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, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 36
- In use before 2020: 914
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 950 postcodes in Bamber Bridge that ONS places, 36 are new since 2020 and 914 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 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
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; 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
The 5 newest postcodes
What is it like to live in Bamber Bridge?
Homes sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.6% on the 12 months before. 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 at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. 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.
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 Bamber Bridge?
Homes in Bamber Bridge sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 517 sales, up 2.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £305,000 147 sales
- Semi-detached £189,000 233 sales
- Terraced £145,000 110 sales
- Flat or maisonette £110,000 27 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 £193,000.
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 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 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 August 2025, 37 of the 648 homes sold in Bamber Bridge were newly built (6%), 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 August 2026 | 9 of 517 (2%) | 12 of 523 (2%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 37 of 648 (6%) | 58 of 681 (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.
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 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, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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, 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 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.
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
- The Coppice School1.0 km 64 pupils, 68 places
- Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School1.0 km 446 pupils, 420 places
- Lostock Hall Community Primary School1.4 km 422 pupils, 426 places
- The Ribble Autism School1.9 km 10 pupils, 10 places
- Our Lady and St Gerard's Roman Catholic Primary School, Lostock Hall2.0 km 341 pupils, 378 places
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 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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
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: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
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.
Questions about Bamber Bridge
- What is it like to live in Bamber Bridge?
- Homes sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.6% on the 12 months before. 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 at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. 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. 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 Bamber Bridge?
- Bamber Bridge is covered by postcode districts PR1, PR5 and PR6, across 950 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Bamber Bridge?
- Homes in Bamber Bridge sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 517 sales, up 2.6% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Bamber Bridge?
- 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 Bridgeway School, Brownedge St Mary's Catholic High School and The Coppice School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Does Bamber Bridge have a railway station?
- Yes: Bamber Bridge is 300 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Bamber Bridge, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 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. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 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. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out 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 August 2025, 37 of the 648 homes sold in Bamber Bridge were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PR5 district, 9%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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