Oak Close Barrow, Ribble Valley

17 addresses across 2 postcodes (BB7), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 31801998.

  • Sales: 52 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £210,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 8, E: 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 E; Band D in Ribble Valley costs £2,387 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Whalley (Lancashire), about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Ribble Valley Rememberence Park, is about 940 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 4.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 77 to 79 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 17 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whalley Medical Centre, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away.
  • People: About 380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 73% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 32 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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£210,000£210,000£210,000
20242£204,250£195,000£213,500
20221£192,000£192,000£192,000
20212£215,000£180,000£250,000
20192£175,250£158,000£192,500
20171£140,000£140,000£140,000
20161£152,000£152,000£152,000
20134£132,375£132,000£140,000
20081£152,200£152,200£152,200
20071£159,950£159,950£159,950
20053£139,950£132,000£185,000
20031£85,000£85,000£85,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 52)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Mar 202515 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£210,000
16 Aug 20248 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£195,000
9 Jul 202417 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£213,500
2 Aug 202212 BB7 9FHTerraced£192,000
14 Dec 20213 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£180,000
10 Nov 202116 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£250,000
24 Jun 20191 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£192,500
29 Mar 201912 BB7 9FHTerraced£158,000
4 Sep 201711 BB7 9FHTerraced£140,000
2 Dec 20168 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£152,000
6 Dec 20138 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£132,250
2 Aug 201315 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£140,000
19 Jul 201312 BB7 9FHTerraced£132,000
14 Jun 201314 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£132,500
15 Feb 200810 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£152,200
23 Mar 20073 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£159,950
30 Sep 20057 BB7 9FHTerraced£139,950
24 Jun 20051 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£185,000
24 Jun 200510 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£132,000
23 May 20038 BB7 9FHTerraced£85,000
25 Nov 200217 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£97,450
15 Nov 20029 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£115,000
3 May 200216 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£95,000
19 Sep 20017 BB7 9FHTerraced£63,500
28 Aug 200114 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£59,950
4 Jul 20019 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£80,000
8 Jun 20012 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£73,995
1 Jun 20013 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£59,500
18 May 20012 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£73,995
7 Jun 20008 BB7 9FHTerraced£55,350
10 Dec 199914 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£50,000
25 Aug 199915 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£55,000
16 Aug 19991 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£64,500
5 Feb 19993 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£49,000
11 Dec 199810 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£50,500
4 Nov 19985 BB7 9FHTerraced£50,000
11 Sep 19984 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£60,000
15 Jan 19982 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£62,950
22 Mar 199612 BB7 9FHTerraced£49,950New build.
24 Nov 19957 BB7 9FHTerraced£49,950New build.
23 Nov 199510 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£49,950New build.
29 Sep 19958 BB7 9FHTerraced£50,950New build.
15 Sep 199514 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£49,950New build.
31 Aug 19959 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£59,450New build.
25 Aug 199517 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£53,500New build.
25 Aug 199515 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£50,250New build.
25 Aug 199511 BB7 9FHTerraced£48,250New build.
11 Aug 19953 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£49,950New build.
19 Jul 19955 BB7 9FHTerraced£48,950New build.
2 Jun 19954 BB7 9FHSemi-detached£49,950New build.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from May 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 60 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (9); House, end-terrace (3); House, mid-terrace (2). Built: 1991-1995 (9); 1996-2002 (2); 1976-1982 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (2).

Council tax

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

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (25% of about 1,190 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: 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.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: 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.

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

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 17 addresses are between 77 m and 79 m above sea level (78 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
BB7 9FD100%100%100%0%
BB7 9FH100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsWhalley (Lancashire) 81,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Clitheroe 265,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Langho 37,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 11 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Whiteacre Lane Lamb Roe130 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Whalley1.8 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA48.8 km (30 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesWhalley Medical Centre2 km (1.3 miles)
PharmaciesWhalley Pharmacy2 km (1.3 miles)
NHS dentistsEllison And Griffiths1.8 km (1.1 miles)
HospitalCalderstones Hospital1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Police stationLancashire Constabulary2 km (1.3 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Asda Barrow - Holm Road PFS, Whalley Road Cashzone470 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 gardenRibble Valley Rememberence Park 1,850 m²940 m (0.6 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,780 m²240 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,110 m²260 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 850 m²2 km (1.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Three high crosses in St Mary's churchyard, a scheduled monument, 1.9 km (1.2 miles) south.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Three high crosses in St Mary's churchyardScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The AcresWood350 m east
Elbow WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Lawsonsteads WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Light CloughValley1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Audley ReservoirLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Turn HillHill2.5 km (1.6 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)4.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.6205
Particles (PM10)8.34015

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 551617

1 of the street's 17 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 Ribble Valley: see them on the Ribble Valley page.

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
Barrow URC Primary School United Reformed ChurchPrimary4–11550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Whalley Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Report card (Mar 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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 (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Headstrong Health Ltd BB7 9BNRetailers - other100 m5 Very good24 Feb 2025
RDH Fitness Solutions Ltd BB7 9BQOther catering premises310 m5 Very good15 Nov 2024
Kids Planet Barrow BB7 9BQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good26 Mar 2026
Loom Loft Furniture & Interiors BB7 9FLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good19 May 2025
Crystal Care Collection Care Home BB7 9AZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Jun 2025
The Eagle at Barrow BB7 9AQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Jan 2026
Choi Gan Vegetarian Cantonese Restaurant BB7 9AURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Feb 2026
McDonalds Restaurants Ltd BB7 9WFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good31 Jul 2025
Asda Express Barrow BB7 9WFRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Mar 2026
KFC - BarrowBrook BB7 9WFTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 May 2025
Starbucks BB7 9WFTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good8 May 2025
Subway BB7 9WFTakeaway/sandwich shop470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good23 Jun 2025
Greggs BB7 9WFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good2 Jun 2025
Barrow Primary School BB7 9AZSchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jun 2026
Bay Horse BB7 9AZPub/bar/nightclub480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Jul 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.

32 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences15
Anti-social behaviour6
Vehicle crime3
Burglary2
Other theft2
Public order2
Drugs1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ivy Bank (8); On or near Oaklea Gardens (5); On or near Barrow Brook Close (5); On or near Rowan Way (4); On or near Blackthorn Drive (3).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 381 residents in 178 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 1512%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)73%61%
Owned outright46%33%
Shared ownership6%1%
Social rented13%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work56%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)32%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)27%32%
Travel to work by car or van66%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus2%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)49%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away15%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Chestnut Crescent · Ormerod Terrace · Warrington Terrace · Ormerod Terrace · Birch Grove · Ash Close · Aspen Crescent · Poplar Way · Parlock Crescent · Blackthorn Drive · Barrow Brook Close · Willow Drive

All the streets in BB7 and across Ribble Valley.

What this page cannot tell you

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

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