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On Victoria Avenue, in Sowerby Bridge
What it's like at HX6 2PE: every home that has sold on Victoria 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Victoria Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 20 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Victoria AvenueTerraced | Sept 2022 | £196,500 | 118 m² | £1,665/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6, Victoria AvenueTerraced | Jan 1996 | £41,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, Victoria AvenueTerraced | Nov 2023 | £190,000 | 117 m² | £1,624/m² | 3 |
| 10, Victoria AvenueTerraced | Sept 2013 | £70,000 | 114 m² | £614/m² | 1 |
| 12, Victoria AvenueTerraced | Apr 1998 | £51,950 | 115 m² | £452/m² | 1 |
| 16, Victoria AvenueTerraced | Oct 2019 | £177,000 | 136 m² | £1,301/m² | 3 |
| 20, Victoria AvenueTerraced | Mar 2021 | £165,500 | 122 m² | £1,357/m² | 2 |
| 24, Victoria AvenueTerraced | Mar 2025 | £180,000 | 130 m² | £1,385/m² | 2 |
| Beech View, Victoria AvenueDetached · company-owned | Nov 2018 | £465,000 | 256 m² | £1,816/m² | 2 |
| The Old Convent, Victoria AvenueDetached | Dec 1998 | £105,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Victoria House, Victoria AvenueDetached | Mar 2024 | £142,250 | 50 m² | £2,845/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Sowerby Bridge, about a 5-minute walk (550 m), with 417k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Princess Street, 100 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (route 577); 29 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Christ Church Sowerby Bridge CofE (VA) Primary School, a few minutes' walk (350 m); 68% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Trinity Academy Grammar, 200 m away; Attainment 8: 46.3 · 10.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Trinity Academy Halifax (5.1 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Crossley Heath School (2 km) and The North Halifax Grammar School (5.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 450 m away, with AV \& JI closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Station Road Surgery (700 m), with Sowerby Bridge Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (700 m).
For a haircut, Salon 10 Hair Design is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Calderdale Royal Hospital, 3.4 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 85% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 76% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 10 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 24 restaurants and cafés and 19 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Java Village (Hx) is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Sowerby Bridge Working Mens Club the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (13 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 106 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 54 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 22% flats and 10% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1919-1929.
The nearest park is Beech Park, 250 m away; for exercise, Sowerby Bridge Pool & Fitness Centre (750 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 24 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 47 km.
Most households own their home, 24% 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.
40 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Barn Approximately 12 Metres to West of Barn Cottage | II | 190 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.
Halifax constituency: Kate Dearden MP (Labour (Co-op)), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,269 (15.6%), turnout 52%. Vote shares: Labour 35%, Conservative 20%, Reform UK 19%, Green Party 10%.
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 HX6 2PE →
On this street: 0 of 16 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 | 0.8% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 92.0% | 90.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 1.0% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 7.9% | 7.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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: Formby · about 74 min
Nearest: Ilkley Swimming Pool · about 51 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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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 20 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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