Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 2 secondary schools. Bacup Nursery School is the nearest published school at 530 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL13 8EY
Britannia & Lee Mill · Rossendale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Britannia & Lee Mill
- Local authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen
- Postcode district
- OL13
- Postcode sector
- OL13 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL13 8EY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 February 2015
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL13
- Postcode sector
- OL13 8
- Latitude
- 53.702774
- Longitude
- -2.201393
- British National Grid easting
- 386,802
- British National Grid northing
- 422,944
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Rossendale · E07000125
- Electoral ward
- Britannia & Lee Mill · E05015818
- Parish or community
- E43000099
- Westminster constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen · E14001450
- Output area
- E00128762
- Lower layer super output area
- Rossendale 003C · E01025369
- Middle layer super output area
- Rossendale 003 · E02005280
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 OL13
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 2
- 530 m
Bacup Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 530 m
Bacup Thorn Primary School
Community school
- 735 m
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,371
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 547
- Anti social behaviour 248
- Criminal damage and arson 145
- Shoplifting 98
- Other theft 92
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OL13 8 residents
- 4,642
Age bands in OL13 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.5%
757 residents
426 residents
971 residents
1,285 residents
783 residents
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
IRWELL MEDICAL PRACTICE
IRWELL MEDICAL CENTRE, IRWELL MILL, ROCHDALE ROAD, BACUP, OL13 9NR
ODS code P81027
394 m
WATERFOOT MEDICAL PRACTICE
WATERFOOT HEALTH CENTRE, COWPE ROAD, WATERFOOT, ROSSENDALE, BB4 7DN
ODS code P81132
3.6 km
WHITWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
MARKET STREET, WHITWORTH, ROCHDALE, OL12 8QS
ODS code P81088
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Market Street
BCT · Bacup
- 0.0 miles
Market Street
BCT · Bacup
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Bacup
- 0.0 miles
Union Street
BCT · Bacup
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Bacup
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rossendale 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,801 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,371 published events cover 12 months, averaging 114.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 547 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.