Yew Tree Drive Oswaldtwistle, Hyndburn

53 addresses across 1 postcode (BB5), about 380 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 17900529.

  • Sales: 41 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £200,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Hyndburn cost £142,964 in August 2026 (+7.6% on a year); private rents averaged £650 a month.
  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 4, D: 10, E: 5).
  • 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: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 0 times (0 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 3 to 5% 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, Coach Road Meadow - Solar Farm, is 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; 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, Rhyddings Park, is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 7.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 182 to 198 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 53 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Higher Heys Surgery, about 640 m (0.4 miles) away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 44 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 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£200,000£200,000£200,000
20252£182,750£170,500£195,000
20241£160,000£160,000£160,000
20231£179,000£179,000£179,000
20224£191,500£160,000£255,000
20212£132,750£122,500£143,000
20202£133,500£133,500£133,500
20171£217,500£217,500£217,500
20162£168,500£152,000£185,000
20132£128,250£114,000£142,500
20091£175,000£175,000£175,000
20081£205,000£205,000£205,000
All 41 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
14 Apr 20221 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£255,000Leasehold.
1 Jun 19981 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£62,000Leasehold.
23 Jun 20003 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£66,000Leasehold.
28 Nov 19963 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£52,500Leasehold.
5 Nov 19994 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£52,000
24 Nov 20235 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£179,000Leasehold.
25 May 20076 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£160,000
10 Aug 20016 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£63,500
30 Nov 20018 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£55,000
10 Feb 20219 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£122,500
31 May 202410 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£160,000
9 Dec 202012 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£133,500Leasehold.
9 Dec 202012 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£133,500
12 Dec 199712 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£49,500Leasehold.
12 Aug 202114 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£143,000Leasehold.
1 Mar 200715 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£161,000
27 Oct 200019 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£67,500Leasehold.
5 Feb 201624 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£185,000
3 Apr 200924 BB5 3AXTerraced£175,000
9 Feb 200624 BB5 3AXTerraced£31,000
4 Sep 201725 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£217,500
15 Dec 200625 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£181,000
18 Aug 200626 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£165,000
14 Feb 202530 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£170,500Leasehold.
9 Jun 202232 BB5 3AXDetached£215,000Leasehold.
23 Mar 199833 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£70,000Leasehold.
15 May 200836 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£205,000Leasehold.
26 Apr 200436 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£159,000Leasehold.
17 Aug 202638 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£200,000Leasehold.
30 Jun 202240 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£160,000Leasehold.
8 Dec 199540 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£55,000Leasehold.
5 Aug 202543 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£195,000Leasehold.
25 Jul 202243 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£168,000Leasehold.
20 Sep 201343 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£114,000Leasehold.
7 Sep 200749 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£185,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 200753 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£164,712Leasehold.
9 Jul 200453 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£146,000Leasehold.
6 Dec 201355 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£142,500Leasehold.
21 Apr 200655 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£140,000Leasehold.
4 Apr 200657 BB5 3AXTerraced£99,166Leasehold.
22 Apr 201659 BB5 3AXSemi-detached£152,000Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Hyndburn

A typical home in Hyndburn cost £142,964 in August 2026, 7.6% more than a year before. That is 22% more than five years earlier and 55% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£249,874
Semi-detached£167,121
Terraced£124,189
Flat or maisonette£84,341
Bought by a first-time buyer£133,390

Private renters in Hyndburn paid £650 a month on average in September 2026, 3.7% more than a year before. That is 35% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£487
Two bedrooms£624
Three bedrooms£730
Four or more bedrooms£946

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 77 m². Most common: Bungalow, semi-detached (15); House, semi-detached (6); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1967-1975 (15); 1950-1966 (3); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (18); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (22 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,749 kWh of it on average in 2024, 5% more than the district's 11,219 kWh, and 2,983 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 98% 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 BB5.

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 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 C (65% 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.

Energy projects nearby

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

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Coach Road Meadow - Solar Farm Hyndburn 11/23/0180 Solar farm 2 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jun 2024 1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Accrington and Rossendale College, Sandy Lane - Battery Storage Hyndburn 11/23/0412 Battery storage 1 MW Permission granted, not yet built Feb 2024 2 km (1.2 miles)
Hyndburn Wind Farm Extension Hyndburn 11/14/0244 Wind 4 turbines, 122 m tall 8.2 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jun 2015 2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Hyndburn Wind Farm Hyndburn 11/09/0512 Wind 12 turbines 24 MW Operational Oct 2012 3 km (1.9 miles)
Whinney Hill Waste Disposal Site Landfill Gas 1.2 MW Operational Jan 1999 3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Whinney Hill II Energy Landfill Gas 1.8 MW Operational Jan 1999 3.4 km (2.1 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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 9 November 2026 to 11 November 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

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 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

