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On Medley Street, in Castleford Town
What it's like at WF10 4BB: every home that has sold on Medley 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Medley Street; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
4 of the 22 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 2, Medley StreetTerraced | Jul 1998 | £50,000 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Medley StreetTerraced | Dec 2020 | £133,000 | 83 m² | £1,602/m² | 2 |
| 6, Medley StreetTerraced | Sept 2014 | £95,000 | 87 m² | £1,092/m² | 1 |
| 7, Medley StreetTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2022 | £100,000 | 84 m² | £1,190/m² | 3 |
| 8, Medley StreetTerraced · company-owned | Nov 2019 | £121,000 | 115 m² | £1,052/m² | 1 |
| 9, Medley StreetSemi-detached | Mar 2008 | £126,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 10, Medley StreetTerraced | Sept 2021 | £150,000 | 114 m² | £1,316/m² | 1 |
| 11, Medley StreetTerraced · company-owned | Jun 2023 | £140,000 | 82 m² | £1,707/m² | 3 |
| 13, Medley StreetTerraced · company-owned | May 2023 | £109,325 | 111 m² | £985/m² | 2 |
| 14, Medley StreetTerraced | Mar 2018 | £140,000 | 133 m² | £1,053/m² | 2 |
| 15, Medley StreetTerraced | Oct 1995 | £36,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Medley StreetTerraced | Sept 2021 | £130,000 | 85 m² | £1,529/m² | 2 |
| 19, Medley StreetTerraced | Nov 2024 | £150,000 | 106 m² | £1,415/m² | 1 |
| 20, Medley StreetTerraced | Aug 2002 | £74,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Medley StreetTerraced | May 2021 | £137,750 | 100 m² | £1,378/m² | 2 |
| 22, Medley StreetTerraced | Oct 2023 | £153,000 | 86 m² | £1,779/m² | 2 |
| 23, Medley StreetTerraced | Mar 2016 | £111,600 | 118 m² | £946/m² | 3 |
| 24, Medley StreetTerraced | Jun 2021 | £135,000 | 91 m² | £1,484/m² | 3 |
| 25, Medley StreetTerraced | Sept 2000 | £56,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Medley StreetTerraced | Apr 2022 | £161,000 | 87 m² | £1,851/m² | 4 |
| 27, Medley StreetTerraced | Feb 1998 | £47,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 30, Medley StreetTerraced | Apr 2020 | £120,000 | 80 m² | £1,500/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Castleford, about a 10-minute walk (700 m), with 487k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Smawthorne Lane, 50 m away, with a bus about every 22 minutes on weekdays (routes 141, 144); 49 departures an hour from the 13 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 Castleford Park Junior Academy, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 61% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Castleford Academy, 250 m away; Attainment 8: 48.5 · 11.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Iceland, 500 m away, with The Local Store closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Henry Moore Clinic (750 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (550 m).
For a haircut, His & Hers Cuts is 500 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.
Deli-licious is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Magnet Hotel Castle the nearest pub (150 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, 350 m away; for exercise, Neo Shoot (700 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.
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.
46 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%.
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 WF10 4BB →
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Wakefield 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 22 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 15 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 | 0.3% | 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.
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.
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