Schools
53 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 9 secondary schools. Marchwood Junior School is the nearest published school at 543 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 4WH
Marchwood & Eling · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Marchwood & Eling
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO4 4WH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 4
- Latitude
- 50.891738
- Longitude
- -1.458515
- British National Grid easting
- 438,181
- British National Grid northing
- 110,391
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Marchwood & Eling · E05014786
- Parish or community
- E04004576
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00117113
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 008D · E01023048
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 008 · E02004786
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
- Open schools
- 53
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 9
- 543 m
Marchwood Junior School
Community school
- 713 m
Marchwood Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.7 km
Bower Lodge School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 263
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 144
- Other theft 25
- Anti social behaviour 22
- Criminal damage and arson 20
- Public order 17
GP practices
12
within 5 km straight-line
BROOK HOUSE SURGERY
98 OAKLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY PARK, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4NZ
ODS code J82213
3.5 km
ATHERLEY HOUSE SURGERY
143-145 SHIRLEY ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3FH
ODS code J82115
3.5 km
THE SHIRLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
355 SHIRLEY ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 3JD
ODS code J82088
3.7 km
SOLENT GP SURGERY
ADELAIDE HEALTH CENTRE, WILLIAM MACLEOD WAY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO16 4XE
ODS code J82024
3.7 km
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
3.8 km
CHEVIOT ROAD SURGERY
1 SHIRLEY AVENUE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5RP
ODS code J82062
3.8 km
HILL LANE SURGERY
162 HILL LANE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5DD
ODS code J82207
4.0 km
RAYMOND ROAD SURGERY
34 RAYMOND ROAD, UPPER SHIRLEY, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 5AL
ODS code J82126
4.1 km
WALNUT TREE SURGERY
14 CARLTON ROAD, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 2HQ
ODS code J82605
4.5 km
SOUTHAMPTON SEA CITY PARTNERSHIP
ST MARY'S SURGERY, 1 JOHNSON STREET, SOUTHAMPTON, SO14 1LT
ODS code J82081
4.6 km
WATERFRONT AND SOLENT SURGERY
JONES LANE, HYTHE, SOUTHAMPTON, SO45 6AW
ODS code J82156
4.6 km
NEW HORIZONS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
1 HAZEL FARM ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 8WU
ODS code J82112
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Woodpecker Drive
BCT · Pooksgreen
- 0.1 miles
Woodpecker Drive
BCT · Pooksgreen
- 0.2 miles
Lakeland Gardens
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.2 miles
Lakeland Gardens
BCT · Marchwood
- 0.3 miles
Tavells Lane
BCT · Pooksgreen
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 008D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,663 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
263 published events cover 12 months, averaging 21.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 144 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.