Rural North East · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Boydells Lane, Dalton, Wigan, WN8 7RL | 2 July 2024 | £985,000 |
| 10, Boydells Lane, Dalton, Wigan, WN8 7RL | 7 February 2024 | £488,200 |
| 8, Boydells Lane, Dalton, Wigan, WN8 7RL | 1 February 2024 | £515,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Dalton St Michael's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
St James' Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale
Voluntary aided school
Maharishi Free School
Free schools
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
550 residents
355 residents
693 residents
1,284 residents
1,240 residents
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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
1.3 km
4 THE GREEN, PARBOLD, WIGAN, WN8 7DN
ODS code P81096
2.3 km
HILLSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, TANHOUSE ROAD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6DS
ODS code P81039
2.6 km
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81112
3.8 km
SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81136
3.8 km
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
3.9 km
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
3.9 km
HOUGHTON LANE, SHEVINGTON, WIGAN, WN6 8ET
ODS code P92017
4.3 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.
Beacon Lane
BCT · Ashurst
Beacon Lane
BCT · Ashurst
Northfield
BCT · Ashurst
Northfield
BCT · Ashurst
Kingsbury Court
BCT · Ashurst
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 005A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,961 of 33,755
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.
The five-year median is £523,500 from 5 recorded sales in WN8 7RL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Lancashire is £231,816 in June 2026, up 4.3% year on year.
38 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 3 secondary schools. Dalton St Michael's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 559 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
274 published events cover 12 months, averaging 22.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 109 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.