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On Brackendale Road, in Thornes
What it's like at WF2 8WA: every home that has sold on Brackendale 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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1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Brackendale Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 34 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 1, Brackendale RoadDetached | Jul 2020 | £255,000 | 109 m² | £2,339/m² | 3 |
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| 2, Brackendale RoadDetached | Jan 2014 | £217,500 | 117 m² | £1,859/m² | 2 |
| 3, Brackendale RoadDetached | Mar 2024 | £275,000 | 93 m² | £2,957/m² | 5 |
| 4, Brackendale RoadDetached | Jun 2014 | £185,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 5, Brackendale RoadDetached | Sept 2005 | £185,000 | 88 m² | £2,102/m² | 2 |
| 6, Brackendale RoadDetached | Feb 2024 | £312,500 | 106 m² | £2,948/m² | 2 |
| 7, Brackendale RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2010 | £137,000 | 149 m² | £919/m² | 3 |
| 8, Brackendale RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2002 | £118,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 9, Brackendale RoadTerraced | Dec 2016 | £166,500 | 118 m² | £1,411/m² | 3 |
| 10, Brackendale RoadTerraced | Apr 2023 | £224,500 | 112 m² | £2,004/m² | 4 |
| 11, Brackendale RoadTerraced · company-owned | Apr 2024 | £220,000 | 121 m² | £1,818/m² | 3 |
| 12, Brackendale RoadDetached | Jun 2011 | £162,000 | 112 m² | £1,446/m² | 3 |
| 14, Brackendale RoadDetached | Dec 2007 | £169,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 15, Brackendale RoadTerraced | Oct 2019 | £180,000 | 124 m² | £1,452/m² | 2 |
| 16, Brackendale RoadSemi-detached | May 2019 | £168,000 | 89 m² | £1,888/m² | 4 |
| 17, Brackendale RoadTerraced | Sept 2002 | £118,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 18, Brackendale RoadTerraced | Mar 2014 | £137,500 | 95 m² | £1,447/m² | 2 |
| 19, Brackendale RoadTerraced | Feb 2023 | £161,000 | 107 m² | £1,505/m² | 4 |
| 20, Brackendale RoadTerraced | Dec 2002 | £119,995 | 93 m² | £1,290/m² | 1 |
| 21, Brackendale RoadTerraced | Jul 2019 | £148,000 | 119 m² | £1,244/m² | 3 |
| 22, Brackendale RoadTerraced | Aug 2018 | £165,000 | 104 m² | £1,587/m² | 4 |
| 23, Brackendale RoadTerraced | Oct 2002 | £121,495 | – | – | 1 |
| 25, Brackendale RoadTerraced | Apr 2022 | £225,000 | 114 m² | £1,974/m² | 3 |
| 27, Brackendale RoadTerraced | Dec 2016 | £172,950 | 104 m² | £1,663/m² | 2 |
| 29, Brackendale RoadDetached | Nov 2024 | £217,000 | 103 m² | £2,107/m² | 3 |
| 31, Brackendale RoadDetached | Feb 2002 | £129,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 33, Brackendale RoadFlat | May 2004 | £91,500 | 51 m² | £1,794/m² | 2 |
| 35, Brackendale RoadFlat | Nov 2015 | £68,000 | 55 m² | £1,236/m² | 3 |
| 37, Brackendale RoadFlat | Mar 2011 | £72,500 | 55 m² | £1,318/m² | 4 |
| 39, Brackendale RoadFlat | Jun 2026 | £89,000 | 41 m² | £2,171/m² | 2 |
| 41, Brackendale RoadFlat | Apr 2024 | £68,000 | 52 m² | £1,308/m² | 2 |
| 43, Brackendale RoadFlat | Apr 2024 | £67,000 | 50 m² | £1,340/m² | 2 |
| 45, Brackendale RoadFlat | Dec 2003 | £84,000 | 52 m² | £1,615/m² | 2 |
| 47, Brackendale RoadFlat | Sept 2004 | £99,950 | 55 m² | £1,817/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Wakefield Westgate, a short drive or bike ride (1.9 km), with 2.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Thornes Road, 450 m away, with a bus about every 60 minutes on weekdays (route 107).
The nearest primary school is The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m); 56% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Trinity Academy Cathedral, 550 m 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 Farmfoods, 1.0 km away, with Lunch Club @ West Wakefield Methodist Church closer still (700 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Lupset Health Centre (950 m), with Horbury Road Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (950 m).
For a haircut, The Nail Lounge is 1.1 km 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.
Stork Lodge Cafe & Tea Room is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and Toby Carvery Calder Island Wakefield the nearest pub (650 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, 800 m away; for exercise, Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing (600 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.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 41% of households own their home outright.
15 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%.
15 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 8WA →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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 34 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 of 26 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 6 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% | 1.1% |
| 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.
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.