Whittle-le-Woods

Whittle-le-Woods is covered by postcode district PR6. It is in the Chorley council area, Lancashire.

Typical price £331,000 Homes sold in Whittle-le-Woods, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 96 of 118 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 14 of 121 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 40 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Whittle-le-Woods, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Whittle-le-Woods, by flood risk Of the 121 postcodes in Whittle-le-Woods that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 7 are at low risk at worst and 107 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Whittle-le-Woods. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. M61 PR6 7DA: not on the flood risk listPR6 7DB: not on the flood risk listPR6 7DD: not on the flood risk listPR6 7DL: not on the flood risk listPR6 7DN: not on the flood risk listPR6 7DP: not on the flood risk listPR6 7DQ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7DR: not on the flood risk listPR6 7FP: not on the flood risk listPR6 7FQ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7FR: not on the flood risk listPR6 7FS: not on the flood risk listPR6 7FU: not on the flood risk listPR6 7FW: not on the flood risk listPR6 7FX: not on the flood risk listPR6 7FY: not on the flood risk listPR6 7FZ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7GX: not on the flood risk listPR6 7GY: not on the flood risk listPR6 7GZ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HB: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HE: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HF: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HG: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HH: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HJ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HL: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HN: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HP: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HQ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HR: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HS: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HT: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HW: not on the flood risk listPR6 7HZ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7JS: not on the flood risk listPR6 7JX: not on the flood risk listPR6 7JZ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LB: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LD: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LE: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LG: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LH: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LJ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LL: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LN: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LP: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LQ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LR: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LS: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LT: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LU: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LW: not on the flood risk listPR6 7LZ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NA: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NB: not on the flood risk listPR6 7ND: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NE: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NF: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NG: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NH: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NJ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NL: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NN: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NP: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NQ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NU: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NW: not on the flood risk listPR6 7NY: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PD: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PE: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PF: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PG: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PH: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PJ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PL: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PN: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PP: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PQ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PR: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PS: not on the flood risk listPR6 7PW: not on the flood risk listPR6 7QH: not on the flood risk listPR6 7QL: not on the flood risk listPR6 7QN: not on the flood risk listPR6 7QT: not on the flood risk listPR6 7QX: not on the flood risk listPR6 7RF: not on the flood risk listPR6 7RG: not on the flood risk listPR6 7RH: not on the flood risk listPR6 7SG: not on the flood risk listPR6 7TF: not on the flood risk listPR6 7TG: not on the flood risk listPR6 7TW: not on the flood risk listPR6 7XQ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7XR: not on the flood risk listPR6 7YD: not on the flood risk listPR6 7YE: not on the flood risk listPR6 7YG: not on the flood risk listPR6 7YH: not on the flood risk listPR6 7YJ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7YN: not on the flood risk listPR6 7YP: not on the flood risk listPR6 7YQ: not on the flood risk listPR6 7YR: not on the flood risk listPR6 7YS: not on the flood risk listPR6 7ZD: not on the flood risk listPR6 7EA: low flood risk at worstPR6 7LF: low flood risk at worstPR6 7LY: low flood risk at worstPR6 7NT: low flood risk at worstPR6 7NX: low flood risk at worstPR6 7QY: low flood risk at worstPR6 7YB: low flood risk at worstPR6 7DJ: medium flood risk at worstPR6 7HX: medium flood risk at worstPR6 7LA: medium flood risk at worstPR6 7LX: medium flood risk at worstPR6 7DZ: high flood riskPR6 7HD: high flood riskPR6 7HU: high flood risk Whittle-le-Woods Map of every postcode in Whittle-le-Woods, by flood risk Of the 121 postcodes in Whittle-le-Woods that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 7 are at low risk at worst and 107 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Whittle-le-Woods. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. M61 Whittle-le-Woods
  • A home or business at high risk: 3
  • At medium risk at worst: 4
  • At low risk at worst: 7
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 107

Of the 121 postcodes in Whittle-le-Woods that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 7 are at low risk at worst and 107 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.6854, longitude -2.6353. 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.

PR6 7HD6 at high riskPR6 7DZ1 at high riskPR6 7HU1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Whittle-le-Woods?

