Firshill Close Thornton, Wyre

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (FY5), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 45601869.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £160,000 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Wyre cost £188,833 in August 2026 (+1.8% on a year); private rents averaged £747 a month.
  • Energy: 13 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 9).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Hillhouse Business Park - Thornton Energy Recovery Centre, is 2 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Wyre costs £2,461 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Poulton-Le-Fylde, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 650 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 5 to 7 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 25 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Beechwood Surgery, about 600 m (0.4 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 510 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 77% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 42 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20262£160,000£155,000£165,000
20251£157,950£157,950£157,950
20242£180,500£176,000£185,000
20213£146,000£140,000£185,000
20171£145,000£145,000£145,000
20161£92,500£92,500£92,500
20131£129,690£129,690£129,690
20111£116,000£116,000£116,000
20101£146,000£146,000£146,000
20073£133,000£48,262£183,000
20061£137,000£137,000£137,000
20051£128,000£128,000£128,000
All 29 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Mar 20172 FY5 5HASemi-detached£145,000
2 Jun 20143 FY5 5HASemi-detached£99,950Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Aug 20006 FY5 5HASemi-detached£54,120
14 Feb 20247 FY5 5HASemi-detached£176,000
3 Nov 20007 FY5 5HASemi-detached£60,000
26 Oct 20078 FY5 5HASemi-detached£183,000
5 Feb 202610 FY5 5HASemi-detached£155,000
2 Mar 200710 FY5 5HASemi-detached£48,262
28 Sep 202111 FY5 5HASemi-detached£185,000
8 Nov 201311 FY5 5HASemi-detached£129,690
7 Sep 200711 FY5 5HASemi-detached£133,000
14 Jun 202415 FY5 5HASemi-detached£185,000
8 Apr 200215 FY5 5HASemi-detached£81,500
5 Dec 200115 FY5 5HASemi-detached£65,000
30 Apr 202116 FY5 5HASemi-detached£146,000
24 Feb 201616 FY5 5HASemi-detached£92,500
9 Apr 202617 FY5 5HASemi-detached£165,000
8 Oct 202117 FY5 5HASemi-detached£140,000
30 Oct 200618 FY5 5HASemi-detached£137,000
15 Aug 200318 FY5 5HASemi-detached£91,000
3 Aug 199818 FY5 5HASemi-detached£44,000
8 Dec 199520 FY5 5HASemi-detached£52,000
7 Jan 202221 FY5 5HAOther£201,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Oct 201121 FY5 5HASemi-detached£116,000
15 Mar 200521 FY5 5HASemi-detached£128,000
10 Apr 199521 FY5 5HASemi-detached£47,000
5 Nov 201022 FY5 5HASemi-detached£146,000
29 Aug 202524 FY5 5HASemi-detached£157,950
24 Jan 202024 FY5 5HASemi-detached£95,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

House prices and rents in Wyre

A typical home in Wyre cost £188,833 in August 2026, 1.8% more than a year before. That is 13% more than five years earlier and 37% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£303,233
Semi-detached£187,648
Terraced£148,404
Flat or maisonette£95,212
Bought by a first-time buyer£163,890

Private renters in Wyre paid £747 a month on average in September 2026, 7.2% more than a year before. That is 29% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£530
Two bedrooms£721
Three bedrooms£860
Four or more bedrooms£1,249

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

13 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (13). Built: 1950-1966 (6); 1930-1949 (4); 1967-1975 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (2); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (13 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,908 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 2,548 kWh of electricity, 16% less than the district's 3,047 kWh. There are gas meters for about 94% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
FY5 5HA232,420 kWh 2210,820 kWh
FY5 5EH252,083 kWh 2310,669 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is FY5.

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 Wyre in 2026-27: Band D £2,461 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,640£1,914£2,187£2,461£3,007£3,554£4,101£4,921

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band B (39% of about 2,010 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 2 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: 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.

