Great Harwood

Great Harwood is covered by postcode districts BB5 and BB6. It is in the Hyndburn council area, Lancashire.

Typical price £137,500 Homes sold in Great Harwood, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 240 of 265 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at medium risk 30 of 268 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 74 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 5 5 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Great Harwood, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Great Harwood, by flood risk Of the 268 postcodes in Great Harwood that ONS places, 9 are at medium risk at worst, 21 are at low risk at worst and 238 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 6 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Great Harwood. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. BB6 7AB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7AD: not on the flood risk listBB6 7AE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7AF: not on the flood risk listBB6 7AH: not on the flood risk listBB6 7AN: not on the flood risk listBB6 7AP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7AQ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7AR: not on the flood risk listBB6 7AS: not on the flood risk listBB6 7AW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7AZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BA: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BD: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BG: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BL: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BN: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BQ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BS: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BT: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BU: not on the flood risk listBB6 7BW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DF: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DG: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DH: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DJ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DL: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DN: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DQ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DR: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DS: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DT: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DU: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DX: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DY: not on the flood risk listBB6 7DZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EA: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7ED: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EF: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EG: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EH: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EJ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EN: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EQ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7ER: not on the flood risk listBB6 7ES: not on the flood risk listBB6 7ET: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EU: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EX: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EY: not on the flood risk listBB6 7EZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FA: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FD: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FF: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FG: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FH: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FJ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FN: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FQ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FR: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FS: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FT: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FU: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FX: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FY: not on the flood risk listBB6 7FZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7GW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7GX: not on the flood risk listBB6 7GZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HA: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HD: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HJ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HN: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HS: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HT: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HU: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HX: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HY: not on the flood risk listBB6 7HZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JA: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JD: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JF: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JG: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JH: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JJ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JL: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JN: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JQ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JR: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JS: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JT: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JU: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JX: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JY: not on the flood risk listBB6 7JZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LA: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LD: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LF: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LG: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LH: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LJ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LL: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LN: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LQ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LS: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LT: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LU: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LX: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LY: not on the flood risk listBB6 7LZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7ND: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NG: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NH: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NJ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NL: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NQ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NR: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NS: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NT: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NU: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NX: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NY: not on the flood risk listBB6 7NZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PD: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PF: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PG: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PH: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PJ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PQ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PR: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PT: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PU: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PY: not on the flood risk listBB6 7PZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7QA: not on the flood risk listBB6 7QB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7QE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7QW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7QX: not on the flood risk listBB6 7QZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RA: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RD: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RF: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RG: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RH: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RJ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RN: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RQ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RR: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RT: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RU: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RX: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RY: not on the flood risk listBB6 7RZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7SA: not on the flood risk listBB6 7SD: not on the flood risk listBB6 7SJ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7SL: not on the flood risk listBB6 7SN: not on the flood risk listBB6 7SP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7SR: not on the flood risk listBB6 7SS: not on the flood risk listBB6 7ST: not on the flood risk listBB6 7SU: not on the flood risk listBB6 7SW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7SX: not on the flood risk listBB6 7SY: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TA: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TD: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TF: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TG: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TH: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TJ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TL: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TN: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TQ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TR: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TS: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TT: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TU: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TX: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TY: not on the flood risk listBB6 7TZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7UF: not on the flood risk listBB6 7UG: not on the flood risk listBB6 7UP: not on the flood risk listBB6 7UR: not on the flood risk listBB6 7UW: not on the flood risk listBB6 7UZ: not on the flood risk listBB6 7WA: not on the flood risk listBB6 7WB: not on the flood risk listBB6 7WD: not on the flood risk listBB6 7WE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7WF: not on the flood risk listBB6 7WL: not on the flood risk listBB6 7WN: not on the flood risk listBB6 7XA: not on the flood risk listBB6 7XE: not on the flood risk listBB6 7AA: low flood risk at worstBB6 7AT: low flood risk at worstBB6 7DD: low flood risk at worstBB6 7DE: low flood risk at worstBB6 7FW: low flood risk at worstBB6 7HG: low flood risk at worstBB6 7HH: low flood risk at worstBB6 7HL: low flood risk at worstBB6 7NB: low flood risk at worstBB6 7NE: low flood risk at worstBB6 7QD: low flood risk at worstBB6 7QF: low flood risk at worstBB6 7QL: low flood risk at worstBB6 7QQ: low flood risk at worstBB6 7RW: low flood risk at worstBB6 7SB: low flood risk at worstBB6 7SZ: low flood risk at worstBB6 7UA: low flood risk at worstBB6 7UD: low flood risk at worstBB6 7UE: low flood risk at worstBB6 7UQ: low flood risk at worstBB5 5SH: medium flood risk at worstBB5 5SQ: medium flood risk at worstBB6 7AL: medium flood risk at worstBB6 7AX: medium flood risk at worstBB6 7GY: medium flood risk at worstBB6 7NF: medium flood risk at worstBB6 7QP: medium flood risk at worstBB6 7QR: medium flood risk at worst Great Harwood 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to BB6 7NN, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk6 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Great Harwood, by flood risk Of the 268 postcodes in Great Harwood that ONS places, 9 are at medium risk at worst, 21 are at low risk at worst and 238 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 6 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Great Harwood. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A680 Great Harwood
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 9
  • At low risk at worst: 21
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 238
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 268 postcodes in Great Harwood that ONS places, 9 are at medium risk at worst, 21 are at low risk at worst and 238 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 53.7865, longitude -2.4039. 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 medium risk at worst

