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On Shawbury Avenue, in Woodhey
What it's like at CH63 8LR: every home that has sold on Shawbury Avenue 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Shawbury Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 24 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Shawbury AvenueTerraced | Jul 2020 | £248,000 | 117 m² | £2,120/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Shawbury AvenueDetached | May 2000 | £147,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 3, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2001 | £105,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2003 | £140,000 | 108 m² | £1,296/m² | 1 |
| 7, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2015 | £290,000 | 143 m² | £2,028/m² | 1 |
| 8, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £225,000 | 99 m² | £2,273/m² | 1 |
| 9, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | May 1996 | £65,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 10, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | May 2013 | £167,950 | 112 m² | £1,500/m² | 2 |
| 11, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2018 | £232,000 | 98 m² | £2,367/m² | 2 |
| 12, Shawbury AvenueDetached | Aug 2012 | £180,000 | 94 m² | £1,915/m² | 1 |
| 13, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £250,000 | 92 m² | £2,717/m² | 1 |
| 14, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2016 | £143,500 | 98 m² | £1,464/m² | 1 |
| 17, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2000 | £82,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 18, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2003 | £126,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 19, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2018 | £215,000 | 98 m² | £2,194/m² | 3 |
| 21, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2014 | £184,950 | 96 m² | £1,927/m² | 1 |
| 22, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2015 | £157,500 | 79 m² | £1,994/m² | 2 |
| 24, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £200,000 | 81 m² | £2,469/m² | 1 |
| 25, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £298,000 | 92 m² | £3,239/m² | 2 |
| 27, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £215,000 | 106 m² | £2,028/m² | 2 |
| 31, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2022 | £339,950 | 96 m² | £3,541/m² | 3 |
| 33, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2019 | £219,000 | 90 m² | £2,433/m² | 1 |
| 35, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2023 | £215,000 | 83 m² | £2,590/m² | 1 |
| 39, Shawbury AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2013 | £135,000 | 105 m² | £1,286/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Bebington, a short drive or bike ride (1.3 km), with 918k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Liverpool Central.
The nearest bus stop is Bentfield Gardens, 100 m away, with a bus about every 8 minutes on weekdays (routes 487, 464, 17, 73); 35 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Town Lane Infant School, a few minutes' walk (300 m).
The nearest secondary is Co-op Academy Bebington, 850 m away; Attainment 8: 37.3 · 2.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Wirral Grammar School for Girls (1.4 km) and Wirral Grammar School for Boys (1.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-Operative, 300 m away; Whieldons Butchers (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Teehey Lane Surgery (650 m), with Cohens Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (400 m).
For a haircut, Amanda Burns Hair Dressing is 400 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Arrowe Park Hospital, 5.1 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.
Beau's Kitchen is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and The Hoptimist the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (11 of them).
It's a low-crime area: about 56 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 10% flats and 10% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 61% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is The Oval Sports Centre, 600 m away; for exercise, Dry Ski Slope (750 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Wallasey, 8.9 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 12 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 50 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.
35 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Christ Church | II | 100 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Birkenhead constituency: Alison McGovern MP (Labour), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 13,798 (32.0%), turnout 55%. Vote shares: Labour 52%, Green Party 20%, Reform UK 14%, Conservative 8%.
13 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 CH63 8LR →
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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 24 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 49 min
Nearest: Southport Pier · about 50 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 19 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 | 0.2% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.9% | 94.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.9% | 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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