Appley Bridge

Appley Bridge is covered by postcode district WN6. It is mostly in the Wigan council area: 57 of its 105 postcodes. The others are in West Lancashire. 48 of its 105 postcodes are in Lancashire. ONS lists no county for the other 57.

Typical price £250,000 Homes sold in Appley Bridge, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 86 of 105 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 16 of 105 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 23 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 2 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Appley Bridge, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Appley Bridge, by flood risk Of the 105 postcodes in Appley Bridge that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 8 are at low risk at worst, 2 are at very low risk only and 89 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Appley Bridge. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A5209 WN6 8DP: not on the flood risk listWN6 8DS: not on the flood risk listWN6 8DT: not on the flood risk listWN6 8DU: not on the flood risk listWN6 8DW: not on the flood risk listWN6 8DX: not on the flood risk listWN6 8DY: not on the flood risk listWN6 8DZ: not on the flood risk listWN6 8EP: not on the flood risk listWN6 8EX: not on the flood risk listWN6 8EY: not on the flood risk listWN6 8EZ: not on the flood risk listWN6 8HH: not on the flood risk listWN6 8HJ: not on the flood risk listWN6 8JG: not on the flood risk listWN6 9AB: not on the flood risk listWN6 9AD: not on the flood risk listWN6 9AE: not on the flood risk listWN6 9AG: not on the flood risk listWN6 9AH: not on the flood risk listWN6 9AJ: not on the flood risk listWN6 9AL: not on the flood risk listWN6 9AN: not on the flood risk listWN6 9AQ: not on the flood risk listWN6 9AW: not on the flood risk listWN6 9AY: not on the flood risk listWN6 9AZ: not on the flood risk listWN6 9BE: not on the flood risk listWN6 9BH: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DB: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DD: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DF: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DG: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DH: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DL: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DN: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DP: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DQ: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DR: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DS: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DT: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DW: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DX: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DY: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DZ: not on the flood risk listWN6 9EA: not on the flood risk listWN6 9EB: not on the flood risk listWN6 9ED: not on the flood risk listWN6 9EE: not on the flood risk listWN6 9EF: not on the flood risk listWN6 9EG: not on the flood risk listWN6 9EJ: not on the flood risk listWN6 9EL: not on the flood risk listWN6 9EQ: not on the flood risk listWN6 9EU: not on the flood risk listWN6 9HA: not on the flood risk listWN6 9HB: not on the flood risk listWN6 9HE: not on the flood risk listWN6 9HF: not on the flood risk listWN6 9HX: not on the flood risk listWN6 9HZ: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JA: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JD: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JE: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JF: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JG: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JH: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JJ: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JL: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JN: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JP: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JQ: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JR: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JS: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JT: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JU: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JW: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JX: not on the flood risk listWN6 9JY: not on the flood risk listWN6 9LA: not on the flood risk listWN6 9LB: not on the flood risk listWN6 9LD: not on the flood risk listWN6 9LE: not on the flood risk listWN6 9LF: not on the flood risk listWN6 9LG: not on the flood risk listWN6 9LH: not on the flood risk listWN6 9LN: not on the flood risk listWN6 9LQ: not on the flood risk listWN6 9QQ: not on the flood risk listWN6 9DA: very low flood risk onlyWN6 9ET: very low flood risk onlyWN6 8DN: low flood risk at worstWN6 8DR: low flood risk at worstWN6 8ER: low flood risk at worstWN6 9AR: low flood risk at worstWN6 9AS: low flood risk at worstWN6 9HU: low flood risk at worstWN6 9JB: low flood risk at worstWN6 9LJ: low flood risk at worstWN6 9AP: medium flood risk at worstWN6 9BB: medium flood risk at worstWN6 9AT: high flood riskWN6 9DE: high flood riskWN6 9DJ: high flood riskWN6 9HD: high flood risk Appley Bridge Map of every postcode in Appley Bridge, by flood risk Of the 105 postcodes in Appley Bridge that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 8 are at low risk at worst, 2 are at very low risk only and 89 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Appley Bridge. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A5209 Appley Bridge
  • A home or business at high risk: 4
  • At medium risk at worst: 2
  • At low risk at worst: 8
  • At very low risk only: 2
  • Not on the at-risk list: 89

Of the 105 postcodes in Appley Bridge that ONS places, 4 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 8 are at low risk at worst, 2 are at very low risk only and 89 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 53.5815, longitude -2.7153. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 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.

