Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Priestlands School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 8AD
Lymington · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lymington
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO4 8AD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 8
- Latitude
- 50.745608
- Longitude
- -1.544972
- British National Grid easting
- 432,200
- British National Grid northing
- 94,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Lymington · E05014784
- Parish or community
- E04004574
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest West · E14001374
- Output area
- E00117077
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 023A · E01023044
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 023 · E02004801
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
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.0 km
Priestlands School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Pennington Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.7 km
Lymington Church of England Infant School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 557
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 211
- Shoplifting 85
- Public order 59
- Anti social behaviour 50
- Criminal damage and arson 41
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
CHAWTON HOUSE SURGERY
43-45 ST. THOMAS STREET, LYMINGTON, SO41 9ND
ODS code J82075
1.3 km
WISTARIA & MILFORD SURGERIES
WISTARIA SURGERY, WISTARIA CT, 18 AVENUE RD, LYMINGTON, SO41 9GJ
ODS code J82139
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Pennington Cross
BCT · Pennington
- 0.5 miles
Pennington Cross
BCT · Pennington
- 0.6 miles
South Street
BCT · Pennington
- 0.6 miles
South Street
BCT · Pennington
- 0.6 miles
Milford Road
BCT · Pennington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 023A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,157 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
557 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 211 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.