Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Walhampton School is the nearest published school at 934 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO4 8SF
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 8SF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1985
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO4
- Postcode sector
- SO4 8
- Latitude
- 50.763496
- Longitude
- -1.520695
- British National Grid easting
- 433,900
- British National Grid northing
- 96,100
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
- E00116810
- 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
- 10
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 934 m
Walhampton School
Other independent school
- 1.3 km
South Baddesley Church of England Primary School & Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.8 km
Southlands School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 234
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 85
- Shoplifting 32
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Public order 23
- Criminal damage and arson 19
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
WISTARIA & MILFORD SURGERIES
WISTARIA SURGERY, WISTARIA CT, 18 AVENUE RD, LYMINGTON, SO41 9GJ
ODS code J82139
1.9 km
CHAWTON HOUSE SURGERY
43-45 ST. THOMAS STREET, LYMINGTON, SO41 9ND
ODS code J82075
1.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Shotts Lane
BCT · Walhampton
- 0.3 miles
Shotts Lane
BCT · Walhampton
- 0.3 miles
New Forest Adventure Golf
BCT · Walhampton
- 0.5 miles
Lymington Pier Rail Station
RLY · Lymington
- 0.5 miles
Lymington Pier Rail Station
RSE · Lymington
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
234 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 85 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.