WN5 8UX
Last sold £325,000 in July 2006
2, Union Close, Wigan
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Leasehold
- Elevation
- About 82m — higher than about 80% of homes in Wigan
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Price history in context
- Jul 2006 — £325,000
What this home might be worth today
£559,000
Estimate range £531,000–£587,000
+71.9% since July 2006 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well above the local norm at the time
vs 138 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Orrell Newfold Community Primary School 16-min walk
- Orrell Holgate Academy 7-min walk
- Orrell station 7-min walk
- Dean Wood 1.6km
- The coast (coastline) 12.1km
- Lake 468m
- Pond 789m
- Leeds And Liverpool Canal 3.2km
- Smithy Brook 218m
- Public Park 216m
- Playing Field 489m
- Tesco Express 1.5km
- Orrell Rail Station (Stop B) 365m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data
Commute by train
From Orrell, 408m away
- 50 min Liverpool
- 51 min Manchester
- 116 min Birmingham
- 120 min Leeds
Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.
Schools nearby
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Noise
Road noise here is mapped at 55–59 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — audible traffic.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,440 hours a year — sunnier than 10% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 3% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Among the lowest for England & Wales — 1 crime recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 4, Union Close, Wigan £317,000 · 2006
- 7, Union Close, Wigan £220,400 · 2006
- 3, Union Close, Wigan £199,950 · 2012
- 1, Union Close, Wigan £212,500 · 2013
- 5, Union Close, Wigan £262,000 · 2015
- 47, Naburn Drive, Wigan £85,000 · 2023
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