BS28 postcode district: Wedmore and around, Somerset
BS28 is a postcode district in England, with 205 postcodes in use in 1 sector. It has postcodes in Wedmore. Its council is Somerset.
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in BS28, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 17
- In use before 2020: 188
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 205 postcodes in BS28 that ONS places, 17 are new since 2020 and 188 were in use before 2020.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 280 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.2261, longitude -2.8153. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
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What broadband can you get in BS28?
Ofcom reports on 203 of the 205 postcodes in BS28. At 131 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is BS28 at risk of flooding?
19 of the 205 postcodes in BS28 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 170 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in BS28?
Homes in BS28 sold for a typical £565,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 42 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £627,500 from 48 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £710,000 29 sales
- Semi-detached £434,000 8 sales
- Terraced 2 sales, too few to price
- Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Postcodes in BS28
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in BS28
Towns and villages with postcodes in BS28, and how many each has here.
Who covers BS28
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- Somerset205
Constituencies
- Wells and Mendip Hills205
Police force areas
- Avon and Somerset205
Next to BS28
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after BS28 in the BS area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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