Greenbarn Way Blackrod, Bolton

140 addresses across 5 postcodes (BL6), about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 3401765.

  • Sales: 168 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £260,750 across 6 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Bolton cost £203,951 in August 2026 (+4.8% on a year); private rents averaged £902 a month.
  • Energy: 84 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 31, D: 41, E: 9, F: 1).
  • Flood: 25 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Storm overflows: 6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 152 times (526 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Wigan Lane - Anaerobic Digester Unit, is 3.3 km (2 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A6, carries 10,134 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Bolton costs £2,400 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 95% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Blackrod, about 550 m (0.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 340 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 8.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 131 to 145 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 140 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Kildonan House, about 2.1 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 1,450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 83% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was 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
20266£260,750£180,000£381,000
20253£227,000£225,000£271,500
20244£252,500£215,000£286,000
20234£217,500£127,500£270,000
20227£220,000£110,000£245,000
20218£202,000£80,000£520,000
20202£152,750£128,000£177,500
20192£195,000£140,000£250,000
20185£182,000£135,000£210,000
20178£144,500£75,000£245,000
20166£161,000£137,500£175,000
20155£161,000£125,000£168,000
All 168 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 Jun 20011 BL6 5TATerraced£52,500Leasehold.
9 Oct 19981 BL6 5TATerraced£48,000
9 Oct 19981 BL6 5TATerraced£48,000Leasehold.
12 Jul 19993 BL6 5TATerraced£43,000Leasehold.
30 Aug 20194 BL6 5TADetached£250,000Leasehold.
25 Jan 20085 BL6 5TATerraced£120,000Leasehold.
23 Jul 19995 BL6 5TATerraced£43,500Leasehold.
18 Jul 20146 BL6 5TADetached£165,000Leasehold.
3 Aug 20188 BL6 5TATerraced£135,000Leasehold.
11 Aug 20178 BL6 5TATerraced£106,000Leasehold.
12 Aug 20229 BL6 5TAFlat or maisonette£110,000Leasehold.
1 Sep 20179 BL6 5TAFlat or maisonette£75,000Leasehold.
21 Jul 200010 BL6 5TATerraced£46,950Leasehold.
30 Mar 200111 BL6 5TAFlat or maisonette£34,550Leasehold.
26 Nov 199811 BL6 5TAFlat or maisonette£22,000Leasehold.
28 Sep 202212 BL6 5TATerraced£150,000Leasehold.
27 May 199912 BL6 5TATerraced£43,500
27 May 199912 BL6 5TATerraced£43,500Leasehold.
23 Apr 200413 BL6 5TATerraced£85,000Leasehold.
4 May 200714 BL6 5TATerraced£124,995
28 Sep 200114 BL6 5TATerraced£53,000
16 Jun 202315 BL6 5TAFlat or maisonette£127,500Leasehold.
3 Feb 201216 BL6 5TATerraced£85,000
9 Feb 200719 BL6 5TAFlat or maisonette£90,000Leasehold.
31 Mar 200019 BL6 5TAFlat or maisonette£27,000Leasehold.
10 Sep 2021NEWSTONE HOUSE, 20 BL6 5TADetached£520,000
22 Nov 1999NEWSTONE HOUSE, 20 BL6 5TADetached£75,000
19 Jun 202621 BL6 5TATerraced£180,000
23 Mar 201221 BL6 5TATerraced£100,000
17 Mar 200621 BL6 5TATerraced£98,000
8 Dec 200031 BL6 5TASemi-detached£54,800Leasehold.
22 Apr 200237 BL6 5TATerraced£85,500Leasehold.
17 Jan 202441 BL6 5TASemi-detached£250,000
21 Oct 201641 BL6 5TASemi-detached£160,000
29 Jun 202143 BL6 5TASemi-detached£197,000Leasehold.
15 Jan 201643 BL6 5TASemi-detached£137,500Leasehold.
6 Jan 202659 BL6 5TEDetached£299,990Leasehold.
5 Mar 202559 BL6 5TEDetached£179,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 May 202660 BL6 5TATerraced£381,000
