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On Bowness Road, in Parkside
What it's like at LA14 5PW: every home that has sold on Bowness 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Bowness Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 22 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Bowness RoadTerraced | Jan 2025 | £182,500 | 190 m² | £961/m² | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2a, Bowness RoadTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2024 | £135,000 | 65 m² | £2,077/m² | 2 |
| 3, Bowness RoadTerraced | Mar 2022 | £158,000 | 120 m² | £1,317/m² | 5 |
| 4a, Bowness RoadFlat · company-owned | Jun 2024 | £135,000 | 59 m² | £2,288/m² | 4 |
| 7, Bowness RoadTerraced | Apr 1998 | £48,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, Bowness RoadTerraced | Mar 2013 | £134,000 | 111 m² | £1,207/m² | 2 |
| 9, Bowness RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £167,000 | 99 m² | £1,687/m² | 4 |
| 10, Bowness RoadTerraced | Jan 2001 | £59,500 | 137 m² | £434/m² | 1 |
| 11, Bowness RoadTerraced | Oct 2006 | £110,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Bowness RoadTerraced | Nov 2025 | £177,000 | 104 m² | £1,702/m² | 3 |
| 13, Bowness RoadTerraced | Jan 2019 | £118,000 | 110 m² | £1,073/m² | 1 |
| 14, Bowness RoadTerraced | Dec 1995 | £32,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Bowness RoadTerraced | Jun 2025 | £142,500 | 101 m² | £1,411/m² | 1 |
| 16, Bowness RoadTerraced | Aug 2001 | £62,000 | 95 m² | £653/m² | 2 |
| 17, Bowness RoadTerraced | Jun 2020 | £150,000 | 109 m² | £1,376/m² | 2 |
| 18, Bowness RoadTerraced | Mar 2026 | £187,000 | 99 m² | £1,889/m² | 3 |
| 19, Bowness RoadTerraced | Mar 2006 | £108,000 | 109 m² | £991/m² | 2 |
| 20, Bowness RoadTerraced | Dec 2019 | £150,000 | 112 m² | £1,339/m² | 3 |
| 21, Bowness RoadTerraced | Apr 2022 | £180,000 | 93 m² | £1,935/m² | 1 |
| 24, Bowness RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2024 | £185,500 | 109 m² | £1,702/m² | 5 |
| 26, Bowness RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2016 | £142,000 | 106 m² | £1,340/m² | 4 |
| 28, Bowness RoadTerraced | Nov 2016 | £75,000 | 105 m² | £714/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 (1.2 km), with 590k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Millom.
The nearest bus stop is Cricket Ground, 50 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (route 1); 53 departures an hour from the 13 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Victoria Infant and Nursery School, a few minutes' walk (300 m).
The closest top-rated primary is Victoria Academy (0.4 km).
The nearest secondary is Chetwynde School, 850 m away; Attainment 8: 44.2 · 5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Co-op, 100 m away; Shell Lakeland (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Norwood Medical Centre (1.1 km), with Cohens Chemist the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, Paul French is 1.1 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Furness General Hospital, 1.6 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 5 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Furness Academy Ltd (Kitchen) is the closest café or restaurant (1.0 km), and Furness Cricket Club the nearest pub (100 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 83 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 6% flats and 7% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 66% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Barrow Park, 1.2 km away; for exercise, Barrow Community Gym (550 m).
A swim is a short trip away: Walney Sandy Gap, 3.7 km away, was rated good for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 4.3 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 91 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 106 km.
Most households own their home, 18% 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.
36 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%.
15 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 5PW →
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 18 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 | 0.3% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 2.0% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.7% | 74.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 12.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.0% | 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 22 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.