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On Oakwood Avenue, in Orford
What it's like at WA1 3SZ: every home that has sold on Oakwood 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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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.
Sales and extensions on Oakwood Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 10 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Jun 2024 | £140,000 | 57 m² | £2,456/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Oakwood AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 1995 | £31,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Feb 2020 | £85,000 | 74 m² | £1,149/m² | 3 |
| 7, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | May 2006 | £73,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 9, Oakwood AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2024 | £90,000 | 68 m² | £1,324/m² | 2 |
| 11, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Oct 2005 | £87,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 13, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Sept 2004 | £89,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Oct 2023 | £122,000 | 59 m² | £2,068/m² | 3 |
| 17, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Mar 2025 | £130,000 | 71 m² | £1,831/m² | 1 |
| 19, Oakwood AvenueTerraced | Jan 2021 | £105,500 | 89 m² | £1,185/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Padgate, a short drive or bike ride (1.4 km), with 118k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Piccadilly.
The nearest bus stop is Beresford Street, 50 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (routes 17, 4, 28, 17C); 58 departures an hour from the 14 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Oakwood Avenue Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 57% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Beamont Collegiate Academy, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 45.8 · 9.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Altrincham Grammar School for Girls (14.9 km) and Loreto Grammar School (15 km).
The nearest supermarket is Nisa Local, 300 m away, with Padgate Lane Post Office closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Greenbank Surgery (250 m), with Manchester Road Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Bobbits is 100 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Warrington Hospital, 2.1 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 54% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 65% 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: 7 restaurants and cafés, 10 pubs and bars.
Shake it up is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and The Famous King & Queen the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 102 per 1,000 residents a year.
It's a mix of homes: 14% flats and 4% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1930s.
The nearest park is The Twiggeries, 700 m away; for exercise, Orford Jubilee Park (1.2 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.5 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 19 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 21 km.
Most households own their home, 21% 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.
38 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.
Warrington North constituency: Charlotte Nichols MP (Labour), since December 2019. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 9,190 (23.0%), turnout 57%. Vote shares: Labour 47%, Reform UK 24%, Conservative 16%, Liberal Democrat 7%.
14 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 WA1 3SZ →
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Warrington 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 10 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Formby · about 36 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 45 min
Nearest: East Lancashire Railway · about 31 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 6 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 | 0.6% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.0% | 93.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.8% | 5.6% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 1.0% | 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.
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