SO4 1AF

Forest & Solent · New Forest · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Forest & Solent
Local authority: New Forest
Constituency: New Forest East
Postcode district: SO4
Postcode sector: SO4 1

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
SO45 1AF	131 m
SO45 1AZ	473 m
SO45 1AH	490 m
SO45 1AG	686 m
SO42 7XD	1.2 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: SO4 1AF
Status: Terminated
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: 1 December 1994
Postcode area: SO
Postcode district: SO4
Postcode sector: SO4 1
Latitude: 50.798558
Longitude: -1.399966
British National Grid easting: 442,383
British National Grid northing: 100,061

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South East · E12000008
Local authority district: New Forest · E07000091
Electoral ward: Forest & Solent · E05014780
Parish or community: E04004567
Westminster constituency: New Forest East · E14001373
Output area: E00116868
Lower layer super output area: New Forest 017B · E01022999
Middle layer super output area: New Forest 017 · E02004795

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 SO4

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 7
Primary: 5
Secondary: 1

Blackfield Primary and Nursery School

Academy converter
2.9 km
Cadland Primary School

Community school
3.4 km
Manor Church of England Infant School

Voluntary controlled school
4.0 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 22
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Other theft 11
Vehicle crime 5
Burglary 3
Criminal damage and arson 2
Public order 1

Nearby transport

Exbury Gardens

BCT · Exbury
0.3 miles
Visitor Car Park

BCT · Bucklers Hard
0.9 miles
Chapel Lane

BCT · Langley
1.5 miles
Chapel Lane

BCT · Langley
1.5 miles
Gins Lane

BCT · Bucklers Hard
1.6 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 017B, 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

5 of 10

Overall England rank

14,358 of 33,755

Income: 8 of 10
Employment: 10 of 10
Education and skills: 6 of 10
Health and disability: 10 of 10
Crime: 5 of 10
Housing and services: 1 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

Schools

7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Blackfield Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.

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

Recorded crime

22 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 11 events.

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