Property market
The five-year median is £727,500 from 2 recorded sales in BL6 7RT. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Chorley is £212,647 in June 2026, up 3.7% year on year.
BL6 7RT
Adlington & Anderton · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL6 7RT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 7
- Latitude
- 53.607265
- Longitude
- -2.556374
- British National Grid easting
- 363,284
- British National Grid northing
- 412,443
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Chorley · E07000118
- Electoral ward
- Adlington & Anderton · E05013064
- Parish or community
- E04005157
- Westminster constituency
- Chorley · E14001170
- Output area
- E00181937
- Lower layer super output area
- Chorley 014E · E01024973
- Middle layer super output area
- Chorley 014 · E02005202
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 BL6
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Pendennis Lodge, Dryfield Lane, Rivington, Bolton, BL6 7RT | 5 September 2025 | £755,000 |
| Pendennis Lodge, Dryfield Lane, Rivington, Bolton, BL6 7RT | 27 October 2023 | £700,000 |
| Dryfield House, Dryfield Lane, Rivington, Bolton, BL6 7RT | 6 December 2019 | £1,000,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 2
- 571 m
Cumberland School
Other independent special school
- 587 m
Rivington and Blackrod High School
Academy converter
- 749 m
Beacon Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 54
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 14
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Possession of weapons 6
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Drugs 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- BL6 7 residents
- 6,520
9 female, 16 male
Age bands in BL6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.5%
943 residents
694 residents
1,564 residents
1,842 residents
1,301 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BL6 7 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+
- 91.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
5
within 5 km
PIKE VIEW, DR MALHOTRA & PARTNERS
HORWICH HEALTH & WELLBEING HUB, VICTORIA ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5PY
ODS code P82006
1.3 km
KILDONAN HOUSE
RAMSBOTTOM ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5NW
ODS code P82003
1.6 km
ADLINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
22-24 BABYLON LANE, ANDERTON, CHORLEY, PR6 9NW
ODS code P81740
2.9 km
GRANVILLE HOUSE MED CTRE
GRANVILLE STREET, ADLINGTON, CHORLEY, PR6 9PY
ODS code P81154
2.9 km
ASPULL SURGERY
ASPULL HEALTH & WELLBEING CENTRE, HAIGH ROAD, ASPULL, WIGAN, WN2 1XH
ODS code P92015
4.6 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
- 0.2 miles
Rivington & Blackrod High School
BCT · Rivington
- 0.2 miles
Dryfield Lane
BCT · Grimeford Village
- 0.2 miles
Darley Street
BCT · Horwich
- 0.3 miles
Squirrel Lane
BCT · Grimeford Village
- 0.3 miles
Shaw Road
BCT · Horwich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chorley 014E, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,970 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
20 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 2 secondary schools. Cumberland School is the nearest published school at 571 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
54 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.