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On Hood Street, in Stanhope & Weardale
What it's like at DL13 1QL: every home that has sold on Hood Street 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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Hood Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 53 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 3, Hood StreetSemi-detached | Apr 1997 | £31,000 | 80 m² | £388/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Hood StreetTerraced | Jan 2005 | £49,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, Hood StreetTerraced | Jul 2020 | £108,500 | 83 m² | £1,307/m² | 4 |
| 15, Hood StreetTerraced | Mar 2025 | £296,000 | 233 m² | £1,270/m² | 4 |
| 21, Hood StreetOther | Jun 2021 | £160,000 | 178 m² | £899/m² | 1 |
| 25, Hood StreetTerraced | Apr 2022 | £122,000 | 130 m² | £938/m² | 3 |
| 27, Hood StreetTerraced | Aug 2023 | £110,000 | 53 m² | £2,075/m² | 2 |
| 29, Hood StreetTerraced | Dec 2024 | £135,000 | 139 m² | £971/m² | 7 |
| 33, Hood StreetDetached | Nov 2012 | £75,000 | 127 m² | £591/m² | 1 |
| 35, Hood StreetSemi-detached | May 2009 | £85,000 | 160 m² | £531/m² | 1 |
| 37, Hood StreetSemi-detached | Mar 2018 | £123,333 | 136 m² | £907/m² | 1 |
| 39, Hood StreetDetached | Mar 2024 | £350,000 | 155 m² | £2,258/m² | 4 |
| 41, Hood StreetDetached | Jun 2018 | £138,000 | 90 m² | £1,533/m² | 1 |
| St. Johns Methodist Church, Hood StreetOther | Jan 2015 | £66,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Appleby, a drive away (26 km), with 63k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Carlisle.
The nearest bus stop is Medical Centre, 150 m away, with a bus about every 40 minutes on weekdays (route 101a); 6 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 84 minutes away by public transport (48 by car).
The nearest primary school is St John's Chapel Primary School, a few minutes' walk (250 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Lakes and Dales Co-Operative, 150 m away.
The GP surgery is around 24 minutes on foot or by bus.
The nearest full A&E is University Hospital North Durham, 28 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% 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: 15 restaurants and cafés, 21 pubs and bars.
Barrington Bites Luncheon Club is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Blue Bell Inn the nearest pub (100 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Much of it is protected: 43% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Stanhope, Wolsingham).
There are 368 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 4% flats and 33% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 59% were built before 1919.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 2.0 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 39 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 155 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 48% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 30% are 65 or over.
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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| War Memorial | II | 170 m |
| Bonnymoor and Harthopeburn Cottage | II | 200 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.
Bishop Auckland constituency: Dr Sam Rushworth MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 6,672 (16.5%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Labour 42%, Conservative 26%, Reform UK 23%, Green Party 5%.
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 DL13 1QL →
On this street: 0 of 44 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 44 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.1% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 50.8% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 32.1% | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 6.8% | 2.2% | 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.
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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 53 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Seaham Hall Beach · about 54 min
Nearest: Hunsonby Swimming Pool · about 40 min
Nearest: Hexham Racecourse · about 40 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.