Cheapside Square Bolton

1 address across 1 postcode (BL1), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 3401051.

  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 Bolton costs £2,400 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bolton, about 420 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Nelson Park, is about 80 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 95 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Octagon Medical Centre, about 250 m away, with 20 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 220 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 2% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1 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.

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

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Bolton in 2026-27: Band D £2,400 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,600£1,866£2,133£2,400£2,933£3,466£4,000£4,799

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (74% of about 1,310 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: yes, Mawdsley Street/Nelson Square. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 6.
  • 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.

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

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 address is about 95 m above sea level.

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
BL1 1JZ100%0%0%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 stationsBolton 3.0 million journeys in 2024–25420 m (0.3 miles)
Hall-I'-Th'-Wood 196,000 journeys in 2024–252.4 km (1.5 miles)
Moses Gate 37,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops22 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 68 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nelson Square Bolton140 m
Bus or coach stationBolton Interchange170 m
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Octagon Car Park150 m
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station210 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN27.2 km (17 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 surgeries20 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Octagon Medical Centre250 m
Pharmacies16 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Newport Pharmacy60 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery220 m
HospitalBolton Royal Hospital2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationCastle Street Police Station680 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines8 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Allens Chicken Cashzone130 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Nelson Park 470 m²80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Queen's Park 20 ha660 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,230 m²200 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.8 ha740 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 4,990 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 20 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Town Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 180 m north-west. 73 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Town HallListed building, Grade II*180 m north-west
Parish Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*380 m north-east
Church of St GeorgeListed building, Grade II*530 m (0.3 miles) north
Queen's Park, BoltonRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Tonge CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bradford ReservoirLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south
Oaken BottomValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Burnden CloughValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Raikes CloughValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Will HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Doe Hey WoodWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) south

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)14.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are 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 5501

1 of the street's 1 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 Bolton: see them on the Bolton page.

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
Bolton Sixth Form College16 plus16–19560 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Peter and St Paul RC Primary School a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11810 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Bolton Parish Church, Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
University Collegiate SchoolSecondary11–19890 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Bolton College16 plus16–99900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Gaskell Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Pikes Lane Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Matthew's CofE Primary School, Bolton Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Clarendon Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Gilnow Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bishop Bridgeman CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
The Valley Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Oct 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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Ciao Napoli BL1 1JZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good23 May 2025
D'Cocina BL1 1LFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good14 May 2026
Definitely Maybe Bar BL1 1LDPub/bar/nightclub40 m3 Generally satisfactory11 Jul 2025
Tea & Candy BL1 1LDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m4 Good7 Nov 2025
Kin La Belle BL1 1RJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m1 Major improvement necessary21 Sep 2026
Level Nightclub BL1 1LLPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good9 Jan 2026
Home Bargains BL1 1NERetailers - other60 m5 Very good27 May 2010
Admiral Casino BL1 1NERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good25 Sep 2025
Bolton news ltd BL1 1NERetailers - other60 m3 Generally satisfactory5 Jun 2024
The bar of spicen sprirts BL1 1JNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good11 Jul 2025
Odessa Cafe BL1 1RSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good22 Mar 2025
W H Smith BL1 1RJRetailers - other100 m5 Very good30 Oct 2024
The Dragonfly BL1 1DPPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good1 Mar 2025
AD Bodytech Health & Nutrition Ltd BL1 1NHRetailers - other100 m5 Very good19 Sep 2025
Bolton Town Coffee BL1 1NHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m2 Improvement necessary3 Jul 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.

1 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Theatre/Concert Hall (1).

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: 219 residents in 86 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 age2440
Children under 153%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)2%61%
Owned outright1%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented19%17%
Private rented78%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work42%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)18%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van25%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus34%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%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

  • Food hygiene ratings The Thai Van Catering Ltd (retailers - other, BL1 1DG) is no longer listed; it was rated Awaiting inspection found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings FUMU (manufacturers/packers, BL1 1DG) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 19 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Next Retail (retailers - other, BL1 2AL) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 28 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The Grumpy Baker (retailers - other, BL1 1TJ) now 5 Very good, was 4 Good (rated 16 October 2026) found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Balmoral Hotel (pub/bar/nightclub, BL1 1QQ) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 20 October 2026) found 31 October 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.

  • BL1 1JZ: 1 address of 7 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Back Mawdsley Street · Infirmary Street · Exchange Street · Mawdsley Street · Bowkers Row · Chancery Lane · Newport Street · Bold Street · Nelson Square · Lottery Row · Back Cheapside · Johnson Street

All the streets in BL1 and across Bolton.

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.