Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Hill House School is the nearest published school at 497 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO41 8PB
Forest & Solent · New Forest · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Post town
- Lymington
- Ward
- Forest & Solent
- Local authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest East
- Postcode district
- SO41
- Postcode sector
- SO41 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO41 8PB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1986
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO41
- Postcode sector
- SO41 8
- Latitude
- 50.779388
- Longitude
- -1.548233
- British National Grid easting
- 431,947
- British National Grid northing
- 97,855
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
- E00116807
- 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 SO41
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Little Shallows, Shallows Lane, Boldre, Lymington, SO41 8PB | 1 August 2018 | £965,000 |
| Little Shallows, Shallows Lane, Boldre, Lymington, SO41 8PB | 9 September 2005 | £795,000 |
| Little Shallows, Shallows Lane, Boldre, Lymington, SO41 8PB | 29 June 1998 | £335,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 497 m
Hill House School
Other independent special school
- 751 m
William Gilpin Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 786 m
Southlands School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 129
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 45
- Shoplifting 14
- Public order 14
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Burglary 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SO41 8 residents
- 7,226
1 female, 0 male
Age bands in SO41 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.1%
1,021 residents
641 residents
1,313 residents
2,071 residents
2,068 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SO41 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- 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
3
within 5 km
WISTARIA & MILFORD SURGERIES
WISTARIA SURGERY, WISTARIA CT, 18 AVENUE RD, LYMINGTON, SO41 9GJ
ODS code J82139
2.2 km
CHAWTON HOUSE SURGERY
43-45 ST. THOMAS STREET, LYMINGTON, SO41 9ND
ODS code J82075
2.4 km
NEW FOREST MEDICAL GROUP
SURGERIES AT SWAY & BROCKENHURST, HIGHWOOD ROAD, BROCKENHURST, SO42 7RY
ODS code J82129
4.4 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Shallow Lane
BCT · St Austins
- 0.1 miles
Shallow Lane
BCT · St Austins
- 0.3 miles
The Red Lion
BCT · Boldre
- 0.3 miles
Shallowmead Nursery
BCT · St Austins
- 0.3 miles
The Red Lion
BCT · Boldre
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.
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
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
129 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 45 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.