Spinners Drive Whitworth, Rossendale

38 addresses across 1 postcode (OL12), about 270 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 32402555.

  • Sales: 50 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £300,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Rossendale cost £201,483 in August 2026 (+4.9% on a year); private rents averaged £814 a month.
  • Energy: 35 homes have an energy certificate (B: 8, C: 27).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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.
  • Storm overflows: 2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 56 times (282 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 10 to 30% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Rossendale costs £2,520 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Smithy Bridge, about 5 km (3.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 215 to 222 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Whitworth Medical Centre, about 600 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 570 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 38% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 57 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; 1 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
20261£300,000£300,000£300,000
20241£190,000£190,000£190,000
20222£201,500£197,000£206,000
20216£243,000£147,000£305,000
20203£160,000£91,000£240,000
20192£151,000£145,000£157,000
20179£186,995£129,995£249,995
201624£169,995£80,496£221,995
20141£213,995£213,995£213,995
All 50 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jun 20171 OL12 8ESDetached£209,995New build.
13 Mar 20202 OL12 8ESDetached£240,000
25 Apr 20142 OL12 8ESDetached£213,995New build.
27 Jul 20173 OL12 8ESDetached£186,995New build.
1 Apr 20264 OL12 8ESDetached£300,000
26 Mar 20214 OL12 8ESDetached£208,000
26 May 20174 OL12 8ESDetached£179,995New build.
9 Apr 20215 OL12 8ESDetached£305,000
28 Jul 20175 OL12 8ESDetached£249,995New build.
19 Jun 20206 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£160,000
26 May 20176 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£129,995New build.
31 Jul 20177 OL12 8ESDetached£186,995New build.
13 Aug 20218 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£147,000
26 May 20178 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£129,995New build.
28 Jul 20179 OL12 8ESDetached£211,995New build.
24 Feb 201710 OL12 8ESDetached£187,995
29 Nov 202411 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£190,000
19 Dec 201611 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£123,495New build.
6 May 201612 OL12 8ESDetached£209,995New build.
19 Dec 201613 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£128,695New build.
26 Feb 201614 OL12 8ESDetached£204,995New build.
20 Dec 201615 OL12 8ESDetached£209,995New build.
30 Sep 202216 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£206,000
26 Feb 201616 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£144,995New build.
21 Dec 201617 OL12 8ESDetached£184,995New build.
8 Feb 201918 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£157,000
26 Feb 201618 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£144,995New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Feb 202119 OL12 8ESDetached£249,000
19 Dec 201619 OL12 8ESDetached£184,995New build.
30 Mar 201620 OL12 8ESDetached£169,995New build.
19 Dec 201621 OL12 8ESDetached£205,995New build.
19 Nov 202122 OL12 8ESDetached£288,000
4 Apr 201622 OL12 8ESDetached£204,995New build.
27 Oct 201623 OL12 8ESDetached£184,995New build.
27 Jun 201624 OL12 8ESDetached£221,995New build.
26 Aug 201625 OL12 8ESDetached£184,995New build.
26 Aug 201627 OL12 8ESDetached£179,995New build.
26 Aug 201629 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£139,995New build.
30 Sep 201631 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£139,995New build.
4 Jan 201933 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£145,000
30 Sep 201633 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£139,995New build.
14 Sep 201635 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£139,995New build.
30 Jun 201637 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£80,496New build.
14 Oct 202039 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£91,000
30 Jun 201639 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£80,496New build.
2 Sep 202241 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£197,000
25 Aug 201641 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£146,995New build.
2 Sep 201643 OL12 8ESSemi-detached£146,995New build.
30 Jun 202145 OL12 8ESDetached£237,000
30 Jun 201645 OL12 8ESDetached£169,995New build.

House prices and rents in Rossendale

A typical home in Rossendale cost £201,483 in August 2026, 4.9% more than a year before. That is 24% more than five years earlier and 80% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£361,572
Semi-detached£215,819
Terraced£166,082
Flat or maisonette£125,571
Bought by a first-time buyer£175,367

Private renters in Rossendale paid £814 a month on average in September 2026, 3.7% more than a year before. That is 50% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£593
Two bedrooms£758
Three bedrooms£912
Four or more bedrooms£1,231

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 February 2014 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

35 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 89 m². Most common: House (22); House, detached (8); House, semi-detached (5). Built: 2013 (14); 2014 (7); 2017 (6). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (35 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,693 kWh of it on average in 2024, 26% less than the district's 11,675 kWh, and 2,717 kWh of electricity, 13% less than the district's 3,136 kWh. There are gas meters for about 97% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the 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 OL12.

