River Way Barrowford, Pendle

27 addresses across 2 postcodes (BB9), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29800849.

  • Sales: 1 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £66,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Pendle cost £156,011 in August 2026 (+9% on a year); private rents averaged £673 a month.
  • Energy: 24 homes have an energy certificate (A: 2, C: 18, D: 4).
  • Flood: 13 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.
  • Landfill: 4 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, West of Colne Water, is 280 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 11 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 184 times (330 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 3 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Walshaw House, Regent Street - Battery Energy Storage, is 870 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the M65, carries 37,055 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Pendle costs £2,640 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Nelson, about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Barrowford Park, is about 160 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 5.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 121 to 123 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 22 of its 27 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Barrowford Surgery, about 680 m (0.4 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 560 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 48% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 74 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 3 involved a pedestrian.

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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
20191£66,000£66,000£66,000
The one sale, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
18 Mar 201923 BB9 6ELFlat or maisonette£66,000Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Pendle

A typical home in Pendle cost £156,011 in August 2026, 9% more than a year before. That is 23% more than five years earlier and 64% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£301,637
Semi-detached£185,240
Terraced£137,300
Flat or maisonette£89,102
Bought by a first-time buyer£141,865

Private renters in Pendle paid £673 a month on average in September 2026, 6.4% more than a year before. That is 37% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£499
Two bedrooms£636
Three bedrooms£743
Four or more bedrooms£1,099

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 April 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

24 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 33 m². Most common: Flat (24). Built: 1950-1966 (22); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (23); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 4,685 kWh of it on average in 2024, 63% less than the district's 12,719 kWh, and 1,088 kWh of electricity, 63% less than the district's 2,931 kWh. There are gas meters for about 83% of the homes.

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 BB9.

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 Pendle in 2026-27: Band D £2,640 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,760£2,053£2,347£2,640£3,227£3,814£4,400£5,280

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (77% of about 2,070 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: 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.

Energy projects nearby

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

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Walshaw House, Regent Street - Battery Energy Storage Pendle 23/0541/FUL Battery storage 100 MW Permission granted, not yet built Dec 2023 870 m (0.5 miles)
Nelson and colne college, Scotland Road Pendle 24/0056/FUL Battery storage 1 MW Permission granted, not yet built May 2024 890 m (0.6 miles)
Doughty Farm, Back Lane - Wind Turbine Pendle 24/0836/FUL Wind 1 turbine, 76 m tall 0.2 MW Permission granted, not yet built Feb 2025 2.7 km (1.7 miles)
Queens Park Energy Landfill Gas 1.9 MW Operational Nov 2000 4 km (2.5 miles)
Queen's Park Road Energy Burnley 1991/0191 Landfill Gas 1.8 MW Operational Sep 2000 4.4 km (2.7 miles)
Rowley Landfill Gas 1.9 MW Operational Jan 1993 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

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, 12 at medium risk and 12 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 24 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 24 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
BB9 6ELzone 2 1 / 12 / 12 unlikely
BB9 9BDnot 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

11 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 184 times, for 330 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Walverden Water, Hendon Brook, Culvrtd Trib of Walverden Wtr, Pendle Water and others.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Netherfield Road Cso (32019) United Utilities Walverden Water 46 94 150 m
Chapel House Road (32014) Cso United Utilities Walverden Water 10 16 180 m
Chapel House Road Cso (32014) United Utilities Walverden Water 27 15 180 m
Walverden Park Cso United Utilities Walverden Water 4 5 210 m
Bradley Road Cso (328N5) United Utilities Walverden Water 0 0 540 m (0.3 miles)
Hey Street (Playground) Cso (32017) United Utilities Hendon Brook 8 10 610 m (0.4 miles)
Crawford Street (Nelson) Cso 321P3 United Utilities Walverden Water 0 0 740 m (0.5 miles)
Reedyford Rd Cso (32020) United Utilities Culvrtd Trib of Walverden Wtr 1 2 910 m (0.6 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

2 of the street's 2 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 5 to 10%: 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.

By postcode centre: less than 1% (1); 5 to 10% (2).

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

4 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 280 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
West of Colne Water Romney Avenue, Nelson, Pendle, Lancashire Not recorded Not recorded 280 m
Swinden Playing Fields By Swinden Bridge, Cravendale Avenue, Barrowford, Pendle, Lancashire Not recorded Not recorded 370 m
Pendle Community Hospital Leeds Road, Nelson, Lancashire Not recorded Inert 370 m
Reedyford Road Reedyford Road, Nelson, Pendle, Lancashire Not recorded Not recorded 430 m (0.3 miles)

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 27 addresses are between 121 m and 123 m above sea level (123 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
BB9 6EL100%100%100%0%
BB9 9BD100%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 stationsNelson 114,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Colne 82,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Brierfield 37,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 24 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Church Street Barrowford40 m
Bus or coach stationInterchange Nelson1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Car parksMorrisons Car Park - Nelson1.5 km (0.9 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station250 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLeeds Bradford Airport LBA36.5 km (23 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barrowford Surgery Good Jun 2017680 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barrowford Pharmacy520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Barrowford Dental Practice550 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalPendle Community Hospital1.7 km (1 mile)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pendle View Requires improvement Aug 20191.2 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationNelson Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Premier Barrowford, Barrowford Cashzone550 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barrowford Park 4.5 ha160 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,060 m²30 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lower Park Hill Recreation Ground 4.1 ha140 m
Allotments5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha210 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 4.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Lamb Working Mens Club, a listed building (Grade II*), 120 m north-west. 29 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lamb Working Mens ClubListed building, Grade II*120 m north-west
Higherford Old BridgeScheduled monument720 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Higherford Old BridgeListed building, Grade II*720 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The LakeLake or reservoir210 m north-east
Grimshaw WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north
Barrowford ReservoirLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) north-east
Hudderston WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Higgen CloughValley2 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Brown HillHill2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-west