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

WN6 9DE8 at high riskWN6 9AT1 at high riskWN6 9DJ1 at high riskWN6 9HD1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Appley Bridge?

Homes sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 86 of the 105 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 23 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 16 of its 105 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Shevington Surgery, 1.3 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Appley Bridge, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Appley Bridge?

Homes in Appley Bridge sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 53 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £235,000 from 70 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£250,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£235,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £425,000 17 sales
  • Semi-detached £222,000 31 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 WN6 district, Appley Bridge's main postcode district: a typical £218,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Appley Bridge: 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.

Are new homes being built in Appley Bridge?

None of the 105 postcodes now in use in Appley Bridge came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 70 homes sold in Appley Bridge were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WN6 district, 5%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Appley BridgeAcross the WN6 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 53 (0%) 3 of 467 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 70 (0%) 32 of 686 (5%)

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Appley Bridge?

Ofcom reports on 105 of the 105 postcodes in Appley Bridge. At 86 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit86 of 105
Postcodes where every home can get superfast102 of 105

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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Appley Bridge at risk of flooding?

16 of the 105 postcodes in Appley Bridge 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 23 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 16 of 105 postcodes High: 11Medium: 12Low: 89Very low: 14

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.

Which schools are in Appley Bridge?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Appley Bridge. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Appley Bridge?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Appley Bridge is Appley Bridge Rail Station, 400 m away in a straight line.

  • Appley Bridge Rail Station Railway station 400 mWalk
  • Gathurst Rail Station Railway station 2.8 kmCycle
  • Parbold Rail Station Railway station 3.8 kmCycle

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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Appley Bridge?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Appley Bridge. 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

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Appley Bridge safe? Crime recorded around it

Greater Manchester's police force has published no crime figures to Police.uk for any month from September 2024 to August 2026, so we have none to show for Appley Bridge. A count from Police.uk here would take in only the few crimes that neighbouring forces record nearby, so we show none rather than a figure that looks like a quiet area.

Crime around one postcode

Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Appley Bridge?

Councils
Wigan (57) and West Lancashire (48)
Parliamentary constituencies
Wigan (57) and West Lancashire (48)
Police force areas
Greater Manchester (57) and Lancashire (48)
Region
North West
Country
England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.

Moving to Appley Bridge

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Appley Bridge is in Wigan; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.

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Appley Bridge postcodes

105 postcodes in use in Appley Bridge, by district:

WN6 postcode district,105 postcodes

That district is in the WN postcode area.

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Places near Appley Bridge

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Appley Bridge's £250,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Shevington2.0 km, £245,500Shevington Moor2.4 km, £252,500Parbold3.7 km, £382,500Standish3.8 km, £235,000Orrell5.1 km, £230,000Skelmersdale5.5 km, £159,975Coppull5.7 km, £216,500Wigan6.2 km, £180,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Appley Bridge

What is the postcode for Appley Bridge?
Postcode district WN6, with 105 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
How much are houses in Appley Bridge?
A typical £250,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 53 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Appley Bridge?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Shevington Vale Primary School and Appley Bridge All Saints Church of England Primary Academy; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Shevington High School, 2.1 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Appley Bridge have a railway station?
Yes: Appley Bridge station, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Appley Bridge?
Ofcom reports on 105 of the 105 postcodes in Appley Bridge. At 86 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Appley Bridge at risk of flooding?
16 of the 105 postcodes in Appley Bridge 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 23 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Appley Bridge?
None of the 105 postcodes now in use in Appley Bridge came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 70 homes sold in Appley Bridge were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WN6 district, 5%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

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. This uses Care Quality Commission information.

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