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On Wells Walk, in Ilkley & Ben Rhydding
What it's like at LS29 9LH: every home that has sold on Wells Walk 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).
Sales and extensions on Wells Walk; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 21 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| Flat 2, 3, Wells WalkFlat | Sept 2011 | £193,000 | 86 m² | £2,244/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 4, 3, Wells WalkFlat | Jun 2024 | £285,000 | 82 m² | £3,476/m² | 5 |
| Flat 1, 3, Wells WalkFlat | Apr 2014 | £157,000 | 99 m² | £1,586/m² | 2 |
| Flat 3, 3, Wells WalkFlat | Apr 2019 | £181,000 | 84 m² | £2,155/m² | 1 |
| Flat 4, 6, Wells WalkFlat | Jun 2023 | £210,000 | 75 m² | £2,800/m² | 6 |
| Flat 1, 6, Wells WalkFlat | Nov 2020 | £193,000 | 63 m² | £3,063/m² | 5 |
| Flat 3, 6, Wells WalkFlat | Nov 2017 | £205,000 | 72 m² | £2,847/m² | 2 |
| Flat 2, 6, Wells WalkFlat | Oct 2025 | £183,600 | 63 m² | £2,914/m² | 1 |
| 9, Wells WalkTerraced | Dec 2019 | £617,500 | 255 m² | £2,422/m² | 4 |
| 11, Wells WalkTerraced | Jun 2017 | £625,000 | 218 m² | £2,867/m² | 2 |
| 12, Wells WalkTerraced | May 2025 | £770,000 | 226 m² | £3,407/m² | 3 |
| 13, Wells WalkDetached | Feb 2025 | £740,000 | 142 m² | £5,211/m² | 3 |
| 15, Wells WalkTerraced | May 2004 | £230,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 16, Wells WalkTerraced | Feb 2018 | £320,000 | 105 m² | £3,048/m² | 2 |
| 17, Wells WalkTerraced | Jul 1997 | £96,000 | 105 m² | £914/m² | 1 |
| Ghyll Court, Wells WalkOther | Feb 2020 | £610,000 | 198 m² | £3,081/m² | 2 |
| The Cottage, Ghyll Court, Wells WalkTerraced | Mar 2024 | £570,000 | 119 m² | £4,790/m² | 3 |
| The Vicarage, Ghyll Court, Wells WalkTerraced | Mar 2026 | £762,500 | 169 m² | £4,512/m² | 2 |
| Albany Lodge, Ghyll Court, Wells WalkTerraced | Jul 2023 | £845,000 | 172 m² | £4,913/m² | 2 |
| The Coach House, Gyhll Court, Wells WalkTerraced | Nov 2019 | £421,000 | 122 m² | £3,451/m² | 1 |
| Heath House, Wells WalkSemi-detached | Dec 2022 | £1,100,000 | 252 m² | £4,365/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 47% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Ilkley, a few minutes' walk (150 m), with 1.4m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Albany Walk Riddings Road, 100 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 961); 17 departures an hour from the 14 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 46 minutes away by public transport (25 by car).
The nearest primary school is All Saints' CofE Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (800 m); 82% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Ilkley Grammar School, 700 m away; Attainment 8: 56.5 · 19.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Ermysted's Grammar School (13.9 km) and Skipton Girls' High School (14.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Marks & Spencer - Simply Food, 150 m away; Three Little Birds Bakery (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Ilkley Skin Clinic (250 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Harvey And Co is 100 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Airedale General Hospital, 9.9 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 58% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 71% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 50 restaurants and cafés and 20 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Quinta Bar and Grill is the closest café or restaurant (50 m), and Olicana Bridge Club the nearest pub (50 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 46 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Much of it is protected: 40% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Ilkley, Middleton).
There are 46 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 24% flats and 28% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Mill Ghyll, 50 m away; for exercise, Clip 'n Climb (200 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.9 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 12 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 70 km.
66 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 |
|---|---|---|
| United Reformed Church | II | 100 m |
| Winter Garden | II | 150 m |
| Ilkley Station | II | 160 m |
| Town Hall (Including Public Library) | II | 190 m |
| Railings and Gates of Front Gardens of West View (Numbers 3 and 4) to North, South and West and Between the Gardens | II | 200 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.
Keighley and Ilkley constituency: Robbie Moore MP (Conservative), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 1,625 (3.5%), turnout 62%. Vote shares: Conservative 40%, Labour 37%, Reform UK 10%, Green Party 5%.
11 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 LS29 9LH →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 48% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 29% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 52% of adults have a degree.
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.
Nearest 8 shown. Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
On this street: 0 of 20 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 | 1.7% | 1.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.5% | 0.2% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 87.7% | 91.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.5% | 7.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 2.9% | 0.2% | 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: Morecambe South · about 77 min
Nearest: Tropical World · 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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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 21 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.