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On The Common, in Parbold, Appley Bridge & Wrightington
What it's like at WN8 7EA: every home that has sold on The Common 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Common; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 52 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 27, The CommonDetached | May 2025 | £575,000 | 110 m² | £5,227/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37, The CommonSemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £435,000 | 121 m² | £3,595/m² | 3 |
| 39, The CommonSemi-detached | Oct 1996 | £82,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 43, The CommonSemi-detached | Feb 2024 | £530,000 | 149 m² | £3,557/m² | 1 |
| 46, The CommonDetached | Oct 2010 | £285,000 | 92 m² | £3,098/m² | 1 |
| 48, The CommonDetached | Sept 2014 | £280,000 | 84 m² | £3,333/m² | 2 |
| 49, The CommonSemi-detached | Dec 2013 | £325,000 | 101 m² | £3,218/m² | 2 |
| 52, The CommonDetached | Oct 2013 | £326,100 | 90 m² | £3,623/m² | 3 |
| 53, The CommonSemi-detached | Jul 2006 | £280,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 54, The CommonDetached | Mar 2005 | £389,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 57, The CommonSemi-detached | Oct 2004 | £219,000 | 114 m² | £1,921/m² | 1 |
| 58, The CommonDetached | Apr 2004 | £269,995 | – | – | 1 |
| 59, The CommonSemi-detached | Feb 2018 | £350,000 | 108 m² | £3,241/m² | 5 |
| 63, The CommonDetached | Apr 2017 | £690,000 | 206 m² | £3,350/m² | 3 |
| 66, The CommonSemi-detached | Feb 2000 | £63,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 68, The CommonSemi-detached | Aug 2018 | £295,000 | 115 m² | £2,565/m² | 2 |
| 71, The CommonDetached | Jul 1996 | £174,910 | – | – | 1 |
| 71a, The CommonDetached | Feb 2015 | £735,000 | 410 m² | £1,793/m² | 2 |
| 71c, The CommonDetached | May 2001 | £295,000 | 150 m² | £1,967/m² | 2 |
| 71d, The CommonDetached | Jan 1998 | £244,000 | 259 m² | £942/m² | 2 |
| 72, The CommonSemi-detached | Feb 2026 | £312,000 | 137 m² | £2,277/m² | 1 |
| 72a, The CommonDetached | Aug 2006 | £470,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 74, The CommonOther | Jun 2021 | £720,000 | 307 m² | £2,345/m² | 1 |
| 76a, The CommonDetached | Dec 2025 | £745,000 | 220 m² | £3,386/m² | 2 |
| 78, The CommonDetached | Nov 2004 | £630,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 80, The CommonDetached | Oct 2016 | £700,000 | 321 m² | £2,181/m² | 2 |
| 82, The CommonDetached | Aug 2000 | £273,500 | – | – | 1 |
| Hill Court, 72a, The CommonDetached | May 2021 | £557,500 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Parbold, about a 5-minute walk (500 m), with 99k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Manchester Piccadilly.
The nearest bus stop is Library, 100 m away, with a bus about every 33 minutes on weekdays (route 312); 5 departures an hour from the 3 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 7% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Parbold Douglas Church of England Academy, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 71% met the expected standard.
The nearest secondary is Maharishi Free School, 3.1 km away; Attainment 8: 54.1 · 14% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 14% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Spar Store, 3.4 km away, with Morrisons Daily closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Parbold Surgery (350 m), with J Halton the closest pharmacy (400 m).
For a haircut, Silhouette is 400 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, 8.4 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: 11 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
Margot Parbold is the closest café or restaurant (450 m), and The Red Lion the nearest pub (1.2 km).
It's a low-crime area: about 33 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 69 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 50% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
Bungalow country: 23% of homes are bungalows.
The nearest park is Tawd Valley Park, 4.2 km away; for exercise, Bannatyne Health Club (4.6 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 30 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 41 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 52% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 29% are 65 or over.
It's highly educated: 44% of adults have a degree.
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.
18 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.
West Lancashire constituency: Ashley Dalton MP (Labour), since February 2023. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 13,625 (30.8%), turnout 60%. Vote shares: Labour 51%, Conservative 20%, Reform UK 18%, Green Party 7%.
4 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 WN8 7EA →
On this street: 1 of 31 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 | 1.0% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.8% | 0.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 80.9% | 90.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 9.7% | 4.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 5.3% | 4.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.2% | 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: Formby · about 32 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 57 min
Nearest: Southport Pier · 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.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in West Lancashire 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 52 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.