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On Hawthorn Road, in Ashington Hirst
What it's like at NE63 0QU: every home that has sold on Hawthorn 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.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 3 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 Hawthorn Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
52 of the 232 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 207, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | May 2019 | £71,000 | 134 m² | £530/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 209, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | Sept 1999 | £31,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 213, Hawthorn RoadFlat | May 2007 | £72,000 | 59 m² | £1,220/m² | 3 |
| 213a, Hawthorn RoadFlat | Sept 2014 | £42,000 | 75 m² | £560/m² | 4 |
| 215, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | Sept 2022 | £105,000 | 122 m² | £861/m² | 2 |
| 219, Hawthorn RoadFlat | Apr 2020 | £31,000 | 64 m² | £484/m² | 1 |
| 219a, Hawthorn RoadOther | May 2023 | £42,000 | 78 m² | £538/m² | 2 |
| 221, Hawthorn RoadFlat | Jul 2018 | £26,000 | 65 m² | £400/m² | 2 |
| 221a, Hawthorn RoadFlat | Jan 2008 | £60,000 | 67 m² | £896/m² | 2 |
| 223, Hawthorn RoadFlat | May 2015 | £20,000 | 59 m² | £339/m² | 1 |
| 225, Hawthorn RoadFlat | Aug 2025 | £35,500 | 57 m² | £623/m² | 5 |
| 225a, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | Feb 2006 | £62,000 | 66 m² | £939/m² | 1 |
| 227, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | May 2004 | £43,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 227a, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | Feb 2018 | £42,000 | 72 m² | £583/m² | 3 |
| 229, Hawthorn RoadFlat | Apr 2004 | £38,000 | 68 m² | £559/m² | 2 |
| 229a, Hawthorn RoadFlat | Feb 2022 | £50,000 | 72 m² | £694/m² | 4 |
| 231, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | May 2005 | £45,000 | 56 m² | £804/m² | 2 |
| 231a, Hawthorn RoadFlat · company-owned | Jan 2025 | £23,000 | 69 m² | £333/m² | 1 |
| 233, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | Nov 2006 | £98,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 239, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | Jan 2000 | £34,000 | 125 m² | £272/m² | 1 |
| 241, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | Aug 2005 | £100,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 243, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | Feb 2025 | £125,000 | 120 m² | £1,042/m² | 4 |
| 245, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | Oct 2024 | £65,000 | 107 m² | £607/m² | 1 |
| 247, Hawthorn RoadTerraced · company-owned | May 2021 | £65,000 | 105 m² | £619/m² | 2 |
| 249, Hawthorn RoadFlat | Oct 2014 | £26,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 249a, Hawthorn RoadFlat | Oct 2014 | £26,000 | 56 m² | £464/m² | 3 |
| 251, Hawthorn RoadTerraced | Nov 2008 | £120,000 | 62 m² | £1,935/m² | 2 |
The nearest station is Ashington, about a 10-minute walk (950 m), with 131k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Newcastle.
The nearest bus stop is Hirst Park, 50 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (route 35); 26 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 48 minutes away by public transport (22 by car).
42% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Central Academy, about a 5-minute walk (500 m).
The closest top-rated primary is Bothal Academy (1.3 km).
The nearest secondary is NCEA Duke's Secondary School, 1.0 km away; Attainment 8: 32 · 1.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Nisa Store, 400 m away, with Happiness Foodstore closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Seaton Park Medical Group (750 m), with Crescent Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Sublime is 100 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, 12 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 79% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 84% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 10 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 21 restaurants and cafés, 13 pubs and bars.
Expresso Amusements is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Ashington & District Comrades Social Club the nearest pub (500 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (34 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 207 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 10% flats and 3% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 77% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Hirst Park, 200 m away; for exercise, Ashington Leisure Centre (1.0 km).
A swim is a short trip away: Newbiggin South, 3.2 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.3 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Newcastle is 18 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 208 km.
31 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.
Blyth and Ashington constituency: Ian Lavery MP (Labour), since May 2010. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 9,173 (22.7%), turnout 53%. Vote shares: Labour 50%, Reform UK 27%, Conservative 15%, Green Party 5%.
29 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 NE63 0QU →
On this street: 1 of 181 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 1.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 98.2% | 81.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 10.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 0.5% | 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.
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Many neighbours rent: 38% of households rent privately and 14% socially.
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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Nearest: Haltwhistle Swimming & Leisure Centre · about 59 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 232 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.