Sherborne Rural · Dorset · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Baylands, 4, Longford Road, Thornford, Sherborne, DT9 6QL | 25 June 2021 | £350,000 |
| Baylands, 2, Longford Road, Thornford, Sherborne, DT9 6QL | 28 May 2020 | £270,000 |
| Baylands, 1, Longford Road, Thornford, Sherborne, DT9 6QL | 20 December 2002 | £130,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Thornford CofE Primary School
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St Andrew's Church of England Primary School
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St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Bradford Abbas
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
4 female, 5 male
907 residents
639 residents
1,055 residents
2,031 residents
2,282 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DT9 6 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km straight-line
CHURCH STREET, YETMINSTER, SHERBORNE, DT9 6LG
ODS code J81017
2.2 km
Thornford Bridge Halt
BCT · Thornford
Thornford Bridge Halt
BCT · Thornford
Thornford Rail Station
RSE · Thornford
Thornford Rail Station
RLY · Thornford
Beer Hackett Turn
BCT · Beer Hackett
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dorset 008A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,831 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Thornford CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 536 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
26 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.