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On Arnold Avenue, in Heywood Hopwood & Siddal Moor
What it's like at OL10 2ND: every home that has sold on Arnold Avenue 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 Arnold Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 14 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Arnold AvenueDetached | Oct 2009 | £320,000 | 171 m² | £1,871/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Arnold AvenueDetached | May 2022 | £390,000 | 152 m² | £2,566/m² | 1 |
| 3, Arnold AvenueDetached | Apr 2025 | £355,000 | 225 m² | £1,578/m² | 1 |
| 4, Arnold AvenueDetached | Mar 2025 | £330,000 | 107 m² | £3,084/m² | 1 |
| 7, Arnold AvenueDetached · company-owned | Jan 1997 | £120,000 | 122 m² | £984/m² | 1 |
| 8, Arnold AvenueDetached | Mar 2025 | £320,000 | 95 m² | £3,368/m² | 1 |
| 10, Arnold AvenueDetached | Mar 2019 | £285,000 | 168 m² | £1,696/m² | 1 |
| 11, Arnold AvenueDetached | Sept 2014 | £180,000 | 76 m² | £2,368/m² | 1 |
| 12, Arnold AvenueDetached | Aug 2013 | £175,000 | 114 m² | £1,535/m² | 1 |
| 13, Arnold AvenueDetached | Jun 2014 | £219,000 | 80 m² | £2,738/m² | 2 |
| 14, Arnold AvenueDetached | Feb 2019 | £225,000 | 109 m² | £2,064/m² | 1 |
| 15, Arnold AvenueOther | Sept 2024 | £950 | 74 m² | £13/m² | 2 |
| 16, Arnold AvenueDetached | Sept 2014 | £249,995 | – | – | 2 |
| Oakendale, 2a, Arnold AvenueDetached | Sept 2022 | £595,000 | 154 m² | £3,864/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Castleton (Manchester), a short drive or bike ride (2.4 km), with 141k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is Arnold Avenue, 50 m away, with a bus about every 12 minutes on weekdays (routes 163, 163A); 53 departures an hour from the 14 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Hopwood Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 68% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Newhouse Academy, 450 m away; Attainment 8: 38.9 · 3.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Our Lady's RC High School (5.7 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School (12.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is M&S Simply Food - Birch Westbound, 450 m away, with Asda Express Heywood - Middleton Road PFS closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Hopwood Medical Centre (650 m), with Internet Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (750 m).
For a haircut, Istanbul Barbers is 1.6 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Fairfield General Hospital, 3.3 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 62% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 56% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 16 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 8 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
The Tree House Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Bay Horse the nearest pub (450 m).
There are 10 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 7% flats and 25% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 132 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Hopwood Park, 100 m away; for exercise, Castleton Sports Centre (1.8 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 12.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Manchester is 26 km away.
Most households own their home, 19% 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.
28 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.
Heywood and Middleton North constituency: Mrs Elsie Blundell MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,082 (16.4%), turnout 51%. Vote shares: Labour 41%, Reform UK 24%, Conservative 17%, Independent 12%.
28 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 OL10 2ND →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
No crimes recorded "on or near" Arnold Avenue in the last 12 months.
Nearest: Formby · about 52 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 58 min
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 13 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 | 0.8% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.3% | 0.3% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 95.7% | 96.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 0.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.7% | 3.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 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.
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