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On Osborne Avenue, in Horbury
What it's like at WF4 5QR: every home that has sold on Osborne 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Osborne Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 13 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Osborne AvenueDetached | May 2014 | £222,500 | 101 m² | £2,203/m² | 2 |
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| 2, Osborne AvenueDetached | Jun 2014 | £186,000 | 103 m² | £1,806/m² | 3 |
| 4, Osborne AvenueDetached | Aug 2002 | £116,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 6, Osborne AvenueDetached | Oct 2011 | £225,000 | 108 m² | £2,083/m² | 3 |
| 7, Osborne AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2004 | £130,000 | 107 m² | £1,215/m² | 1 |
| 10, Osborne AvenueDetached | Aug 2019 | £270,000 | 91 m² | £2,967/m² | 2 |
| 12, Osborne AvenueDetached | Oct 2011 | £231,000 | 113 m² | £2,044/m² | 4 |
| 14, Osborne AvenueDetached | Jun 2005 | £249,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 16, Osborne AvenueDetached | Feb 2025 | £295,000 | 111 m² | £2,658/m² | 3 |
| 17, Osborne AvenueDetached | Jun 2005 | £235,000 | – | – | 3 |
| 19, Osborne AvenueDetached | Dec 2015 | £205,000 | 94 m² | £2,181/m² | 5 |
| 20, Osborne AvenueDetached | Nov 1995 | £117,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 21, Osborne AvenueDetached | Aug 2004 | £205,000 | 101 m² | £2,030/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 drive away (3.1 km), with 2.3m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Leeds.
The nearest bus stop is Rochester Drive, 250 m away, with a bus about every 33 minutes on weekdays (routes 232, 231); 16 departures an hour from the 3 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 49% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Horbury Academy, 650 m away; Attainment 8: 48.7 · 12.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Trinity Academy Cathedral (2.6 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Heckmondwike Grammar School (9.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-Op Food, 1.1 km away, with Asda Express Lupset closer still (600 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Orchard Croft (850 m), with Well the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Oasis is 1.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Pinderfields Hospital, 5.5 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: 14 restaurants and cafés, 14 pubs and bars.
Hickorys Smokehouse Horbury is the closest café or restaurant (400 m), and Kings Arms the nearest pub (850 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (10 of them).
Crime is around the national middle: about 95 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 16 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 8% flats and 28% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is Carr Lodge Park, 600 m away; for exercise, Muscle World (1.1 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.4 µg/m³).
For holidays, Leeds Bradford is 24 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 59 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 41% of households own their home outright.
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.
16 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.
Ossett and Denby Dale constituency: Jade Botterill MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 4,542 (10.4%), turnout 61%. Vote shares: Labour 39%, Conservative 29%, Reform UK 21%, Green Party 5%.
11 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 WF4 5QR →
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 13 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 9 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.2% | 1.7% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 96.3% | 94.6% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.1% | 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.