Alderholt

Alderholt is covered by postcode district SP6. It is in the Dorset council area, England.

Typical price £370,000 Homes sold in Alderholt, last 12 months. ▼ 8.4% on the year before Gigabit broadband 40 of 57 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Alderholt, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Alderholt, by flood risk Of the 58 postcodes in Alderholt that ONS places, 58 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Alderholt. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. SP6 3AA: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AB: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AD: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AG: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AH: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AJ: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AL: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AN: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AP: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AQ: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AR: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AS: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AT: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AU: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AW: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AX: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AY: not on the flood risk listSP6 3AZ: not on the flood risk listSP6 3BA: not on the flood risk listSP6 3BB: not on the flood risk listSP6 3BE: not on the flood risk listSP6 3BF: not on the flood risk listSP6 3BG: not on the flood risk listSP6 3BH: not on the flood risk listSP6 3BJ: not on the flood risk listSP6 3BL: not on the flood risk listSP6 3BN: not on the flood risk listSP6 3BQ: not on the flood risk listSP6 3BW: not on the flood risk listSP6 3DF: not on the flood risk listSP6 3DG: not on the flood risk listSP6 3DH: not on the flood risk listSP6 3DL: not on the flood risk listSP6 3DQ: not on the flood risk listSP6 3EN: not on the flood risk listSP6 3EP: not on the flood risk listSP6 3ER: not on the flood risk listSP6 3EW: not on the flood risk listSP6 3FB: not on the flood risk listSP6 3FD: not on the flood risk listSP6 3FE: not on the flood risk listSP6 3FJ: not on the flood risk listSP6 3HF: not on the flood risk listSP6 3HY: not on the flood risk listSP6 3HZ: not on the flood risk listSP6 3JA: not on the flood risk listSP6 3JZ: not on the flood risk listSP6 3LU: not on the flood risk listSP6 3LY: not on the flood risk listSP6 3PH: not on the flood risk listSP6 3PJ: not on the flood risk listSP6 3PT: not on the flood risk listSP6 3RA: not on the flood risk listSP6 3RB: not on the flood risk listSP6 3RD: not on the flood risk listSP6 3RQ: not on the flood risk listSP6 3TA: not on the flood risk listSP6 3TB: not on the flood risk list Alderholt Map of every postcode in Alderholt, by flood risk Of the 58 postcodes in Alderholt that ONS places, 58 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Alderholt. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Alderholt
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 58

Of the 58 postcodes in Alderholt that ONS places, 58 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 50.9123, longitude -1.8306. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 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

What is it like to live in Alderholt?

Homes sold for a typical £370,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 8.4% on the 12 months before. At 40 of the 57 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 58 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Fordingbridge Surgery, 3.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Salisbury, 17.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Alderholt?

Homes in Alderholt sold for a typical £370,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 29 sales, down 8.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£370,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£403,750 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 8.4% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £465,000 16 sales
  • Semi-detached £321,000 8 sales
  • Terraced 4 sales, too few to price
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole SP6 district, Alderholt's main postcode district: a typical £397,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Alderholt: 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

Are new homes being built in Alderholt?

1 of the 58 postcodes now in use in Alderholt came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 40 homes sold in Alderholt were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SP6 district, 14%.

The newest postcodes

SP6 3FJsince October 2025

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn AlderholtAcross the SP6 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 29 (0%) 5 of 147 (3%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 40 (0%) 34 of 241 (14%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Alderholt?

Ofcom reports on 57 of the 58 postcodes in Alderholt. At 40 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit40 of 57
Postcodes where every home can get superfast52 of 57

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.

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

Is Alderholt at risk of flooding?

None of the 58 postcodes in Alderholt is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Alderholt?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Alderholt. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Alderholt?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Alderholt is Salisbury Rail Station, 17.7 km away in a straight line.

  • Salisbury Rail Station Railway station 17.7 kmDrive
  • Hinton Admiral Rail Station Railway station 19.5 kmDrive
  • Christchurch Rail Station Railway station 19.6 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Alderholt?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Alderholt. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Alderholt safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 92 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Alderholt over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 6 September 2025
  2. 5 October 2025
  3. 8 November 2025
  4. 9 December 2025
  5. 5 January 2026
  6. 8 February 2026
  7. 7 March 2026
  8. 11 April 2026
  9. 6 May 2026
  10. 10 June 2026
  11. 7 July 2026
  12. 10 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Anti-social behaviour25 reports
Violence and sexual offences23 reports
Criminal damage and arson14 reports
Burglary11 reports
Other theft10 reports
Public order5 reports
Vehicle crime3 reports
Possession of weapons1 report

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Alderholt?

Council
Dorset
Parliamentary constituency
North Dorset
Police force area
Dorset
Region
South West
Country
England
MP
Simon Hoare (Conservative)

All 58 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

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Alderholt postcodes

58 postcodes in use in Alderholt, by district:

SP6 postcode district,58 postcodes

That district is in the SP postcode area.

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Places near Alderholt

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Alderholt's £370,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Sandleheath2.4 km, £510,000Fordingbridge3.4 km, £340,000Verwood5.0 km, £395,000Three Legged Cross7.7 km, £450,000Ringwood7.9 km, £395,000Ashley Heath8.8 km, £632,500Downton10.4 km, £360,000West Moors10.9 km, £375,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Alderholt

What is it like to live in Alderholt?
Homes sold for a typical £370,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 8.4% on the 12 months before. At 40 of the 57 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 58 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Fordingbridge Surgery, 3.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Salisbury, 17.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Alderholt?
Alderholt is covered by postcode district SP6, across 58 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Alderholt in?
Alderholt is in the Dorset council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Alderholt?
Alderholt is in the North Dorset parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Simon Hoare (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Alderholt?
Homes in Alderholt sold for a typical £370,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 29 sales, down 8.4% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Alderholt?
In Alderholt, primary schools at its postcodes include St James' Church of England First School and Nursery, Alderholt; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Forres Sandle Manor School, 2.8 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Alderholt have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Alderholt is Salisbury, 17.7 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Alderholt?
Ofcom reports on 57 of the 58 postcodes in Alderholt. At 40 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Alderholt at risk of flooding?
None of the 58 postcodes in Alderholt is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Alderholt?
1 of the 58 postcodes now in use in Alderholt came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 40 homes sold in Alderholt were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SP6 district, 14%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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