Property market
The five-year median is £500,000 from 1 recorded sale in PR26 8LS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Chorley is £212,647 in June 2026, up 3.7% year on year.
PR26 8LS
Eccleston, Heskin & Charnock Richard · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Leyland
- Local authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble
- Postcode district
- PR26
- Postcode sector
- PR26 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR26 8LS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2001
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR26
- Postcode sector
- PR26 8
- Latitude
- 53.659033
- Longitude
- -2.751382
- British National Grid easting
- 350,442
- British National Grid northing
- 418,321
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Chorley · E07000118
- Electoral ward
- Eccleston, Heskin & Charnock Richard · E05013076
- Parish or community
- E04005150
- Westminster constituency
- South Ribble · E14001491
- Output area
- E00126713
- Lower layer super output area
- Chorley 011D · E01024965
- Middle layer super output area
- Chorley 011 · E02005199
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 PR26
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sarscow Farm, Sarscow Lane, Leyland, PR26 8LS | 15 March 2024 | £500,000 |
| Oakfield, Sarscow Lane, Leyland, PR26 8LS | 9 December 2019 | £510,000 |
| Sarscow Farm, Sarscow Lane, Leyland, PR26 8LS | 6 June 2018 | £975,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.1 km
Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Trinity and St Michael's VA CofE/Methodist Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.0 km
Eccleston Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 65
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 36
- Anti social behaviour 11
- Other theft 6
- Drugs 4
- Vehicle crime 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 7.0
- PR26 8 residents
- 2,648
1 female, 6 male
Age bands in PR26 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 4.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 47.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.7%
124 residents
194 residents
1,220 residents
735 residents
272 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR26 8 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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- 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
4
within 5 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERIES CROSTON&ECCLESTON
OUT LANE, CROSTON, LEYLAND, PR26 9HJ
ODS code P81655
1.4 km
MOSS SIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
16 MOSS SIDE WAY, LEYLAND, PR26 7XL
ODS code P81186
3.9 km
STATION SURGERY
LEYLAND SURGERY, WEST PADDOCK, LEYLAND, PR25 1HR
ODS code P81741
4.4 km
WORDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
WEST PADDOCK, LEYLAND, PR25 1HR
ODS code P81057
4.4 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
- 0.3 miles
Garden Centre
BCT · Croston
- 0.3 miles
Garden Centre
BCT · Croston
- 0.4 miles
Ulnes Walton Lane
BCT · Ulnes Walton
- 0.4 miles
Ulnes Walton Lane
BCT · Ulnes Walton
- 0.4 miles
The Mill Hotel
BCT · Croston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chorley 011D, 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
29,908 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
65 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.417 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.