Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hill House School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 8PT
Forest & Solent · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Forest & Solent
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO4 8PT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 8
- Latitude
- 50.788847
- Longitude
- -1.564414
- British National Grid easting
- 430,800
- British National Grid northing
- 98,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Forest & Solent · E05014780
- Parish or community
- E04004556
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00116806
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 015B · E01022991
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 015 · E02004793
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
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.1 km
Hill House School
Other independent special school
- 1.9 km
William Gilpin Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.3 km
Southlands School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 23
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Burglary 6
- Vehicle crime 3
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Other crime 1
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
NEW FOREST MEDICAL GROUP
SURGERIES AT SWAY & BROCKENHURST, HIGHWOOD ROAD, BROCKENHURST, SO42 7RY
ODS code J82129
3.0 km
WISTARIA & MILFORD SURGERIES
WISTARIA SURGERY, WISTARIA CT, 18 AVENUE RD, LYMINGTON, SO41 9GJ
ODS code J82139
3.4 km
CHAWTON HOUSE SURGERY
43-45 ST. THOMAS STREET, LYMINGTON, SO41 9ND
ODS code J82075
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Rosie Lea House
BCT · Battramsley
- 0.1 miles
Boldre Grange
BCT · Battramsley Cross
- 0.1 miles
Boldre Grange
BCT · Battramsley Cross
- 0.1 miles
Rosie Lea House
BCT · Battramsley
- 0.3 miles
The Spinney
BCT · Battramsley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 015B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,560 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
23 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.