Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Southlands School is the nearest published school at 73 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 8QA
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 8QA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 8
- Latitude
- 50.775261
- Longitude
- -1.539012
- British National Grid easting
- 432,600
- British National Grid northing
- 97,400
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
- E00116808
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 017A · E01022990
- Middle layer super output area
- New Forest 017 · E02004795
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
- 11
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 73 m
Southlands School
Other independent special school
- 823 m
William Gilpin Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 919 m
Walhampton School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 207
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 84
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Criminal damage and arson 20
- Public order 19
- Shoplifting 15
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
WISTARIA & MILFORD SURGERIES
WISTARIA SURGERY, WISTARIA CT, 18 AVENUE RD, LYMINGTON, SO41 9GJ
ODS code J82139
1.8 km
CHAWTON HOUSE SURGERY
43-45 ST. THOMAS STREET, LYMINGTON, SO41 9ND
ODS code J82075
2.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Hordle Walhampton School
BCT · Vicars Hill
- 0.5 miles
Hordle Walhampton School
BCT · Vicars Hill
- 0.5 miles
William Gilpin School
BCT · Pilley
- 0.5 miles
Lymington New Forest Hospital
BCT · Lower Buckland
- 0.5 miles
William Gilpin School
BCT · Pilley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 017A, 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
25,412 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
207 published events cover 12 months, averaging 17.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 84 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.