George Lane Read, Ribble Valley

42 addresses across 5 postcodes (BB12), about 510 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a minor road. USRN 31800649.

  • Sales: 51 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £430,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 25 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 8, D: 10, E: 2, G: 1).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 E; Band D in Ribble Valley costs £2,387 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 33% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Whalley (Lancashire), about 3.8 km (2.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 2.6 km (1.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 108 to 137 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 30 of its 42 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Padiham Group Practice, about 3.2 km (2 miles) away.
  • People: About 850 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 74% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 6 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.

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
20261£430,000£430,000£430,000
20251£470,000£470,000£470,000
20242£373,500£342,000£405,000
20222£382,000£321,000£443,000
20211£283,000£283,000£283,000
20202£260,975£256,950£265,000
20192£313,750£227,500£400,000
20173£310,000£210,000£325,000
20163£535,000£322,500£660,000
20153£675,000£277,000£750,000
20122£453,500£407,000£500,000
20101£372,500£372,500£372,500
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 51)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Jun 20264 BB12 7RHTerraced£430,000
18 Aug 202514 BB12 7RHSemi-detached£470,000Leasehold.
6 Dec 202418 BB12 7RHDetached£405,000
23 Sep 2024EAST COTTAGE BB12 7RDSemi-detached£342,000
18 Sep 202414 BB12 7RHOther£185,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Aug 202238 BB12 7RHDetached£321,000
14 Jun 2022FLAT 2, 1 BB12 7SDFlat or maisonette£120,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Jun 2022FLAT 4, 1 BB12 7SDFlat or maisonette£120,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jan 202211 BB12 7RQDetached£443,000Leasehold.
12 Mar 2021WOODSIDE COTTAGE BB12 7RDSemi-detached£283,000
30 Oct 202038 BB12 7RHDetached£321,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Oct 202012 BB12 7RHSemi-detached£256,950Leasehold.
24 Jun 20202 BB12 7RHDetached£265,000
3 May 201911 BB12 7RQDetached£227,500Leasehold.
25 Jan 20197 BB12 7RQDetached£400,000
11 Oct 201712 BB12 7RHSemi-detached£210,000Leasehold.
6 Jul 201716 BB12 7RHDetached£310,000
27 Jan 20175 BB12 7RQDetached£325,000
15 Jul 2016RAKE BOTTOM COTTAGE BB12 7RDSemi-detached£322,500
4 Jul 201634 BB12 7RHDetached£535,000
7 Apr 2016WHITE GABLES BB12 7RDDetached£660,000
26 Nov 201542 BB12 7RHDetached£750,000
17 Aug 201532 BB12 7RHDetached£675,000
12 Jun 20157 BB12 7RQDetached£277,000
21 May 201442 BB12 7RHOther£160,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Apr 201217 BB12 7RQDetached£500,000Leasehold.
27 Apr 201220 BB12 7RHDetached£407,000
2 Jul 2010RAKE BOTTOM COTTAGE BB12 7RDSemi-detached£372,500
31 Jul 2009FLAT 4, 1 BB12 7SDFlat or maisonette£175,000Leasehold.
22 Jul 2009FLAT 3, 1 BB12 7SDFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
10 Jul 2009FLATS 1-4, 1 BB12 7SDFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
10 Jul 2009FLAT 1, 1 BB12 7SDFlat or maisonette£135,000Leasehold.
12 May 20083 BB12 7RQDetached£250,000
28 Mar 2008EAST COTTAGE BB12 7RDSemi-detached£250,000
4 Jan 200826 BB12 7RHSemi-detached£249,950Leasehold.
7 Dec 2007RAKE BOTTOM COTTAGE BB12 7RDSemi-detached£275,000
28 Feb 2007EAST COTTAGE BB12 7RDSemi-detached£247,500
12 Jan 200626 BB12 7RHSemi-detached£218,000Leasehold.
11 Aug 20053 BB12 7RQDetached£75,000New build.
12 Apr 2005EAST COTTAGE BB12 7RDSemi-detached£187,500
31 Mar 2005THE BARN BB12 7RDDetached£521,000
5 Nov 20025 BB12 7RQDetached£205,000
1 Oct 20028 BB12 7RHSemi-detached£118,000Leasehold.
22 Jun 20016 BB12 7RHSemi-detached£118,500Leasehold.
6 Apr 2001WHITE GABLES BB12 7RDDetached£312,000
23 Mar 200120 BB12 7RHDetached£151,500
24 Mar 20009 BB12 7RQDetached£93,750
5 Nov 1998RAKE BOTTOM COTTAGE BB12 7RDSemi-detached£82,000
4 Jul 199730 BB12 7RHDetached£220,000
10 Jun 199718 BB12 7RHDetached£106,500

