Manor Road Darwen

39 addresses across 2 postcodes (BB3), about 560 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 2901725.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £617,500 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Blackburn with Darwen cost £160,727 in August 2026 (-0.2% on a year); private rents averaged £715 a month.
  • Energy: 19 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 8, E: 5, F: 4).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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: 1 of its postcodes is in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Landfill: 2 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Thorny Height Quarry, is 270 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 15 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 164 times (127 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Suezlower, Eccleshill Road - Anaerobic Digestion Facility, is 2.2 km (1.4 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Blackburn with Darwen costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 30% to 83% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Darwen, about 920 m (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Bold Venture Park, is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 207 to 243 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 39 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Darwen Healthcare, about 460 m (0.3 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 640 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.
  • Crime: 16 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often anti-social behaviour.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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Sales on this street

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

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£617,500£617,500£617,500
20242£204,375£167,000£241,750
20232£467,500£385,000£550,000
20212£310,000£310,000£310,000
20201£450,000£450,000£450,000
20181£250,000£250,000£250,000
20171£220,000£220,000£220,000
20161£370,000£370,000£370,000
20151£255,000£255,000£255,000
20131£243,500£243,500£243,500
20121£250,000£250,000£250,000
20103£195,000£150,000£250,000
Most recent sales (29)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
19 Sep 2025LOWER TREES FARM BB3 2SNOther£625,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Mar 2025121 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£617,500Leasehold.
19 Nov 202487 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£241,750
27 Sep 2024LOW MOOR, 115 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£167,000Leasehold.
19 May 202383 BB3 2SNDetached£550,000
23 Feb 202363 BB3 2SNDetached£385,000
28 Jun 202167 BB3 2SNDetached£310,000
22 Apr 202181 BB3 2SNDetached£310,000
9 Dec 2020123 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£450,000Leasehold.
7 Feb 2018AVALON, 69 BB3 2SNDetached£250,000
18 Aug 201765 BB3 2SNDetached£220,000
5 Feb 2016121 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£370,000Leasehold.
11 Sep 201581 BB3 2SNDetached£255,000
6 Dec 2013125 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£243,500Leasehold.
2 Nov 2012PARKFIELD, 105 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£250,000
22 Oct 2010107 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£250,000
22 Oct 2010117 BB3 2SNDetached£195,000Leasehold.
27 May 2010113 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
25 Jan 200889 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£195,000Leasehold.
5 Sep 2005103 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£179,950
21 Nov 200383 BB3 2SNDetached£280,000
9 Sep 2003103 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£132,500
23 Apr 200389 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£124,000Leasehold.
1 Nov 200295 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£90,000Leasehold.
21 Jun 2002101 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£87,500
19 Jan 2001103 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£71,000
28 Aug 1998125 BB3 2SNSemi-detached£65,000Leasehold.
19 Jun 199861 BB3 2SNDetached£136,000
5 Jan 199691 BB3 2SNTerraced£59,950Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Blackburn with Darwen

A typical home in Blackburn with Darwen cost £160,727 in August 2026, 0.2% less than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier and 52% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£280,280
Semi-detached£178,974
Terraced£135,429
Flat or maisonette£87,504
Bought by a first-time buyer£145,946

Private renters in Blackburn with Darwen paid £715 a month on average in September 2026, 3.8% more than a year before. That is 38% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£535
Two bedrooms£663
Three bedrooms£783
Four or more bedrooms£1,113

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

19 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 134 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); Bungalow, detached (5); House, detached (4). Built: 1950-1966 (5); 1930-1949 (5); 1900-1929 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (19 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Blackburn with Darwen in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,182£2,455£3,001£3,547£4,092£4,911

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (51% of about 720 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 neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Suezlower, Eccleshill Road - Anaerobic Digestion Facility Blackburn with Darwen 10/22/1006 Anaerobic digestion Permission granted, not yet built Mar 2023 2.2 km (1.4 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 5 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
BB3 2SNnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 5 unlikely
BB3 2SFnot 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

15 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 164 times, for 127 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Tributary of River Darwen, River Darwen, Culverted Section River Darwen, Clvrtd Section of River Darwen and others.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Belgrave Road Cso United Utilities Tributary of River Darwen 0 0 110 m
Balle Street Hilton Street Cso United Utilities River Darwen 46 28 520 m (0.3 miles)
Balle Street Hilton Street Cso United Utilities River Darwen 56 62 520 m (0.3 miles)
Redearth Road/Sudell Road Cso United Utilities River Darwen 3 1 600 m (0.4 miles)
Church Street/Parliament Street Cso United Utilities Culverted Section River Darwen 7 2 620 m (0.4 miles)
Railway Road/South Street Cso United Utilities Clvrtd Section of River Darwen 0 0 700 m (0.4 miles)
Vale Street United Utilities Trib River Darwen 1 0 710 m (0.4 miles)
Bolton Road/Astley Street Cso United Utilities Kebbs Brook,Trib of Riv Darwen 9 4 740 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

1 of the street's 2 postcodes is in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground. 1 more is elsewhere in the coalfield, at low risk.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

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.

