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On James Street, in Barrow Central
What it's like at LA14 1EQ: every home that has sold on James 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on James Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
18 of the 49 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 29, James StreetTerraced | Jun 2004 | £40,500 | 70 m² | £579/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33, James StreetTerraced | Sept 2010 | £42,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 36, James StreetTerraced · company-owned | Feb 2025 | £52,000 | 67 m² | £776/m² | 2 |
| 37, James StreetTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2022 | £57,950 | 63 m² | £920/m² | 3 |
| 38, James StreetTerraced | Aug 2018 | £65,000 | 85 m² | £765/m² | 5 |
| 39, James StreetTerraced | Jun 2007 | £60,500 | 66 m² | £917/m² | 5 |
| 41, James StreetTerraced | Oct 2023 | £52,500 | 64 m² | £820/m² | 3 |
| 42, James StreetTerraced | Jul 2018 | £59,950 | 73 m² | £821/m² | 2 |
| 43, James StreetTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2023 | £50,000 | 61 m² | £820/m² | 3 |
| 45, James StreetTerraced · company-owned | Sept 2025 | £68,500 | 61 m² | £1,123/m² | 2 |
| 47, James StreetTerraced | Dec 2011 | £53,000 | 66 m² | £803/m² | 2 |
| 48, James StreetTerraced | Sept 2006 | £56,000 | 66 m² | £848/m² | 2 |
| 49, James StreetTerraced | Aug 2007 | £62,000 | 61 m² | £1,016/m² | 3 |
| 50, James StreetTerraced | Mar 2019 | £52,000 | 59 m² | £881/m² | 2 |
| 52, James StreetTerraced | Sept 2022 | £85,000 | 66 m² | £1,288/m² | 3 |
| 53, James StreetTerraced | Apr 1996 | £7,010 | 62 m² | £113/m² | 1 |
| 54, James StreetTerraced · company-owned | May 2021 | £49,950 | 63 m² | £793/m² | 3 |
| 55, James StreetTerraced | Nov 2018 | £62,000 | 69 m² | £899/m² | 3 |
| 56, James StreetTerraced · company-owned | May 2021 | £53,000 | 73 m² | £726/m² | 1 |
| 58, James StreetTerraced | Oct 2023 | £50,000 | 99 m² | £505/m² | 3 |
| 60, James StreetTerraced | Aug 2017 | £55,000 | 90 m² | £611/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Barrow-in-Furness, about a 10-minute walk (650 m), with 590k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Millom.
The nearest bus stop is Greengate Junior School, 200 m away, with a bus about every 22 minutes on weekdays (routes 4, E); 20 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 15 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
54% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Ramsden Infant School, a few minutes' walk (200 m).
The closest top-rated primary is Victoria Academy (1.5 km).
The nearest secondary is Furness Academy, 700 m away; Attainment 8: 42.4 · 5.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is B & M Bargains, 200 m away, with Forb Food closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Duke Street Surgery (350 m), with Superdrug the closest pharmacy (150 m).
For a haircut, Blades 4 is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Furness General Hospital, 2.8 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 60% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 69% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 36 restaurants and cafés and 22 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Barrow & District Disability Association is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and The Blue Lamp the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (34 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 317 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 43 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 19% flats and 3% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 83% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is The Old Bakery Gardens, 300 m away; for exercise, DS Fitness (450 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Walney Sandy Gap, 2.8 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 90 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 105 km.
55 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 32, Robert Street | II | 40 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.
Barrow and Furness constituency: Michelle Scrogham MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 5,324 (12.6%), turnout 56%. Vote shares: Labour 44%, Conservative 31%, Reform UK 17%, Liberal Democrat 4%.
7 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 LA14 1EQ →
Many neighbours rent: 38% of households rent privately and 17% socially.
It's young: 21% of residents are aged 15–29.
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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Westmorland and Furness 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 49 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 47 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 6 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.2% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 2.1% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 93.7% | 74.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 12.0% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.9% | 9.5% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.3% | 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: Windermere, Fellfoot · about 31 min
Nearest: Hill Top Farm · about 31 min
Nearest: Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway · about 31 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.