Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Aysgarth School is the nearest published school at 57 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DL8 1LL
Scotton & Lower Wensleydale · North Yorkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton
- Postcode district
- DL8
- Postcode sector
- DL8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DL8 1LL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- DL
- Postcode district
- DL8
- Postcode sector
- DL8 1
- Latitude
- 54.296209
- Longitude
- -1.681928
- British National Grid easting
- 420,800
- British National Grid northing
- 489,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber · E12000003
- Local authority district
- North Yorkshire · E06000065
- Electoral ward
- Scotton & Lower Wensleydale · E05014312
- Parish or community
- E04007512
- Westminster constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton · E14001444
- Output area
- E00141365
- Lower layer super output area
- Richmondshire 006D · E01027758
- Middle layer super output area
- Richmondshire 006 · E02005787
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 DL8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 57 m
Aysgarth School
Other independent school
- 3.7 km
Crakehall Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.0 km
Hunton and Arrathorne Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
- Anti social behaviour 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
- DL8 1 residents
- 4,668
Age bands in DL8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.4%
702 residents
363 residents
899 residents
1,493 residents
1,370 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
School Lane
BCT · Newton-le-Willows
- 1.2 miles
The Green Tree
BCT · Patrick Brompton
- 1.2 miles
The Green Tree
BCT · Patrick Brompton
- 1.4 miles
Old Rectory
BCT · Patrick Brompton
- 1.4 miles
Old Rectory
BCT · Patrick Brompton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Richmondshire 006D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,039 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.