Edgworth

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.

• 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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

• Bromley Meadows Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report December 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01204 463232 3.7 kmCycle
• Edgworth Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01204 462233 3.7 kmCycle
• Mandalay Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01204 309206 4.6 kmCycle

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

By kind, over the 12 months

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.

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

Who runs Edgworth?

Council

Blackburn with Darwen

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.