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On The Causeway, in Stanhope & Weardale
What it's like at DL13 3AZ: every home that has sold on The Causeway 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.
Sales and extensions on The Causeway; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 23 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, The CausewayTerraced | Mar 2010 | £124,950 | 65 m² | £1,922/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, The CausewayDetached | Nov 2004 | £128,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 2b, The CausewaySemi-detached | Jun 2007 | £225,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 4a, The CausewayDetached | Nov 2019 | £240,000 | 102 m² | £2,353/m² | 1 |
| 5, The CausewayTerraced | Nov 2022 | £130,000 | 123 m² | £1,057/m² | 1 |
| 8, The CausewayTerraced | Jul 1997 | £30,000 | 109 m² | £275/m² | 1 |
| 9, The CausewayTerraced | Oct 1995 | £33,000 | 104 m² | £317/m² | 1 |
| 11, The CausewayTerraced | Aug 2025 | £211,000 | 105 m² | £2,010/m² | 6 |
| 12, The CausewayDetached | Jun 1998 | £122,000 | 209 m² | £584/m² | 1 |
| 13, The CausewayTerraced | Aug 1999 | £64,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, The CausewayTerraced | Aug 2025 | £155,000 | 82 m² | £1,890/m² | 4 |
| 16, The CausewayTerraced | Jan 2021 | £157,500 | 69 m² | £2,283/m² | 3 |
| 19, The CausewayTerraced | Jun 2001 | £42,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 22, The CausewayOther | Sept 2025 | £5,000 | 153 m² | £33/m² | 2 |
| 25, The CausewayDetached | Nov 2002 | £197,000 | 156 m² | £1,263/m² | 1 |
| 26, The CausewayTerraced | May 2012 | £78,000 | 55 m² | £1,418/m² | 1 |
| 27, The CausewayTerraced | Feb 2011 | £115,000 | 51 m² | £2,255/m² | 1 |
| 31, The CausewaySemi-detached | Apr 2021 | £120,500 | 55 m² | £2,191/m² | 3 |
| 33, The CausewayTerraced | Mar 2012 | £110,000 | 58 m² | £1,897/m² | 4 |
| 35, The CausewayDetached | Jun 2019 | £100,000 | 56 m² | £1,786/m² | 3 |
| 37, The CausewayTerraced | May 2024 | £150,000 | 56 m² | £2,679/m² | 3 |
| 41, The CausewayDetached | Jan 2014 | £250,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 45, The CausewayDetached | Oct 2003 | £250,000 | 111 m² | £2,252/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Bishop Auckland, a drive away (16 km), with 169k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Darlington.
The nearest bus stop is Hamsterley Road End, 250 m away, with a bus about every 33 minutes on weekdays (routes 101, 51, 101C, 101D); 7 departures an hour from the 5 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 Wolsingham Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (750 m); 76% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Wolsingham School, 600 m away; Attainment 8: 44.7 · 11.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Lakes and Dales Co-Operative, 4.8 km away, with Front Street Food & Wine closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Tow Law Surgery (5.0 km), with Wolsingham Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Salon 34 is 200 m away.
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.
Buon Appetito is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Hudson Lodge Freemasons the nearest pub (300 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 nearest park is Duck Lane, 600 m away; for exercise, Wolsingham Community Pool (450 m).
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.
25 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wall on West Side of Garden to Rear of Whitfield House | II | 160 m |
| 27-29 and 31, Front Street | II* | 170 m |
| Former Chapel and Buildings Adjoining | II | 170 m |
| Whitfield House | II* | 180 m |
| Old Bank House | II | 180 m |
| Whitfield House Cottage | II | 180 m |
| 1, High Street | II | 190 m |
| Cleadon House | 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.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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%.
2 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 3AZ →
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.
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.
On this street: 0 of 17 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 50.7% | 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 23 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.