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On Albert Street, in Shafton & Upper Cudworth
What it's like at S72 8BD: every home that has sold on Albert Street 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Albert Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 33 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 8, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Dec 2004 | £75,000 | 85 m² | £882/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Jan 2000 | £33,000 | 79 m² | £418/m² | 1 |
| 17, Albert StreetTerraced | Aug 2022 | £125,000 | 115 m² | £1,087/m² | 2 |
| 19, Albert StreetTerraced | Jun 2001 | £31,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Albert StreetTerraced | Jan 2024 | £84,000 | 91 m² | £923/m² | 2 |
| 23, Albert StreetTerraced | Feb 2013 | £56,000 | 120 m² | £467/m² | 1 |
| 26, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £110,000 | 77 m² | £1,429/m² | 2 |
| 27, Albert StreetTerraced | Sept 2020 | £77,500 | 114 m² | £680/m² | 1 |
| 29, Albert StreetTerraced | Mar 2021 | £85,000 | 107 m² | £794/m² | 3 |
| 30, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Dec 2015 | £85,000 | 77 m² | £1,104/m² | 1 |
| 31, Albert StreetTerraced | Dec 2020 | £64,000 | 93 m² | £688/m² | 1 |
| 33, Albert StreetTerraced | Jan 2005 | £57,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 35, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Feb 2007 | £83,500 | 69 m² | £1,210/m² | 1 |
| 37, Albert StreetSemi-detached · company-owned | Jul 2022 | £105,000 | 98 m² | £1,071/m² | 5 |
| 39, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Jun 2025 | £136,000 | 92 m² | £1,478/m² | 3 |
| 43, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Jun 2020 | £72,000 | 87 m² | £828/m² | 2 |
| 45, Albert StreetTerraced | May 2002 | £32,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 47, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Aug 2019 | £71,250 | 83 m² | £858/m² | 2 |
| 49, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Dec 2010 | £59,500 | 70 m² | £850/m² | 1 |
| 51, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Mar 2018 | £70,000 | 69 m² | £1,014/m² | 1 |
| 53, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Nov 2024 | £124,000 | 71 m² | £1,746/m² | 2 |
| 55, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Jan 2018 | £73,000 | 76 m² | £961/m² | 2 |
| 59, Albert StreetSemi-detached | Sept 2018 | £72,500 | 67 m² | £1,082/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Barnsley, a drive away (5.6 km), with 1.5m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Sheffield.
The nearest bus stop is Pontefract Road/Albert Street, 150 m away, with a bus about every 11 minutes on weekdays (routes 28, 27, 198, 38); 22 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 41 minutes away by public transport (19 by car).
The nearest primary school is Cherry Dale Primary School, a few minutes' walk (300 m); 63% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Outwood Academy Shafton, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 42 · 7.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 750 m away, with Premier closer still (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Rose Tree Pms Practice (1.0 km), with Shafton Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (700 m).
For a haircut, Poppy's is 1.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Barnsley Hospital, 6.7 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 71% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 70% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 3 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Drummond's Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Shafton Village WMC the nearest pub (700 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 94 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 5% flats and 29% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
Bungalow country: 25% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Plumpton Park, 600 m away; for exercise, Dorothy Hyman Sports Centre (1.3 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 35 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 63 km.
Most households own their home, 16% 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.
10 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.
Barnsley North constituency: Dan Jarvis MP (Labour), since March 2011. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 7,811 (21.2%), turnout 47%. Vote shares: Labour 50%, Reform UK 29%, Conservative 8%, Green Party 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 S72 8BD →
On this street: 0 of 27 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 | 2.9% | 2.0% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 98.0% | 95.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.8% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 0.6% | 2.2% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Barnsley since 2011.
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 33 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Cleethorpes · about 81 min
Nearest: Hathersage Outdoor Swimming Pool · about 62 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.