Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 6 secondary schools. Grow Independent School is the nearest published school at 295 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB9 8NQ
Barrowford & Pendleside · Pendle · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe
- Postcode district
- BB9
- Postcode sector
- BB9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB9 8NQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB9
- Postcode sector
- BB9 8
- Latitude
- 53.847495
- Longitude
- -2.218096
- British National Grid easting
- 385,749
- British National Grid northing
- 439,049
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Pendle · E07000122
- Electoral ward
- Barrowford & Pendleside · E05013201
- Parish or community
- E04005217
- Westminster constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe · E14001422
- Output area
- E00127777
- Lower layer super output area
- Pendle 008C · E01025176
- Middle layer super output area
- Pendle 008 · E02005247
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
- 54
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 6
- 295 m
Grow Independent School
Other independent special school
- 417 m
East Lancashire Learning Group
Further education
- 422 m
Barrowford School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,803
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,049
- Anti social behaviour 507
- Shoplifting 250
- Criminal damage and arson 193
- Other theft 171
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BB9 8 residents
- 8,961
Age bands in BB9 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.4%
1,872 residents
1,042 residents
2,224 residents
2,023 residents
1,409 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
9
within 5 km
BARROWFORD SURGERY
2A-4 RIDGEWAY, BARROWFORD, NELSON, BB9 8QP
ODS code P81757
392 m
DR JEHANGIR (SH)
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81731
1.1 km
NELSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81170
1.1 km
PWE PENDLE VALLEY MILL
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81123
1.1 km
REEDYFORD HLTH CARE GROUP
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81032
1.1 km
WHITEFIELD HEALTHCARE
CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81736
1.1 km
PENDLE VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
47 ARTHUR STREET, BRIERFIELD, NELSON, BB9 5RZ
ODS code P81070
2.6 km
THE RICHMOND HILL PRACTICE
COLNE HEALTH CENTRE, CRADDOCK ROAD, COLNE, BB8 0JZ
ODS code P81025
3.7 km
BRIERCLIFFE SURGERY
BRIERCLIFFE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, BRIERCLIFFE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 2EZ
ODS code P81053
4.1 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Maud Street
BCT · Barrowford
- 0.1 miles
Wilton Street
BCT · Barrowford
- 0.1 miles
Wilton Street
BCT · Barrowford
- 0.1 miles
Roughlee Street
BCT · Barrowford
- 0.2 miles
Higher Causeway
BCT · Barrowford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Pendle 008C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,639 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
2,803 published events cover 12 months, averaging 233.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,049 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.