Saxon Close Oswaldtwistle, Hyndburn

11 addresses across 2 postcodes (BB5), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 17902009.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £152,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 6 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 3).
  • 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 B; Band D in Hyndburn costs £2,466 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Church and Oswaldtwistle, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, James Hargreaves Memorial Garden, is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 149 to 152 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 11 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Higher Heys Surgery, about 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 70 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
20221£152,500£152,500£152,500
20192£130,000£120,000£140,000
20171£130,000£130,000£130,000
20161£125,000£125,000£125,000
20141£125,000£125,000£125,000
20131£112,000£112,000£112,000
20061£138,000£138,000£138,000
20051£145,000£145,000£145,000
20041£128,000£128,000£128,000
20013£59,950£58,000£60,000
19991£73,200£73,200£73,200
19982£54,998£54,995£55,000
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
10 Jun 20225 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£152,500Leasehold.
20 Dec 20196 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£120,000Leasehold.
29 Mar 20199 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£140,000Leasehold.
16 Jun 20177 BB5 4NHTerraced£130,000Leasehold.
24 Aug 20168 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£125,000
28 Mar 20149 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£125,000Leasehold.
15 Nov 20135 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£112,000Leasehold.
25 Aug 20065 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£138,000Leasehold.
8 Apr 200511 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£145,000Leasehold.
10 Dec 20045 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£128,000Leasehold.
16 Nov 20012 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£60,000Leasehold.
15 Jun 20018 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£58,000
1 Feb 20019 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£59,950Leasehold.
25 Jun 199911 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£73,200Leasehold.
11 Dec 19987 BB5 4NHTerraced£55,000Leasehold.
26 Jun 19988 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£54,995
16 Dec 19974 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£57,950Leasehold.
25 Apr 19974 BB5 4NHSemi-detached£58,000Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from October 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

6 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 73 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6). Built: 1991-1995 (3); 1983-1990 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Hyndburn in 2026-27: Band D £2,466 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,644£1,918£2,192£2,466£3,014£3,562£4,110£4,932

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (62% of about 650 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.

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

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 11 addresses are between 149 m and 152 m above sea level (151 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
BB5 4NF100%100%100%0%
BB5 4NH100%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 stationsChurch and Oswaldtwistle 59,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Rishton 41,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Accrington 504,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 26 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Community Centre West End150 m
Bus or coach stationArrival Stand Accrington2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN45.3 km (28 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Higher Heys Surgery1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oswaldtwistle Pharmacy1 km (0.6 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalAccrington Victoria Hospital3 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationHyndburn Police Cadets2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone1 km (0.6 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 James Hargreaves Memorial Garden 730 m²510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,230 m²100 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.9 ha360 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,730 m²210 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 0.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Remains of Aspen Colliery, associated beehive coking ovens and canal basin, a scheduled monument, 650 m (0.4 miles) north-east. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Remains of Aspen Colliery, associated beehive coking ovens and canal basinScheduled monument650 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Aspen ValleyValley550 m (0.3 miles) north-east
The OrchardWood760 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Park PlantationWood1.6 km (1 mile) north
Madder Mill WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Duckworth HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Rishton ReservoirLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.5 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)7.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.64015

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

Road and rail noise

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

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5920
Under 55911

2 of the street's 11 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 Hyndburn: see them on the Hyndburn page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Oswaldtwistle West End Primary SchoolPrimary5–11370 m No published inspection
Oswaldtwistle St Andrew's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jan 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oswaldtwistle Moor End Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oswaldtwistle St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
RhyddingsSecondary11–161.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, OswaldtwistlePrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Oswaldtwistle Hippings Methodist Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School, ChurchPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Fairfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Knuzden St Oswald's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Report card (Jan 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
St Nicholas 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: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Rishton Methodist Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
West End Fish and Chips BB5 4LZTakeaway/sandwich shop120 m4 Good3 Aug 2026
Stanhill Preschool BB5 4QTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m4 Good6 Feb 2026
Price Check BB5 4LZRetailers - other190 m5 Very good23 Apr 2024
Barnfold Cottage HFE BB5 4LZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good10 Jun 2025
Church & Oswaldtwistle Cricket Clubhouse BB5 4LZPub/bar/nightclub190 m5 Very good11 Nov 2025
Progressive Sports South Lancashire Ltd @ West End Primary School BB5 4QAOther catering premises200 m4 Good2 Dec 2024
Hare & Hounds BB5 4NQPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
West End County Primary School BB5 4QASchool/college/university370 m5 Very good26 Sep 2024
Early Start Nursery BB5 4QAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good2 Sep 2025
White Ash Brook Residential Home BB5 4QRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises430 m (0.3 miles)4 Good23 Apr 2026
Spar Stores BB5 4QGRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets450 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory22 Jun 2026
White Ash Primary School BB5 4QGSchool/college/university450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Sep 2024
West End Arms BB5 4QGPub/bar/nightclub460 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary23 Mar 2026

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.

70 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences28
Anti-social behaviour15
Burglary11
Vehicle crime6
Criminal damage and arson4
Other theft3
Public order2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Spread Eagle Street (15); On or near Ripon Road (15); On or near Browning Avenue (7); On or near Anglian Close (6); On or near Dudley Avenue (6).

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: 288 residents in 114 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 age3440
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright24%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)0%6%
Retired (of adults)14%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van76%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus1%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications10%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

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

What has changed

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

Anglian Close · Ripon Road · Cobble Close · Norman Road · Aspen Lane · Whewell Row · Dunster Avenue · Spread Eagle Street · Turnpike Grove · Peel Bank Road · Cranbrook Avenue · Newton Street

All the streets in BB5 and across Hyndburn.

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.