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 May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

25 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 135 m². Most common: House, detached (7); Bungalow, detached (6); House, semi-detached (6). Built: 1950-1966 (5); 1930-1949 (4); 1996-2002 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (16 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Ribble Valley in 2026-27: Band D £2,387 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,591£1,856£2,121£2,387£2,917£3,447£3,978£4,773

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (28% of about 1,200 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

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

Started, not reported finished by 30 September 2026

  • 23 September 2026 to 13 October 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, two-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (major works)
  • 28 September 2026 to 18 October 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 24 August 2026: LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (immediate - emergency 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, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 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
BB12 7RHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BB12 7RQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BB12 7RDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BB12 7SDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BB12 7PNnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 3 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 42 addresses are between 108 m and 137 m above sea level (122 m on average); the ground rises about 30 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
BB12 7PN99%99%99%0%
BB12 7RD100%33%33%0%
BB12 7RH100%100%100%0%
BB12 7RQ100%100%100%0%
BB12 7SD100%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 stationsWhalley (Lancashire) 81,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Hapton 13,000 journeys in 2024–254.2 km (2.6 miles)
Huncoat 25,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km (2.7 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Jubilee Street Read420 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationBus Station Whalley3.4 km (2.1 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station3.3 km (2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA46.4 km (29 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 surgeriesPadiham Group Practice3.2 km (2 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Read & Simonstone Pharmacy440 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists61 - 63 Church Street2.8 km (1.7 miles)
HospitalCalderstones Hospital4.8 km (3 miles)
Police stationLancashire Police - Padiham Customer Service Reception3.1 km (2 miles)
Cash machinesHarwood Bar Garage, Blackburn Cashzone2.7 km (1.7 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 gardenUnnamed 2,280 m²2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 810 m²570 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 8,550 m²360 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 640 m²340 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Read Hall, a listed building (Grade II*), 700 m (0.4 miles) west. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Read HallListed building, Grade II*700 m (0.4 miles) west
Portfield hillfortScheduled monument2 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Haslost WoodWood670 m (0.4 miles) north
Bridge Hey WoodWood880 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Coppy PlantationWood930 m (0.6 miles) west
Read HeightsHill1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Pump House DeanValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) east
Churn Clough ReservoirLake or reservoir4 km (2.5 miles) north-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)5.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.14015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 6960
60 to 6420
55 to 59210
Under 551242

30 of the street's 42 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 Ribble Valley: see them on the Ribble Valley page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Read St John's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11400 m (0.2 miles) No published inspection
Simonstone St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Read Cricket Club BB12 7PNPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good27 May 2022
The Fuzzy Duck BB12 7PNRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good19 Mar 2026
The Honey Pot BB12 7PNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Sep 2025
St. John's C of E Primary School BB12 7PESchool/college/university420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 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.

6 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour3
Criminal damage and arson2
Violence and sexual offences1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Church Close (5); On or near Whins Lane (1).

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: 851 residents in 387 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 age4740
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)74%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)under 1%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)61%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 7 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.

Nearby streets

St Johns Close · St John's Close · Whins Lane · Greenacres · Hammond Drive · Church Street · East View · Jubilee Street · Straits Lane · Tennyson Avenue

All the streets in BB12 and across Ribble Valley.

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.