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On The Ridgeway, in Great Meols
What it's like at CH47 9SA: every home that has sold on The Ridgeway 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Ridgeway; 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.
| 2, The RidgewayDetached | Dec 2024 | £420,000 | 122 m² | £3,443/m² | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6, The RidgewaySemi-detached | Jul 2018 | £235,000 | 96 m² | £2,448/m² | 2 |
| 8, The RidgewayDetached | Sept 2017 | £407,500 | 157 m² | £2,596/m² | 1 |
| 8a, The RidgewayDetached | Jul 2017 | £410,000 | 157 m² | £2,611/m² | 1 |
| 8b, The RidgewayDetached | Apr 2018 | £405,000 | 157 m² | £2,580/m² | 2 |
| 8c, The RidgewayDetached | Mar 2018 | £390,000 | 157 m² | £2,484/m² | 1 |
| 10, The RidgewayDetached | May 2009 | £320,000 | 131 m² | £2,443/m² | 1 |
| 12, The RidgewayDetached | Aug 1995 | £47,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 12a, The RidgewayDetached | Feb 2012 | £181,000 | 75 m² | £2,413/m² | 1 |
| 14, The RidgewaySemi-detached | May 1999 | £115,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 18, The RidgewaySemi-detached | Oct 2019 | £368,310 | 173 m² | £2,129/m² | 2 |
| 30, The RidgewaySemi-detached | Nov 2025 | £265,000 | 86 m² | £3,081/m² | 3 |
| 32, The RidgewaySemi-detached | Apr 2020 | £249,995 | 76 m² | £3,289/m² | 2 |
| 36, The RidgewaySemi-detached | Aug 2006 | £168,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 40, The RidgewaySemi-detached | Aug 2020 | £250,000 | 105 m² | £2,381/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Meols, about a 5-minute walk (500 m), with 414k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Liverpool Central.
The nearest bus stop is Acres Road, 200 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 632, 648); 16 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Great Meols Primary School, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km); 75% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Hilbre High School, 2.3 km away; Attainment 8: 39 · 4.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Upton Hall School FCJ (3.4 km) and West Kirby Grammar School (3.7 km).
The nearest supermarket is Morrisons Daily, 600 m away; Hoylake PFS (1.2 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Hoylake & Meols Medical Ctr (600 m), with Exel Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (600 m).
For a haircut, The Cutting Station is 600 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Arrowe Park Hospital, 4.7 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 43% 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 5 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Heima Coffee is the closest café or restaurant (550 m), and Railway Inn the nearest pub (900 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 32 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 3% flats and 38% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
The nearest park is Meols Park, 800 m away; for exercise, RK Health & Fitness (1.5 km).
The beach is on your doorstep: Meols, 1.2 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.0 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 21 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 58 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 47% 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.
8 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.
Wirral West constituency: Matthew Patrick MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 9,998 (20.0%), turnout 69%. Vote shares: Labour 46%, Conservative 26%, Reform UK 13%, Green Party 8%.
6 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 CH47 9SA →
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Wirral since 2011.
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.
Nearest: Nantwich Leisure Centre · about 56 min
Nearest: Southport Pier · about 54 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 31 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.7% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 98.5% | 94.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.5% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 0.8% | 4.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.4% | 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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