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On Thornleigh Avenue, in Thornes
What it's like at WF2 7SF: every home that has sold on Thornleigh 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).
Sales and extensions on Thornleigh Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 58 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 14, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2019 | £178,000 | 99 m² | £1,798/m² | 1 |
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| 16, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2020 | £178,000 | 72 m² | £2,472/m² | 1 |
| 20, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 1995 | £57,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 22, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | May 2014 | £163,000 | 96 m² | £1,698/m² | 1 |
| 28, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2003 | £138,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 30, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 1995 | £54,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2014 | £130,000 | 52 m² | £2,500/m² | 1 |
| 41, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 1996 | £67,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 46, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | May 2021 | £195,000 | 107 m² | £1,822/m² | 1 |
| 49, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2016 | £149,950 | 75 m² | £1,999/m² | 1 |
| 50, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | May 2000 | £70,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 51, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 1999 | £69,950 | 133 m² | £526/m² | 2 |
| 52, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2001 | £82,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 53, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2021 | £390,000 | 187 m² | £2,086/m² | 2 |
| 56, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2016 | £162,500 | 70 m² | £2,321/m² | 1 |
| 59, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2010 | £177,500 | 92 m² | £1,929/m² | 1 |
| 62, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2019 | £215,000 | 71 m² | £3,028/m² | 3 |
| 65, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2013 | £170,000 | 135 m² | £1,259/m² | 1 |
| 66, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2018 | £152,500 | 126 m² | £1,210/m² | 1 |
| 69, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | May 2021 | £200,000 | 72 m² | £2,778/m² | 2 |
| 72, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | May 2011 | £210,000 | 108 m² | £1,944/m² | 2 |
| 73, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2013 | £182,500 | 121 m² | £1,508/m² | 2 |
| 75, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2022 | £225,000 | 74 m² | £3,041/m² | 1 |
| 78, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 1999 | £63,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 79, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2014 | £137,500 | 74 m² | £1,858/m² | 1 |
| 80, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2022 | £230,000 | 76 m² | £3,026/m² | 1 |
| 84, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Jan 2020 | £188,000 | 76 m² | £2,474/m² | 1 |
| 88, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2016 | £240,000 | 93 m² | £2,581/m² | 1 |
| 90, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2002 | £82,000 | 172 m² | £477/m² | 1 |
| 98, Thornleigh AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2000 | £63,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Wakefield Kirkgate, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 612k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Thornes Lane Field Ln, 350 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 120, 120A); 3 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication Resource, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 65% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Trinity Academy Cathedral, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 48.7 · 12.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Horbury Academy (2.4 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Heckmondwike Grammar School (10.9 km).
Few families with young children: only 12% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Tesco, 750 m away, with Slimming World closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Maybush Medical Centre (500 m), with Belle Isle Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Beauty House is 500 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 2.9 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: 17 restaurants and cafés, 10 pubs and bars.
Thornes Lane Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and The Wharf the nearest pub (400 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 218 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
There are 17 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 19% flats and 21% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
The nearest park is Holmfield Park, 550 m away; for exercise, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing (800 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 11.7 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 24 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 61 km.
28 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.
Wakefield and Rothwell constituency: Simon Lightwood MP (Labour (Co-op)), since June 2022. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 9,346 (23.0%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 44%, Reform UK 21%, Conservative 18%, Liberal Democrat 8%.
43 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 WF2 7SF →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 41% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 26% are 65 or over.
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.
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 58 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Cleethorpes · about 82 min
Nearest: Ilkley Swimming Pool · about 57 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 41 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 3 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.9% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 94.1% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.7% | 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.