Tow Law

What is it like to live in Tow Law?

Homes sold for a typical £97,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. Ofcom reports on 76 postcodes here; at none of them can every home and business get gigabit broadband. None of its 76 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is North House Surgery, 5.5 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Wolsingham, 4.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Tow Law?

Homes in Tow Law sold for a typical £97,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 24 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £87,500 from 24 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached 1 sale, too few to price
• Semi-detached 4 sales, too few to price
• Terraced £92,500 18 sales
• Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole DL13 district, Tow Law's main postcode district: a typical £155,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Tow Law: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Tow Law?

2 of the 76 postcodes now in use in Tow Law came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 24 homes sold in Tow Law were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DL13 district, 3%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Tow Law?

Ofcom reports on 76 of the 76 postcodes in Tow Law. At none of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Tow Law at risk of flooding?

None of the 76 postcodes in Tow Law is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Tow Law?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Tow Law. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Tow Law?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Tow Law is Wolsingham Rail Station, 4.9 km away in a straight line.

• Wolsingham Rail Station Railway station 4.9 kmCycle
• Frosterley Rail Station Railway station 9.7 kmDrive
• Stanhope Rail Station Railway station 12.0 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Tow Law?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Tow Law. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• North House Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01388 762945 5.5 kmDrive
• Willington Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01388 742500 8.8 kmDrive
• Lanchester Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report July 2026 · Phone 01207 520877 9.5 kmDrive

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Tow Law safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 315 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Tow Law over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: shoplifting 8, bicycle theft 2, drugs 2, theft from the person 1, possession of weapons 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Tow Law?

Council

County Durham

Parliamentary constituencies

Bishop Auckland (74) and City of Durham (2)

Police force area

Durham

Region

North East

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.