CH8 postcode district: Holywell and around

CH8 is a postcode district in Wales, with 680 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Holywell, Bagillt and Flint. It is split between 2 councils: Flintshire (679 postcodes) and Denbighshire (1).

Postcodes in use: 680
Sectors: 3
Councils: 2 councils
Places: 3 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in CH8, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 45
Some can get gigabit: 152
Every home and business can get gigabit: 477
Ofcom gives no figure: 6
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 680 postcodes in CH8 that ONS places, 45 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 152 have some that can, 477 can all get it and 6 have no Ofcom figure.

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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 160 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 53.2829, longitude -3.2465. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: 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. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

45 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

CH8 7EN CH8 7ES CH8 7FE CH8 7HW CH8 7JS CH8 7LY CH8 7NE CH8 7PP CH8 7QX CH8 7RA CH8 7RF CH8 7UF

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

7 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CH8 8EA, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in CH8?

Ofcom reports on 674 of the 680 postcodes in CH8. At 477 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 14 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit477 of 674

Postcodes where every home can get superfast569 of 674

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband14 of 674

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 checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in CH8?

Homes in CH8 sold for a typical £187,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 196 sales, up 4.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£187,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£180,000 12 months to August 2025

▲ up 4.2% on the 12 months before

Detached £350,000 79 sales
Semi-detached £162,250 78 sales
Terraced £151,000 32 sales
Flat or maisonette £120,000 7 sales

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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it