Dowbridge Kirkham, Fylde

142 addresses across 3 postcodes (PR4), about 400 m (0.2 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 14800948.

  • Energy: 73 homes have an energy certificate (C: 24, D: 41, E: 7, F: 1).
  • Flood: 3 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 Fylde costs £2,484 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 95% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Kirkham and Wesham, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 20 to 31 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 127 of its 142 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Ash Tree House Surgery, about 290 m away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 720 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 55% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 89 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 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

73 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 68 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (44); Flat (19); House, end-terrace (8). Built: before 1900 (25); 1900-1929 (22); 1991-1995 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (36); rented (private) (17); rented (social) (6).

Council tax

What each band costs in Fylde in 2026-27: Band D £2,484 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,656£1,932£2,208£2,484£3,036£3,588£4,140£4,968

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (44% of about 2,090 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: yes, Kirkham. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 4.
  • 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

Planned, as of 30 September 2026

  • 28 September 2026 to 6 November 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 20 September 2026 to 24 September 2026: SP Electricity North West, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)
  • 21 August 2026: BT, New service connection, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 1 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
PR4 2YAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
PR4 2ZAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 1 unlikely
PR4 2XAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 0 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 142 addresses are between 20 m and 31 m above sea level (26 m on average); the ground rises about 11 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
PR4 2XA100%100%100%0%
PR4 2YA100%100%95%0%
PR4 2ZA100%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 stationsKirkham and Wesham 398,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Salwick 1,620 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2.1 miles)
Moss Side 4,780 journeys in 2024–255.3 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Carr Lane Kirkham220 m
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Car park-Preston Mill Street540 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station540 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL49.8 km (31 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ash Tree House Surgery290 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well270 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery470 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalLytham Hospital7.1 km (4.4 miles)
Police stationLancashire Police - Kirkham Police Station210 m
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Wesham, Wesham Cashzone1.5 km (1 mile)

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 (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,510 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 980 m²480 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha280 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kirkham Allotments 8,230 m²290 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Michael, a listed building (Grade II*), 350 m north-west. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MichaelListed building, Grade II*350 m north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gay Hough WoodWood1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Wall WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Halls WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Freckleton MarshWetland3.3 km (2.1 miles) south
The DubLake or reservoir3.4 km (2.1 miles) west
Whitprick HillHill3.9 km (2.4 miles) north-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)6.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.7205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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, 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
65 to 69710
60 to 64510
55 to 5950
Under 5515142

127 of the street's 142 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 Fylde: see them on the Fylde 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
Kirkham St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–11260 m No published inspection
Carr Hill High SchoolSecondary11–16270 m Requires improvement (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Kirkham and Wesham Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
The Willows Catholic Primary School, Kirkham Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Medlar-with-Wesham Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Medlar-with-Wesham Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Stable Bar PR4 2ZAPub/bar/nightclub100 m5 Very good29 Jul 2025
Whitworth Chemist PR4 2SERetailers - other240 mExempt
Grill House PR4 2SPTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good5 Feb 2026
The Huntsman PR4 2SQPub/bar/nightclub240 m5 Very good21 Jan 2026
Co-operative Group PR4 2SDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets240 m5 Very good6 Aug 2025
Bargain Booze PR4 2SRRetailers - other260 m5 Very good27 Nov 2024
Queen's Arms PR4 2AAPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good20 Jul 2022
Stepping Stones PR4 2TJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m4 Good16 Jan 2026
Greens Delicatessen PR4 2ABRetailers - other290 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026
Monkeys Box PR4 2AATakeaway/sandwich shop290 m3 Generally satisfactory24 Apr 2026
Cafe@theoutlet PR4 2AARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m4 Good12 Jan 2026
Tap & Vent Brewhouse PR4 2ABPub/bar/nightclub320 m5 Very good13 Jan 2025
Poundstretcher PR4 2AARetailers - other330 mExempt
Kirkham Stores PR4 2AARetailers - other350 m4 Good13 Jan 2025
Kirkham Bierhaus PR4 2AHPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good13 May 2024

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.

89 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences39
Anti-social behaviour23
Public order9
Criminal damage and arson8
Other theft4
Other crime4
Drugs1
Vehicle crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near B5192 (37); On or near Freckleton Street (15); On or near Police Station (9); On or near The Conifers (7); On or near Philip Avenue (5).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 718 residents in 375 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 age4940
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)55%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented29%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle15%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)56%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 10 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.

  • PR4 2YA: 67 addresses of 68 in the postcode
  • PR4 2ZA: 52 addresses of 54 in the postcode
  • PR4 2XA: 23 addresses

Nearby streets

Preston Street · Ribble Crescent · Ribble Crescent · Mulberry Mews · Black Horse Mews · Lune Close · Hornby Court · Dowbridge Way · Carrwood Drive · The Conifers · Wyre Avenue · Windmill Avenue

All the streets in PR4 and across Fylde.

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.