Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. West Craven High School is the nearest published school at 306 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB8 5BE
Barnoldswick · Pendle · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Barnoldswick
- Local authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe
- Postcode district
- BB8
- Postcode sector
- BB8 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB8 5BE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 1997
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB8
- Postcode sector
- BB8 5
- Latitude
- 53.912983
- Longitude
- -2.184703
- British National Grid easting
- 387,965
- British National Grid northing
- 446,329
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Pendle · E07000122
- Electoral ward
- Barnoldswick · E05015546
- Parish or community
- E04013238
- Westminster constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe · E14001422
- Output area
- E00127899
- Lower layer super output area
- Pendle 002A · E01025195
- Middle layer super output area
- Pendle 002 · E02005241
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
- 10
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 306 m
West Craven High School
Academy converter
- 318 m
Barnoldswick Church of England Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 704 m
Gisburn Road Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 573
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 222
- Anti social behaviour 131
- Criminal damage and arson 56
- Public order 39
- Other theft 35
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
2
within 5 km
BARNOLDSWICK MED CTR
PARK ROAD, BARNOLDSWICK, BB18 5BG
ODS code P81078
257 m
THE PENDLE MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
EDWARD STREET, EARBY, BARNOLDSWICK, BB18 6QT
ODS code P81065
2.7 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
- 0.0 miles
Park Road
BCT · Barnoldswick
- 0.0 miles
Park Road
BCT · Barnoldswick
- 0.1 miles
West Craven Sports Centre
BCT · Barnoldswick
- 0.1 miles
West Craven Sports Centre
BCT · Barnoldswick
- 0.1 miles
West Craven HS
BCT · Barnoldswick
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Pendle 002A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,344 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
573 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 222 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.