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On Smawthorne Avenue, in Castleford Town
What it's like at WF10 5BE: every home that has sold on Smawthorne 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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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.
4 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 4 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Smawthorne Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
17 of the 91 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Smawthorne AvenueDetached | May 2003 | £150,000 | 40 m² | £3,750/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 1e, 1, Smawthorne AvenueFlat | Feb 2005 | £60,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 1a, Smawthorne AvenueFlat | Feb 2005 | £60,000 | 20 m² | £3,000/m² | 1 |
| Flat, 1b, Smawthorne AvenueFlat | Feb 2005 | £60,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 4, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Jan 1998 | £19,000 | 68 m² | £279/m² | 1 |
| 5, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Nov 2022 | £150,000 | 87 m² | £1,724/m² | 3 |
| 7, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Dec 2023 | £145,000 | 106 m² | £1,368/m² | 2 |
| 8, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Jul 1999 | £32,000 | 67 m² | £478/m² | 1 |
| 9, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Oct 2015 | £79,000 | 144 m² | £549/m² | 1 |
| 10, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Nov 1998 | £17,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 12, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Sept 2022 | £90,000 | 72 m² | £1,250/m² | 3 |
| 13, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2022 | £129,000 | 82 m² | £1,573/m² | 2 |
| 14, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Mar 2016 | £90,600 | 89 m² | £1,018/m² | 2 |
| 15, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Feb 2021 | £105,000 | 57 m² | £1,842/m² | 2 |
| 16, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Jan 2014 | £75,000 | 66 m² | £1,136/m² | 2 |
| 17, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Nov 2021 | £132,000 | 83 m² | £1,590/m² | 1 |
| 19, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Nov 2021 | £110,000 | 127 m² | £866/m² | 1 |
| 20, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2023 | £130,000 | 66 m² | £1,970/m² | 4 |
| 21, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2025 | £115,000 | 77 m² | £1,494/m² | 1 |
| 22, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Mar 2018 | £72,000 | 59 m² | £1,220/m² | 2 |
| 23, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Jul 2025 | £132,500 | 78 m² | £1,699/m² | 2 |
| 24, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Feb 1995 | £25,000 | 66 m² | £379/m² | 1 |
| 25, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Dec 2023 | £143,000 | 87 m² | £1,644/m² | 2 |
| 27, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Aug 2017 | £87,000 | 80 m² | £1,088/m² | 1 |
| 28, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Oct 2019 | £80,000 | 67 m² | £1,194/m² | 1 |
| 29, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jul 2023 | £120,000 | 89 m² | £1,348/m² | 2 |
| 30, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Jul 2025 | £137,500 | 72 m² | £1,910/m² | 6 |
| 31, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jan 2024 | £120,000 | 88 m² | £1,364/m² | 2 |
| 32, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Apr 1999 | £25,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 33, Smawthorne AvenueSemi-detached | May 1999 | £34,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 34, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Oct 2001 | £28,000 | 71 m² | £394/m² | 3 |
| 35, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Jun 2001 | £23,500 | 87 m² | £270/m² | 1 |
| 37, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2026 | £134,000 | 88 m² | £1,523/m² | 4 |
| 38, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Jun 2022 | £85,500 | 65 m² | £1,315/m² | 1 |
| 39, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Aug 2023 | £120,000 | 88 m² | £1,364/m² | 1 |
| 40, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Dec 2022 | £87,000 | 69 m² | £1,261/m² | 2 |
| 41, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | May 2011 | £90,000 | 88 m² | £1,023/m² | 1 |
| 42, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Jul 2017 | £82,500 | 66 m² | £1,250/m² | 3 |
| 43, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | May 2024 | £157,500 | 89 m² | £1,770/m² | 4 |
| 44, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Dec 2020 | £65,000 | 65 m² | £1,000/m² | 2 |
| 45, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Apr 2005 | £70,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 52, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Jan 1997 | £31,000 | 66 m² | £470/m² | 1 |
| 56, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | May 2026 | £120,500 | 66 m² | £1,826/m² | 3 |
| 58, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Jan 2025 | £90,000 | 67 m² | £1,343/m² | 2 |
| 62, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2019 | £45,000 | 65 m² | £692/m² | 1 |
| 64, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Feb 2003 | £57,000 | 80 m² | £713/m² | 2 |
| 66, Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Jun 2003 | £65,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Smawthorne AvenueTerraced | Nov 2008 | £92,000 | – | – | 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 (450 m), with 487k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Smawthorne Lane Smawthorne Ave, 100 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (route 146); 16 departures an hour from the 15 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 Smawthorne Henry Moore Academy, a few minutes' walk (350 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Castleford Academy, 700 m away; Attainment 8: 48.5 · 11.1% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsbury's Local, 200 m away; Family Food Centre (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Henry Moore Clinic (200 m), with Cohens Chemist the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Jeanette's is 300 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.
Red Chilli Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (300 m), and Roundhill Working Mens Club the nearest pub (250 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 Smawthorne Park, 150 m away; for exercise, Neo Shoot (650 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.
63 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%.
21 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 5BE →
On this street: 0 of 76 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% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.1% | 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.
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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 91 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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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