Schools
56 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 7 secondary schools. Baines School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
FY6 8BE
Hardhorn with High Cross · Wyre · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- FY6 8BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- FY
- Postcode district
- FY6
- Postcode sector
- FY6 8
- Latitude
- 53.836454
- Longitude
- -2.994257
- British National Grid easting
- 334,668
- British National Grid northing
- 438,257
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wyre · E07000128
- Electoral ward
- Hardhorn with High Cross · E05009941
- Parish or community
- E43000102
- Westminster constituency
- Fylde · E14001242
- Output area
- E00129748
- Lower layer super output area
- Wyre 014C · E01025569
- Middle layer super output area
- Wyre 014 · E02005332
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 FY6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 56
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 7
- 0 m
Baines School
Voluntary aided school
- 770 m
Poulton-le-Fylde Carr Head Primary School
Community school
- 939 m
Poulton-le-Fylde St Chad's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,684
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 741
- Anti social behaviour 265
- Shoplifting 162
- Criminal damage and arson 107
- Other theft 84
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- FY6 8 residents
- 5,597
Age bands in FY6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.2%
742 residents
494 residents
1,050 residents
1,782 residents
1,758 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.
GP practices
15
within 5 km
QUEENSWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
QUEENSWAY, POULTON-LE-FYLDE, FY6 7ST
ODS code P81191
1.1 km
LOCKWOOD GP SURGERY
WYRE CIVIC CENTRE, BRECK ROAD, POULTON-LE-FYLDE, FY6 7PU
ODS code P81149
1.6 km
NEWTON DRIVE HEALTH CENTRE
NEWTON DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8NX
ODS code P81172
1.8 km
LAYTON MEDICAL CENTRE
200 KINGSCOTE DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7EN
ODS code P81066
2.4 km
GLENROYD MEDICAL CENTRE
MOOR PARK HEALTH & LEISURE CENTRE, BRISTOL AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0JG
ODS code P81072
3.0 km
NORTH SHORE SURGERY
MOOR PARK HEALTH & LEISURE, BRISTOL AVENUE, BISPHAM, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0JG
ODS code P81681
3.0 km
ADELAIDE STREET SURGERY
61 ELIZABETH STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3JG
ODS code P81042
3.7 km
GP LED HEALTH CENTRE
OPEN ACCESS GP SURGERY, WHITEGATE DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9ES
ODS code Y02854
3.7 km
MARTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
WHITEGATE HEALTH CENTRE, WHITEGATE DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9ES
ODS code P81054
3.7 km
ST PAULS MEDICAL CENTRE
DICKSON ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2HH
ODS code P81063
4.0 km
BEECHWOOD SURGERY
OLD BANK MEDICAL CENTRE, 155 VICTORIA ROAD EAST, THORNTON-CLEVELEYS, FY5 5HH
ODS code P81742
4.0 km
SOUTH KING STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 25 SOUTH KING STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4NF
ODS code P81043
4.2 km
THE THORNTON PRACTICE
CHURCH ROAD, THORNTON-CLEVELEYS, FY5 2TZ
ODS code P81079
4.7 km
THE VILLAGE PRACTICE
THORNTON MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, THORNTON-CLEVELEYS, FY5 2TZ
ODS code P81133
4.7 km
BLOOMFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
118-120 BLOOMFIELD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6JW
ODS code P81115
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Baines HS school only
BCT · High Cross
- 0.1 miles
Baines High School
BCT · High Cross
- 0.1 miles
Baines HS school only
BCT · High Cross
- 0.1 miles
Baines High School
BCT · High Cross
- 0.1 miles
Stafford Avenue
BCT · High Cross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wyre 014C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,609 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,684 published events cover 12 months, averaging 140.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 741 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.