Energy projects nearby

4 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Thornton Power Station Biomass 9 MW Operational Jun 2002 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Hillhouse Business Park - Thornton Energy Recovery Centre Wyre LCC/2023/0003 Energy from waste (incinerator) 9.3 MW Planning application made Feb 2023 2 km (1.3 miles)
Thornton Waste Recovery Park (Waste AD) Wyre 02/08/1133 Anaerobic digestion 1.9 MW Operational May 2010 3.2 km (2 miles)
Jameson Road Wyre 03/00709/LCC Landfill Gas 4.3 MW Operational Jul 2006 4.1 km (2.6 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

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: of the 26 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 11 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: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

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

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

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 25 addresses are between 5 m and 7 m above sea level (6 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
FY5 5EH100%100%100%0%
FY5 5HA100%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 stationsPoulton-Le-Fylde 630,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Layton (Lancs) 75,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Blackpool North 2.1 million journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 34 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Laurel Drive Thornton100 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Cleveleys2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Ferry terminalFleetwood for Knott End Ferry Landing6.8 km (4.2 miles)
Car parksApcoa2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp pulse Charging Station340 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL60.1 km (37 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Beechwood Surgery Good May 2018600 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacy Thornton690 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery610 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSpire Fylde Coast Hospital Good Oct 20264.5 km (2.8 miles)
Care homes6 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Butler House Good Oct 2021570 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationLancashire Constabulary3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Blackpool - Victoria Road East, Victoria Road East Cashzone720 m (0.4 miles)

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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.1 ha650 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.4 ha350 m
Playing fieldKing George's Playing Fields 6.4 ha850 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,850 m²440 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Marsh Mill, a listed building (Grade II*), 1 km (0.6 miles) north. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Marsh MillListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Horseman's HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Skippool MarshWetland2 km (1.3 miles) east
Stanah CloughWetland2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Pheasant WoodWood2.6 km (1.6 miles) north
Cleveleys BeachBeach3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-west
Peg's PoolLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) east

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)5.3205
Particles (PM10)8.04015

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 552425

1 of the street's 25 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 Wyre: see them on the Wyre 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
Millfield SchoolSecondary11–16520 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 47.5 (48.5 in 2025 and 45.6 in 2024); 47.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
Thornton Cleveleys Baines Endowed Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary4–11790 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
Carleton Green Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 75% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 72% in 2023)
Stanah Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 85% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 72% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Blackpool and the Fylde College16 plus14–991.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection None published
Carleton St Hilda's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
Anchorsholme Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Thornton Cleveleys Royles Brook Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 36% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 41% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Kincraig Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jul 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; Early years: Exceptional; Safeguarding standards: Met 79% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 96% in 2024 and 93% in 2023)
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Thornton Cleveleys Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 62% in 2023)
Thornton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 45% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 20% at the higher standard (2025; 79% in 2024 and 43% 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 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 590 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
MiChild Little Thornton FY5 5HQ Full day care 56 Not inspected yet 590 m (0.4 miles)
Thornton Pre-School Playgroup FY5 5BJ Full day care 26 Good (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 790 m (0.5 miles)
Little Explorers, Carleton FY6 7NU Sessional day care 63 Outstanding (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Windmill Day Nursery FY5 2TZ Full day care 49 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Oak Tree Nursery School Stanah FY5 5JR Full day care 36 Jan 2026: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 5 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Marmalade Nursery FY5 4PW Full day care 63 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Kids Planet Thornton FY5 2TX Full day care 40 Good (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Carleton Childcare FY6 7PE Full day care 46 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Kids Planet Anchorsholme FY5 3RX Full day care Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Kincraig Ducklings Nursery FY2 0HN Full day care 15 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 428 childminders and 26 home childcarers (nannies) in Lancashire. 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
Dragon Inn FY5 5EJTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m5 Very good13 Mar 2024
Beechwood News And Convenience Store FY5 5EJRetailers - other140 m1 Major improvement necessary19 Dec 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.

42 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Anti-social behaviour10
Other theft2
Criminal damage and arson2
Vehicle crime1
Drugs1
Other crime1
Burglary1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Paddock (21); On or near Ashley Close (5); On or near Beverly Close (4); On or near Fernwood Avenue (4); On or near Bankfield Court (2).

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.

5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 5 slight. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202220
202310
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
4 Aug 2024 14:15 Slight 1 person A585, 30 mph Daylight
12 May 2023 13:17 Slight 1 person A585, 30 mph Daylight
7 May 2022 13:05 Slight 1 person A585, 60 mph Daylight
11 Mar 2022 16:05 Slight 1 person A585, 30 mph Wet road
8 Dec 2021 12:15 Slight 1 person A585, 40 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: 509 residents in 255 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 age5940
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over38%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)77%61%
Owned outright57%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work43%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)43%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 to 8 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.

Nearby streets

Laurel Drive · Hawthorne Road · Neville Drive · Ashley Close · Cheryl Drive · Elderwood Avenue · Fernwood Avenue · Beverly Close · Briarwood Close · Newton Grove · Pinewood Avenue · Braemar Avenue

All the streets in FY5 and across Wyre.

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.