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On Wilson Street, in Castleford Town
What it's like at WF10 1LA: every home that has sold on Wilson 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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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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Wilson Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
10 of the 46 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 36, Wilson StreetTerraced | Aug 2022 | £105,000 | 83 m² | £1,265/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42, Wilson StreetTerraced | May 2022 | £115,000 | 73 m² | £1,575/m² | 3 |
| 44, Wilson StreetTerraced | Jun 2023 | £108,000 | 76 m² | £1,421/m² | 5 |
| 48a, Wilson StreetSemi-detached | Jul 2007 | £124,800 | 70 m² | £1,783/m² | 2 |
| 50, Wilson StreetTerraced · company-owned | Mar 2024 | £148,550 | 133 m² | £1,117/m² | 1 |
| 52, Wilson StreetTerraced | Jun 2019 | £120,000 | 104 m² | £1,154/m² | 2 |
| 54, Wilson StreetTerraced · company-owned | Sept 2008 | £140,000 | 58 m² | £2,414/m² | 2 |
| 58, Wilson StreetTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2019 | £79,000 | 119 m² | £664/m² | 1 |
| 60, Wilson StreetTerraced | Nov 2015 | £70,000 | 110 m² | £636/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Castleford, a few minutes' walk (350 m), with 487k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Wood Street, 100 m away, with a bus about every 14 minutes on weekdays (routes 141, 140, 22); 59 departures an hour from the 17 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 15 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Half Acres Primary Academy, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 65% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Castleford Academy, 950 m away; Attainment 8: 48.5 · 11.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Eastern European Mini Market, 200 m away; Station Market (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Castleford Medical Practice (250 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Strand Barbers Shop is 150 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 9.7 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 59% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 66% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 12 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 32 restaurants and cafés and 19 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Pop Inn Cafe/B Crafty Creative Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Albion Street Working Mens Club the nearest pub (100 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (41 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 219 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 17% flats and 6% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 59% were built before 1919.
It's growing: about 215 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Valley Gardens, 750 m away; for exercise, Neo Shoot (400 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.3 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 26 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 74 km.
Most households own their home, 27% rent privately.
48 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.
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley constituency: Yvette Cooper MP (Labour), since May 1997. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 6,630 (18.4%), turnout 48%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Reform UK 29%, Conservative 15%, Green Party 5%.
18 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 WF10 1LA →
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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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 46 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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Nearest: Cleethorpes · about 71 min
Nearest: Albert Avenue Pools · about 52 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 37 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 1 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.3% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 97.2% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.2% | 3.8% | 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.