thinking of moving

stan · 09-08-2006, 19:28

hiya need help thinking of moving to accrington but dont know the area
need somewhere quiet looking at the new barrats estate on spinners walk
+altham west,huncoat and baxenden,can anyone help?cheers stan.

entwisi · 09-08-2006, 19:45

IMHO, Baxenden is generally a nice place to live, can be a bit local town for local people at times but on the whole its a nice place to live, Altham I can't comment on. Spring Hill is a bit of a contrast at the moment ( I grew up there for the 1st 26 years of my life and my mum still lives there so I can speak from experience). There are a fair few 'unsocial' types. Depending on which part of the estate you may be fine, I would avoid being near Pickup street if I was you.

Ber999T · 09-08-2006, 22:15

Altham West is near to the FES but the barrets homes are in Altham, and you get to this estate by going along Burnley Rd in Clayton.

There are 2 lots of delevopments in that area and I think the other is Permission or something like that.

They are all at the back of me LOL not a bad area but not that many shops most are on Pickup St in Clayton so you have to travel to shop, bank etc

Think maybe time Clayton got a good sized store built

cashman · 10-08-2006, 00:00

baxenden is ok, lived on bamford crescent just before bash and loved it was dead quiet on there cos its not a thoroughfare, also have many friends up bash and used to visit regular,they all love it. also a couple of decent locals,butchers,post office,etc. can,t say about altham have only visited a friends in one of them barret houses, just a personal opinion think there crap.

stan · 10-08-2006, 19:50

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Originally Posted by entwisi

IMHO, Baxenden is generally a nice place to live, can be a bit local town for local people at times but on the whole its a nice place to live, Altham I can't comment on. Spring Hill is a bit of a contrast at the moment ( I grew up there for the 1st 26 years of my life and my mum still lives there so I can speak from experience). There are a fair few 'unsocial' types. Depending on which part of the estate you may be fine, I would avoid being near Pickup street if I was you.

hi ian thanks for that lookes like baxenden then,looking at icconhuurst close if u know it? also lookin at huncoat?cheers stan

chav1 · 10-08-2006, 20:57

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Originally Posted by stan

hi ian thanks for that lookes like baxenden then,looking at icconhuurst close if u know it? also lookin at huncoat?cheers stan

huncoat village or huncoat coz huncoat looks like iraq after the bombings

they are renovating a lot though but not been up the last few months