Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 4 secondary schools. Colne Park High School is the nearest published school at 497 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB8 0NJ
Waterside & Horsfield · Pendle · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe
- Postcode district
- BB8
- Postcode sector
- BB8 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB8 0NJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB8
- Postcode sector
- BB8 0
- Latitude
- 53.862422
- Longitude
- -2.162660
- British National Grid easting
- 389,400
- British National Grid northing
- 440,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Pendle · E07000122
- Electoral ward
- Waterside & Horsfield · E05013210
- Parish or community
- E04005232
- Westminster constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe · E14001422
- Output area
- E00127952
- Lower layer super output area
- Pendle 014A · E01025206
- Middle layer super output area
- Pendle 014 · E02007003
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 BB8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 4
- 497 m
Colne Park High School
Academy converter
- 497 m
Park Primary School
Community school
- 695 m
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,066
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 817
- Anti social behaviour 418
- Criminal damage and arson 206
- Public order 130
- Shoplifting 113
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BB8 0 residents
- 5,558
Age bands in BB8 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.2%
1,064 residents
631 residents
1,457 residents
1,526 residents
1,110 residents
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.
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
THE RICHMOND HILL PRACTICE
COLNE HEALTH CENTRE, CRADDOCK ROAD, COLNE, BB8 0JZ
ODS code P81025
661 m
HARAMBEE SURGERY
27 SKIPTON ROAD, TRAWDEN, COLNE, BB8 8QU
ODS code P81732
2.4 km
BARROWFORD SURGERY
2A-4 RIDGEWAY, BARROWFORD, NELSON, BB9 8QP
ODS code P81757
4.3 km
DR JEHANGIR (SH)
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81731
4.6 km
NELSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81170
4.6 km
PWE PENDLE VALLEY MILL
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81123
4.6 km
REEDYFORD HLTH CARE GROUP
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81032
4.6 km
WHITEFIELD HEALTHCARE
CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81736
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Oak Street
BCT · Colne
- 0.1 miles
Oak Street
BCT · Colne
- 0.2 miles
New Bath Street
BCT · Colne
- 0.2 miles
New Bath Street
BCT · Colne
- 0.2 miles
Noyna Street
BCT · Colne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Pendle 014A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,127 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
2,066 published events cover 12 months, averaging 172.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 817 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.