Bobbin Close Bacup, Rossendale

9 addresses across 2 postcodes (OL13), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32402583.

12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £170,500 across 3 sales. 8 homes have an energy certificate (B: 8). 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Rossendale costs £2,520 a year in 2026-27. Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises. The nearest railway station is Walsden, about 5.2 km away in a straight line. The nearest park or garden is about 770 m away. Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits. Its addresses are 298 to 300 m above sea level. 2 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic. The nearest GP surgery is Irwell Medical Practice, about 1.3 km away. About 230 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification. 39 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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
20243£170,500£170,000£186,000
20221£180,000£180,000£180,000
20193£105,000£102,500£110,000
20181£105,000£105,000£105,000
20173£125,000£125,000£125,000
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Sep 20246 OL13 9BETerraced£170,500
28 Jun 20242 OL13 9BETerraced£170,000
8 Apr 20248 OL13 9BETerraced£186,000
2 Dec 20224 OL13 9BETerraced£180,000
28 Nov 20196 OL13 9BETerraced£102,500
13 Sep 20197 OL13 9BETerraced£105,000
19 Jul 20193 OL13 9BETerraced£110,000
12 Oct 20182 OL13 9BETerraced£105,000
10 Nov 20178 OL13 9BETerraced£125,000
4 Apr 20174 OL13 9BETerraced£125,000
15 Mar 20175 OL13 9BETerraced£125,000
27 Feb 20171 OL13 9BEOther£125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

8 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 90 m². Most common: House, end-terrace (4); House, mid-terrace (4). Built: 2016 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (8).

Council tax

What each band costs in Rossendale in 2026-27: Band D £2,520 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,680£1,960£2,240£2,520£3,080£3,640£4,200£5,040

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (31% of about 1,150 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 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • 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: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 6 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
OL13 9BEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL13 9THnot in 2 or 3 1 / 2 / 6 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 9 addresses are between 298 m and 300 m above sea level (299 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
OL13 9BE100%100%100%0%
OL13 9TH100%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 stationsWalsden 80,000 journeys in 2024–255.2 km
Todmorden 718,000 journeys in 2024–256.0 km
Smithy Bridge 191,000 journeys in 2024–258.0 km
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m, 18 within 800 m; nearest Cobden Street Bacup40 m
Bus or coach stationTodmorden Bus Station6.3 km
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km; nearest MFG Charging Station1.6 km
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN38.6 km

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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Irwell Medical Practice1.3 km
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Bacup Pharmacy1.3 km
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Bacup Primary Health Trust1.3 km
HospitalBirch Hill Hospital7.1 km
Police stationWaterfoot Police Station5.1 km
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Whitworth, Off Market Street Cashzone3.5 km

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 garden1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 9,090 m²770 m
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 380 m²110 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 2,350 m²110 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 4,540 m²1.4 km

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

2 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Venomous CloughValley630 m south-west
Sheephouse CloughValley630 m west
Jam HillHill1.0 km south
Reddish HillHill1.0 km east
Rockcliffe WoodWood2.0 km west
Cowm ReservoirLake or reservoir2.8 km south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)6.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

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: 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 on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, 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 and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5910
Under 5579

2 of the street's 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 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
Britannia Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11160 m Report card (Apr 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bacup St Saviour's Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.0 km No published inspection
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St John With St Michael Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km No published inspection
Bacup Nursery SchoolNursery2–52.0 km Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bacup Thorn Primary SchoolPrimary4–112.0 km Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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 of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Britannia Chippy OL13 9THTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good26 Jun 2025
Britannia County Primary School (Kitchen) OL13 9THSchool/college/university140 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Britannia Post Office OL13 9THRetailers - other140 m5 Very good15 Jul 2024
Bacup Balti OL13 9THTakeaway/sandwich shop140 m5 Very good20 Jan 2025
Funda Wrap Around Care OL13 9THSchool/college/university140 m4 Good22 Sep 2026
Genes Kitchen OL13 9THRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good21 Jul 2026
Granelli's Ice Cream - YP15 LGF OL13 9SDMobile caterer400 m5 Very good31 Jul 2025

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.

39 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences17
Anti-social behaviour10
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime3
Other theft2
Burglary1
Theft from the person1
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Varley Close (9); On or near Cotton Mill Court (7); On or near Sarah Street (6); On or near Cobden Street (5); On or near Harrison Street (4).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 233 residents in 118 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 age5140
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright39%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented17%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van74%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus9%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)46%65%
Work 30 km or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification9%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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.

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.

Nearby streets

Harrison Street · Harrison Street · Ernest Street · William Street · Sutcliffe Street · Cobden Street · Nelson Street · Kenyon Street · Kenyon Street · Sarah Street · Bobbin Close · Railgate

All the streets in OL13 and across Rossendale.

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 aircraft, industry or neighbours: noise figures are models of road and rail traffic outside, in England only.

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