Popular Wakefield commuter village - properties for sale in Walton

The village of Walton and the area that surrounds it are popular places to live - with houses commanding higher than average prices for the Wakefield area and selling easily.

Once a mining village - the pit closed in the early 1980s - it is now largely residential with a mix of new and period houses and a small number of shops, businesses and pubs.

Ideal for the commuter it has excellent road and rail links. The nearby Sandal and Agbrigg Station has a regular service to Wakefield Westgate and Leeds northbound and Doncaster and Sheffield southbound and the M1 motorway is just a mile or two away.

Walton Hall from John Goodchild collection

One of Walton ’s most famous former residents is Charles Waterton, known as 'Squire' Waterton. He was a naturalist and explorer who, in 1820, transformed the grounds of the Walton Hall estate into the world's first nature reserve: the hall itself sitting on an island reached by an iron bridge - incidentally listed as one of the oldest and largest single cast iron structures in existence. There have been Watertons in Walton since 1443 and the present hall was built in 1767 by Charles’ father. For a number of years during the 20th century it was a military hospital, then a maternity home and now forms part of the Waterton Park Hotel with the park given over to an 18-hole golf course.The colliery site has been transformed into a nature park complete with large lakes and is a popular spot with walkers and cyclists all year round.

A quick online search reveals that property in Walton is sought after with fewer than 30 for sale at the time of writing. Here are three of them:

Cherry Tree Road

This three-bedroom new-build detached bungalow on Cherry Tree Road, on the market for offers in the region of £210,000, is ready to move into. With double glazing and central heating, it has a good-sized open-plan kitchen/diner fitted with a range of contemporary units, sitting room, bedroom three/study and downstairs WC - all to the ground floor.

The first-floor landing leads to two good-sized bedrooms and the house bathroom with contemporary white suite.

There ’s a lawn to the front and a patio plus a paved area to the rear suitable for off-street parking.

www.richardkendall.co.uk/property/cherry-tree-road-walton-wakefield/

Elmwood Close

The accommodation in this four-bedroom detached house on Elmwood Close is well proportioned and there is a spacious outbuilding to the rear which has the potential to create an annexe if required.

Accommodation consists of an entrance hall with an open staircase, kitchen, utility room, dining area, spacious living room and downstairs bathroom. To the first floor, there are four bedrooms (three of which are double )and a shower room.

With a guide price of £320,000 there are more details here: www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/49056525?search_identifier=55bd912a50ca0e93d262c9bd3f5d47f6

Enjoying far reaching views over the open fields to the front this is a beautifully appointed substantial four-bedroom detached family house on Greenside finished in a contemporary style to an exacting standard.

The entrance porch leads through into a central reception hall, there is a formal sitting room with a bay window to the front and a beautifully appointed modern kitchen which has an archway through to an adjoining dining area. This is in turn leads through into a family room that opens up to a snug with a double-sided wood burning stove.

The ground floor accommodation is completed by a separate utility room as well as a rear entrance porch/informal sitting area that leads through to the attached garage.

To the first floor, the master bedroom is fitted to an unusually high standard and has an en-suite shower room to the rear.

The second bedroom also has en-suite facilities with the two remaining bedrooms being served by a particularly well-appointed house bathroom/W.C.

On the market for £725, 000.

More details at: www.richardkendall.co.uk/property/greenside-walton-wakefield/