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On Westbury Avenue, in Winstanley
What it's like at WN3 6HW: every home that has sold on Westbury 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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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 Westbury Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
2 of the 22 homes on the street are owned by companies (2 overseas).
| 1, Westbury AvenueDetached | May 2010 | £162,500 | 89 m² | £1,826/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2023 | £173,000 | 73 m² | £2,370/m² | 1 |
| 5, Westbury AvenueTerraced | Nov 1996 | £47,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 6, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2022 | £197,000 | 74 m² | £2,662/m² | 5 |
| 7, Westbury AvenueDetached | Feb 2026 | £285,000 | 96 m² | £2,969/m² | 2 |
| 8, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | May 2005 | £134,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 9, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached · company-owned | Sept 2002 | £79,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 11, Westbury AvenueTerraced · company-owned | Jan 2014 | £124,995 | 88 m² | £1,420/m² | 2 |
| 12, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 2013 | £123,500 | 78 m² | £1,583/m² | 3 |
| 13, Westbury AvenueOther | Sept 2024 | £192,000 | 75 m² | £2,560/m² | 2 |
| 14, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 1998 | £48,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 17, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | May 2014 | £119,995 | 81 m² | £1,481/m² | 3 |
| 19, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2022 | £195,000 | 74 m² | £2,635/m² | 2 |
| 20, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2025 | £220,000 | 74 m² | £2,973/m² | 3 |
| 24, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2000 | £47,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 26, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | May 2025 | £215,000 | 75 m² | £2,867/m² | 2 |
| 30, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | May 2019 | £122,500 | 75 m² | £1,633/m² | 1 |
| 32, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 1998 | £40,500 | 99 m² | £409/m² | 1 |
| 34, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2022 | £215,000 | 89 m² | £2,416/m² | 3 |
| 38, Westbury AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2005 | £137,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 44, Westbury AvenueOther | Feb 2020 | £8,000 | 56 m² | £143/m² | 2 |
| 48, Westbury AvenueDetached | Aug 2017 | £150,000 | 70 m² | £2,143/m² | 4 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Pemberton, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km), with 49k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Victoria.
The nearest bus stop is St Aidan's School, 150 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes 669, 667, 956, 949); 23 departures an hour from the 11 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is St Aidan's Catholic Primary School, Wigan, a few minutes' walk (250 m); 84% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Winstanley Community Primary School (0.6 km).
The nearest secondary is Hawkley Hall High School, 2.3 km away; Attainment 8: 40.4 · 7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield (4.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Co-operative Group, 150 m away; Bargain Booze (150 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Saxena L (150 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Scizza Sistar is 1.2 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, 4.7 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 43% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 61% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 13 restaurants and cafés, 4 pubs and bars.
Poacher's Arms is the closest café or restaurant (150 m), and Real Ale Revolution the nearest pub (150 m).
It's a mix of homes: 0% flats and 35% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1973-1982.
It's growing: about 283 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Kipling Park, 1.6 km away; for exercise, Total Fitness (1.3 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 9.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 24 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 32 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 46% 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.
14 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.
Makerfield constituency: Andy Burnham MP (Labour (Co-op)), since June 2026. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 5,399 (13.4%), turnout 53%. Vote shares: Labour 45%, Reform UK 32%, Conservative 11%, Liberal Democrat 7%.
21 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 WN3 6HW →
No crimes recorded "on or near" Westbury Avenue in the last 12 months.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Formby · about 31 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 50 min
Nearest: East Lancashire Railway · about 34 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 13 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 | 1.1% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 98.2% | 95.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.0% | 3.9% | 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.