197,500
15 Apr 201946 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£136,000
12 Apr 201984 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£145,000
19 Feb 201956 CA28 6XTDetached£192,000
26 Oct 201890 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£133,000
15 Oct 20185 CA28 6XSSemi-detached£127,000
15 May 201844 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£125,000
22 Nov 20171 CA28 6XSSemi-detached£130,000
13 Oct 201754 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£127,500
18 Aug 201760 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£125,000
11 Aug 20179 CA28 6XSSemi-detached£132,000
22 Jun 201768 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£147,500
11 Nov 201670 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£115,000
21 Oct 201674 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£135,000
5 Aug 201682 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£170,000
18 Mar 201644 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£118,000
29 Jan 201684 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£119,950
15 Jan 201650 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£178,000
26 Jun 201540 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£113,000
25 Jun 201540 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Apr 201538 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£105,000
27 Mar 20152 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£127,000
24 Oct 20144 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£125,000
19 Jun 201410 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£137,000
9 Dec 20135 CA28 6XSSemi-detached£132,000
7 Nov 201336 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£124,000
17 Jan 20131 CA28 6XSSemi-detached£135,500
3 Aug 201240 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£108,000
23 Mar 201274 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£125,000
23 Sep 201168 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£140,000
16 Sep 201166 CA28 6XTSemi-detached£145,000

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

37 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (37). Built: 1976-1982 (16); 1983-1990 (11); 1950-1966 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (29); rented (private) (2); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Cumberland in 2026-27: Band D £2,511 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,674£1,953£2,232£2,511£3,069£3,627£4,186£5,023

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (40% of about 530 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.

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 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 4 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
CA28 6XTnot in 2 or 3 3 / 1 / 2 unlikely
CA28 6XSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 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.

© 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 53 addresses are between 134 m and 138 m above sea level (136 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
CA28 6XS100%100%100%0%
CA28 6XT100%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 stationsCorkickle 66,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Whitehaven 285,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Parton 13,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.8 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest St Benedicts RC High School Hensingham200 m
Car parksMorrisons Car Park - Whitehaven1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Airport with scheduled flightsGlasgow Prestwick Airport PIK125 km (77 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 Lowther Medical Centre1.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Morrisons Pharmacy1.4 km (0.9 miles)
NHS dentistsFlatt Walks Health Centre1.6 km (1 mile)
HospitalWest Cumberland Hospital1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationCumbria Constabulary - Whitehaven Police Station1.5 km (1 mile)
Cash machinesApplegreen - Corkickle Service Station Cashzone1.2 km (0.7 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,300 m²560 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,140 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha130 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.9 ha810 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moss WoodWood220 m east
Richmond HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) south
North BeachBeach2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Bellhouse GillValley3.5 km (2.2 miles) south
Stanley PondLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) south
Lowca PointWetland3.9 km (2.4 miles) north

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)2.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.2205
Particles (PM10)7.24015

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
55 to 5950
Under 554853

5 of the street's 53 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 Cumberland: see them on the Cumberland 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 Benedict's Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18300 m No published inspection
Jericho Primary SchoolPrimary4–11620 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Whitehaven AcademySecondary11–18850 m (0.5 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hensingham Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Begh's Catholic Junior School Roman CatholicPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Gregory and St Patrick's Catholic Infant School Roman CatholicPrimary3–71.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St James' CofE Junior School Church of EnglandPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St James' CofE Infant and Nursery School Church of EnglandPrimary3–71.5 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Moresby Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Bransty Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2023, 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
Whitehaven Golf Club CA28 8UDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good14 Mar 2025
Funhouse CA28 6SJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good2 Sep 2025
Campus Whitehaven CA28 8UGSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good13 Mar 2026
The Community Centre Red Lonning CA28 6XQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good11 Oct 2024
Allison Grey Childcare CA28 6TEOther catering premises450 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

17 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences11
Anti-social behaviour2
Other crime1
Vehicle crime1
Public order1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Jubilee Road (7); On or near Chatsworth Drive (5); On or near Sandringham Avenue (2); On or near Parking Area (2); On or near Sandhurst Drive (1).

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: 368 residents in 148 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 age3740
Children under 1519%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)95%61%
Owned outright37%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented3%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work76%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)21%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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

Red Lonning · Sandringham Avenue · Chatsworth Drive · Sandhurst Drive · Jubilee Road · Red Lonning Industrial Estate · Caldbeck Road · Seaview Drive · The Crest

All the streets in CA28 and across Cumberland.

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.