Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Rufford CofE School is the nearest published school at 340 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L40 1BB
Burscough Bridge & Rufford · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ormskirk
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- Southport
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L40 1BB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2007
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L40
- Postcode sector
- L40 1
- Latitude
- 53.634456
- Longitude
- -2.813617
- British National Grid easting
- 346,298
- British National Grid northing
- 415,632
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Burscough Bridge & Rufford · E05014930
- Parish or community
- E04005313
- Westminster constituency
- Southport · E14001504
- Output area
- E00129466
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 002D · E01025513
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 002 · E02005305
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 L40
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Manor House Close, Rufford, Ormskirk, L40 1BB | 30 June 2021 | £314,000 |
| 8, Manor House Close, Rufford, Ormskirk, L40 1BB | 24 November 2020 | £452,500 |
| 4, Manor House Close, Rufford, Ormskirk, L40 1BB | 28 February 2020 | £305,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 340 m
Rufford CofE School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.0 km
Mawdesley St Peter's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.4 km
Holmeswood Methodist School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 66
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 23
- Violence and sexual offences 22
- Other theft 7
- Burglary 6
- Criminal damage and arson 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 33
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- L40 1 residents
- 2,226
18 female, 15 male
Age bands in L40 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.2%
289 residents
198 residents
349 residents
716 residents
610 residents
This postcode contained 1.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L40 1 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.
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
4
within 5 km
BURSCOUGH FAMILY PRACTICE
BURSCOUGH HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81138
4.0 km
LATHOM HOUSE SURGERY
BURSCOUGH HEALTH CENTRE, STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81646
4.0 km
STANLEY COURT SURGERY
STANLEY COURT, LORD STREET, BURSCOUGH, ORMSKIRK, L40 4LA
ODS code P81674
4.0 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERIES CROSTON&ECCLESTON
OUT LANE, CROSTON, LEYLAND, PR26 9HJ
ODS code P81655
4.1 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Church Road
BCT · Rufford
- 0.0 miles
Church Road
BCT · Rufford
- 0.1 miles
Hesketh Arms
BCT · Rufford
- 0.1 miles
Station
BCT · Rufford
- 0.2 miles
Rufford Station
BCT · Rufford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 002D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,006 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
66 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 23 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.