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On Preston Road, in Eccleston & Charnock Richard
What it's like at PR7 5LH: every home that has sold on Preston 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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.
11 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Preston Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
13 of the 193 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Bombay Dream Indian Restaurant, Preston RoadTerraced | Jul 2007 | £24,999 | – | – | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charnock Grange, Preston RoadDetached | Sept 2001 | £340,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Charnock House, Preston RoadDetached | Jun 1997 | £430,000 | 658 m² | £653/m² | 1 |
| Holly Cottage, Preston RoadDetached | Feb 2024 | £750,000 | 329 m² | £2,280/m² | 2 |
| Ivy Bank, Preston RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2008 | £211,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Old Orchard, Preston RoadDetached | Jul 2007 | £430,000 | – | – | 1 |
| The Coach House, Preston RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2021 | £467,500 | 187 m² | £2,500/m² | 1 |
| The Lodge, Preston RoadDetached | Oct 2017 | £280,000 | 110 m² | £2,545/m² | 2 |
| The Wilderness, Preston RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2008 | £585,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Wenderholm, Preston RoadDetached | Mar 2020 | £460,000 | 122 m² | £3,770/m² | 1 |
| Woodlands, Preston RoadDetached | Dec 2007 | £430,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Euxton Balshaw Lane, a short drive or bike ride (2.4 km), with 76k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Liverpool Lime Street.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 43 minutes away by public transport (18 by car).
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Christ Church Charnock Richard CofE Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m); 77% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Southlands High School, 1.9 km away; Attainment 8: 42.1 · 8.3% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy (4.5 km).
The nearest supermarket is Waitrose, 1.3 km away; Forecourt South (1.2 km) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Coppull Medical Practice (2.4 km), with Cohens Chemist the closest pharmacy (2.2 km).
For a haircut, Hair at No 2 is 450 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, 5.6 km away, rated good by the CQC.
At its trust, 67% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 60% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 15 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 14 restaurants and cafés, 5 pubs and bars.
The Bowling Green is the closest café or restaurant (700 m), and Charnock Richard Football Club (Club House) the nearest pub (850 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 55 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 49 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 43% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
Bungalow country: 24% of homes are bungalows.
It's growing: about 182 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Yarrow Valley Country Park - Dob Brow Pastures, 1.5 km away; for exercise, Body Culture (1.7 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.4 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Liverpool John Lennon is 35 km away, and Manchester, with far more destinations, 43 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 49% of households own their home outright.
5 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.
South Ribble constituency: Mr Paul Foster MP (Labour), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Lab gain from Con, majority 6,501 (13.9%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Labour 43%, Conservative 29%, Reform UK 19%, Liberal Democrat 6%.
8 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 PR7 5LH →
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
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.
On this street: 0 of 127 homes with certificates have solar panels, 2 a heat pump, and 15 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.9% | 1.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 2.1% | 0.7% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 91.7% | 92.8% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 4.0% | 1.3% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.7% | 4.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.7% | 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.
Nearest: Formby · about 38 min
Nearest: Waterworld (Stoke-On-Trent) · about 61 min
Nearest: Ribble Steam Railway and Museum · about 33 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Chorley 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 193 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.