Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Priory School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BN8 6JP
Ouse Valley & Ringmer · Lewes · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BN8 6JP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 2007
- Postcode area
- BN
- Postcode district
- BN8
- Postcode sector
- BN8 6
- Latitude
- 50.856581
- Longitude
- 0.045765
- British National Grid easting
- 544,085
- British National Grid northing
- 108,335
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Lewes · E07000063
- Electoral ward
- Ouse Valley & Ringmer · E05011593
- Parish or community
- E04003767
- Westminster constituency
- Lewes · E14001330
- Output area
- E00106925
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewes 004D · E01021057
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewes 004 · E02004382
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
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Railway Cottages, Beddingham, Lewes, BN8 6JP | 15 July 2005 | £227,500 |
| 1, Railway Cottages, Beddingham, Lewes, BN8 6JP | 25 February 2005 | £299,075 |
| 2, Railway Cottages, Beddingham, Lewes, BN8 6JP | 7 September 2000 | £110,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.5 km
Priory School
Foundation school
- 2.7 km
Firle Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.3 km
Southover CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Public order 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BN8 6 residents
- 3,710
Age bands in BN8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.9%
583 residents
340 residents
753 residents
1,378 residents
1,067 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
FOUNDRY HEALTHCARE LEWES
SCHOOL HILL PRACTICE, SCHOOL HILL H, 33 HIGH STREET, LEWES, BN7 2LU
ODS code G81021
3.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Roundabout
BCT · Beddingham
- 0.6 miles
Roundabout
BCT · Beddingham
- 1.1 miles
Lacys Hill
BCT · Glynde
- 1.1 miles
Lacys Hill
BCT · Glynde
- 1.1 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Glynde
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewes 004D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
6,885 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.