Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Chailey School is the nearest published school at 803 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN8 4BF
Chailey, Barcombe & Hamsey · Lewes · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Lewes
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield
- Postcode district
- BN8
- Postcode sector
- BN8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN8 4BF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN8
- Postcode sector
- BN8 4
- Latitude
- 50.945560
- Longitude
- -0.021299
- British National Grid easting
- 539,100
- British National Grid northing
- 118,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Lewes · E07000063
- Electoral ward
- Chailey, Barcombe & Hamsey · E05011583
- Parish or community
- E04003768
- Westminster constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield · E14001212
- Output area
- E00106771
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewes 001B · E01021024
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewes 001 · E02004379
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 BN8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 803 m
Chailey School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Chailey St Peter's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.0 km
Chailey Heritage School
Non-maintained special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 63
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 38
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Other crime 4
- Other theft 4
- Drugs 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN8 4 residents
- 6,174
Age bands in BN8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.8%
956 residents
562 residents
1,113 residents
1,784 residents
1,455 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
WEALDEN RIDGE MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
NEWICK HEALTH CENTRE, MARBLES ROAD, NEWICK, LEWES, BN8 4LR
ODS code G81088
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · South Street
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · South Street
- 0.3 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · South Chailey
- 0.4 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · South Chailey
- 0.5 miles
Chailey School
BCT · South Chailey
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewes 001B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,528 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
63 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 38 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.