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)6.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.9205
Particles (PM10)8.74015

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
60 to 6450
55 to 59170
Under 55527

22 of the street's 27 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 Pendle: see them on the Pendle 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Barrowford SchoolPrimary4–11140 m Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 38% in 2023)
Holy Saviour Roman Catholic Primary School, NelsonPrimary5–11770 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Barrowford St Thomas Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 88% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 79% in 2024 and 75% in 2023)
East Lancashire Learning Group16 plus16–99940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C+; 11.1% AAB or better; progress above average
Bradley Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Bradley Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pendle Vale CollegeSecondary11–161.5 km (1 mile) 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; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 41.8 (42.5 in 2025 and 41.5 in 2024); 27.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
Nelson St Philip's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 45% in 2023)
Lomeshaye Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 81% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
Whitefield Infant School and NurseryPrimary3–71.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding None published
Colne Primet Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 34% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Colne Primet AcademySecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jun 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 37.1 (35.4 in 2025 and 32.2 in 2024); 25.2% grade 5+ in English and maths

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

9 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 380 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Little Blossoms of Barrowford BB9 8NE Full day care Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 380 m
Barrowford Preschool Nursery BB9 8PU Full day care 72 Outstanding (Aug 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 410 m (0.3 miles)
Holy Saviour Breakfast and After School Club BB9 8HD Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 760 m (0.5 miles)
Pendle Court Day Nursery & Pre-School BB9 7BT Full day care 222 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Star Learning BB9 8EH Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Crescent Nursery Nelson BB9 7QP Sessional day care 39 Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Include Me 2 Pendle BB9 8EL Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Parrock House Day Nursery BB9 6QF Full day care 50 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Learning Cubs - Nelson BB9 7UY Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 428 childminders and 26 home childcarers (nannies) in Lancashire. 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
Park View Cafe BB9 6EWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m4 Good27 Oct 2025
Beech's Butchers BB9 6EWRetailers - other50 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
117 Bistro Bar BB9 6EWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good18 Dec 2025
Juno Bakery BB9 6DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good15 May 2026
Coffee And Crafts BB9 6EWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good24 Oct 2024
Spar BB9 6DTRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets70 m5 Very good13 Mar 2026
Will's BB9 6DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good9 Jan 2026
Mellows Of Barrowford BB9 6DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good16 Jan 2026
Heron Cafe BB9 6DTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m5 Very good27 Feb 2026
Lamb Working Mens Club BB9 6EEPub/bar/nightclub120 m5 Very good24 Jun 2024
Lulu's BB9 8LQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good5 Dec 2025
Bankers Draft BB9 6HQPub/bar/nightclub180 mAwaiting inspection
White Bear Pub BB9 6EPPub/bar/nightclub180 m5 Very good14 May 2026
Remas Take-Away BB9 6HQTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Park Newsagents BB9 6HQRetailers - other200 m5 Very good28 Oct 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.

74 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences22
Anti-social behaviour19
Shoplifting11
Public order6
Criminal damage and arson4
Burglary3
Other theft3
Drugs2
Robbery2
Vehicle crime1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Fountain Square (17); On or near Mill Street (17); On or near Sharp Street (16); On or near Hill Top (7); On or near Harry Street (5).

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.

6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 5 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 3 involved a pedestrian; 2 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 67% happened in the dark, and 33% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202111
202230
202300
202410
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
30 Mar 2025 19:40 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights off
19 Oct 2024 13:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A682, 30 mph Daylight
7 Sep 2022 17:05 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Dark
23 Apr 2022 20:19 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
20 Feb 2022 21:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
20 Jan 2021 00:40 Serious 3 people: 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road

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 M65 between 13 and A6068, with 37,055 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 460 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
Minor road Not recorded 3,363 counted 2025 0% 230 m
Minor road Not recorded 3,335 counted 2025 1% 330 m
A56 A682 to A6068 12,187 counted 2025 1% -1% since 2015 370 m
Minor road Not recorded 1,164 counted 2025 2% 410 m (0.3 miles)
M65 13 to A6068 37,055 estimated; counted 2024 3% -8% since 2015 460 m (0.3 miles)

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 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 563 residents in 252 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 age4140
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over22%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)48%61%
Owned outright32%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented25%17%
Private rented27%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work45%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle19%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)22%34%
No qualifications36%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)75%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all11%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 5 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

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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.

  • BB9 6EL: 26 addresses of 27 in the postcode
  • BB9 9BD: 1 address of 11 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Fountain Square · Church Street · Hill Top · Ingham Street · Butterfield Street · Sharp Street · Harry Street · Back Church Street · Back Harry Street · Rushton Street · Church Street · Victoria Street

All the streets in BB9 and across Pendle.

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.