Lower Pools Doffcocker, Bolton

5 addresses across 2 postcodes (BL1), about 80 m long. USRN 3402491.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2015 the median was £145,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 C; Band D in Bolton costs £2,400 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Lostock, about 2.7 km away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Moss Bank Park, is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 165 to 168 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 5 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Heaton Medical Centre, about 460 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km.
  • People: About 590 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 39% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20151£145,000£145,000£145,000
20041£139,500£139,500£139,500
20021£135,000£135,000£135,000
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
6 Nov 20157 BL1 5RATerraced£145,000
9 Jan 20043 BL1 5RASemi-detached£139,500
7 Oct 20025 BL1 5RASemi-detached£135,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 13 October 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2024 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 92 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (1); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (1); before 1900 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (2).

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.

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£1,600£1,866£2,133£2,400£2,933£3,466£4,000£4,799

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (33% of about 690 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 1.
  • 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

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
BL1 5RAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
BL1 5RDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Height above sea level

The street's 5 addresses are between 165 m and 168 m above sea level (166 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
BL1 5RA100%100%100%0%
BL1 5RD100%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 stationsLostock 286,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km
Bolton 3.0 million journeys in 2024–253.5 km
Hall-I'-Th'-Wood 196,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m, 56 within 800 m; nearest Pool Place Doffcocker60 m
Bus or coach stationBolton Interchange3.3 km
Car parksDeansgate Car Park - Gemma2.8 km
EV charging pointsShell Recharge Charging Station2.7 km
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN29.8 km

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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Heaton Medical Centre460 m
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Kamsons Pharmacy460 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Firth And Bowden Dental Surgery590 m
HospitalBeaumont Hospital2.4 km
Police stationAstley Bridge Police Station3.4 km
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m; nearest Payzone540 m

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 garden3 within 800 m; nearest Moss Bank Park 29 ha330 m
Play area3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,200 m²430 m
Playing field2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 7.4 ha30 m
Allotments2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 8,470 m²200 m

Within 800 m: 3 parks and gardens, 48 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Smithills Hall, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.5 km north-east. 19 listed buildings are within 1.0 km.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Smithills HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km north-east
Queen's Park, BoltonRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km south-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Captain's CloughValley270 m south
Victoria LakeLake or reservoir850 m north
Hollin CloughValley1.0 km north
Midge Hole CloughValley1.0 km west
Dog Kennel PlantationWood1.4 km north-east
Green HillHill2.2 km west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. 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)10.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)10.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6910
Under 5545

1 of the street's 5 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Church Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–11450 m Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Johnson Fold Community Primary SchoolPrimary2–11460 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Thomas of Canterbury RC School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11900 m No published inspection
Markland Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–11920 m No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Smithills SchoolSecondary11–161.2 km Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Peter's Smithills Dean Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km No published inspection
Devonshire Road Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oxford Grove Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km Outstanding (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Joseph's RC Primary School, Halliwell, Bolton Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas C of E Primary School, Halliwell Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.7 km Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Brownlow Fold Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
The Olive School, Bolton MuslimPrimary4–111.8 km No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Heaton Cricket Club BL1 5RHPub/bar/nightclub90 m4 Good12 Jun 2019
Finishers Arms BL1 5RERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good11 Mar 2025
St Peters Church Parish Centre BL1 5RLOther catering premises140 m4 Good30 Apr 2025
Doffcocker Inn BL1 5QDPub/bar/nightclub310 m4 Good31 Jul 2024
Hope and Anchor BL1 5QHPub/bar/nightclub350 m4 Good15 Oct 2025
The Cafe BL1 6NBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Go Local BL1 6BJRetailers - other380 m1 Major improvement necessary29 Jan 2026
Mossbank Jnr F.C BL1 5RPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen390 m3 Generally satisfactory10 May 2025
Earl's BL1 6BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m5 Very good24 Apr 2025
The Family Club BL1 5RRSchool/college/university430 m5 Very good29 Jan 2026
Church Road C P School BL1 5RUSchool/college/university450 m5 Very good28 Feb 2025
Johnson Fold Community School BL1 5UGSchool/college/university460 m5 Very good7 Feb 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

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

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 594 residents in 253 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 age5140
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright51%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)29%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van54%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)63%65%
Work 30 km or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

Smithills Drive · Church Road · Pool Terrace · New Church Road · Church Road · Oakenclough Drive · Southbank Gardens · Rawlyn Road · Blackburn Road · Longridge Crescent · Harrowby Road · Bleasdale Road

All the streets in BL1 and across Bolton.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.