Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Southlands School is the nearest published school at 873 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 8NB
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 8NB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 8
- Latitude
- 50.770809
- Longitude
- -1.550400
- British National Grid easting
- 431,800
- British National Grid northing
- 96,900
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
- E00116877
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 019A · E01023001
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 019 · E02004797
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
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 873 m
Southlands School
Other independent special school
- 1.0 km
Lymington Junior School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Lymington Church of England Infant School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 548
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 201
- Shoplifting 71
- Anti social behaviour 65
- Public order 49
- Criminal damage and arson 48
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
WISTARIA & MILFORD SURGERIES
WISTARIA SURGERY, WISTARIA CT, 18 AVENUE RD, LYMINGTON, SO41 9GJ
ODS code J82139
1.2 km
CHAWTON HOUSE SURGERY
43-45 ST. THOMAS STREET, LYMINGTON, SO41 9ND
ODS code J82075
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ricardo Way
BCT · Lower Buckland
- 0.1 miles
Ricardo Way
BCT · Lower Buckland
- 0.2 miles
Bank View
BCT · Lower Buckland
- 0.2 miles
Bank View
BCT · Lower Buckland
- 0.2 miles
Lymington New Forest Hospital
BCT · Lower Buckland
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 019A, 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
26,349 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
548 published events cover 12 months, averaging 45.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 201 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.