Bath Street Darwen

4 addresses across 3 postcodes (BB3), about 20 m long. USRN 2901827.

  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Blackburn with Darwen cost £160,727 in August 2026 (-0.2% on a year); private rents averaged £715 a month.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2).
  • Flood: 4 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Storm overflows: 19 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 364 times (348 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Suezlower, Eccleshill Road - Anaerobic Digestion Facility, is 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Blackburn with Darwen costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Darwen, about 380 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 330 m away, and Bold Venture Park (7.8 hectares) is about 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 155 to 157 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 4 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Spring-Fenisco Healthlink, about 380 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 23% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 445 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 19 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 7 of them fatal or serious; 14 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

House prices and rents in Blackburn with Darwen

A typical home in Blackburn with Darwen cost £160,727 in August 2026, 0.2% less than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier and 52% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£280,280
Semi-detached£178,974
Terraced£135,429
Flat or maisonette£87,504
Bought by a first-time buyer£145,946

Private renters in Blackburn with Darwen paid £715 a month on average in September 2026, 3.8% more than a year before. That is 38% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£535
Two bedrooms£663
Three bedrooms£783
Four or more bedrooms£1,113

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 January 2020 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 69 m². Most common: Flat (2). Built: 2019 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

None of the street's postcodes has the 5 or more domestic meters needed for figures to be published.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Blackburn with Darwen in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,637£1,910£2,182£2,455£3,001£3,547£4,092£4,911

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (80% of about 870 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) 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: yes, Darwen Town Centre (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

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.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Suezlower, Eccleshill Road - Anaerobic Digestion Facility Blackburn with Darwen 10/22/1006 Anaerobic digestion Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2023 1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 3 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 3 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
BB3 2BFzone 2 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BB3 2REnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BB3 3HAzone 2 2 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

19 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 364 times, for 348 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Darwen, Culverted Section River Darwen, Clvrtd Section of River Darwen, Trib River Darwen and others.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Redearth Road/Sudell Road Cso United Utilities River Darwen 3 1 30 m
Church Street/Parliament Street Cso United Utilities Culverted Section River Darwen 7 2 40 m
Railway Road/South Street Cso United Utilities Clvrtd Section of River Darwen 0 0 120 m
Kay Street Cso United Utilities Trib River Darwen 0 0 280 m
28 Tythebarn Street Cso United Utilities River Darwen (Sewer) 20 16 280 m
Sudell Road Cso United Utilities Trib River Darwen 26 25 460 m (0.3 miles)
Sudellside Street Cso (052T9) United Utilities; monitored 89% of the year Trib River Darwen 0 0 470 m (0.3 miles)
Balle Street Hilton Street Cso United Utilities River Darwen 46 28 520 m (0.3 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

3 of the street's 3 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 3 to 5%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 4 addresses are between 155 m and 157 m above sea level (156 m on average).

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
BB3 2BF100%100%100%0%
BB3 2RE100%100%100%0%
BB3 3HA100%100%100%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 stationsDarwen 346,000 journeys in 2024–25380 m
Mill Hill (Lancs) 60,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.2 miles)
Entwistle 20,000 journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Bus stops31 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 71 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Street Darwen50 m
Bus or coach stationArrival Stand Blackburn Town Centre6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Atlas Road Car Park280 m
EV charging pointsGridserve Charging Station2.2 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN40.4 km (25 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Spring-Fenisco Healthlink Good Jun 2026380 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Church Street Pharmacy70 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery170 m
HospitalRoyal Blackburn Hospital Good Feb 20194.6 km (2.8 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St James House Requires improvement Feb 2022750 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationPolice Headquarters4.3 km (2.6 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM150 m

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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.7 ha330 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Bold Venture Park 7.8 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Play area9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 200 m²390 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,980 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,760 m²520 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 20 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Peter, a listed building (Grade II*), 140 m north-east. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*140 m north-east
India Mill ChimneyListed building, Grade II*410 m (0.3 miles) south
Bold Venture ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II740 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Steam tramway reversing triangleScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south
Sunnyhurst WoodsRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hills ReservoirLake or reservoir460 m (0.3 miles) west
Knowl Heights PlantationWood830 m (0.5 miles) west
Eccles HillHill1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Polyphemus WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) north
Darwen HillHill1.6 km (1 mile) west
Sunnyhurst CloughValley1.6 km (1 mile) west

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)9.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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
55 to 5910
Under 5534