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 0 times, for under an hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into Culv Section of Tinker Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Fairfield St/Stevenson St East Cso United Utilities Culv Section of Tinker Brook 0 0 780 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 3 to 5%: 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 53 addresses are between 182 m and 198 m above sea level (187 m on average); the ground rises about 17 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
BB5 3AX100%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)
Accrington 504,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Rishton 41,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest High Street Broadfield210 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Accrington1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Car parksPlantation St Parking2 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station830 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN44.2 km (27 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Higher Heys Surgery Good Sep 2017640 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cohens Chemist810 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalAccrington Victoria Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Care homes9 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Springhill Care Home Good Jul 2026480 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationHyndburn Police Cadets1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesPantry Convenience Store Cashzone810 m (0.5 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 Rhyddings Park 5.1 ha200 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,860 m²330 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,770 m²550 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,740 m²350 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Oswaldtwistle War Memorial, a listed building (Grade II*), 740 m (0.5 miles) west. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oswaldtwistle War MemorialListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) west
Remains of Aspen Colliery, associated beehive coking ovens and canal basinScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hoyle BottomValley1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
The OrchardWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Rothwell HeightsHill1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Priestley CloughValley1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Aspen ValleyValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Warmwithens ReservoirLake or reservoir2.8 km (1.7 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)7.54010
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
55 to 5910
Under 555253

1 of the street's 53 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Hyndburn: see them on the Hyndburn 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 Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, OswaldtwistlePrimary4–11390 m No published inspection 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 79% in 2023)
Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, HyndburnSecondary11–16560 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.5 (42.7 in 2025 and 42.5 in 2024); 35.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
Oswaldtwistle Hippings Methodist Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary5–11580 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
RhyddingsSecondary11–16620 m (0.4 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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 33.9 (36.5 in 2025 and 33.5 in 2024); 21.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
Fairfield Nursery SchoolNursery2–5670 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Peter's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–11690 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 75% in 2023)
St Oswald's Roman Catholic Primary School, AccringtonPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
Accrington Spring Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary4–11770 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jul 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; 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 23% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 28% in 2024 and 24% in 2023)
Oswaldtwistle St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11810 m (0.5 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 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
Oswaldtwistle St Andrew's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 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 39% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 39% in 2024 and 47% in 2023)
Green Haworth Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement; Achievement: Urgent improvement; Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met 8% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 18% in 2024 and 36% in 2023)
Oswaldtwistle Moor End Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 64% 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

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 390 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
PALS- St Mary's Primary School BB5 3AA Full day care 30 Not inspected yet 390 m
Little Stars at The Beeches BB5 0NP Full day care 26 Good (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 510 m (0.3 miles)
Brave Church Nursery & Preschool BB5 3HH Sessional day care 64 Good (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 600 m (0.4 miles)
Accrington Holiday Club BB5 3BT Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 640 m (0.4 miles)
Little Wonders Nursery BB5 0JD Sessional day care 90 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 730 m (0.5 miles)
Progressive Kids BB5 3DD Out-of-school day care 35 Feb 2026: Expected standard in 1 area 810 m (0.5 miles)
Little Stars at the Oaks BB5 0SJ Sessional day care 40 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
St.Andrew's Out Of School Clubs BB5 3LG Full day care 67 Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Manor House Childcare BB5 3PH Full day care 50 Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
PALS Sacred Heart Primary School BB5 4HG Out-of-school day care 24 Not inspected yet 1.4 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 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
Hexagon Care @ Hawthorn Avenue BB5 3APHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises130 m4 Good10 Mar 2026
Stop & Rest BB5 3BEPub/bar/nightclub300 m4 Good11 Mar 2026
St Marys RC Primary School BB5 3AASchool/college/university390 m5 Very good20 May 2025
Coach House @ Rhyddings Park BB5 3AFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good3 Jul 2026
Fairfield Nursery School BB5 0LDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises470 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Feb 2025
Springhill Care Home BB5 0LDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good30 May 2025
Kirsty's Boutique Bakery Ltd BB5 0NFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 May 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.

44 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences13
Vehicle crime12
Anti-social behaviour8
Criminal damage and arson5
Burglary3
Public order2
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Melrose Avenue (10); On or near Acorn Avenue (8); On or near Edinburgh Drive (5); On or near Laburnum Drive (5); On or near Hawthorn Avenue (3).

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.

3 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 3 slight. 1 involved a pedestrian. 33% happened in the dark, and 100% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 20 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202210
202300
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
24 May 2024 08:55 Slight 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
15 Feb 2022 13:40 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Wet road
24 Feb 2021 21:15 Slight 1 person Minor road, 20 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

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: 318 residents in 152 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 age5940
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over41%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright66%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented9%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)42%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van80%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)31%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification12%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 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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: United Utilities Water Ltd: Utility repair and maintenance works, 9 November 2026 to 11 November 2026 (some carriageway incursion) found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • BB5 3AX: 53 addresses of 57 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Meadows · Acorn Avenue · Hawthorn Avenue · Poplar Close · Queen's Drive · Somerset Close · Maple Drive · Fern Avenue · Melrose Avenue · Laburnum Drive · Durham Drive · Broadfield 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; 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.