21 Nov 199760 BL6 5TATerraced£59,995
30 Oct 199861 BL6 5TESemi-detached£53,500Leasehold.
12 Mar 199962 BL6 5TADetached£63,000Leasehold.
6 Mar 201763 BL6 5TESemi-detached£148,000Leasehold.
7 Dec 201263 BL6 5TESemi-detached£110,000Leasehold.
26 Oct 201764 BL6 5TADetached£245,000Leasehold.
16 Feb 200764 BL6 5TADetached£217,500Leasehold.
5 Jul 200264 BL6 5TADetached£120,000Leasehold.
21 Jul 200065 BL6 5TEDetached£81,000
20 May 201666 BL6 5TASemi-detached£175,000Leasehold.
30 Jun 200366 BL6 5TASemi-detached£98,000Leasehold.
17 May 199666 BL6 5TASemi-detached£42,000Leasehold.
26 Oct 201868 BL6 5TASemi-detached£155,000Leasehold.
17 Dec 199972 BL6 5TASemi-detached£54,590
11 Jun 200473 BL6 5TEDetached£147,000Leasehold.
18 Dec 200273 BL6 5TEDetached£95,000Leasehold.
30 Oct 199873 BL6 5TEDetached£55,000Leasehold.
23 Sep 202075 BL6 5TEDetached£177,500
27 Jan 202676 BL6 5TASemi-detached£190,000Leasehold.
27 Feb 201576 BL6 5TASemi-detached£125,000Leasehold.
23 Nov 200177 BL6 5TEDetached£63,000Leasehold.
23 Nov 200177 BL6 5TEDetached£63,000
7 May 199977 BL6 5TEDetached£46,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 200578 BL6 5TADetached£140,100Leasehold.
29 Mar 201980 BL6 5TADetached£143,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jul 200680 BL6 5TADetached£163,000Leasehold.
17 May 200280 BL6 5TADetached£85,000Leasehold.
13 Sep 202282 BL6 5TADetached£220,000Leasehold.
12 Sep 199784 BL6 5TADetached£58,950Leasehold.
27 Jun 199784 BL6 5TADetached£58,000Leasehold.
24 May 201185 BL6 5TEDetached£215,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 202587 BL6 5TEDetached£271,500Leasehold.
26 Jan 202388 BL6 5TADetached£245,000Leasehold.
28 Nov 202490 BL6 5TADetached£286,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 200691 BL6 5TEDetached£124,000Leasehold.
11 May 202692 BL6 5TADetached£285,000Leasehold.
23 Nov 201893 BL6 5TEDetached£182,000Leasehold.
8 Sep 201793 BL6 5TEDetached£141,000Leasehold.
4 Oct 200495 BL6 5TEDetached£160,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 202697 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£236,500Leasehold.
21 Oct 202297 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£222,000Leasehold.
14 Jan 202297 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
16 Jul 202197 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£125,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Aug 200299 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£72,000Leasehold.
24 Nov 200099 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£47,000Leasehold.
23 Aug 2019101 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£140,000Leasehold.
3 Mar 2000101 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£49,000Leasehold.
26 Sep 2025103 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£225,000
30 Jun 1997103 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£35,000
14 Dec 2018105 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£210,000Leasehold.
24 Aug 2016105 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£162,000Leasehold.
16 Jun 2004105 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£131,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 1995105 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£44,000Leasehold.
10 Aug 2012110 BL6 5TESemi-detached£125,000Leasehold.
15 Aug 2011110 BL6 5TESemi-detached£134,950Leasehold.
10 Sep 2021111 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£80,000Leasehold.
20 Sep 2002111 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£70,000Leasehold.
19 Jun 1998111 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£54,000Leasehold.
8 Aug 2003112 BL6 5TESemi-detached£116,000Leasehold.
11 Aug 1998112 BL6 5TESemi-detached£49,950Leasehold.
26 Aug 2021113 BL6 5TFTerraced£207,000Leasehold.
