Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 3 secondary schools. Dowdales School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA14 4QG
Hawcoat and Newbarns · Westmorland and Furness · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Barrow-In-Furness
- Ward
- Hawcoat and Newbarns
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness
- Postcode district
- LA14
- Postcode sector
- LA14 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA14 4QG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA14
- Postcode sector
- LA14 4
- Latitude
- 54.158459
- Longitude
- -3.201756
- British National Grid easting
- 321,622
- British National Grid northing
- 474,294
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
- Electoral ward
- Hawcoat and Newbarns · E05014228
- Parish or community
- E04013220
- Westminster constituency
- Barrow and Furness · E14001076
- Output area
- E00171122
- Lower layer super output area
- Barrow-in-Furness 003C · E01019154
- Middle layer super output area
- Barrow-in-Furness 003 · E02003979
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 LA14
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Railway Terrace, Thwaite Flat, Barrow-In-Furness, LA14 4QG | 26 April 2013 | £250,000 |
| 3, Railway Terrace, Thwaite Flat, Barrow-In-Furness, LA14 4QG | 7 June 2010 | £185,000 |
| 2, Railway Terrace, Thwaite Flat, Barrow-In-Furness, LA14 4QG | 30 April 2010 | £230,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.1 km
Dowdales School
Community school
- 1.4 km
George Romney Junior School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Chapel Street Infants and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 317
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 132
- Criminal damage and arson 51
- Anti social behaviour 31
- Public order 30
- Other theft 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- LA14 4 residents
- 6,648
6 female, 6 male
Age bands in LA14 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.2%
992 residents
604 residents
1,286 residents
1,746 residents
1,908 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA14 4 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
DALTON SURGERY
92 MARKET STREET, DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LA15 8AB
ODS code A82039
1.5 km
DUDDON VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
ASKAM SURGERY, 2 PARKLANDS DRIVE, ASKAM-IN-FURNESS, LA16 7JP
ODS code A82651
2.9 km
NORWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
99 ABBEY ROAD, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LA14 5ES
ODS code A82008
4.6 km
BRIDGEGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
WINCHESTER STREET, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LA13 9SH
ODS code A82009
4.9 km
THE FAMILY PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 26 HARTINGTON STREET, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, LA14 5SL
ODS code A82629
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Dalton Rail Station
RLY · Dalton-in-Furness
- 2.1 miles
Askam Rail Station
RLY · Askam-in-Furness
- 2.9 miles
Barrow-in-Furness Rail Station
RLY · Barrow-in-Furness
- 3.0 miles
Roose Rail Station
RLY · Roose
- 4.6 miles
Millom Rail Station
RLY · Millom
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Barrow-in-Furness 003C, 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
29,055 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
317 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 132 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.