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 Rossendale in 2026-27: Band D £2,520 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,680£1,960£2,240£2,520£3,080£3,640£4,200£5,040

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (69% of about 1,310 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): Immediate Article 4 Direction for small Houses in Multiple Occupation.
  • 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

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Crook Hill (Rochdale MBC) 2 of 2 Rochdale 08/D51145 Wind 7 turbines 23.8 MW Operational Dec 2015 4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Crook Hill (Calderdale MBC) 1 of 2 Rochdale 08/01281/WDF Wind 4 turbines 13.6 MW Operational Dec 2015 4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Reaps Moss Wind Farm Rossendale 2007/125 Wind 3 turbines, 125 m tall 10.2 MW Operational Mar 2015 4.9 km (3 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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

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

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

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre 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

2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 56 times, for 282 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Spodden.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Whitworth Sso United Utilities; monitored 71% of the year River Spodden 3 13 80 m
Whitworth Cso United Utilities River Spodden 53 269 730 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

This postcode is 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 postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 10 to 30%: 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 the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

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

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 38 addresses are between 215 m and 222 m above sea level (219 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
OL12 8ES100%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 stationsSmithy Bridge 191,000 journeys in 2024–255 km (3.1 miles)
Rochdale 1.6 million journeys in 2024–255.4 km (3.4 miles)
Littleborough 378,000 journeys in 2024–255.8 km (3.6 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hall Street Whitworth110 m
Bus or coach stationRochdale Interchange4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest 5 Milner Street Parking80 m
EV charging pointsBe.EV Charging Station3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN34.8 km (22 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 surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whitworth Medical Centre Good May 2019600 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Whitworth Pharmacy520 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery230 m
HospitalRochdale Infirmary Opd3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Holt Mill House Requires improvement Dec 2023320 m
Police stationRochdale Police Station4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Whitworth, Off Market Street Cashzone640 m (0.4 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 Unnamed 12 ha360 m
Play areaUnnamed 230 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha480 m (0.3 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,510 m²2.7 km (1.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Whitworth Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east. 17 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Whitworth CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Waingap HillHill520 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Hodge HillHill900 m (0.6 miles) east
Danes WoodWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Spring Mill ReservoirLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Brown HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Hud CloughValley1.7 km (1 mile) north-east

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)7.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.54015

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
Under 553838

None of the street's 38 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

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 Rossendale: see them on the Rossendale page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 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
St Bartholomew's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11210 m No published inspection 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
Whitworth Community High SchoolSecondary11–16240 m No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 47.4 (50.3 in 2025 and 43.8 in 2024); 48.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
Tonacliffe Primary SchoolPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Our Lady and St Anselm's Roman Catholic Primary School, WhitworthPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 80% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)

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

2 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 120 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Whitworth Playgroup OL12 8TL Sessional day care 20 Good (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 120 m
FUNDA Sports, Physical Activity Holiday Camps & Childcare OL12 8SS Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 930 m (0.6 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 5 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
Whitworth Play Group Committee OL12 8TLOther catering premises120 m5 Very good21 May 2026
St Bartholomews C Of E Primary School (Kitchen) OL12 8TLSchool/college/university120 m5 Very good27 Apr 2026
Whitworth Apothecary OL12 8QJRetailers - other130 mExempt
Sunnyside Rest Home OL12 8QQHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m4 Good13 May 2026
WME Stores OL12 8PWRetailers - other210 m5 Very good28 Apr 2025
BC Bakes OL12 8PWRetailers - other220 m5 Very good19 Feb 2024
Whitworth Community High School (Kitchen OL12 8TSSchool/college/university240 m4 Good27 Apr 2026
Whitworth Working Mens Club OL12 8PWPub/bar/nightclub250 m5 Very good5 Nov 2024
Whitworth Chippy OL12 8PWTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m2 Improvement necessary31 Mar 2026
Clumsy Goat Coffee OL12 8AARetailers - other350 m5 Very good19 Feb 2024
The Sportsman OL12 8QNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 m5 Very good30 Oct 2024
Market Street, Convenience Store OL12 8QNRetailers - other350 m5 Very good5 Nov 2024
Cockle Bistro OL12 8AHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Oct 2026
Premier OL12 8UJRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary21 May 2026
Pizza Time Express OL12 8QWTakeaway/sandwich shop480 m (0.3 miles)2 Improvement necessary14 Jul 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.

57 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Anti-social behaviour9
Other theft8
Criminal damage and arson5
Vehicle crime3
Drugs3
Public order2
Burglary2
Other crime1
Robbery1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Milner Street (11); On or near Parking Area (9); On or near Coupland Close (9); On or near Chapel Street (7); On or near Church 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 2 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 50% happened in the dark, and 17% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202120
202200
202300
202400
202541
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
14 Dec 2025 16:15 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child A671, 30 mph Daylight
12 Nov 2025 17:30 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
8 Nov 2025 19:25 Slight 2 people A1, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
5 Jul 2025 16:30 Serious 2 people A671, 30 mph Daylight
6 May 2021 11:30 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
27 Jan 2021 14:16 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Dark

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 571 residents in 224 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 age3840
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright27%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented12%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work75%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)14%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 van70%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)59%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)38%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)100%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%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.

Nearby streets

Dyehouse Close · Orama Avenue · Hall Street · Thor Drive · Massey Croft · Wooltop Close · Coupland Close · Coupland Close · Massey Croft · Church Street · Spodden Fold · The Rivers Edge

All the streets in OL12 and across Rossendale.

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.