Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Wollaston School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NN8 7HJ
Harrold · Bedford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Harrold
- Local authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire
- Postcode district
- NN8
- Postcode sector
- NN8 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NN8 7HJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- NN
- Postcode district
- NN8
- Postcode sector
- NN8 7
- Latitude
- 52.260995
- Longitude
- -0.644648
- British National Grid easting
- 492,600
- British National Grid northing
- 263,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Bedford · E06000055
- Electoral ward
- Harrold · E05014503
- Parish or community
- E04011905
- Westminster constituency
- North Bedfordshire · E14001384
- Output area
- E00088378
- Lower layer super output area
- Bedford 002C · E01017503
- Middle layer super output area
- Bedford 002 · E02003617
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 NN8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.3 km
Wollaston School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Christopher Reeves CofE VA Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.9 km
Wollaston Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 63
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 36
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Public order 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
DR PASQUALI
IRCHESTER HEALTH CENTRE, 37 SCHOOL ROAD, IRCHESTER, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN29 7AW
ODS code Y00399
2.4 km
PARKLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
WYMINGTON ROAD, RUSHDEN, NN10 9EB
ODS code K83044
4.2 km
RUSHDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
ADNITT ROAD, RUSHDEN, NN10 9TR
ODS code K83024
4.2 km
ABBEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
MANNOCK MEDICAL CENTRE, IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN8 1LT
ODS code K83047
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Wollaston School
BCT · Wollaston
- 0.7 miles
Wollaston School
BCT · Wollaston
- 1.3 miles
Prospect Avenue
BCT · Irchester
- 1.3 miles
Park Farm
BCT · Hinwick
- 1.3 miles
Gipsy Lane Turn
BCT · Irchester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bedford 002C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,346 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
63 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 36 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.