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On Main Road, in Church Village West
What it's like at CF38 1RL: every home that has sold on Main Road 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
Sales and extensions on Main Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 93 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| Abernant, Main RoadTerraced | Aug 2008 | £125,000 | – | – | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon, Main RoadDetached | Oct 2001 | £93,000 | 101 m² | £921/m² | 1 |
| Bron-Y-Dyffryn, Main RoadDetached | Jun 2018 | £123,600 | – | – | 2 |
| Bryn-Hefin, Main RoadTerraced | Aug 2020 | £218,000 | 123 m² | £1,772/m² | 3 |
| Brynglas, Main RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2020 | £200,000 | 110 m² | £1,818/m² | 1 |
| Dan-Y-Coed, Main RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2025 | £235,000 | 105 m² | £2,238/m² | 1 |
| Gelli-Deg, Main RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2021 | £299,950 | 137 m² | £2,189/m² | 2 |
| Glenside, Main RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2024 | £215,000 | 102 m² | £2,108/m² | 3 |
| Lloyds Bank, Main RoadOther | Nov 2021 | £260,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Maes-Y-Deri, Main RoadDetached | Jan 2016 | £198,000 | 124 m² | £1,597/m² | 1 |
| Sherwood, Main RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2016 | £100,000 | 89 m² | £1,124/m² | 1 |
| Treffgarne, Main RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2022 | £275,000 | 148 m² | £1,858/m² | 1 |
| Tylagwyn, Main RoadDetached | Jun 2015 | £180,000 | 93 m² | £1,935/m² | 2 |
| Varteg, Main RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2025 | £315,000 | 115 m² | £2,739/m² | 3 |
| West Cross, Main RoadDetached | Aug 2018 | £325,000 | 120 m² | £2,708/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Trefforest Estate, a short drive or bike ride (2.3 km), with 121k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Trefforest.
The nearest bus stop is Garth Olwg, 50 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (routes 100, 400, 111); 34 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Llanilltud Faerdref Primary, a few minutes' walk (150 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Ysgol Garth Olwg, 200 m away.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 1.0 km away, with Ivey Patisserie closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Parc Canol Surgery (450 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Hairways is 200 m away.
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 7 restaurants and cafés, 7 pubs and bars.
Tiny Tumblers is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and Llantwit Fardre RFC the nearest pub (100 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 24 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 43% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1983-1992.
The nearest park is Memorial Park, 4.1 km away; for exercise, Canolfan Hamdden Llanilltud Faerdref (500 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, Cardiff is 18 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 47 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 42% of households own their home outright.
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.
17 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.
Pontypridd constituency: Alex Davies-Jones MP (Labour), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 8,402 (21.3%), turnout 52%. Vote shares: Labour 41%, Reform UK 20%, Plaid Cymru 13%, Conservative 10%.
1 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 CF38 1RL →
On this street: 2 of 53 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 4 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.7% | 1.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 97.6% | 97.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.8% | 0.6% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.3% | 1.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 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.
Nearest: Penarth Beach · about 31 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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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 93 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.