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On Arksey Lane, in Bentley & Toll Bar
What it's like at DN5 0RX: every home that has sold on Arksey Lane 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.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Arksey Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 56 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 31, Arksey LaneTerraced | Jul 2005 | £78,000 | 88 m² | £886/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33, Arksey LaneTerraced · company-owned | Dec 2023 | £95,000 | 29 m² | £3,276/m² | 4 |
| 39, Arksey LaneOther | Apr 2023 | £215,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 41, Arksey LaneTerraced | Aug 2010 | £130,000 | 114 m² | £1,140/m² | 1 |
| 43, Arksey LaneOther | Oct 2021 | £100,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 45, Arksey LaneOther | Jun 2019 | £70,000 | 113 m² | £619/m² | 1 |
| 47, Arksey LaneTerraced | Apr 2026 | £72,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 49, Arksey LaneTerraced | Oct 2002 | £22,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 53, Arksey LaneTerraced | May 2004 | £47,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 57, Arksey LaneSemi-detached | Jun 2018 | £110,000 | 132 m² | £833/m² | 2 |
| 59, Arksey LaneTerraced | Sept 2018 | £90,000 | 81 m² | £1,111/m² | 2 |
| Arksey LaneTerraced | Nov 2008 | £145,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Kingsbury Press, Arksey LaneOther | Apr 2024 | £370,000 | – | – | 1 |
The nearest station is Bentley (S Yorks), about a 10-minute walk (850 m), with 110k journeys a year; its busiest route is to London Waterloo.
The nearest bus stop is The Avenue/Burns Street, 50 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (routes 363, 362, 429); 33 departures an hour from the 10 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Primary School, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 60% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Arksey Primary School (1.3 km).
The nearest secondary is Don Valley Academy, 2.1 km away; Attainment 8: 48 · 10.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 350 m away, with Premier Arksey closer still (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Don Valley Healthcare (450 m), with Holden'S Chemist Bentley the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Porters is 2.7 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Doncaster Royal Infirmary, 3.6 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 66% 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: 12 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Country Kitchen is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and Bentley WMC the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (11 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 175 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 11% flats and 10% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1919-1929.
The nearest park is Bentley Park, 600 m away; for exercise, PureGym (2.0 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 48 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 78 km.
Most households own their home, 25% rent privately.
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.
32 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.
Doncaster North constituency: Ed Miliband MP (Labour), since May 2005. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 9,126 (29.4%), turnout 44%. Vote shares: Labour 52%, Conservative 23%, Social Democratic Party 6%, Green Party 6%.
5 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 DN5 0RX →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Doncaster 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 56 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 41 homes with certificates have solar panels, 1 a heat pump, and 4 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 2.3% | 2.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.4% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.9% | 95.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 1.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.9% | 2.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.1% | 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: Cleethorpes · about 65 min
Nearest: Albert Avenue Pools · about 53 min
Nearest: Middleton Railway · about 35 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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