Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Oakhill School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB6 9BY
Wiswell & Barrow · Ribble Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wiswell & Barrow
- Local authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe
- Postcode district
- BB6
- Postcode sector
- BB6 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB6 9BY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB6
- Postcode sector
- BB6 9
- Latitude
- 53.834130
- Longitude
- -2.385868
- British National Grid easting
- 374,703
- British National Grid northing
- 437,609
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Ribble Valley · E07000124
- Electoral ward
- Wiswell & Barrow · E05012025
- Parish or community
- E04012370
- Westminster constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe · E14001422
- Output area
- E00128679
- Lower layer super output area
- Ribble Valley 005E · E01025354
- Middle layer super output area
- Ribble Valley 005 · E02005274
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 BB6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.1 km
Oakhill School
Other independent school
- 1.3 km
Barrow URC Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.1 km
Whalley Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 138
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 63
- Anti social behaviour 42
- Vehicle crime 9
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Other theft 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
WHALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
42 KING STREET, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE, BB7 9SL
ODS code P81017
2.1 km
PENDLESIDE MEDICAL PRACT
CLITHEROE HEALTH CENTRE, RAILWAY VIEW ROAD, CLITHEROE, BB7 2JG
ODS code P81069
4.5 km
THE CASTLE MEDICAL GROUP
CLITHEROE HEALTH CENTRE, RAILWAY VIEW ROAD, CLITHEROE, BB7 2JG
ODS code P81100
4.5 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Vicarage Fold
BCT · Wiswell
- 0.6 miles
Business Village
BCT · Barrow
- 0.7 miles
Whiteacre Lane
BCT · Lamb Roe
- 0.7 miles
Whiteacre Lane
BCT · Lamb Roe
- 0.8 miles
Trafford Gardens
BCT · Barrow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ribble Valley 005E, 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
31,147 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
138 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 63 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.