Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Park Primary School is the nearest published school at 659 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB8 7BX
Waterside & Horsfield · Pendle · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe
- Postcode district
- BB8
- Postcode sector
- BB8 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB8 7BX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2003
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB8
- Postcode sector
- BB8 7
- Latitude
- 53.856543
- Longitude
- -2.149548
- British National Grid easting
- 390,261
- British National Grid northing
- 440,044
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
- E00127794
- Lower layer super output area
- Pendle 006B · E01025179
- Middle layer super output area
- Pendle 006 · E02005245
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
- 33
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 659 m
Park Primary School
Community school
- 695 m
Colne Christ Church Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 866 m
Newtown Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,558
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 611
- Anti social behaviour 320
- Criminal damage and arson 152
- Public order 103
- Shoplifting 88
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BB8 7 residents
- 5,023
Age bands in BB8 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.2%
734 residents
403 residents
973 residents
1,484 residents
1,273 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
THE RICHMOND HILL PRACTICE
COLNE HEALTH CENTRE, CRADDOCK ROAD, COLNE, BB8 0JZ
ODS code P81025
983 m
HARAMBEE SURGERY
27 SKIPTON ROAD, TRAWDEN, COLNE, BB8 8QU
ODS code P81732
1.3 km
BARROWFORD SURGERY
2A-4 RIDGEWAY, BARROWFORD, NELSON, BB9 8QP
ODS code P81757
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Monmouth Street
BCT · Colne
- 0.2 miles
Monmouth Street
BCT · Colne
- 0.2 miles
Methodist Church
BCT · Cotton Tree
- 0.2 miles
Craven Street
BCT · Colne
- 0.2 miles
Keighley Road Roundabout
BCT · Colne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Pendle 006B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,942 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
1,558 published events cover 12 months, averaging 129.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 611 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.