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On Main Road, in Wylam & Ovingham
What it's like at NE42 6AG: every home that has sold on Main 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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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 Main Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 13 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Brewery Cottages, Main RoadFlat | Aug 2006 | £119,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Brewery Cottages, Main RoadFlat | Oct 2014 | £147,000 | 90 m² | £1,633/m² | 2 |
| Brewery Farm, Main RoadDetached | Apr 2011 | £475,000 | 245 m² | £1,939/m² | 3 |
| Dukes Cottage, Main RoadDetached | Aug 1996 | £113,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Forge House, Main RoadDetached | Nov 2025 | £672,500 | 222 m² | £3,029/m² | 2 |
| Model Cottage, Main RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2019 | £337,500 | 185 m² | £1,824/m² | 2 |
| Ovingham House, Main RoadDetached | Oct 2022 | £780,000 | 356 m² | £2,191/m² | 3 |
| Peartree House, Main RoadTerraced | Apr 2009 | £385,000 | 258 m² | £1,492/m² | 3 |
| The Stables, Main RoadTerraced | Apr 2021 | £235,000 | 100 m² | £2,350/m² | 1 |
| The Maltings, The Steadings, Main RoadDetached | Jan 2001 | £245,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Prudhoe, a few minutes' walk (350 m), with 184k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Castle View, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 684); 7 departures an hour from the 6 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 45 minutes away by public transport (24 by car).
The nearest primary school is Ovingham Church of England First School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m).
The closest top-rated primary is Prudhoe West Academy (1.4 km).
The nearest secondary is Ovingham Middle School, 500 m away.
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Co-operative Group Food, 1.3 km away, with Village Stores closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Prudhoe Medical Group (1.2 km), with Prudhoe Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.2 km).
For a haircut, The R Salon is 1.2 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Victoria Infirmary, 16 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 56% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 73% 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: 15 restaurants and cafés, 12 pubs and bars.
Ovingham Reading Room is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and White Swan the nearest pub (under 50 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 47 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 110 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 6% flats and 29% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is Tyne Riverside Country Park, 400 m away; for exercise, St Matthews Wellness Centre (1.4 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 3.7 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 14 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 182 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 44% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 46% of adults have a degree.
13 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.
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.
Hexham constituency: Joe Morris MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 3,713 (7.2%), turnout 68%. Vote shares: Labour 46%, Conservative 39%, Green Party 5%, Liberal Democrat 5%.
0 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 NE42 6AG →
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: Newbiggin North · about 34 min
Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 32 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 13 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 9 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% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.4% | 1.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 71.6% | 81.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 19.3% | 10.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.7% | 4.8% | 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.