Finding postcode…
These only choose where you start. Every page and every lens is still one tap away.
Sign in to keep them on every device →Finding postcode…
On Spring Head, in Wednesbury
What it's like at WS10 9AD: every home that has sold on Spring Head 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.
Street View and the aerial view come from Google, which receives your IP address and may set cookies once you choose them. We'll remember your choice on this device.
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 Spring Head; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 6 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 12, Spring HeadDetached · company-owned | Mar 2026 | £215,000 | 64 m² | £3,359/m² | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14a, Spring HeadTerraced | Aug 2004 | £112,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Spring HeadTerraced | Aug 2012 | £78,000 | 109 m² | £716/m² | 1 |
| 19, Spring HeadOther | Aug 2018 | £625,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 20a, Spring HeadTerraced | Dec 2020 | £110,000 | 54 m² | £2,037/m² | 2 |
| Ryders Chambers, Spring HeadTerraced | Feb 1999 | £45,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Wednesbury Central Metro station, about a 10-minute walk (650 m). The nearest rail station is Bescot Stadium, 2.1 km away, with 155k journeys a year.
The nearest bus stop is Addison Terrace, 50 m away, with a bus about every 6 minutes on weekdays (routes 40, 47, 30, 674); 124 departures an hour from the 17 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is St John's Church of England Primary Academy, a few minutes' walk (150 m); 73% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Old Park Primary School (1.1 km), with 2 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is Wodensborough Ormiston Academy, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 38.6 · 5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Moseley Park (4.3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Queen Mary's Grammar School (5 km) and Queen Mary's High School (5.4 km).
The nearest supermarket is Heron Frozen Foods, 200 m away, with Wednesbury Post Office closer still (50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Jubilee Health Centre (200 m), with Jubilee Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (200 m).
For a haircut, Mandy's Hair & Beauty Salon is under 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Sandwell Health Campus, 3.6 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 57% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 60% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 15 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 23 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Porkys Café is the closest café or restaurant (under 50 m), and The Golden Cross the nearest pub (50 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (20 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 163 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 28% flats and 12% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Brunswick Park, 700 m away; for exercise, Wednesbury Leisure Centre (400 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 15.9 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 22 km away.
Most households own their home, 18% rent privately.
55 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.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Clock Tower in Wednesbury Market Place | II | 80 m |
| 31 and 33, Market Place | II | 90 m |
| District Public Library Wednesbury | II | 140 m |
| Central Memorial in Memorial Gardens | II | 170 m |
| Memorial Attached to North Wall of Memorial Gardens | II | 180 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
Tipton and Wednesbury constituency: Antonia Bance MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 3,385 (10.6%), turnout 43%. Vote shares: Labour 37%, Conservative 26%, Reform UK 25%, Green Party 5%.
23 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 WS10 9AD →
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 Sandwell 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 6 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.0% | 0.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 86.1% | 92.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 13.6% | 7.0% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.2% | 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: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 83 min
Nearest: Droitwich Spa Lido · 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.