Edgworth

Edgworth is covered by postcode district BL7. It is in the Blackburn with Darwen council area, England.

Typical price £322,500 Homes sold in Edgworth, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 52 of 83 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 6 of 83 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 1 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Edgworth, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Edgworth, by flood risk Of the 83 postcodes in Edgworth that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at low risk at worst and 77 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Edgworth. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. BL7 0AA: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AB: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AD: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AE: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AF: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AG: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AH: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AJ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AL: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AN: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AP: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AQ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AR: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AT: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AU: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AW: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AX: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AY: not on the flood risk listBL7 0AZ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BA: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BB: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BD: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BE: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BF: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BG: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BH: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BJ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BL: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BN: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BP: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BQ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BW: not on the flood risk listBL7 0BY: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DE: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DF: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DG: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DH: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DJ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DL: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DN: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DQ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DR: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DT: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DU: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DW: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DX: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DZ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0ED: not on the flood risk listBL7 0EF: not on the flood risk listBL7 0EP: not on the flood risk listBL7 0FR: not on the flood risk listBL7 0FS: not on the flood risk listBL7 0HY: not on the flood risk listBL7 0JE: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PA: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PB: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PD: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PE: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PF: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PG: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PH: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PJ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PL: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PN: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PP: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PQ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PR: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PS: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PU: not on the flood risk listBL7 0PW: not on the flood risk listBL7 0QG: not on the flood risk listBL7 0QJ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0QN: not on the flood risk listBL7 0QX: not on the flood risk listBL7 0QY: not on the flood risk listBL7 0QZ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0RZ: not on the flood risk listBL7 0DS: low flood risk at worstBL7 0DY: low flood risk at worstBL7 0EA: low flood risk at worstBL7 0EB: low flood risk at worstBL7 0EE: low flood risk at worstBL7 0EY: high flood risk Edgworth Map of every postcode in Edgworth, by flood risk Of the 83 postcodes in Edgworth that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at low risk at worst and 77 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Edgworth. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Edgworth
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 5
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 77

Of the 83 postcodes in Edgworth that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at low risk at worst and 77 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.6457, longitude -2.3953. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

BL7 0EY1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Edgworth?

Homes sold for a typical £322,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 52 of the 83 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1 home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 6 of its 83 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Bromley Meadows Surgery, 3.7 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Entwistle, 1.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Edgworth?

Homes in Edgworth sold for a typical £322,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 18 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £284,500 from 40 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

£322,500 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£284,500 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached 3 sales, too few to price
  • Semi-detached 2 sales, too few to price
  • Terraced £237,500 12 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole BL7 district, Edgworth's main postcode district: a typical £297,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Edgworth: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Edgworth?

None of the 83 postcodes now in use in Edgworth came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 40 homes sold in Edgworth were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BL7 district, 4%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn EdgworthAcross the BL7 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 18 (0%) 2 of 192 (1%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 40 (0%) 10 of 267 (4%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Edgworth?

Ofcom reports on 83 of the 83 postcodes in Edgworth. At 52 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit52 of 83
Postcodes where every home can get superfast79 of 83
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 83

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

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Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Edgworth at risk of flooding?

6 of the 83 postcodes in Edgworth have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1 home or business in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 6 of 83 postcodes High: 1Low: 28

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Edgworth?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Edgworth. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Edgworth?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Edgworth is Entwistle Rail Station, 1.7 km away in a straight line.

  • Entwistle Rail Station Railway station 1.7 kmCycle
  • Bromley Cross Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle
  • Hall i' th' Wood Rail Station Railway station 5.5 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Edgworth?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Edgworth. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Edgworth safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 83 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Edgworth over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 6 September 2025
  2. 10 October 2025
  3. 11 November 2025
  4. 11 December 2025
  5. 8 January 2026
  6. 6 February 2026
  7. 1 March 2026
  8. 11 April 2026
  9. 6 May 2026
  10. 4 June 2026
  11. 4 July 2026
  12. 5 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences26 reports
Anti-social behaviour20 reports
Burglary11 reports
Criminal damage and arson9 reports
Other theft9 reports
Vehicle crime4 reports
Public order3 reports
Possession of weapons1 report

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Edgworth?

Parliamentary constituency
Rossendale and Darwen
Police force area
Lancashire
Region
North West
Country
England
MP
Andy MacNae (Labour)

All 83 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

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Edgworth postcodes

83 postcodes in use in Edgworth, by district:

BL7 postcode district,83 postcodes

That district is in the BL postcode area.

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Places near Edgworth

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Edgworth's £322,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Ramsbottom4.8 km, £281,250Edenfield6.5 km, £285,000Ainsworth6.9 km, £203,500Bolton7.2 km, £205,000Darwen7.3 km, £147,500Haslingden7.4 km, £182,500Bury8.4 km, £223,500Little Lever9.3 km, £220,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Edgworth

What is the postcode for Edgworth?
Postcode district BL7, with 83 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Edgworth in?
Blackburn with Darwen. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Edgworth?
Andy MacNae (Labour), for Rossendale and Darwen. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Edgworth?
A typical £322,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 18 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Edgworth?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Turton and Edgworth CofE/Methodist Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Turton School, 3.7 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Edgworth have a railway station?
The nearest is Entwistle station, 1.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Edgworth?
Ofcom reports on 83 of the 83 postcodes in Edgworth. At 52 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
Is Edgworth at risk of flooding?
6 of the 83 postcodes in Edgworth have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1 home or business in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Edgworth?
None of the 83 postcodes now in use in Edgworth came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 40 homes sold in Edgworth were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BL7 district, 4%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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