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

BB6 7NN40 at medium riskBB6 7AX10 at medium riskBB5 5SH5 at medium riskBB5 5SQ5 at medium riskBB6 7QP5 at medium riskBB6 7NF3 at medium riskBB6 7AL2 at medium riskBB6 7GY2 at medium riskBB6 7QR2 at medium risk

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. BB6 7NN, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Great Harwood?

Homes sold for a typical £137,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 240 of the 265 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 74 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 30 of its 268 postcodes. It has 5 primary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Rishton, 2.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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

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 Great Harwood?

Homes in Great Harwood sold for a typical £137,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 172 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £139,500 from 165 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£137,500 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£139,500 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £292,500 24 sales
  • Semi-detached £225,750 32 sales
  • Terraced £119,950 113 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole BB6 district, Great Harwood's main postcode district: a typical £160,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Great Harwood: 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 Great Harwood?

13 of the 268 postcodes now in use in Great Harwood came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 7 of the 165 homes sold in Great Harwood were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BB6 district, 3%.

The newest postcodes

BB6 7GZsince August 2025BB6 7GWsince June 2024BB6 7GXsince June 2024BB6 7FJsince May 2024BB6 7XEsince October 2023BB6 7FYsince May 2023

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 Great HarwoodAcross the BB6 district
The 12 months to September 2026 1 of 172 (Under 1%) 1 of 218 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to September 2025 7 of 165 (4%) 7 of 243 (3%)

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 Great Harwood?

Ofcom reports on 265 of the 268 postcodes in Great Harwood. At 240 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit240 of 265
Postcodes where every home can get superfast256 of 265

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 Great Harwood at risk of flooding?

30 of the 268 postcodes in Great Harwood 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 74 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 30 of 268 postcodes Medium: 74Low: 212

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 Great Harwood?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Great Harwood. 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).

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

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

How far is the station from Great Harwood?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Great Harwood is Rishton Rail Station, 2.7 km away in a straight line.

  • Rishton Rail Station Railway station 2.7 kmCycle
  • Langho Rail Station Railway station 3.6 kmCycle
  • Huncoat Rail Station Railway station 4.1 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 Great Harwood?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Great Harwood. 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 Great Harwood safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,372 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Great Harwood 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. 156 September 2025
  2. 111 October 2025
  3. 94 November 2025
  4. 121 December 2025
  5. 124 January 2026
  6. 106 February 2026
  7. 106 March 2026
  8. 97 April 2026
  9. 112 May 2026
  10. 149 June 2026
  11. 99 July 2026
  12. 97 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences560 reports
Anti-social behaviour288 reports
Criminal damage and arson113 reports
Other theft75 reports
Vehicle crime65 reports
Public order64 reports
Shoplifting64 reports
Burglary51 reports

Also: other crime 32, possession of weapons 22, drugs 18, theft from the person 11, robbery 7, bicycle theft 2.

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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Great Harwood?

District, borough or city council
Hyndburn
County council
Lancashire
Parliamentary constituency
Hyndburn
Police force area
Lancashire
Region
North West
Country
England
MP
Sarah Smith (Labour)

All 268 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

Moving to Great Harwood

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.

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Great Harwood postcodes

268 postcodes in use in Great Harwood, by district:

BB6 postcode district,266 postcodesBB5 postcode district,2 postcodes

Those districts are all in the BB postcode area.

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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.

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Places near Great Harwood

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Great Harwood's £137,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Clayton-le-Moors1.8 km, £154,000Rishton2.2 km, £149,000Church3.5 km, £135,000Langho3.5 km, £318,750Whalley4.1 km, £330,000Read4.2 km, £395,000Accrington4.7 km, £140,000Oswaldtwistle4.8 km, £150,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Great Harwood

What is the postcode for Great Harwood?
Postcode districts BB5 and BB6, with 268 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Great Harwood in?
Hyndburn, with Lancashire as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Great Harwood?
Sarah Smith (Labour), for Hyndburn. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Great Harwood?
A typical £137,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 172 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Great Harwood?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Great Harwood St Bartholomew's Parish Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Great Harwood St John's Church of England Primary School and St Hubert's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Hyndburn Academy, 2.0 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Great Harwood have a railway station?
The nearest is Rishton station, 2.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Great Harwood?
Ofcom reports on 265 of the 268 postcodes in Great Harwood. At 240 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Great Harwood at risk of flooding?
30 of the 268 postcodes in Great Harwood 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 74 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 Great Harwood?
13 of the 268 postcodes now in use in Great Harwood came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 7 of the 165 homes sold in Great Harwood were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BB6 district, 3%. 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. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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