Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 6 secondary schools. Beechen Cliff School is the nearest published school at 656 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA2 5NB
Widcombe & Lyncombe · Bath and North East Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bath
- Ward
- Widcombe & Lyncombe
- Local authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath
- Postcode district
- BA2
- Postcode sector
- BA2 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA2 5NB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA2
- Postcode sector
- BA2 5
- Latitude
- 51.366958
- Longitude
- -2.364460
- British National Grid easting
- 374,724
- British National Grid northing
- 163,163
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Bath and North East Somerset · E06000022
- Electoral ward
- Widcombe & Lyncombe · E05012493
- Parish or community
- E43000018
- Westminster constituency
- Bath · E14001080
- Output area
- E00072815
- Lower layer super output area
- Bath and North East Somerset 017C · E01014417
- Middle layer super output area
- Bath and North East Somerset 017 · E02003001
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BA2
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Underleaves, Lynbrook Lane, Bath, BA2 5NB | 18 June 2021 | £921,187 |
| Walnut House, Lynbrook Lane, Bath, BA2 5NB | 21 June 2019 | £875,000 |
| Pepperbox, Lynbrook Lane, Bath, BA2 5NB | 6 July 2007 | £492,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 43
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 6
- 656 m
Beechen Cliff School
Academy converter
- 671 m
The Paragon School, Junior School of Prior Park College
Other independent school
- 892 m
Moorlands Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,124
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,327
- Shoplifting 885
- Public order 420
- Anti social behaviour 388
- Other theft 311
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 22
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- BA2 5 residents
- 7,861
14 female, 8 male
Age bands in BA2 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.8%
1,472 residents
1,052 residents
1,738 residents
1,876 residents
1,511 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BA2 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
9
within 5 km
HEART OF BATH
45 UPPER OLDFIELD PARK, BATH, BA2 3HT
ODS code L81039
1.2 km
WIDCOMBE SURGERY
3-4 WIDCOMBE PARADE, BATH, BA2 4JT
ODS code L81020
1.3 km
COMBE DOWN SURGERY
COMBE DOWN HOUSE, THE AVENUE, COMBE DOWN, BATH, BA2 5EG
ODS code L81065
1.5 km
RUSH HILL SURGERY
20 RUSH HILL, BATH, BA2 2QH
ODS code L81644
2.0 km
THE PULTENEY PRACTICE
35 GREAT PULTENEY STREET, BATH, BA2 4BY
ODS code L81068
2.2 km
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE
QUARRY HOUSE, NORTH ROAD, BATH, BA2 7AY
ODS code L81617
2.9 km
ST. MICHAEL'S SURGERY
WALWYN CLOSE, TWERTON-ON-AVON, BATH, BA2 1ER
ODS code L81069
2.9 km
NEWBRIDGE SURGERY
129 NEWBRIDGE HILL, BATH, BA1 3PT
ODS code L81070
3.1 km
FAIRFIELD PARK HEALTH CENTRE
TYNING LANE, CAMDEN ROAD, BATH, BA1 6EA
ODS code L81071
3.2 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wellsway
BCT · Bloomfield
- 0.1 miles
Wellsway
BCT · Bloomfield
- 0.2 miles
Devonshire Buildings
BCT · Bloomfield
- 0.2 miles
Hatfield Road
BCT · Bloomfield
- 0.2 miles
Hatfield Road
BCT · Bloomfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bath and North East Somerset 017C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,947 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
4,124 published events cover 12 months, averaging 343.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,327 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.