Schools
61 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 6 secondary schools. Lomeshaye Junior School is the nearest published school at 86 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB9 7TF
Whitefield & Walverden · Pendle · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe
- Postcode district
- BB9
- Postcode sector
- BB9 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB9 7TF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB9
- Postcode sector
- BB9 7
- Latitude
- 53.837478
- Longitude
- -2.220506
- British National Grid easting
- 385,587
- British National Grid northing
- 437,935
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Pendle · E07000122
- Electoral ward
- Whitefield & Walverden · E05013211
- Parish or community
- E04005233
- Westminster constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe · E14001422
- Output area
- E00128054
- Lower layer super output area
- Pendle 011C · E01025229
- Middle layer super output area
- Pendle 011 · E02005250
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 BB9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 61
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 6
- 86 m
Lomeshaye Junior School
Community school
- 135 m
Whitefield Infant School and Nursery
Community school
- 185 m
Al-Ikhlaas Primary School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,020
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,648
- Anti social behaviour 751
- Criminal damage and arson 316
- Other theft 249
- Public order 201
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BB9 7 residents
- 8,811
Age bands in BB9 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 27.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 16%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.9%
2,459 residents
1,449 residents
2,767 residents
1,671 residents
716 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.
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
12
within 5 km
DR JEHANGIR (SH)
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81731
121 m
NELSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81170
121 m
PWE PENDLE VALLEY MILL
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81123
121 m
REEDYFORD HLTH CARE GROUP
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81032
121 m
WHITEFIELD HEALTHCARE
CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81736
121 m
BARROWFORD SURGERY
2A-4 RIDGEWAY, BARROWFORD, NELSON, BB9 8QP
ODS code P81757
1.3 km
PENDLE VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
47 ARTHUR STREET, BRIERFIELD, NELSON, BB9 5RZ
ODS code P81070
1.5 km
BRIERCLIFFE SURGERY
BRIERCLIFFE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, BRIERCLIFFE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 2EZ
ODS code P81053
3.1 km
THURSBY SURGERY
2 BROWHEAD ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 3BF
ODS code P81095
4.2 km
COLNE ROAD SURGERY
34-36 COLNE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 1LS
ODS code P81035
4.2 km
THE RICHMOND HILL PRACTICE
COLNE HEALTH CENTRE, CRADDOCK ROAD, COLNE, BB8 0JZ
ODS code P81025
4.3 km
PARKSIDE SURGERY
PRESTIGE PARK, COLNE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB11 1PS
ODS code P81047
4.9 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
Carr Road
BCT · Nelson
- 0.1 miles
Clayton Street
BCT · Nelson
- 0.1 miles
Carr Road
BCT · Nelson
- 0.1 miles
Milton Street
BCT · Nelson
- 0.1 miles
Milton Street
BCT · Nelson
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Pendle 011C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,294 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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
4,020 published events cover 12 months, averaging 335 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,648 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.