Back Lane Accrington, Hyndburn

52 addresses across 7 postcodes (BB5), about 1 km (0.6 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 17901530.

  • Sales: 32 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £475,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 6, D: 8, E: 3).
  • Flood: 5 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Hyndburn costs £2,466 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Accrington, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Haworth Park, is about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 224 to 280 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 15 of its 52 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Peel House Medical Practice, about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,740 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 79% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 18 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£475,000£475,000£475,000
20242£398,750£397,500£400,000
20231£255,000£255,000£255,000
20211£160,000£160,000£160,000
20202£262,500£205,000£320,000
20191£300,000£300,000£300,000
20182£164,500£134,000£195,000
20171£282,500£282,500£282,500
20162£310,000£250,000£370,000
20151£175,000£175,000£175,000
20131£200,000£200,000£200,000
20121£232,500£232,500£232,500
Most recent sales (32)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 May 202650 BB5 2REDetached£475,000
5 Aug 202536 BB5 2REDetached£135,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Dec 202439 BB5 2REDetached£397,500
12 Jul 20242, PILLING BARN BB5 2REDetached£400,000
14 Dec 202358 BB5 2RESemi-detached£255,000
9 Feb 2021PILLING FARM BB5 2REDetached£160,000
26 Nov 20201, PILLING BARN BB5 2RESemi-detached£320,000
29 Oct 202054 BB5 2RESemi-detached£205,000
24 May 201946 BB5 2REDetached£300,000
18 Apr 2019LOWER SPRING FARM BB5 2SFOther£432,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Nov 201858 BB5 2RESemi-detached£195,000
29 Jun 20182, PILLING BARN BB5 2REDetached£134,000
24 Jul 201750 BB5 2REDetached£282,500
24 Nov 2016LOWER SPRING FARM BB5 2SFDetached£370,000
12 Feb 201644 BB5 2REDetached£250,000
25 Jun 201551 BB5 2REDetached£175,000
12 Sep 201346 BB5 2REDetached£200,000
31 Aug 201249 BB5 2REDetached£232,500
24 Apr 200950 BB5 2REDetached£290,000
26 Oct 200762 BB5 2RESemi-detached£172,000
15 Jan 2007BACK LANE BUNGALOW BB5 2DZDetached£70,203
2 Sep 200549 BB5 2REDetached£243,000
17 Jan 200350 BB5 2REDetached£154,000
7 Jun 200262 BB5 2RESemi-detached£95,000
22 Feb 200250 BB5 2REDetached£122,000
1 Mar 2000BACK LANE BUNGALOW BB5 2DZDetached£100,000
2 Sep 199960 BB5 2RESemi-detached£66,500
7 Nov 199758 BB5 2RESemi-detached£51,000
17 Oct 199752 BB5 2RESemi-detached£55,000
8 Aug 199739 BB5 2REDetached£85,000
12 Jun 199750 BB5 2REDetached£80,000
20 Sep 199537 BB5 2REDetached£74,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 106 m². Most common: House, detached (7); Bungalow, detached (7); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1967-1975 (4); 1950-1966 (4); 2007-2011 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Hyndburn in 2026-27: Band D £2,466 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,644£1,918£2,192£2,466£3,014£3,562£4,110£4,932

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (29% of about 1,900 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Immediate Article 4 Direction for small Houses in Multiple Occupation.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: yes, Hyndburn.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 10 September 2026 to 14 September 2026: BT, Utility asset works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, carriageway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 4 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
BB5 2REnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BB5 2SFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BB5 2DZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BB5 2TBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BB5 2RLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BB5 2RFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BB5 2TFnot in 2 or 3 4 / 1 / 1 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 52 addresses are between 224 m and 280 m above sea level (247 m on average); the ground rises about 56 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
BB5 2DZ25%0%0%25%
BB5 2RE100%0%0%0%
BB5 2RF100%73%73%0%
BB5 2RL100%0%0%0%
BB5 2SF80%40%40%0%
BB5 2TB100%100%100%0%
BB5 2TF100%100%89%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsAccrington 504,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Church and Oswaldtwistle 59,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.3 miles)
Huncoat 25,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 17 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alliance Street Baxenden180 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Accrington2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Car parksPlantation St Parking2.5 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN42.8 km (27 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesPeel House Medical Practice2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Baxenden Pharmacy110 m
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Baxenden Dental Practice110 m
HospitalAccrington Victoria Hospital3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Police stationPolice2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Cash machinesTesco Bank ATM2.4 km (1.5 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenHaworth Park 4.0 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 440 m²920 m (0.6 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha140 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha670 m (0.4 miles)

Landmarks

2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tom Dale CloughValley600 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Luddington CloughValley890 m (0.6 miles) south
Cat CloughValley1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
RoundhillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
Mitchell's House ReservoirsLake or reservoir2 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Brocklehurst WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.34015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6430
55 to 59120
Under 553752

15 of the street's 52 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Hyndburn: see them on the Hyndburn page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Baxenden St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11380 m No published inspection
The HollinsSecondary11–161 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St John's Stonefold CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Green Haworth Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Anne's and St Joseph's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary4–112 km (1.2 miles) Inadequate (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lee Royd Nursery SchoolNursery2–42 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Baxenden Cricket Club Clubhouse BB5 2REPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good28 Jul 2026
Dog & Partridge - Wet sales only BB5 2RERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good22 Oct 2025
Baxenden Pharmacy BB5 2RGRetailers - other80 mExempt
Baxie Coffee Ltd BB5 2QJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen320 m4 Good10 Jul 2026
Baxenden CE Primary School BB5 2RQSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good6 Feb 2025
Just Imagine at BB5 2RQSchool/college/university390 m5 Very good13 Aug 2024
New Kam Po House BB5 2QJTakeaway/sandwich shop420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good28 Sep 2026
Sandersons Butchers BB5 2QJRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Jun 2026
Tesco Stores Limited BB5 2QJRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Mar 2024
The Snack Box / Little Bee Play Cafe BB5 2QJTakeaway/sandwich shop450 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

18 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour7
Violence and sexual offences5
Criminal damage and arson2
Burglary1
Other theft1
Possession of weapons1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Alliance Street (6); On or near White Acre Road (3); On or near Wavell Close (3); On or near Back Lane (2); On or near Edward Street (2).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 6 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,738 residents in 745 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4740
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%61%
Owned outright42%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)25%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 4 to 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings New Kam Po House (takeaway/sandwich shop, BB5 2QJ) re-inspected, still 4 Good (rated 28 September 2026) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • BB5 2RE: 35 addresses of 39 in the postcode
  • BB5 2SF: 5 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • BB5 2DZ: 4 addresses of 11 in the postcode
  • BB5 2TB: 4 addresses
  • BB5 2RL: 2 addresses of 23 in the postcode
  • BB5 2RF: 1 address of 16 in the postcode
  • BB5 2TF: 1 address of 12 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Manchester Road · Partridge Drive · Vicarage Lane · Edward Street · Langford Street · Wavell Close · Alliance Street · White Acre Road · Mill Street · Montgomery Close · Scott Avenue · Alma Place

All the streets in BB5 and across Hyndburn.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.