Property market
The five-year median is £1,555,000 from 1 recorded sale in SO40 4UH. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for New Forest is £380,310 in June 2026, up 1.2% year on year.
SO40 4UH
Brockenhurst & Denny Lodge · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Southampton
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO40 4UH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO40
- Postcode sector
- SO40 4
- Latitude
- 50.882763
- Longitude
- -1.492336
- British National Grid easting
- 435,809
- British National Grid northing
- 109,376
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- New Forest · E07000091
- Electoral ward
- Brockenhurst & Denny Lodge · E05014775
- Parish or community
- E04004564
- Westminster constituency
- New Forest East · E14001373
- Output area
- E00116864
- Lower layer super output area
- New Forest 017B · E01022999
- 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 SO40
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| New Farm, Longdown, Marchwood, Southampton, SO40 4UH | 26 October 2023 | £1,555,000 |
| The Old Chapel, Longdown, Marchwood, Southampton, SO40 4UH | 30 October 2013 | £875,000 |
| The Old Chapel, Longdown, Marchwood, Southampton, SO40 4UH | 24 July 1995 | £235,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 2.4 km
Hounsdown School
Academy converter
- 2.6 km
Marchwood Church of England Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.6 km
Foxhills Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 16
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 6
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Other theft 2
- Vehicle crime 2
- Possession of weapons 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 34
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- SO40 4 residents
- 5,966
17 female, 17 male
Age bands in SO40 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.2%
1,054 residents
560 residents
1,524 residents
1,590 residents
1,049 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO40 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 77.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 77.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 77.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 77.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 9.1%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
TESTVALE SURGERY
12 SALISBURY ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 3PY
ODS code J82132
4.1 km
NEW HORIZONS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
1 HAZEL FARM ROAD, TOTTON, SOUTHAMPTON, SO40 8WU
ODS code J82112
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
New Forest Wildlife Park
BCT · Long Down
- 1.1 miles
Longdown Activity Farm
BCT · Colbury
- 1.1 miles
Longdown Activity Farm
BCT · Colbury
- 1.3 miles
Whartons Lane
BCT · Ashurst
- 1.3 miles
Whartons Lane
BCT · Ashurst
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for New Forest 017B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,358 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Hounsdown School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
16 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.