NR22 6BL

Walsingham · North Norfolk · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Walsingham
Local authority: North Norfolk
Constituency: Broadland and Fakenham
Postcode district: NR22
Postcode sector: NR22 6

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
NR22 6BX	208 m
NR22 6BY	208 m
NR22 6DB	214 m
NR22 6DQ	248 m
NR22 6EG	250 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: NR22 6BL
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: NR
Postcode district: NR22
Postcode sector: NR22 6
Latitude: 52.891150
Longitude: 0.874344
British National Grid easting: 593,463
British National Grid northing: 336,499

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: East of England · E12000006
Local authority district: North Norfolk · E07000147
Electoral ward: Walsingham · E05011863
Parish or community: E04006493
Westminster constituency: Broadland and Fakenham · E14001136
Output area: E00136190
Lower layer super output area: North Norfolk 009B · E01026782
Middle layer super output area: North Norfolk 009 · E02005578

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

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Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 3
Primary: 3
Secondary: 0

Walsingham CE VA Primary School

Voluntary aided school
780 m
Hindringham Church of England Primary School

Voluntary aided school
4.5 km
Little Snoring Community Primary Academy

Academy converter
4.7 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 26
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 11
Anti social behaviour 5
Other crime 2
Other theft 2
Public order 2

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 28
Postcode households: 12
Residents per household: 2.3
NR22 6 residents: 868

Age bands in NR22 6

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 10.8%
Age 15 to 24: 9.7%
Age 25 to 44: 18.9%
Age 45 to 64: 29.7%
Age 65 and over: 31%

This postcode contained 3.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NR22 6 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+: 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.

Nearby transport

Walsingham (Wells & Walsingham Railway)

MET · Walsingham
0.4 miles
Walsingham (Wells & Walsingham Railway)

PLT · Walsingham
0.4 miles
Wells-next-the-Sea (Wells & Walsingham Railway)

MET · Wells-next-the-Sea
4.1 miles
Wells-next-the-Sea (Wells & Walsingham Railway)

PLT · Wells-next-the-Sea
4.1 miles
Holt (North Norfolk Railway)

MET · Holt
10.1 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Norfolk 009B, 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

11,781 of 33,755

Income: 5 of 10
Employment: 5 of 10
Education and skills: 3 of 10
Health and disability: 7 of 10
Crime: 8 of 10
Housing and services: 2 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: 4
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.

Evidence in context

Schools

3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Walsingham CE VA Primary School is the nearest published school at 780 m.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

26 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 11 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.