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On Alder Road, in Market Drayton
What it's like at TF9 3HZ: every home that has sold on Alder 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 Alder 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.
| 3, Alder RoadDetached | Jul 1998 | £59,995 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5, Alder RoadDetached | Jan 2020 | £195,000 | 95 m² | £2,053/m² | 1 |
| 6, Alder RoadDetached | Nov 2013 | £120,000 | 65 m² | £1,846/m² | 3 |
| 7, Alder RoadDetached | Aug 2006 | £227,000 | 164 m² | £1,384/m² | 2 |
| 8, Alder RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2013 | £151,000 | 58 m² | £2,603/m² | 1 |
| 10, Alder RoadDetached | Jul 2026 | £249,000 | 59 m² | £4,220/m² | 5 |
| 11, Alder RoadDetached | Jun 1996 | £57,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Alder RoadDetached | Jan 2004 | £117,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 13, Alder RoadDetached | Jul 2002 | £92,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 14, Alder RoadDetached | Apr 2007 | £140,000 | 58 m² | £2,414/m² | 2 |
| 16, Alder RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2022 | £250,000 | 65 m² | £3,846/m² | 2 |
| 18, Alder RoadDetached | May 2021 | £185,000 | 69 m² | £2,681/m² | 3 |
| 20, Alder RoadSemi-detached | May 2005 | £129,950 | 65 m² | £1,999/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Prees, a drive away (12 km), with 9k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Shrewsbury.
The nearest bus stop is Alder Road Jct, 50 m away, with a bus about every 40 minutes on weekdays (route 301); 19 departures an hour from the 8 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 65 minutes away by public transport (32 by car).
The nearest primary school is Market Drayton Junior School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 51% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Grove School, 2.0 km away; Attainment 8: 39.5 · 2.4% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's, 400 m away; Dalelands Stores (700 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Market Drayton Medical Practice (1.6 km), with Boots the closest pharmacy (1.4 km).
For a haircut, Dominos Unisex Hair Studio is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Princess Royal Hospital, 21 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 43% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 68% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 26 restaurants and cafés, 11 pubs and bars.
Sherwood Fish And Chips is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Kings Head the nearest pub (350 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 69 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 85 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 10% flats and 35% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 313 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Christchurch Park, 350 m away; for exercise, Market Drayton Swimming & Fitness Centre (1.5 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 5.6 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Manchester is 52 km away.
Most households own their home, 18% 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.
North Shropshire constituency: Helen Morgan MP (Liberal Democrat), since December 2021. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 15,311 (30.9%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 53%, Conservative 22%, Reform UK 16%, Labour 7%.
20 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 TF9 3HZ →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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 | 1.3% | 2.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 91.4% | 70.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.8% | 18.2% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.8% | 7.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.3% | 0.3% | 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: Wallasey · about 71 min
Nearest: Foxfield Railway · about 41 min
Nearest: Alton Towers · about 55 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Shropshire 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 13 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.