10 Jan 2013113 BL6 5TFTerraced£136,500Leasehold.
12 Dec 1996113 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£54,000Leasehold.
15 May 1996113 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£54,000Leasehold.
15 Aug 2025114 BL6 5TESemi-detached£227,000Leasehold.
29 Jun 2022116 BL6 5TESemi-detached£245,000Leasehold.
16 May 2003116 BL6 5TESemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
15 Feb 1996116 BL6 5TESemi-detached£55,000Leasehold.
23 Aug 2013120 BL6 5TEDetached£145,000Leasehold.
6 Feb 2006120 BL6 5TEDetached£172,500Leasehold.
29 Jun 2001120 BL6 5TEDetached£89,950Leasehold.
5 Dec 1997120 BL6 5TEDetached£51,650Leasehold.
11 Oct 2006124 BL6 5TEDetached£159,500Leasehold.
16 Jan 1998126 BL6 5TEDetached£55,500
8 Dec 2015128 BL6 5TEDetached£168,000Leasehold.
16 Dec 1998130 BL6 5TEDetached£71,000Leasehold.
30 Oct 2023132 BL6 5TEDetached£270,000
29 Nov 2018132 BL6 5TEDetached£182,500
16 Sep 2011134 BL6 5TEDetached£135,000Leasehold.
18 Jun 2004136 BL6 5TETerraced£153,000
12 Dec 1997136 BL6 5TETerraced£50,000
12 Dec 1997136 BL6 5TETerraced£50,000Leasehold.
31 May 1996138 BL6 5TFDetached£82,250Leasehold.
10 Nov 2017143 BL6 5TGDetached£140,000
12 Aug 1999145 BL6 5TGDetached£68,000
9 Dec 2022147 BL6 5TGDetached£236,000
22 May 2015147 BL6 5TGDetached£162,000
29 Aug 2024148 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£215,000
9 Jul 2013148 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£80,000
22 Mar 1996148 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£48,500
21 Sep 2015150 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£161,000Leasehold.
26 Apr 2002150 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£68,000Leasehold.
16 Dec 1998152 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£43,500Leasehold.
25 Jun 2021154 BL6 5TFTerraced£170,000
14 Nov 2017154 BL6 5TFTerraced£148,000
13 Oct 2006154 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£137,000Leasehold.
21 May 1999156 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£54,500Leasehold.
8 Nov 2021158 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£170,000Leasehold.
20 Oct 2023160 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£190,000Leasehold.
31 Oct 2002160 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£77,500Leasehold.
28 Sep 1995160 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£37,950Leasehold.
5 Oct 2015162 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£135,000Leasehold.
1 Jun 2007162 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£139,950Leasehold.
21 Feb 2003162 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£76,000Leasehold.
17 Apr 1998162 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£44,500Leasehold.
29 Feb 1996162 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£37,000Leasehold.
2 Mar 2001166 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£53,000Leasehold.
3 Apr 2020168 BL6 5TFSemi-detached£128,000Leasehold.
26 Jul 2024170 BL6 5TFDetached£255,000Leasehold.
30 May 2002172 BL6 5TFDetached£87,000Leasehold.
3 Apr 1995172 BL6 5TFDetached£28,750Leasehold.
5 Aug 2010174 BL6 5TGDetached£145,000
7 Sep 2007174 BL6 5TGDetached£162,000
30 Nov 2001178 BL6 5TGDetached£75,000
21 May 2021182 BL6 5TGDetached£226,000
13 Sep 1996184 BL6 5TGDetached£54,000
19 Oct 2017186 BL6 5TGDetached£175,000
13 May 2005188 BL6 5TGDetached£155,000
27 Nov 1998192 BL6 5TGDetached£67,000
6 Dec 2021194 BL6 5TGDetached£341,005
1 Dec 2005196 BL6 5TGDetached£207,500
11 Apr 1995196 BL6 5TGDetached£70,000
10 Mar 1995198 BL6 5TGDetached£59,000
23 Sep 2016200 BL6 5TGDetached£172,500
25 Sep 1998200 BL6 5TGDetached£23,500
14 Apr 2000202 BL6 5TGDetached£59,995
10 Jan 1997202 BL6 5TGDetached£59,500
8 Dec 1995202 BL6 5TGDetached£57,000
2 May 2016204 BL6 5TGDetached£160,000

