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On Dipton Close, in Hexham & Acomb
What it's like at NE46 1UG: every home that has sold on Dipton Close 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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Sales and extensions on Dipton Close; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
6 of the 12 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Dipton CloseSemi-detached · company-owned | Jan 2024 | £180,000 | 83 m² | £2,169/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Dipton CloseDetached | May 2026 | £270,000 | 81 m² | £3,333/m² | 5 |
| 3, Dipton CloseSemi-detached | May 2026 | £268,000 | 99 m² | £2,707/m² | 2 |
| 4, Dipton CloseSemi-detached | Mar 2025 | £195,000 | 93 m² | £2,097/m² | 1 |
| 5, Dipton CloseSemi-detached | Apr 2007 | £173,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Dipton CloseSemi-detached | Oct 2000 | £87,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 7, Dipton CloseSemi-detached · company-owned | Aug 1999 | £78,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 8, Dipton CloseSemi-detached · company-owned | Jun 2023 | £240,000 | 89 m² | £2,697/m² | 1 |
| 9, Dipton CloseDetached · company-owned | Jul 2015 | £225,000 | 110 m² | £2,045/m² | 1 |
| 10, Dipton CloseDetached | Oct 2020 | £238,000 | 81 m² | £2,938/m² | 2 |
| 11, Dipton CloseDetached · company-owned | Sept 2024 | £325,000 | 73 m² | £4,452/m² | 2 |
| 12, Dipton CloseSemi-detached · company-owned | Jul 2024 | £230,000 | 97 m² | £2,371/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Hexham, a short drive or bike ride (1.3 km), with 431k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Eastwood Grange, 100 m away, with a bus about every 19 minutes on weekdays (routes 10, 685, 689, X85); 6 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 59 minutes away by public transport (32 by car).
The nearest primary school is Hexham First School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is St Joseph's Catholic Middle School, Hexham, 2.5 km away.
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is B&M, 1.1 km away, with Mole Country closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Burn Brae Medical Group (1.1 km), with Hexham Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.1 km).
For a haircut, Salon Ruelle is 1.2 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Victoria Infirmary, 31 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).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 51 restaurants and cafés and 16 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Hexham Football Club is the closest café or restaurant (1.1 km), and The Phoenix the nearest pub (1.2 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 64 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 (Hexham, Acomb).
There are 281 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 18% flats and 27% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
It's growing: about 142 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Tyne Green Country Park, 1.6 km away; for exercise, Dukeshouse Wood (1.2 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 3.1 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 27 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 180 km.
2 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.
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%.
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 NE46 1UG →
Neighbours tend to stay put: 43% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 29% are 65 or over.
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.
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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 12 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 8 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 | 1.0% | 1.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 91.5% | 81.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 1.3% | 10.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.6% | 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.
Nearest: Newbiggin South · about 43 min
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