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LA12 8BB
Coniston and Hawkshead · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale
- Postcode district
- LA12
- Postcode sector
- LA12 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA12 8BB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA12
- Postcode sector
- LA12 8
- Latitude
- 54.323925
- Longitude
- -2.973622
- British National Grid easting
- 336,773
- British National Grid northing
- 492,475
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Coniston and Hawkshead · E05014221
- Parish or community
- E04002644
- Westminster constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale · E14001580
- Output area
- E00097839
- Lower layer super output area
- South Lakeland 007A · E01019356
- Middle layer super output area
- South Lakeland 007 · E02004021
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 LA12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 0
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- LA12 8 residents
- 2,237
1 female, 2 male
Age bands in LA12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 10%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.3%
245 residents
168 residents
419 residents
804 residents
817 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA12 8 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+
- 33.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 33.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 33.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 33.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 33.3%
- Next Generation Access
- 33.3%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 2.5 miles
Far Sawrey Windermere Ferry Terminal
FER · Far Sawrey
- 2.5 miles
Far Sawrey Windermere Ferry Terminal
FBT · Far Sawrey
- 2.7 miles
Bowness Ferry Nab
FBT · Bowness on Windermere
- 2.7 miles
Bowness Ferry Nab
FER · Bowness on Windermere
- 3.2 miles
Lakeside (Lakeside & Haverthwaite Rly)
MET · Lakeside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Lakeland 007A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,358 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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.
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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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.