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On Springfields, in Knottingley
What it's like at WF11 8BH: every home that has sold on Springfields 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.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Springfields; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 43 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | May 2017 | £107,000 | 73 m² | £1,466/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | May 2021 | £95,000 | 88 m² | £1,080/m² | 1 |
| 5, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Apr 2017 | £80,000 | 63 m² | £1,270/m² | 2 |
| 7, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Sept 2007 | £119,995 | 70 m² | £1,714/m² | 1 |
| 9, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Oct 2004 | £95,000 | 80 m² | £1,188/m² | 2 |
| 11, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Feb 2021 | £130,000 | 86 m² | £1,512/m² | 1 |
| 15, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Mar 2020 | £136,000 | 84 m² | £1,619/m² | 1 |
| 16, SpringfieldsTerraced | Nov 2004 | £88,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Sept 2001 | £46,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Aug 2024 | £192,000 | 117 m² | £1,641/m² | 2 |
| 22, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Oct 2012 | £86,500 | 88 m² | £983/m² | 1 |
| 24, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | May 2003 | £69,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Oct 2018 | £108,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 26, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Mar 2017 | £116,000 | 86 m² | £1,349/m² | 1 |
| 28, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Feb 2026 | £198,000 | 105 m² | £1,886/m² | 2 |
| 30, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Jan 2026 | £180,000 | 88 m² | £2,045/m² | 1 |
| 32, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Jul 2020 | £95,000 | 91 m² | £1,044/m² | 2 |
| 33, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Oct 2000 | £40,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 34, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | May 2003 | £70,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 35, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Sept 2021 | £117,000 | 72 m² | £1,625/m² | 2 |
| 37, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Jun 2024 | £180,000 | 91 m² | £1,978/m² | 2 |
| 41, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Apr 2021 | £135,000 | 84 m² | £1,607/m² | 3 |
| 45, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Sept 2004 | £25,700 | 90 m² | £286/m² | 1 |
| 49, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Sept 1999 | £44,000 | 86 m² | £512/m² | 1 |
| 53, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Jan 2023 | £140,000 | 87 m² | £1,609/m² | 1 |
| 54, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Apr 2026 | £182,000 | 86 m² | £2,116/m² | 4 |
| 55, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Dec 2025 | £150,000 | 90 m² | £1,667/m² | 1 |
| 56, SpringfieldsTerraced | Jul 2025 | £185,000 | 81 m² | £2,284/m² | 3 |
| 58, SpringfieldsTerraced | Jun 2004 | £86,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 62, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | Nov 2005 | £80,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 66, SpringfieldsSemi-detached | May 2021 | £90,000 | 88 m² | £1,023/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Knottingley, a short drive or bike ride (1.6 km), with 156k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Broomhill Walk, 250 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 406); 25 departures an hour from the 14 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 44 minutes away by public transport (18 by car).
The nearest primary school is St Botolphs CE Academy, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 65% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is England Lane Academy (0.3 km).
The nearest secondary is De Lacy Academy, 450 m away; Attainment 8: 45.6 · 6.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsburys Local, 350 m away; Broomhill Stores (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Ash Grove (700 m), with Fast Track Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (450 m).
For a haircut, Salon 9 is 200 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 16 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 13 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Gaf's Restaurant is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Winston Hotel the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (14 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 143 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 15% flats and 12% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is field, 300 m away; for exercise, Iron Wolf Gym (1.3 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 33 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 79 km.
Most households own their home, 15% 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.
30 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 WF11 8BH →
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 43 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Cleethorpes · about 65 min
Nearest: Albert Avenue Pools · about 46 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: 3 of 32 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.8% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.1% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.2% | 3.8% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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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