Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bede's Senior School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN26 6TH
Arlington · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN26 6TH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN26
- Postcode sector
- BN26 6
- Latitude
- 50.855620
- Longitude
- 0.176939
- British National Grid easting
- 553,320
- British National Grid northing
- 108,492
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Arlington · E05011625
- Parish or community
- E04003862
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00107405
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 018A · E01021142
- Middle layer super output area
- Wealden 018 · E02004420
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 BN26
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Batbrooks Farm House, Berwick, Polegate, BN26 6TH | 28 February 2020 | £895,000 |
| Batbrooks Farm House, Berwick, Polegate, BN26 6TH | 27 July 2001 | £495,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.2 km
Bede's Senior School
Other independent school
- 2.3 km
Park Mead Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 2
- Other theft 2
- Vehicle crime 2
- Public order 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN26 6 residents
- 7,119
Age bands in BN26 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.7%
1,201 residents
582 residents
1,737 residents
1,906 residents
1,876 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.
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Yew Tree Inn
BCT · Arlington
- 1.0 miles
Yew Tree Inn
BCT · Arlington
- 1.0 miles
Lovers Corner
BCT · Chalvington
- 1.0 miles
Lovers Corner
BCT · Chalvington
- 1.1 miles
Chilver Bridge
BCT · Arlington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 018A, 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
16,162 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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.
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
Recorded crime
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.