PR3 6ST

Great Eccleston · Wyre · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Post town: Preston
Ward: Great Eccleston
Local authority: Wyre
Constituency: Lancaster and Wyre
Postcode district: PR3
Postcode sector: PR3 6

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
PR3 6TG	285 m
PR3 6TF	312 m
PR3 6TU	381 m
PR3 6SU	446 m
FY6 9DH	735 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: PR3 6ST
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: PR
Postcode district: PR3
Postcode sector: PR3 6
Latitude: 53.887709
Longitude: -2.927524
British National Grid easting: 339,134
British National Grid northing: 443,900

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: North West · E12000002
Local authority district: Wyre · E07000128
Electoral ward: Great Eccleston · E05009939
Parish or community: E04005334
Westminster constituency: Lancaster and Wyre · E14001318
Output area: E00129718
Lower layer super output area: Wyre 009B · E01025562
Middle layer super output area: Wyre 009 · E02005327

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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Property

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9 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
Kents Cottage, 1, Clay Gap Lane, Hale Nook, Preston, PR3 6ST	17 November 2023	£526,000
Halesworth Farm, Clay Gap Lane, Hale Nook, Preston, PR3 6ST	30 June 2022	£310,000
Kents Cottage, 1, Clay Gap Lane, Hale Nook, Preston, PR3 6ST	20 October 2015	£365,000

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 6
Primary: 5
Secondary: 1

Hambleton Primary Academy

Academy converter
1.9 km
Stalmine Primary School

Community school
2.1 km
Saint Aidan's Church of England High School

Voluntary aided school
3.9 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 38
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 18
Anti social behaviour 9
Burglary 3
Other theft 2
Criminal damage and arson 2

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 16
Postcode households: 5
Residents per household: 3.2
PR3 6 residents: 2,977

Age bands in PR3 6

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 15.1%
Age 15 to 24: 8.5%
Age 25 to 44: 17.5%
Age 45 to 64: 31.9%
Age 65 and over: 27%

This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR3 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+: 85.7%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 85.7%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 85.7%
Gigabit-capable: 85.7%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 14.3%
Next Generation Access: 85.7%
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

Hale Worth Farm

BCT · Hale Nook
0.0 miles
Back Lane

BCT · Stalmine
1.1 miles
Back Lane

BCT · Stalmine
1.1 miles
Minster Farm

BCT · Stalmine
1.1 miles
Crookgate Lane

BCT · Out Rawcliffe
1.1 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wyre 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

6 of 10

Overall England rank

19,904 of 33,755

Income: 7 of 10
Employment: 6 of 10
Education and skills: 8 of 10
Health and disability: 6 of 10
Crime: 8 of 10
Housing and services: 2 of 10
Living environment: 4 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: 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

Property market

The five-year median is £418,000 from 2 recorded sales in PR3 6ST. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.

The latest UK House Price Index average for Wyre is £193,024 in June 2026, up 6.0% year on year.

Schools

6 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hambleton Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.

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

Recorded crime

38 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 18 events.

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