Property market
The five-year median is £215,000 from 9 recorded sales in BB8 8BQ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Pendle is £149,613 in June 2026, up 8.6% year on year.
BB8 8BQ
Waterside & Horsfield · Pendle · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Colne
- Local authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe
- Postcode district
- BB8
- Postcode sector
- BB8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB8 8BQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB8
- Postcode sector
- BB8 8
- Latitude
- 53.850041
- Longitude
- -2.178679
- British National Grid easting
- 388,343
- British National Grid northing
- 439,325
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
- E00181513
- Lower layer super output area
- Pendle 007C · E01025228
- Middle layer super output area
- Pendle 007 · E02005246
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
Property
93 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, South Valley Drive, Colne, BB8 8BQ | 8 November 2024 | £265,000 |
| 9, South Valley Drive, Colne, BB8 8BQ | 18 July 2024 | £215,000 |
| 35, South Valley Drive, Colne, BB8 8BQ | 5 July 2024 | £173,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 47
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 5
- 608 m
Colne Primet Primary School
Community school
- 627 m
The Nook School
Other independent special school
- 633 m
Colne Primet Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,211
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 838
- Anti social behaviour 428
- Criminal damage and arson 183
- Shoplifting 175
- Public order 136
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 87
- Postcode households
- 38
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- BB8 8 residents
- 5,371
43 female, 44 male
Age bands in BB8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.9%
889 residents
508 residents
1,300 residents
1,643 residents
1,012 residents
This postcode contained 1.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BB8 8 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
10
within 5 km
THE RICHMOND HILL PRACTICE
COLNE HEALTH CENTRE, CRADDOCK ROAD, COLNE, BB8 0JZ
ODS code P81025
1.2 km
HARAMBEE SURGERY
27 SKIPTON ROAD, TRAWDEN, COLNE, BB8 8QU
ODS code P81732
2.8 km
DR JEHANGIR (SH)
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81731
3.0 km
NELSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81170
3.0 km
PWE PENDLE VALLEY MILL
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81123
3.0 km
REEDYFORD HLTH CARE GROUP
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81032
3.0 km
WHITEFIELD HEALTHCARE
CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81736
3.0 km
BARROWFORD SURGERY
2A-4 RIDGEWAY, BARROWFORD, NELSON, BB9 8QP
ODS code P81757
3.0 km
PENDLE VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
47 ARTHUR STREET, BRIERFIELD, NELSON, BB9 5RZ
ODS code P81070
4.4 km
BRIERCLIFFE SURGERY
BRIERCLIFFE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, BRIERCLIFFE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 2EZ
ODS code P81053
5.0 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
- 0.1 miles
South Valley Drive
BCT · Lenches
- 0.1 miles
South Valley Drive
BCT · Lenches
- 0.1 miles
Knotts Lane
BCT · Lenches
- 0.1 miles
Knotts Lane
BCT · Lenches
- 0.2 miles
Nicholas Street
BCT · Lenches
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Pendle 007C, 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
16,955 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 0
- 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
Schools
47 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 5 secondary schools. Colne Primet Primary School is the nearest published school at 608 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,211 published events cover 12 months, averaging 184.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 838 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.