Finding postcode…
These only choose where you start. Every page and every lens is still one tap away.
Sign in to keep them on every device →Finding postcode…
On Main Road, in Somercotes & Pye Bridge
What it's like at DE55 4NW: 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.
Street View and the aerial view come from Google, which receives your IP address and may set cookies once you choose them. We'll remember your choice on this device.
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.
9 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 Main Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 371 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 14, Main RoadTerraced | Oct 2020 | £250,000 | 133 m² | £1,880/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16, Main RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2021 | £160,000 | 69 m² | £2,319/m² | 4 |
| 17, Main RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2026 | £112,500 | 65 m² | £1,731/m² | 1 |
| 22, Main RoadTerraced | Sept 2016 | £85,000 | 67 m² | £1,269/m² | 2 |
| 26, Main RoadTerraced | Oct 2025 | £130,000 | 66 m² | £1,970/m² | 4 |
| 28, Main RoadTerraced | Aug 2022 | £115,000 | 73 m² | £1,575/m² | 2 |
| 29, Main RoadTerraced | Sept 1996 | £19,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 30, Main RoadTerraced | Sept 2021 | £120,000 | 77 m² | £1,558/m² | 3 |
| 31a, Main RoadTerraced | Oct 2017 | £85,000 | 65 m² | £1,308/m² | 2 |
| 32a, Main RoadOther | Oct 2021 | £140,000 | 86 m² | £1,628/m² | 3 |
| 70, Main RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2019 | £138,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 71, Main RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2002 | £79,950 | – | – | 3 |
| Station House, Main RoadDetached | May 2022 | £325,000 | 105 m² | £3,095/m² | 1 |
| The Rookery, Main RoadDetached | Aug 2002 | £250,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Alfreton, a drive away (3.6 km), with 383k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Nottingham.
The nearest bus stop is Main Road, under 50 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (route 1); 4 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 50 minutes away by public transport (17 by car).
The nearest primary school is Ironville and Codnor Park Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (1.0 km); 54% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Selston High School, 2.5 km away; Attainment 8: 38.8 · 5.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
It's a family area: 20% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-Op, 1.4 km away; Sutton Convenience Store (1.4 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Jacksdale Medical Centre (1.6 km), with Acorn Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.6 km).
For a haircut, Studio 11 is 1.4 km away.
The nearest full A&E is King's Mill Hospital, 11 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 69% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 64% 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: 10 restaurants and cafés, 10 pubs and bars.
Selston Cafe in the Park is the closest café or restaurant (1.4 km), and Amber Valley Rugby Club the nearest pub (900 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (11 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 159 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 11 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 11% flats and 12% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
It's growing: about 187 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Pye Bridge Fields, 250 m away; for exercise, Amber Valley Fitness Centre (2.5 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, East Midlands is 28 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 68 km.
Most households own their home, 16% rent privately.
1 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.
Amber Valley constituency: Linsey Farnsworth MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 3,554 (8.4%), turnout 59%. Vote shares: Labour 37%, Reform UK 29%, Conservative 25%, Green Party 5%.
15 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 DE55 4NW →
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.
Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 75 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: 4 of 273 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 14 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.6% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.5% | 94.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 1.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.1% | 3.0% | 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Amber Valley 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 371 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.