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On Ferrybridge Road, in Ferrybridge & West Knottingley
What it's like at WF11 8JF: every home that has sold on Ferrybridge Road 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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Sales and extensions on Ferrybridge Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
4 of the 25 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Ferrybridge RoadDetached | Nov 2022 | £225,000 | 103 m² | £2,184/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, Ferrybridge RoadDetached · company-owned | Mar 2026 | £200,000 | 152 m² | £1,316/m² | 3 |
| 8, Ferrybridge RoadDetached | Dec 2020 | £395,000 | 206 m² | £1,917/m² | 4 |
| 10, Ferrybridge RoadDetached | Jun 2021 | £405,000 | 210 m² | £1,929/m² | 5 |
| 12, Ferrybridge RoadDetached | Dec 2025 | £560,000 | 330 m² | £1,697/m² | 2 |
| 14, Ferrybridge RoadDetached | May 2019 | £266,000 | 232 m² | £1,147/m² | 1 |
| 18, Ferrybridge RoadDetached | Oct 2020 | £310,000 | 184 m² | £1,685/m² | 2 |
| 22, Ferrybridge RoadDetached | Mar 2021 | £327,500 | 109 m² | £3,005/m² | 4 |
| 24, Ferrybridge RoadDetached | Feb 2022 | £425,000 | 197 m² | £2,157/m² | 3 |
| 26, Ferrybridge RoadDetached | Sept 2000 | £65,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 28, Ferrybridge RoadDetached | Dec 1995 | £55,000 | 127 m² | £433/m² | 1 |
| 32, Ferrybridge RoadSemi-detached | Apr 1999 | £63,250 | – | – | 1 |
| 38, Ferrybridge RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2006 | £132,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 40 - 42, Ferrybridge RoadOther | Jun 2023 | £280,000 | 267 m² | £1,049/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Knottingley, a few minutes' walk (350 m), with 156k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Pottery Lane, 150 m away, with a bus about every 9 minutes on weekdays (routes 148, 149, 476, 158); 49 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 42 minutes away by public transport (16 by car).
The nearest primary school is The Vale Primary Academy, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 76% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is England Lane Academy (1.3 km).
The nearest secondary is De Lacy Academy, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 45.6 · 6.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl, 550 m away, with Your Store closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Ferrybridge Medical Centre (650 m), with Hill Top Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (350 m).
For a haircut, Cut and Shave is 300 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 15 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: 11 restaurants and cafés, 2 pubs and bars.
Wafflin is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and Ferrybridge Progressive Club the nearest pub (150 m).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 154 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 13% flats and 11% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 287 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Knottingley Playing Fields, 900 m away; for exercise, Iron Wolf Gym (400 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 31 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 77 km.
Most households own their home, 10% 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.
26 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 WF11 8JF →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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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 25 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Cleethorpes · about 62 min
Nearest: Albert Avenue Pools · about 43 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 21 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 12 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 3.5% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.7% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 94.0% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.3% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.5% | 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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