Bamber Bridge
Bamber Bridge is covered by postcode districts PR1, PR5 and PR6. It is mostly in the South Ribble council area: 748 of its 950 postcodes. The others are in Chorley.
Every postcode in Bamber Bridge, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 41
- At medium risk at worst: 38
- At low risk at worst: 32
- At very low risk only: 1
- Not on the at-risk list: 838
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 950 postcodes in Bamber Bridge that ONS places, 41 have a home or business at high risk, 38 are at medium risk at worst, 32 are at low risk at worst, 1 are at very low risk only and 838 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 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 53.7260, longitude -2.6650. 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
41 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 31 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. PR5 6TA, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 19 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. PR5 4JA, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 11 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. PR5 4AH, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Bamber Bridge?
Homes sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 798 of the 930 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 942 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 112 of its 950 postcodes. It has 13 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bamber Bridge, 300 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
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 Bamber Bridge?
Homes in Bamber Bridge sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 531 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £191,250 from 656 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £310,000 154 sales
- Semi-detached £189,498 236 sales
- Terraced £145,000 109 sales
- Flat or maisonette £108,500 32 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole PR5 district, Bamber Bridge's main postcode district: a typical £195,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Bamber 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 Bamber Bridge?
36 of the 950 postcodes now in use in Bamber Bridge came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 36 of the 656 homes sold in Bamber Bridge were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PR5 district, 9%.
The newest postcodes
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
| Period | In Bamber Bridge | Across the PR5 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 8 of 531 (2%) | 14 of 549 (3%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 36 of 656 (5%) | 61 of 694 (9%) |
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 Bamber Bridge?
Ofcom reports on 930 of the 950 postcodes in Bamber Bridge. At 798 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 Bamber Bridge at risk of flooding?
112 of the 950 postcodes in Bamber 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 942 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.
Which schools are in Bamber Bridge?
The open schools at the postcodes in Bamber Bridge (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. 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
- Cuerden Church School, Bamber Bridge300 m 195 pupils, 210 places
- St Mary's and St Benedict's Roman Catholic Primary School550 m 251 pupils, 315 places
- Bamber Bridge St Aidan's Church of England Primary School900 m 95 pupils, 168 places
- Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School1.0 km 446 pupils, 420 places
- Lostock Hall Community Primary School1.4 km 422 pupils, 426 places
- Our Lady and St Gerard's Roman Catholic Primary School, Lostock Hall2.0 km 341 pupils, 378 places
- St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School, Walton-le-Dale2.3 km 199 pupils, 210 places
- Walton-le-Dale, St Leonard's Church of England Primary School2.3 km 228 pupils, 280 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Bamber Bridge?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bamber Bridge is Bamber Bridge Rail Station, 300 m away in a straight line.
- Bamber Bridge Rail Station Railway station 300 mWalk
- Lostock Hall Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
- Leyland Rail Station Railway station 3.4 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 Bamber Bridge?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Bamber Bridge, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- The Ryan Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01772 335136 500 mWalk
- Roslea Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2026 · Phone 01772 310100 900 mWalk
- Lostock Hall Medical Ctr. Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2024 · Phone 01772 529329 1.5 kmCycle
- Dr Dawoud's Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01772 323021 2.3 kmCycle
- Clayton Brook Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01772 313950 2.4 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Bamber Bridge safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,873 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Bamber Bridge 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
- 168 September 2025
- 158 October 2025
- 218 November 2025
- 171 December 2025
- 120 January 2026
- 115 February 2026
- 144 March 2026
- 159 April 2026
- 163 May 2026
- 139 June 2026
- 176 July 2026
- 142 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 47, drugs 27, possession of weapons 27, robbery 10, theft from the person 8, bicycle theft 8.
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 postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Bamber Bridge?
- Councils
- South Ribble (748) and Chorley (202)
- County council
- Lancashire
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Ribble Valley (663), Chorley (202) and South Ribble (85)
- Police force area
- Lancashire
- 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 Bamber Bridge
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Bamber Bridge is in South Ribble; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell South Ribble about council tax Council tax, on southribble.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Bamber Bridge
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Bamber Bridge postcodes
950 postcodes in use in Bamber Bridge, by district:
Those districts are all in the PR postcode area.
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Places near Bamber Bridge
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Bamber Bridge's £195,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Bamber Bridge
- What is the postcode for Bamber Bridge?
- Postcode districts PR1, PR5 and PR6, with 950 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Bamber Bridge?
- A typical £195,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 531 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Bamber Bridge?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Cuerden Church School, Bamber Bridge, St Mary's and St Benedict's Roman Catholic Primary School and Bamber Bridge St Aidan's Church of England Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Brownedge St Mary's Catholic High School, Lostock Hall Academy and Walton-Le-Dale High School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Bamber Bridge have a railway station?
- Yes: Bamber Bridge station, 300 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Bamber Bridge?
- Ofcom reports on 930 of the 950 postcodes in Bamber Bridge. At 798 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Bamber Bridge at risk of flooding?
- 112 of the 950 postcodes in Bamber 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 942 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 Bamber Bridge?
- 36 of the 950 postcodes now in use in Bamber Bridge came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 36 of the 656 homes sold in Bamber Bridge were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PR5 district, 9%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
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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