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On Telegraph Road, in Gayton & Lower Heswall
What it's like at CH60 0AR: every home that has sold on Telegraph 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.
3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Telegraph Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 187 homes on the street is owned by a company.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 41% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Heswall, a short drive or bike ride (1.4 km), with 91k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Liverpool Lime Street.
The nearest bus stop is Beacon Lane, 50 m away, with a bus about every 21 minutes on weekdays (routes 73, 22, 22A, 673); 27 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Heswall St Peter's CofE Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 70% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Gayton Primary School (0.7 km).
The nearest secondary is Pensby High School, 2.2 km away; Attainment 8: 44.8 · 4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Wirral Grammar School for Girls (5.9 km) and Wirral Grammar School for Boys (6 km).
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Savers Health & Beauty, 450 m away, with Bargain Booze closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is SDS Rejuvenate Medispa (500 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (400 m).
For a haircut, Joseph Hairdressing is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Arrowe Park Hospital, 5.0 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 9 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
Cru. is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and The Beer Lab the nearest pub (50 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 23 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 72% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
Bungalow country: 31% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Dawstone Park, 300 m away; for exercise, Creation (250 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Meols, 10 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 16 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 54 km.
46 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%.
23 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 CH60 0AR →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 60% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 34% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 53% of adults have a degree.
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.
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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 187 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 128 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 60 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.3% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.8% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 94.7% | 94.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.5% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.8% | 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.
Nearest: Sc2 · about 52 min
Nearest: Victoria Pier · about 51 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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