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On Merefield Way, in Glasshoughton
What it's like at WF10 4TD: every home that has sold on Merefield Way 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 Merefield Way; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 31 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Merefield WayDetached | Jul 2012 | £159,000 | 78 m² | £2,038/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Merefield WayDetached | Mar 2005 | £174,995 | – | – | 2 |
| 3, Merefield WayDetached | Sept 2020 | £210,000 | 97 m² | £2,165/m² | 1 |
| 4, Merefield WayDetached | Jul 2001 | £101,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 5, Merefield WayDetached | Aug 2025 | £358,000 | 115 m² | £3,113/m² | 2 |
| 6, Merefield WayDetached | Jun 2001 | £87,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 8, Merefield WayDetached | Jul 2023 | £295,000 | 109 m² | £2,706/m² | 3 |
| 9, Merefield WayDetached | Mar 2025 | £320,000 | 111 m² | £2,883/m² | 1 |
| 10, Merefield WayTerraced | May 2026 | £225,000 | 66 m² | £3,409/m² | 2 |
| 11, Merefield WayDetached | Jan 2006 | £184,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 12, Merefield WayTerraced | Aug 2001 | £74,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 14, Merefield WayTerraced | Aug 2001 | £72,950 | 102 m² | £715/m² | 1 |
| 15, Merefield WayDetached | Aug 2001 | £86,950 | 98 m² | £887/m² | 1 |
| 16, Merefield WayDetached | Aug 2001 | £74,950 | 100 m² | £750/m² | 1 |
| 17, Merefield WayTerraced | Oct 2010 | £145,000 | 90 m² | £1,611/m² | 2 |
| 18, Merefield WayDetached | Jul 2018 | £203,000 | 107 m² | £1,897/m² | 3 |
| 19, Merefield WayTerraced | May 2006 | £145,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 20, Merefield WayDetached | Jul 2020 | £190,000 | 91 m² | £2,088/m² | 2 |
| 21, Merefield WayTerraced | Jul 2002 | £85,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 22, Merefield WayDetached | Aug 2004 | £161,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 23, Merefield WayDetached | May 2018 | £204,000 | 118 m² | £1,729/m² | 3 |
| 24, Merefield WayDetached | Jun 2021 | £250,000 | 99 m² | £2,525/m² | 2 |
| 25, Merefield WayDetached | Oct 2020 | £240,000 | 99 m² | £2,424/m² | 3 |
| 26, Merefield WayDetached | Sept 2023 | £290,000 | 102 m² | £2,843/m² | 3 |
| 27, Merefield WayDetached | Jul 2020 | £242,500 | 134 m² | £1,810/m² | 4 |
| 29, Merefield WayDetached | Oct 2001 | £95,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 33, Merefield WayDetached | Feb 2005 | £184,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 35, Merefield WayDetached | Sept 2021 | £237,000 | 96 m² | £2,469/m² | 3 |
| 37, Merefield WayDetached | Sept 2021 | £250,000 | 116 m² | £2,155/m² | 2 |
| 39, Merefield WayDetached | Oct 2006 | £189,995 | 107 m² | £1,776/m² | 2 |
| 41, Merefield WayDetached | Oct 2025 | £330,000 | 107 m² | £3,084/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Glasshoughton, a few minutes' walk (500 m), with 109k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Colorado Way, 50 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (routes 141, 140); 30 departures an hour from the 8 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 13 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
The nearest primary school is Smawthorne Henry Moore Academy, about a 5-minute walk (600 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Castleford Academy, 1.4 km away; Attainment 8: 48.5 · 11.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Asda, 550 m away, with Slimming World closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Henry Moore Clinic (1.1 km), with My Pharmacy Online Uk the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Hinds and Bark is 500 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 10 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: 42 restaurants and cafés and 6 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
W.M.W. is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Glasshoughton Working Mens Club the nearest pub (350 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (20 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 199 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 5% flats and 24% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is Leeds Road Recreational Park, 400 m away; for exercise, Snowzone (300 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 27 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 74 km.
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.
37 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%.
17 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 4TD →
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: 2 of 21 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 | 1.5% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 96.8% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.1% | 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 67 min
Nearest: Albert Avenue Pools · about 48 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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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 31 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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