Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 6 secondary schools. Washingborough Academy is the nearest published school at 687 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LN4 1HW
Heighington & Washingborough · North Kesteven · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham
- Postcode district
- LN4
- Postcode sector
- LN4 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LN4 1HW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LN
- Postcode district
- LN4
- Postcode sector
- LN4 1
- Latitude
- 53.220478
- Longitude
- -0.480095
- British National Grid easting
- 501,578
- British National Grid northing
- 370,345
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North Kesteven · E07000139
- Electoral ward
- Heighington & Washingborough · E05014432
- Parish or community
- E04005846
- Westminster constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham · E14001476
- Output area
- E00133063
- Lower layer super output area
- North Kesteven 001D · E01026203
- Middle layer super output area
- North Kesteven 001 · E02005453
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 LN4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 6
- 687 m
Washingborough Academy
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- 1.5 km
Heighington Millfield Primary Academy
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- 2.2 km
Cherry Willingham Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 151
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 58
- Anti social behaviour 33
- Shoplifting 15
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Other theft 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- LN4 1 residents
- 11,371
6 female, 4 male
Age bands in LN4 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.6%
1,692 residents
982 residents
2,309 residents
3,174 residents
3,261 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LN4 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+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Gigabit-capable
- 25%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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
11
within 5 km
WASHINGBOROUGH SURGERY
SCHOOL LANE, WASHINGBOROUGH, LINCOLN, LN4 1BN
ODS code C83058
476 m
THE BRANSTON HEIGHINGTON FAMILY PRACTICE
STATION ROAD, BRANSTON, LINCOLN, LN4 1LH
ODS code C83029
2.9 km
GLEBE PARK SURGERY
UNIT 1A, THE CARLTON CENTRE, OUTER CIRCLE ROAD, LINCOLN, LN2 4WA
ODS code C83079
3.0 km
ABBEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
95 MONKS ROAD, LINCOLN, LN2 5HR
ODS code C83051
3.6 km
HEART OF LINCOLN HEALTH GROUP
60 PORTLAND STREET, LINCOLN, LN5 7LB
ODS code C83001
4.0 km
LINDUM MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 CABOURNE COURT, LINCOLN, LN2 2JP
ODS code C83009
4.2 km
MINSTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
CABOURNE COURT, LINCOLN, LN2 2JP
ODS code C83072
4.2 km
BRAYFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWLAND HEALTH CENTRE, 34 NEWLAND, LINCOLN, LN1 1XP
ODS code C83626
4.4 km
THE HEATH SURGERY
LONDON ROAD, BRACEBRIDGE HEATH, LINCOLN, LN4 2LA
ODS code C83046
4.6 km
NETTLEHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE
14 LODGE LANE, NETTLEHAM, LINCOLN, LN2 2RS
ODS code C83031
4.7 km
CLIFF HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
82 BURTON ROAD, LINCOLN, LN1 3LJ
ODS code C83073
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
- 0.1 miles
Queensbury Court
BCT · Washingborough
- 0.1 miles
Queensbury Court
BCT · Washingborough
- 0.1 miles
Sutton Close
BCT · Washingborough
- 0.1 miles
Sutton Close
BCT · Washingborough
- 0.1 miles
Rayton Close
BCT · Washingborough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Kesteven 001D, 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
25,494 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
151 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 58 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.