Washingborough and Heighington

Washingborough and Heighington is covered by postcode district LN4. It is in the North Kesteven council area, Lincolnshire.

Typical price £255,500 Homes sold in Washingborough and Heighington, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 110 of 171 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 20 of 172 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 92 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 2 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in this place, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in this place, by flood risk Of the 172 postcodes in this place that ONS places, 11 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 5 are at low risk at worst and 152 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Washingborough and Heighington. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. 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flood risk listLN4 1JW: not on the flood risk listLN4 1LD: not on the flood risk listLN4 1QH: not on the flood risk listLN4 1QJ: not on the flood risk listLN4 1QN: not on the flood risk listLN4 1QP: not on the flood risk listLN4 1QR: not on the flood risk listLN4 1QS: not on the flood risk listLN4 1QT: not on the flood risk listLN4 1QU: not on the flood risk listLN4 1QX: not on the flood risk listLN4 1QY: not on the flood risk listLN4 1QZ: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RA: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RB: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RD: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RE: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RH: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RJ: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RL: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RN: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RP: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RR: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RS: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RT: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RU: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RW: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RX: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RY: not on the flood risk listLN4 1RZ: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SB: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SD: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SE: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SF: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SG: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SH: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SJ: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SL: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SN: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SP: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SQ: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SR: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SS: not on the flood risk listLN4 1ST: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SU: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SW: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SX: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SY: not on the flood risk listLN4 1SZ: not on the flood risk listLN4 1TA: not on the flood risk listLN4 1TB: not on the flood risk listLN4 1TD: not on the flood risk listLN4 1TE: not on the flood risk listLN4 1TH: not on the flood risk listLN4 1TL: not on the flood risk listLN4 1TN: not on the flood risk listLN4 1TP: not on the 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have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 5 are at low risk at worst and 152 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Heighington & Washingborough. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Heighington & Washingborough
  • A home or business at high risk: 11
  • At medium risk at worst: 4
  • At low risk at worst: 5
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 152

Of the 172 postcodes in this place that ONS places, 11 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 5 are at low risk at worst and 152 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. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.2183, longitude -0.4669. 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.

LN4 1AW11 at high riskLN4 1AS5 at high riskLN4 1RF4 at high riskLN4 1AB3 at high riskLN4 1GE3 at high riskLN4 1RQ2 at high riskLN4 1AT2 at high riskLN4 1AY2 at high riskLN4 1RG1 at high riskLN4 1JS1 at high riskLN4 1AU1 at high risk

What is it like to live in this place?

Homes sold for a typical £255,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 110 of the 171 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 92 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 20 of its 172 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Lincoln Central, 4.9 km 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 this place?

Homes in Washingborough and Heighington sold for a typical £255,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 86 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £250,000 from 102 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£255,500 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£250,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £295,000 57 sales
  • Semi-detached £212,500 20 sales
  • Terraced £180,000 9 sales

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

Across the whole LN4 district, Washingborough and Heighington's main postcode district: a typical £245,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in this place: 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 this place?

2 of the 172 postcodes now in use in Washingborough and Heighington came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 2 of the 102 homes sold in Washingborough and Heighington were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LN4 district, 10%.

The newest postcodes

LN4 1UWsince June 2026LN4 1FZsince November 2020

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 this placeAcross the LN4 district
The 12 months to September 2026 2 of 86 (2%) 8 of 503 (2%)
The 12 months to September 2025 2 of 102 (2%) 66 of 642 (10%)

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 Washingborough and Heighington?

Ofcom reports on 171 of the 172 postcodes in Washingborough and Heighington. At 110 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit110 of 171
Postcodes where every home can get superfast167 of 171

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 Washingborough and Heighington at risk of flooding?

20 of the 172 postcodes in Washingborough and Heighington 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 92 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 20 of 172 postcodes High: 35Medium: 57Low: 42Very low: 9

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 this place?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in this place. 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

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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 this place?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in this place is Lincoln Central Rail Station, 4.9 km away in a straight line.

  • Lincoln Central Rail Station Railway station 4.9 kmCycle
  • Hykeham Rail Station Railway station 9.2 kmDrive
  • Metheringham Rail Station Railway station 10.2 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 this place?

The GP practices at the postcodes in this place. 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 this place safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 205 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in this place 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. 5 September 2025
  2. 12 October 2025
  3. 15 November 2025
  4. 17 December 2025
  5. 27 January 2026
  6. 19 February 2026
  7. 16 March 2026
  8. 25 April 2026
  9. 17 May 2026
  10. 16 June 2026
  11. 17 July 2026
  12. 19 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences79 reports
Anti-social behaviour51 reports
Shoplifting18 reports
Criminal damage and arson13 reports
Other theft12 reports
Public order9 reports
Burglary8 reports
Vehicle crime7 reports

Also: other crime 5, possession of weapons 2, robbery 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 each way 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 this place?

District, borough or city council
North Kesteven
County council
Lincolnshire
Parliamentary constituency
Sleaford and North Hykeham
Police force area
Lincolnshire
Region
East Midlands
Country
England
MP
Dr Caroline Johnson (Conservative)

All 172 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 here

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Postcodes here

172 postcodes in use in this place, by district:

LN4 postcode district,172 postcodes

That district is in the LN postcode area.

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Places nearby

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside this place's £255,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Cherry Willingham2.5 km, £250,000Branston2.6 km, £259,000Bracebridge Heath5.2 km, £220,000Nettleham5.5 km, £343,750Lincoln5.6 km, £195,000Waddington7.3 km, £227,250North Hykeham8.9 km, £235,000Dunholme9.1 km, £235,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about this place

What is the postcode for Washingborough and Heighington?
Postcode district LN4, with 172 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Washingborough and Heighington in?
North Kesteven, with Lincolnshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Washingborough and Heighington?
Dr Caroline Johnson (Conservative), for Sleaford and North Hykeham. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Washingborough and Heighington?
A typical £255,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 86 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Washingborough and Heighington?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Washingborough Academy and Heighington Millfield Primary Academy; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Branston Community Academy, 2.5 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Washingborough and Heighington have a railway station?
The nearest is Lincoln Central station, 4.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Washingborough and Heighington?
Ofcom reports on 171 of the 172 postcodes in Washingborough and Heighington. At 110 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Washingborough and Heighington at risk of flooding?
20 of the 172 postcodes in Washingborough and Heighington 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 92 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 Washingborough and Heighington?
2 of the 172 postcodes now in use in Washingborough and Heighington came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 2 of the 102 homes sold in Washingborough and Heighington were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LN4 district, 10%. 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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