Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Minstead Training Project is the nearest published school at 968 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 7FW
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 7FW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 7
- Latitude
- 50.905000
- Longitude
- -1.605997
- British National Grid easting
- 427,800
- British National Grid northing
- 111,800
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
- E00116829
- 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
- 6
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 968 m
Minstead Training Project
Miscellaneous
- 3.4 km
Bartley Church of England Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.8 km
New Forest Alternative Provision
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 33
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Criminal damage and arson 8
- Burglary 4
- Other theft 3
- Anti social behaviour 3
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
LYNDHURST SURGERY
2 CHURCH LANE, LYNDHURST, SO43 7EW
ODS code J82146
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
The Trusty Servant Inn
BCT · Minstead
- 0.5 miles
The Trusty Servant Inn
BCT · Minstead
- 1.4 miles
Green Dragon
BCT · Brook
- 1.5 miles
Green Dragon
BCT · Brook
- 1.5 miles
Cadnam Roundabout
BCT · Cadnam
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
33 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.