House prices and rents in Bolton

A typical home in Bolton cost £203,951 in August 2026, 4.8% more than a year before. That is 26% more than five years earlier and 73% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£376,034
Semi-detached£223,966
Terraced£168,153
Flat or maisonette£117,128
Bought by a first-time buyer£180,018

Private renters in Bolton paid £902 a month on average in September 2026, 9.7% more than a year before. That is 49% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£658
Two bedrooms£822
Three bedrooms£997
Four or more bedrooms£1,461

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

84 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: House, detached (29); House, semi-detached (28); Bungalow, detached (12). Built: 1976-1982 (42); 1967-1975 (26); 1983-1990 (7). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (60); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (84 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,006 kWh of it on average in 2024, 18% less than the district's 12,180 kWh, and 3,014 kWh of electricity, 7% less than the district's 3,225 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
BL6 5TA492,176 kWh 528,689 kWh
BL6 5TE362,893 kWh 369,695 kWh
BL6 5TF282,874 kWh 287,888 kWh
BL6 5TG202,353 kWh 1910,251 kWh
BL6 5BL111,954 kWh 1311,369 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 BL6.

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 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (33% of about 1,730 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: 2.
  • 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.

Energy projects nearby

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

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Wigan Lane - Anaerobic Digester Unit Chorley LCC/2024/0023 Anaerobic digestion Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2026 3.3 km (2 miles)
Rigby Landfill Chorley 09/05/0661 Landfill Gas 3 MW Operational Dec 2009 3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Kirkless Power Landfill Gas 2.1 MW Operational Dec 2004 4.5 km (2.8 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 23 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 23 September 2026 to 24 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Remedial works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 9 September 2026 to 11 September 2026: VIRGIN MEDIA, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)
  • 7 September 2026: BT, New service connection, give and take, on the footway, verge (minor works)
  • 7 September 2026: BT, New service connection, give and take, on the footway (minor works)

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 17 addresses are in areas at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 20 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
BL6 5TAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BL6 5TEnot in 2 or 3 7 / 4 / 4 unlikely
BL6 5TFnot in 2 or 3 4 / 0 / 12 unlikely
BL6 5TGnot in 2 or 3 6 / 4 / 3 unlikely
BL6 5BLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

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

6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 152 times, for 526 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Unnamed Trib of Middle Brook, River Croal, Unnamed Trib the River Douglas, Pearl Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Jct of Manchester Rd/Station Rd Cso United Utilities Unnamed Trib of Middle Brook 11 7 250 m
Manchester Rd/Hope St United Utilities; monitored 82% of the year River Croal 3 5 380 m
Woodbarn Farm Cso 07059 United Utilities Unnamed Trib the River Douglas 48 84 560 m (0.3 miles)
Park Hall Farm Cso 071Ey United Utilities Unnamed Trib of Middle Brook 40 67 690 m (0.4 miles)
Horwich Wastewater Treatment Works United Utilities Pearl Brook 31 195 780 m (0.5 miles)
Horwich Wastewater Treatment Works United Utilities Pearl Brook 19 168 780 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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

5 of the street's 5 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

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

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 3 to 5%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

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 140 addresses are between 131 m and 145 m above sea level (139 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
BL6 5BL100%100%100%0%
BL6 5TA100%100%100%0%
BL6 5TE100%97%97%0%
BL6 5TF100%100%100%0%
BL6 5TG100%95%95%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 stationsBlackrod 226,000 journeys in 2024–25550 m (0.3 miles)
Horwich Parkway 550,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Adlington (Lancashire) 167,000 journeys in 2024–253.3 km (2 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 16 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Castlecroft Avenue Blackrod80 m
Bus or coach stationWigan Bus Station6 km (3.7 miles)
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN33.1 km (21 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 surgeriesKildonan House Good Nov 20162.1 km (1.3 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Speaks Pharmacy870 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentistsDental Surgery2.1 km (1.3 miles)
HospitalBeaumont Hospital Good Jun 20255.2 km (3.2 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Knightswood Care Home Good Oct 2026200 m
Police stationHorwich Police Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Cash machinesThe Cooperative Food Winter Hey Lane, Horwich Cashzone2.1 km (1.3 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 250 m²340 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 470 m²700 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 8,040 m²1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Rigby HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Pennington HillHill1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Crown CloughValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Harts WoodWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
Hamer's CreekBay2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Lower Rivington ReservoirLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.8 miles) north

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)8.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.44015

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 5920
Under 55138140

2 of the street's 140 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 Bolton: see them on the Bolton page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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
Blackrod Primary SchoolPrimary4–11540 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 78% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 17% at the higher standard (2025; 83% in 2024 and 79% in 2023)
Blackrod Anglican/Methodist Primary School Church of England/MethodistPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
St Catherine's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
St David Haigh and Aspull CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 88% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 31% at the higher standard (2025; 62% in 2024 and 42% 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

2 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 900 m (0.6 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Partou Playdays Day Nursery & Pre-School BL6 5EQ Full day care 99 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 900 m (0.6 miles)
Kids Planet Blackrod BL6 5SN Full day care 120 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 110 childminders and 17 home childcarers (nannies) in Bolton. 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 5 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
BlackJak’s BL6 5BBPub/bar/nightclub110 m4 Good7 May 2026
Knightswood Residential Home BL6 5LSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good13 Sep 2026
Blackrod Cricket Club BL6 5AAPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Jun 2025
Nihas Mini Market BL6 5ATRetailers - other430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good13 Aug 2026
Blackrod County Primary School BL6 5SYSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 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).

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.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 1 slight. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202300
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
22 Sep 2021 08:44 Slight 1 person B5408, 30 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

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A6 between A6027 and LA Boundary, with 10,134 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 360 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
B5238 Not recorded 4,678 counted 2025 1% 300 m
A6 A6027 to LA Boundary 10,134 estimated; counted 2018 3% +13% since 2015 360 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

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 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,452 residents in 658 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 age4840
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)83%61%
Owned outright47%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)55%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%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 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, detached (lodged 23 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

  • BL6 5TA: 51 addresses of 54 in the postcode
  • BL6 5TE: 38 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • BL6 5TF: 30 addresses of 33 in the postcode
  • BL6 5TG: 20 addresses of 22 in the postcode
  • BL6 5BL: 1 address of 16 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Greenwalk · Cranleigh Close · Shawbury Close · Thursford Grove · Chilgrove Avenue · Corston Grove · Dootsons Close · Vauze House Close · Widford Walk · Vauze Avenue · Castlecroft Avenue · Hillside Avenue

All the streets in BL6 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; 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.