Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 6 secondary schools. Golborne High School is the nearest published school at 341 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WA3 3HH
Golborne & Lowton West · Wigan · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Warrington
- Local authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Leigh and Atherton
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA3 3HH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 3
- Latitude
- 53.478035
- Longitude
- -2.585088
- British National Grid easting
- 361,266
- British National Grid northing
- 398,081
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wigan · E08000010
- Electoral ward
- Golborne & Lowton West · E05014997
- Parish or community
- E43000164
- Westminster constituency
- Leigh and Atherton · E14001329
- Output area
- E00032151
- Lower layer super output area
- Wigan 039B · E01006340
- Middle layer super output area
- Wigan 039 · E02001325
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 WA3
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Thirlmere Road, Golborne, Warrington, WA3 3HH | 1 June 2018 | £160,000 |
| 1, Thirlmere Road, Golborne, Warrington, WA3 3HH | 1 February 2002 | £76,500 |
| 2, Thirlmere Road, Golborne, Warrington, WA3 3HH | 25 August 1999 | £39,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 6
- 341 m
Golborne High School
Foundation school
- 348 m
Lowton West Primary School
Community school
- 606 m
St Thomas CofE Junior and Infant School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 34
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 3.4
- WA3 3 residents
- 10,341
17 female, 17 male
Age bands in WA3 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.4%
1,856 residents
1,113 residents
2,820 residents
2,715 residents
1,923 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA3 3 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
18
within 5 km
SLAG LANE MC
216 SLAG LANE, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2EZ
ODS code P92648
631 m
BRAITHWAITE RD SURGERY
36 BRAITHWAITE ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2HY
ODS code P92002
674 m
FAMILY MEDICAL PRACTICE
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92639
721 m
GOLBORNE SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92630
721 m
HIGH STREET SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KIDGLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92012
721 m
LOWTON & PLATT BRIDGE SURGERY
208C NEWTON ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2AQ
ODS code P92651
1.7 km
BRYN STREET SURGERY
ASHTON HEALTH CENTRE, COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code Y02378
3.7 km
MEDICENTRE
COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code P92001
3.7 km
LEIGH SPORTS VILLAGE
LEIGH STADIUM, SALE WAY, LEIGH, WN7 4JY
ODS code Y02886
3.8 km
NEWTON PRACTICE
1 BELVEDERE ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 0JJ
ODS code N83045
4.2 km
ASHTON MEDICAL CENTRE
120 WIGAN ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9SU
ODS code P92041
4.3 km
VISTA ROAD SURGERY
VISTA LOCALITY CENTRE, VISTA ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9ED
ODS code N83005
4.6 km
BRYN CROSS SURGERY
246 WIGAN ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, BRYN, WIGAN, WN4 0AR
ODS code P92034
4.9 km
MODALITY ST HELENS
WOODSIDE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, WOODSIDE ROAD, HAYDOCK, ST. HELENS, WA11 0NA
ODS code N83020
4.9 km
PATTERDALE LODGE MED CTRE
PATTERDALE LODGE MEDICAL CENTRE, LEGH STREET, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9NA
ODS code N83002
4.9 km
CULCHETH MEDICAL CENTRE
JACKSON AVENUE, CULCHETH, WARRINGTON, WA3 4DZ
ODS code N81059
4.9 km
DR AHMAD & PTNRS
PLATT BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, RIVINGTON AVENUE, PLATT BRIDGE, WIGAN, WN2 5NG
ODS code P92006
5.0 km
PLATT HOUSE SURGERY
PLATT BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, RIVINGTON AVENUE, PLATT BRIDGE, WIGAN, WN2 5NG
ODS code P92031
5.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Windsor Road
BCT · Golborne
- 0.0 miles
Windsor Road
BCT · Golborne
- 0.1 miles
Golborne High School
BCT · Golborne
- 0.1 miles
East Avenue
BCT · Golborne
- 0.1 miles
Rectory Avenue
BCT · Golborne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wigan 039B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,664 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 2
- 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
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.