Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Minstead Training Project is the nearest published school at 611 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 7FQ
Lyndhurst & Minstead · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lyndhurst & Minstead
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO4 7FQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 7
- Latitude
- 50.895949
- Longitude
- -1.589011
- British National Grid easting
- 429,000
- British National Grid northing
- 110,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Lyndhurst & Minstead · E05014785
- Parish or community
- E04004579
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00116830
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 007B · E01022993
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 007 · E02004785
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
- 9
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 611 m
Minstead Training Project
Miscellaneous
- 2.7 km
St Michael and All Angels CofE Infant School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.9 km
New Forest Small School Ltd
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 18
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Burglary 3
- Other theft 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Possession of weapons 2
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
LYNDHURST SURGERY
2 CHURCH LANE, LYNDHURST, SO43 7EW
ODS code J82146
2.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
The Trusty Servant Inn
BCT · Minstead
- 0.5 miles
The Trusty Servant Inn
BCT · Minstead
- 1.4 miles
Pikes Hill
BCT · Custards
- 1.4 miles
Pikes Hill
BCT · Custards
- 1.7 miles
The Crown Hotel
BCT · Lyndhurst
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 007B, 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
14,477 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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
Recorded crime
18 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.