Embsay Close Bolton

25 addresses across 1 postcode (BL1), about 150 m long, classed as a restricted local access road. USRN 3401445.

  • Sales: 50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £218,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 10, E: 3).
  • Flood: 4 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 Bolton costs £2,400 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hall-I'-Th'-Wood, about 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Smithills Country Park, is about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 151 to 159 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mandalay Medical Centre, about 830 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • People: About 360 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 33% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20251£218,000£218,000£218,000
20221£200,000£200,000£200,000
20211£164,000£164,000£164,000
20201£240,000£240,000£240,000
20192£218,500£142,000£295,000
20181£190,000£190,000£190,000
20172£256,750£235,000£278,500
20161£132,500£132,500£132,500
20141£170,000£170,000£170,000
20121£155,000£155,000£155,000
20111£150,000£150,000£150,000
20101£147,500£147,500£147,500
Most recent sales (50)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Dec 202532 BL1 7EJSemi-detached£218,000Leasehold.
21 Mar 202224 BL1 7EJTerraced£200,000Leasehold.
1 Dec 202128 BL1 7EJTerraced£164,000Leasehold.
19 Nov 20207 BL1 7EJDetached£240,000Leasehold.
3 May 201928 BL1 7EJTerraced£142,000Leasehold.
1 Feb 201914 BL1 7EJDetached£295,000Leasehold.
20 Feb 20185 BL1 7EJDetached£190,000Leasehold.
31 Aug 20178 BL1 7EJDetached£278,500Leasehold.
20 Feb 201710 BL1 7EJDetached£235,000Leasehold.
5 Feb 201624 BL1 7EJTerraced£132,500Leasehold.
4 Dec 201411 BL1 7EJDetached£170,000Leasehold.
20 Jun 20146 BL1 7EJDetached£150,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Sep 201216 BL1 7EJDetached£155,000Leasehold.
22 Dec 20113 BL1 7EJDetached£150,000Leasehold.
30 Jun 201034 BL1 7EJSemi-detached£147,500Leasehold.
27 Oct 20098 BL1 7EJDetached£180,000Leasehold.
13 Aug 200918 BL1 7EJDetached£156,000Leasehold.
7 Dec 200728 BL1 7EJTerraced£118,000Leasehold.
9 Feb 200410 BL1 7EJDetached£175,000Leasehold.
9 Jan 200428 BL1 7EJTerraced£88,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 200320 BL1 7EJSemi-detached£118,000Leasehold.
29 Aug 200330 BL1 7EJSemi-detached£98,500Leasehold.
20 Dec 20024 BL1 7EJDetached£146,000Leasehold.
1 Nov 200224 BL1 7EJTerraced£99,950Leasehold.
14 Jun 20025 BL1 7EJDetached£115,950Leasehold.
29 Jun 200128 BL1 7EJTerraced£60,000Leasehold.
18 Dec 200018 BL1 7EJDetached£92,000Leasehold.
6 Jul 20001 BL1 7EJDetached£105,000Leasehold.
3 Apr 200011 BL1 7EJDetached£82,000Leasehold.
12 Jul 19999 BL1 7EJDetached£82,300Leasehold.
2 Jul 19995 BL1 7EJDetached£85,000Leasehold.
25 Sep 19982 BL1 7EJDetached£112,475New build. Leasehold.
26 Jun 19986 BL1 7EJDetached£83,775New build. Leasehold.
26 Jun 199832 BL1 7EJSemi-detached£58,000New build. Leasehold.
26 Jun 199834 BL1 7EJSemi-detached£58,000New build. Leasehold.
25 Jun 199820 BL1 7EJSemi-detached£58,000New build. Leasehold.
25 Jun 199828 BL1 7EJTerraced£52,000New build. Leasehold.
25 Jun 199826 BL1 7EJTerraced£52,000New build. Leasehold.
24 Jun 19988 BL1 7EJDetached£48,975New build. Leasehold.
19 Jun 199830 BL1 7EJSemi-detached£58,000New build. Leasehold.
19 Jun 199822 BL1 7EJSemi-detached£58,000New build. Leasehold.
18 Jun 199818 BL1 7EJDetached£83,775New build. Leasehold.
29 May 19987 BL1 7EJDetached£95,200New build. Leasehold.
29 May 199816 BL1 7EJDetached£79,850New build. Leasehold.
29 May 199812 BL1 7EJDetached£64,300New build. Leasehold.
28 May 199811 BL1 7EJDetached£74,200New build. Leasehold.
22 May 19985 BL1 7EJDetached£81,850New build. Leasehold.
1 May 19989 BL1 7EJDetached£79,850New build. Leasehold.
17 Apr 19983 BL1 7EJDetached£79,850New build. Leasehold.
27 Mar 19981 BL1 7EJDetached£110,750New build. Leasehold.

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 March 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 86 m². Most common: House, detached (13); House, semi-detached (3); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1996-2002 (16); 1991-1995 (2); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (2); rented (social) (1).

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 (72% of about 790 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: 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): 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.

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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 9 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 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 25 addresses are between 151 m and 159 m above sea level (155 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
BL1 7EJ100%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 stationsHall-I'-Th'-Wood 196,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Bromley Cross (Lancs) 312,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Bolton 3.0 million journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.3 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 37 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mackenzie Street Oldhams Estate240 m
Bus or coach stationBolton Interchange3.5 km (2.2 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN30.6 km (19 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mandalay Medical Centre830 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist830 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery730 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalBeaumont Hospital4.8 km (3 miles)
Police stationAstley Bridge Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone1.6 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 Smithills Country Park 36 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 160 m²280 m
Playing field5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,080 m²240 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha760 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 36 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Smithills Hall, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 930 m (0.6 miles) west. 18 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Smithills HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II930 m (0.6 miles) west
Smithills HallListed building, Grade I1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Raveden PlantationWood720 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Raveden CloughValley870 m (0.5 miles) west
Horrocks WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Dog Kennel PlantationWood1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Meeting of the WatersLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Whimberry HillHill2.7 km (1.7 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)8.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.5205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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
Under 552525

None of the street's 25 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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
Thornleigh Salesian College Roman CatholicSecondary11–18580 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Holy Infant and St Anthony RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11610 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Jan 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: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
High Lawn Primary SchoolPrimary2–11630 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Paul's CofE Primary School, Astley Bridge Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
The Oaks Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Smithills SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Sharples SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Peter's Smithills Dean Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Sharples Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Eden Boys' School, Bolton MuslimSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
St Thomas C of E Primary School, Halliwell Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St John the Evangelist RC Primary School, Bromley Cross, Bolton Roman CatholicPrimary5–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection

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
MHB Supp BL1 7BERetailers - other150 mAwaiting inspection
BG Food Store BL1 6QSRetailers - other230 mUnknown30 Jun 2026
High View Kindergarten BL1 7DZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises350 m4 Good12 May 2026
Top Of The Shops Ltd BL1 7DARetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)4 Good14 Jan 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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (lancashire).

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: 356 residents in 121 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 age3740
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work71%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)10%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van67%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more awayunder 1%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)33%34%
No qualifications8%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

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

Greenleigh Close · Oakworth Drive · Amblethorn Drive · Selkirk Road · Wilkinson Road · Cheviot Close · Heatherfield · Hurstwood · Queensbury Close · Shoreswood · Cottingley Close · Forfar 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.