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On Ferry Road, in Walney Island South & Barrow Island
What it's like at LA14 2QQ: every home that has sold on Ferry Road 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates). 6 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Ferry Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
18 of the 65 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Ferry RoadFlat | Apr 2022 | £39,950 | 46 m² | £868/m² | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Ferry RoadFlat | Dec 1997 | £10,000 | 40 m² | £250/m² | 1 |
| 3, Ferry RoadFlat | Jun 1997 | £9,000 | 40 m² | £225/m² | 1 |
| 4, Ferry RoadTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2022 | £36,000 | 47 m² | £766/m² | 2 |
| 5, Ferry RoadFlat · company-owned | Jun 2023 | £35,000 | 44 m² | £795/m² | 2 |
| 6, Ferry RoadTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2024 | £40,000 | 47 m² | £851/m² | 2 |
| 8, Ferry RoadFlat | Feb 2008 | £42,000 | 48 m² | £875/m² | 2 |
| 9, Ferry RoadTerraced | Mar 2011 | £72,000 | 71 m² | £1,014/m² | 2 |
| 10, Ferry RoadTerraced | Jan 2003 | £9,500 | 52 m² | £183/m² | 1 |
| 11, Ferry RoadTerraced | Nov 2004 | £25,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 12, Ferry RoadFlat · company-owned | Apr 2007 | £35,000 | 55 m² | £636/m² | 1 |
| 14, Ferry RoadFlat | Apr 2019 | £22,500 | 51 m² | £441/m² | 1 |
| 15, Ferry RoadFlat | Jul 1996 | £10,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 16, Ferry RoadFlat | Dec 2013 | £20,000 | 57 m² | £351/m² | 2 |
| 18, Ferry RoadFlat | Sept 2004 | £11,000 | 50 m² | £220/m² | 1 |
| 19, Ferry RoadFlat | May 2020 | £35,000 | 45 m² | £778/m² | 3 |
| 20, Ferry RoadFlat | Mar 2025 | £40,000 | 50 m² | £800/m² | 1 |
| 21, Ferry RoadFlat · company-owned | Aug 2003 | £12,200 | 42 m² | £290/m² | 1 |
| 23, Ferry RoadFlat | Aug 2012 | £24,500 | 46 m² | £533/m² | 1 |
| 24, Ferry RoadFlat · company-owned | Jul 2022 | £33,000 | 46 m² | £717/m² | 2 |
| 25, Ferry RoadTerraced · company-owned | Feb 2002 | £8,500 | 57 m² | £149/m² | 1 |
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, a short drive or bike ride (1.6 km), with 590k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Millom.
The nearest bus stop is Shipyard Main Gate, 50 m away, with a bus about every 10 minutes on weekdays (routes 1, E, F, G); 59 departures an hour from the 9 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 13 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Barrow Island Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 54% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Walney Academy, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 38.7 · 3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 600 m away, with Just Tasty closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Duke Street Surgery (900 m), with Cohens Chemist the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, The Priory is 900 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Furness General Hospital, 4.4 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 9 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
Bridge Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (650 m), and Crows Nest Hotel the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (8 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 90 per 1,000 residents a year.
Much of it is protected: 30% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Barrow Island, South Vickerstown).
There are 24 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 16% flats and 5% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 64% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Hindpool Urban Park, 1.2 km away; for exercise, Everlast Gyms (700 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Walney Sandy Gap, 1.4 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 4.8 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 89 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 105 km.
16 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.
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%.
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 LA14 2QQ →
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.
On this street: 0 of 50 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 4 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.3% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 2.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.3% | 74.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.0% | 12.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.3% | 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.
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 65 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Windermere, Lakeside YMCA · about 35 min
Nearest: Hill Top Farm · about 35 min
Nearest: Lakeside and Haverthwaite 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.