Larkhill

What is it like to live in Larkhill?

At 72 of the 77 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 81 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 2 primary schools at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Barcroft Medical Centre, 3.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Grateley, 13.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: 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.

Are new homes being built in Larkhill?

8 of the 81 postcodes now in use in Larkhill came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says.

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.

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

What broadband can you get in Larkhill?

Ofcom reports on 77 of the 81 postcodes in Larkhill. At 72 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Larkhill at risk of flooding?

None of the 81 postcodes in Larkhill 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Larkhill?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Larkhill. 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.

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

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

How far is the station from Larkhill?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Larkhill is Grateley Rail Station, 13.2 km away in a straight line.

• Grateley Rail Station Railway station 13.2 kmDrive
• Salisbury Rail Station Railway station 14.0 kmDrive
• Pewsey Rail Station Railway station 16.4 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Larkhill?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Larkhill. 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.

• Barcroft Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01980 623983 3.1 kmCycle
• St Melor House Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01980 622474 3.4 kmCycle

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

Is Larkhill safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 138 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Larkhill 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other crime 3, drugs 2, possession of weapons 1.

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.

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

Who runs Larkhill?

Council

Wiltshire

Parliamentary constituency

East Wiltshire

Police force area

Wiltshire

Region

South West

Country

England

MP

Danny Kruger (Reform UK)

All 81 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.