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On Firswood Road, in Bickerstaffe & Newburgh
What it's like at WN8 8UT: every home that has sold on Firswood 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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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 Firswood Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 24 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 5, Small Holding, Firswood RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2018 | £225,000 | 68 m² | £3,309/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ash Grove, Firswood RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2013 | £210,000 | 68 m² | £3,088/m² | 1 |
| Beacon View, Firswood RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2025 | £464,999 | 172 m² | £2,703/m² | 3 |
| Brentmead, Firswood RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2005 | £295,000 | 109 m² | £2,706/m² | 2 |
| Hillbrae, 1, Firswood RoadSemi-detached | Dec 1999 | £82,500 | – | – | 1 |
| Melrose, Firswood RoadSemi-detached | Nov 1996 | £40,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Newlands, Firswood RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2005 | £100,000 | 129 m² | £775/m² | 1 |
| Small Holding, Firswood RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2019 | £205,000 | 109 m² | £1,881/m² | 2 |
| Woodley, Firswood RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2020 | £350,000 | 126 m² | £2,778/m² | 3 |
| Woodville, Firswood RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2004 | £127,000 | 83 m² | £1,530/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Hoscar, a drive away (4.5 km), with 1k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Southport.
The nearest bus stop is School Lane, 550 m away, with a bus about every 10 minutes on weekdays (routes 375, 319, 310, 385).
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 45 minutes away by public transport (18 by car).
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Brookfield Park Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (1.0 km); 76% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Lathom High School : A Technology College, 1.5 km away; Attainment 8: 41.5 · 4.9% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Few families with young children: only 10% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Greggs, 900 m away; Asda (900 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Beacon Primary Care (1.0 km), with Rowlands Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.2 km).
For a haircut, Smith & Co is 2.7 km away.
The nearest full A&E is University Hospital Aintree, 12 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 48% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 11 restaurants and cafés, 9 pubs and bars.
Compass Group UK is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Wardens Club the nearest pub (750 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 30 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 104 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 48% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
It's growing: about 155 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Stanley Coronation Park, 1.2 km away; for exercise, Bannatyne Health Club (2.6 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 7.1 µg/m³).
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 25 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 43 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 51% of households own their home outright.
It's young: 30% of residents are aged 15–29.
1 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%.
13 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 8UT →
On this street: 1 of 20 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 9 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 | 1.3% | 0.5% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 67.8% | 90.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 21.7% | 4.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 7.1% | 4.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 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.
This is a student area: 26% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 census, so expect shared houses, busy term times and quiet summers.
The nearest university is Edge Hill University, 4.0 km away (TEF Silver).
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.
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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 24 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 59 min
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