1 of the street's 4 addresses is 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 Blackburn with Darwen: see them on the Blackburn with Darwen page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Darwen Aldridge Community AcademySecondary11–19190 m No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 36.8 (36.5 in 2025 and 39.0 in 2024); 21.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 0% AAB or better; progress below average
Holy Trinity VC School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11240 m No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 29% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Aldridge UTC DarwenSecondary13–19380 m Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 31.7 (34.7 in 2025 and 36.4 in 2024); 19.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 0% AAB or better; progress average
Turncroft Nursery SchoolNursery3–4490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, DarwenPrimary4–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 40% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
Darwen Aldridge Sudell PrimaryPrimary4–11670 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 13% in 2024 and 28% in 2023)
Darwen St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11700 m (0.4 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Darwen St James CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–11800 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement 37% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 28% in 2024 and 19% in 2023)
Avondale Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 64% in 2023)
Ashleigh Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 74% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 38% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 32% in 2024 and 25% in 2023)
Darwen, St Barnabas CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1 km (0.6 miles); the nearest is 400 m (0.2 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Precious Moments Childcare (Darwen) ltd. BB3 2DE Full day care 55 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 400 m (0.2 miles)
Duxbury, Elle May BB3 1AL Childminder without domestic premises 3 Not inspected yet 500 m (0.3 miles)
Bolland, Gemma BB3 1AL Childminder without domestic premises 3 Not inspected yet 500 m (0.3 miles)
Kidsland Limited at St Joseph's Church Hall Darwen BB3 2PG Out-of-school day care 60 Not inspected yet 510 m (0.3 miles)
Butterflies Out Of School Experience BB3 3DL Out-of-school day care 40 Mar 2026: Expected standard in 2 areas, Needs attention in 2 510 m (0.3 miles)
PALS-Darwen St Joseph's Primary School BB3 2SG Full day care 35 Not inspected yet 530 m (0.3 miles)
Marshmallows Day Nursery BB3 3JB Full day care 63 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 570 m (0.4 miles)
Darwen Children's Centre BB3 0HD Sessional day care 56 Good (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 630 m (0.4 miles)
Kidzania Childcare Darwen BB3 1AT Full day care 99 Apr 2026: Urgent improvement in 6 areas 730 m (0.5 miles)
Rainbow Childcare BB3 1NW Full day care 32 Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 55 childminders and 1 home childcarers (nannies) in Blackburn with Darwen. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Friar Ruggs Fish and Chips BB3 2AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m4 Good28 Mar 2026
Bridge St Sports & Social Club BB3 2AAPub/bar/nightclub40 m5 Very good24 Jul 2018
The Kettle Cafe and Bar BB3 2AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good21 May 2026
Artisan Cafe & Wine Bar BB3 2AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m3 Generally satisfactory22 Mar 2025
Natural Choice Health Foods BB3 2AARetailers - other50 m5 Very good27 Apr 2022
Darwen Community Helpers BB3 2AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good15 Feb 2024
Darwen Flamingos Ltd BB3 2AATakeaway/sandwich shop70 mAwaiting inspection
Enchanting Cakes BB3 2AARetailers - other70 m4 Good31 Aug 2022
One Stop BB3 2RERetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets70 m2 Improvement necessary9 Dec 2025
Spar BB3 2RERetailers - other70 m5 Very good15 Oct 2026
The Bank Bar & Kitchen BB3 2RERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good26 Jun 2026
Bees Knees BB3 2AAPub/bar/nightclub80 m5 Very good27 May 2026
Church Street Pharmacy BB3 2RERetailers - other80 mExempt
Luqmaa BB3 1DFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good8 Sep 2026
Mikan Patisserie BB3 1DFManufacturers/packers100 m5 Very good16 Jun 2026

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.

445 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences172
Anti-social behaviour98
Shoplifting47
Drugs31
Public order28
Criminal damage and arson21
Other theft13
Vehicle crime12
Other crime10
Possession of weapons7
Robbery3
Bicycle theft1
Burglary1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Church Bank Street (78); On or near Bridge Street (64); On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (60); On or near Victoria Street (43); On or near Arch Street (41).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

19 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 6 serious and 12 slight, in which 1 person died and 6 people were seriously hurt. 14 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 6 involved a child under 16. 26% happened in the dark, and 21% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202141
202232
202341
202452
202531
The most recent 10 of 19
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
19 Sep 2025 13:43 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
20 Feb 2025 14:21 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
18 Jan 2025 21:00 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
9 Dec 2024 10:47 Fatal 1 person: 1 pedestrian A666, 30 mph Daylight
6 Oct 2024 19:10 Serious 2 people A666, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
10 Aug 2024 15:11 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A666, 30 mph Daylight
5 Jun 2024 05:35 Slight 1 person A666, 30 mph Wet road
26 Feb 2024 16:31 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child A666, 30 mph Daylight
2 Sep 2023 22:13 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A666, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
31 Aug 2023 07:30 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 400 residents in 221 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 age4240
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)23%61%
Owned outright13%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented46%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work43%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van51%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle21%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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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.

  • BB3 2BF: 2 addresses of 3 in the postcode
  • BB3 2RE: 1 address of 12 in the postcode
  • BB3 3HA: 1 address of 5 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Victoria Street · Bridge Street · Foundry Street · Bank Street · Church Bank Street · Church Street · Hardman Way · Sudell Road · Parliament Street · The Circus · Church Terrace · Market Street

All the streets in BB3 and across Blackburn with Darwen.

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.