Historic landfill

2 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 270 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Thorny Height Quarry Higher Darwen, Lancashire Not recorded Special (hazardous) 270 m
Heightside Farm Off Duckshaw Road, Radford, Darwen, Lancashire 1955 to 1994 Inert, industrial, special (hazardous), liquid sludge 350 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 39 addresses are between 207 m and 243 m above sea level (221 m on average); the ground rises about 36 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
BB3 2SF100%83%83%0%
BB3 2SN100%30%30%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 stationsDarwen 346,000 journeys in 2024–25920 m (0.6 miles)
Mill Hill (Lancs) 60,000 journeys in 2024–255.1 km (3.2 miles)
Cherry Tree 34,000 journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Westland Avenue Darwen80 m
Bus or coach stationArrival Stand Blackburn Town Centre6.3 km (3.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Duckworth Street Town Centre Car Park680 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging pointsGridserve Charging Station2.3 km (1.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN40.3 km (25 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Darwen Healthcare Outstanding Nov 2016460 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist460 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Darwen Health Centre460 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalRoyal Blackburn Hospital Good Feb 20194.9 km (3 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Thorncliffe Residential Care Home Good Oct 2022830 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationPolice Headquarters4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM560 m (0.3 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bold Venture Park 7.8 ha110 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 960 m²140 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2,980 m²820 m (0.5 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,760 m²230 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bold Venture Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 150 m south. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bold Venture ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II150 m south
India Mill ChimneyListed building, Grade II*640 m (0.4 miles) east
Church of St PeterListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Sunnyhurst WoodsRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.4 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Steam tramway reversing triangleScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hills ReservoirLake or reservoir310 m north-east
Knowl Heights PlantationWood520 m (0.3 miles) north-west
Darwen HillHill930 m (0.6 miles) west
Sunnyhurst Hey ReservoirLake or reservoir1.2 km (0.7 miles) west
Sunnyhurst CloughValley1.2 km (0.7 miles) north-west
Long CloughValley1.4 km (0.9 miles) south

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)6.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

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 553839

1 of the street's 39 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 Blackburn with Darwen: see them on the Blackburn with Darwen 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, DarwenPrimary4–11460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Holy Trinity VC School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11470 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Aldridge UTC DarwenSecondary13–19550 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Darwen Aldridge Community AcademySecondary11–19800 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Turncroft Nursery SchoolNursery3–41.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Avondale Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Darwen St Peter's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Darwen Aldridge Sudell PrimaryPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Darwen St James CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Ashleigh Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
St Cuthbert's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Darwen, St Barnabas CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.2 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 300 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
PALS-Darwen St Joseph's Primary School BB3 2SG Full day care 35 Not inspected yet 300 m
Duxbury, Elle May BB3 1AL Childminder without domestic premises 3 Not inspected yet 640 m (0.4 miles)
Bolland, Gemma BB3 1AL Childminder without domestic premises 3 Not inspected yet 640 m (0.4 miles)
Kidsland Limited at St Joseph's Church Hall Darwen BB3 2PG Out-of-school day care 60 Not inspected yet 650 m (0.4 miles)
Kidzania Childcare Darwen BB3 1AT Full day care 99 Apr 2026: Urgent improvement in 6 areas 900 m (0.6 miles)
Precious Moments Childcare (Darwen) ltd. BB3 2DE Full day care 55 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 940 m (0.6 miles)
Rainbow Childcare BB3 1NW Full day care 32 Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Darwen Children's Centre BB3 0HD Sessional day care 56 Good (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Ark Les Enfants Nursery and Forest School BB3 1JE Full day care 80 Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Butterflies Out Of School Experience BB3 3DL Out-of-school day care 40 Mar 2026: Expected standard in 2 areas, Needs attention in 2 1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 55 childminders and 1 home childcarers (nannies) in Blackburn with Darwen. 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
Impact Food Group T/A Dolce @ Holy Trinity Primary School BB3 2RWSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Darwen (HCC) Ltd BB3 1PYRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)Exempt

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.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Anti-social behaviour5
Violence and sexual offences3
Burglary3
Other theft2
Criminal damage and arson1
Vehicle crime1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Granville Road (9); On or near Belgrave Road (3); On or near Manor Road (2); On or near Westland Avenue (1); On or near Arlington Road (1).

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.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

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: 635 residents in 249 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 age4640
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over20%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%61%
Owned outright49%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)39%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 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

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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.

  • BB3 2SN: 38 addresses of 48 in the postcode
  • BB3 2SF: 1 address of 49 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Westland Avenue · Punstock Lane · Inverness Road · Belgrave Road · Granville Road · Arlington Road · Land Associated With · Borough Road · Kelvin Street · Limes Avenue · Rydal Avenue · Sniddle Hill Lane

All the streets in BB3 and across Blackburn with Darwen.

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.