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On Monkwray Brow, in Mirehouse, Kells & Woodhouse
What it's like at CA28 9DT: every home that has sold on Monkwray Brow since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Monkwray Brow; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 42 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Monkwray BrowDetached | Jul 2022 | £185,000 | 58 m² | £3,190/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Monkwray BrowDetached | Apr 2009 | £150,000 | 131 m² | £1,145/m² | 1 |
| 4, Monkwray BrowDetached | Aug 2013 | £170,000 | 85 m² | £2,000/m² | 1 |
| 5, Monkwray BrowDetached | Nov 2006 | £135,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 6, Monkwray BrowDetached | Jun 2020 | £190,000 | 78 m² | £2,436/m² | 3 |
| 7, Monkwray BrowDetached | Apr 2011 | £150,000 | 119 m² | £1,261/m² | 1 |
| 8, Monkwray BrowDetached | Apr 2004 | £88,000 | 65 m² | £1,354/m² | 1 |
| 12, Monkwray BrowDetached | Jun 2026 | £165,000 | 56 m² | £2,946/m² | 1 |
| 14, Monkwray BrowDetached | Jun 2006 | £145,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 16, Monkwray BrowDetached | Jun 2014 | £146,500 | 54 m² | £2,713/m² | 2 |
| 19, Monkwray BrowDetached | Oct 1999 | £63,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 22, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | Nov 2024 | £175,000 | 73 m² | £2,397/m² | 2 |
| 23, Monkwray BrowDetached | Jul 2019 | £170,500 | 68 m² | £2,507/m² | 1 |
| 24, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | Nov 2016 | £142,000 | 55 m² | £2,582/m² | 5 |
| 27, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | Feb 2013 | £85,000 | 77 m² | £1,104/m² | 1 |
| 29, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | Nov 1999 | £42,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 30, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | Dec 2019 | £130,000 | 83 m² | £1,566/m² | 9 |
| 31, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | Feb 1995 | £65,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | Aug 2012 | £114,500 | 81 m² | £1,414/m² | 3 |
| 33, Monkwray BrowDetached | Jun 2009 | £124,000 | 82 m² | £1,512/m² | 1 |
| 34, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | May 2004 | £95,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 35, Monkwray BrowDetached | Apr 2003 | £82,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 37, Monkwray BrowDetached | Jun 1995 | £39,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 41, Monkwray BrowDetached | Nov 1997 | £73,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 43, Monkwray BrowDetached | Sept 2019 | £150,000 | 105 m² | £1,429/m² | 1 |
| 44, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | Aug 2009 | £105,000 | 73 m² | £1,438/m² | 4 |
| 46, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | Jun 1995 | £40,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 48, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | Feb 2018 | £134,950 | – | – | 5 |
| 50, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | Oct 1995 | £39,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 54, Monkwray BrowDetached | Jan 2023 | £126,000 | 66 m² | £1,909/m² | 1 |
| 56, Monkwray BrowDetached | Jun 2005 | £138,500 | 132 m² | £1,049/m² | 2 |
| 58, Monkwray BrowDetached | Dec 2025 | £195,000 | 113 m² | £1,726/m² | 2 |
| 60, Monkwray BrowDetached | Sept 2002 | £83,300 | 100 m² | £833/m² | 2 |
| 62, Monkwray BrowDetached | Aug 2006 | £200,000 | 188 m² | £1,064/m² | 2 |
| 66, Monkwray BrowSemi-detached | Jun 2013 | £139,995 | 93 m² | £1,505/m² | 1 |
| Brier Bank, Monkwray BrowDetached | Oct 2020 | £275,000 | 218 m² | £1,261/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Corkickle, about a 10-minute walk (650 m), with 66k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Sellafield.
The nearest bus stop is Saltom Road, 350 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (routes 2, S80); 14 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 108 minutes away by public transport (20 by car).
The nearest primary school is Monkwray Junior School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 41% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Whitehaven Academy, 2.1 km away; Attainment 8: 39.7 · 5.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Morrisons Daily, 500 m away; High Road Store (500 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lowther Medical Centre (800 m), with Seacliffe Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (700 m).
For a haircut, Revival is 800 m away.
The nearest full A&E is West Cumberland Hospital, 1.5 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 51% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 65% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 6 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
R & R Day Services is the closest café or restaurant (600 m), and Whitehaven RLFC the nearest pub (350 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 78 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 4% flats and 13% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
It's growing: about 368 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is St Beghs Priory Church Park, 650 m away; for exercise, Northern Problems (650 m).
A swim is a short trip away: St Bees, 4.8 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 2.6 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 134 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 157 km.
Most households own their home, 9% rent privately.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
24 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Whitehaven and Workington constituency: Josh MacAlister MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 13,286 (31.8%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Labour 53%, Reform UK 21%, Conservative 20%, Green Party 3%.
16 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near CA28 9DT →
Nearest: Greystoke And District Sports Association · about 55 min
Nearest: Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway · about 42 min
Nearest: Lake District Wildlife Park · about 42 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 25 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.8% | 1.1% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 92.4% | 83.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 2.6% | 8.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.4% | 6.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.2% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 42 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.