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On Wordsworth Road, in Accrington West
What it's like at BB5 0LU: every home that has sold on Wordsworth Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
Sales and extensions on Wordsworth Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 25 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 4, Wordsworth RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2018 | £87,000 | 66 m² | £1,318/m² | 4 |
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| 8, Wordsworth RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | May 2026 | £160,000 | 74 m² | £2,162/m² | 6 |
| 11, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Jul 2013 | £65,000 | 77 m² | £844/m² | 2 |
| 12, Wordsworth RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2019 | £99,500 | 67 m² | £1,485/m² | 1 |
| 15, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Feb 2010 | £50,500 | 90 m² | £561/m² | 1 |
| 18, Wordsworth RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2003 | £47,950 | 65 m² | £738/m² | 1 |
| 20, Wordsworth RoadSemi-detached | May 2025 | £80,000 | 63 m² | £1,270/m² | 1 |
| 22, Wordsworth RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2003 | £59,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 24, Wordsworth RoadSemi-detached | Jun 1997 | £35,750 | – | – | 3 |
| 26, Wordsworth RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2000 | £25,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 27, Wordsworth RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2002 | £10,000 | 88 m² | £114/m² | 2 |
| 28, Wordsworth RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2019 | £89,950 | 97 m² | £927/m² | 3 |
| 43, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Sept 2001 | £12,150 | – | – | 1 |
| 49, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | May 2024 | £90,000 | 77 m² | £1,169/m² | 1 |
| 51, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Nov 2005 | £59,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 53, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Apr 2007 | £53,000 | 76 m² | £697/m² | 1 |
| 55, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Jul 2024 | £78,000 | 77 m² | £1,013/m² | 2 |
| 67, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Jun 2023 | £135,000 | 75 m² | £1,800/m² | 2 |
| 69, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Oct 2018 | £64,000 | 77 m² | £831/m² | 1 |
| 73, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Dec 2018 | £54,000 | 76 m² | £711/m² | 2 |
| 81, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Jul 2019 | £55,000 | 77 m² | £714/m² | 2 |
| 85, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Dec 2024 | £65,000 | 76 m² | £855/m² | 2 |
| 87, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Jun 2007 | £68,000 | 72 m² | £944/m² | 1 |
| 93, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Dec 2006 | £45,000 | 78 m² | £577/m² | 3 |
| 97, Wordsworth RoadTerraced | Sept 2007 | £90,000 | 75 m² | £1,200/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Accrington, about a 15-minute walk (1.1 km), with 504k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Blackburn.
The nearest bus stop is Mount Carmel Rchs, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (routes A1, A4); 15 departures an hour from the 18 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Accrington Spring Hill Community Primary School, a few minutes' walk (400 m); 23% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, Hyndburn, under 50 m away; Attainment 8: 42.7 · 3.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School (10.5 km) and Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (13.9 km).
It's a family area: 27% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is M & S Enterprises (NW), 750 m away, with Fern Gore News & Convenience Store closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Dr Bello'S Surgery (1.0 km), with Rx Health Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, H1cutz is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Royal Blackburn Hospital, 5.9 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 63% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 72% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 10 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 14 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Cafe B's is the closest café or restaurant (200 m), and Globe Bowling & Billiards Club the nearest pub (300 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (23 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 177 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 8% flats and 5% detached houses.
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 61% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Rhyddings Park, 800 m away; for exercise, Hyndburn Sports Centre (1.3 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.6 µg/m³).
For holidays, Manchester is 45 km away.
Most households own their home, 27% rent privately.
It's young: 22% of residents are aged 15–29.
22 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Hyndburn constituency: Sarah Smith MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 1,687 (4.6%), turnout 54%. Vote shares: Labour 34%, Conservative 29%, Reform UK 21%, Green Party 14%.
11 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near BB5 0LU →
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Nearest: Blackpool South · about 41 min
Nearest: Ilkley Swimming Pool · about 51 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 20 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.2% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.2% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 95.9% | 96.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.4% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.4% | 2.9% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.2% | 0.0% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Hyndburn since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 25 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.