Homes sold for a typical £331,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 96 of the 118 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 40 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 14 of its 121 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Whittle Surgery, 950 metres from the middle. The nearest railway station is Buckshaw Parkway, 2.2 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 Whittle-le-Woods?

Homes in Whittle-le-Woods sold for a typical £331,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 53 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £278,000 from 77 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£331,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£278,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £425,000 29 sales
  • Semi-detached £227,500 15 sales
  • Terraced £250,500 7 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole PR6 district, Whittle-le-Woods's main postcode district: a typical £240,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Whittle-le-Woods: 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 Whittle-le-Woods?

6 of the 121 postcodes now in use in Whittle-le-Woods came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 77 homes sold in Whittle-le-Woods were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PR6 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

PR6 7ZDsince February 2026PR6 7YRsince June 2023PR6 7YQsince April 2023PR6 7YPsince October 2022PR6 7YNsince June 2022PR6 7YSsince February 2022

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 Whittle-le-WoodsAcross the PR6 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 53 (0%) 0 of 410 (0%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 77 (0%) 0 of 531 (0%)

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 Whittle-le-Woods?

Ofcom reports on 118 of the 121 postcodes in Whittle-le-Woods. At 96 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit96 of 118
Postcodes where every home can get superfast115 of 118
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 118

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 Whittle-le-Woods at risk of flooding?

14 of the 121 postcodes in Whittle-le-Woods 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 40 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 14 of 121 postcodes High: 8Medium: 32Low: 84

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 Whittle-le-Woods?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Whittle-le-Woods. 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).

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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 Whittle-le-Woods?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Whittle-le-Woods is Buckshaw Parkway Rail Station, 2.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Buckshaw Parkway Rail Station Railway station 2.2 kmCycle
  • Euxton Balshaw Lane Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle
  • Chorley Rail Station Railway station 3.7 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 Whittle-le-Woods?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Whittle-le-Woods. 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.

Find a GP on the NHS website

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

Is Whittle-le-Woods safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 432 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Whittle-le-Woods 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. 42 September 2025
  2. 46 October 2025
  3. 31 November 2025
  4. 27 December 2025
  5. 36 January 2026
  6. 28 February 2026
  7. 42 March 2026
  8. 30 April 2026
  9. 39 May 2026
  10. 42 June 2026
  11. 24 July 2026
  12. 45 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences174 reports
Anti-social behaviour123 reports
Criminal damage and arson39 reports
Other theft26 reports
Vehicle crime22 reports
Public order16 reports
Other crime12 reports
Drugs6 reports

Also: burglary 5, theft from the person 3, possession of weapons 3, shoplifting 1, bicycle theft 1, 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 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 Whittle-le-Woods?

District, borough or city council
Chorley
County council
Lancashire
Parliamentary constituency
Chorley
Police force area
Lancashire
Region
North West
Country
England
MP
Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker)

All 121 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.

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Whittle-le-Woods postcodes

121 postcodes in use in Whittle-le-Woods, by district:

PR6 postcode district,121 postcodes

That district is in the PR postcode area.

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Places near Whittle-le-Woods

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Whittle-le-Woods's £331,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Euxton2.5 km, £225,000Chorley3.8 km, £180,000Leyland4.3 km, £210,000Bamber Bridge4.9 km, £195,000Coppull7.3 km, £216,500Eccleston7.4 km, £260,000Adlington8.0 km, £250,000Penwortham8.6 km, £232,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Whittle-le-Woods

What is the postcode for Whittle-le-Woods?
Postcode district PR6, with 121 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Whittle-le-Woods in?
Chorley, with Lancashire as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Whittle-le-Woods?
Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker), for Chorley. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Whittle-le-Woods?
A typical £331,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 53 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Whittle-le-Woods?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Whittle-le-Woods Church of England Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is St Michael's Church of England High School, 2.7 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Whittle-le-Woods have a railway station?
The nearest is Buckshaw Parkway station, 2.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Whittle-le-Woods?
Ofcom reports on 118 of the 121 postcodes in Whittle-le-Woods. At 96 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
Is Whittle-le-Woods at risk of flooding?
14 of the 121 postcodes in Whittle-le-Woods 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 40 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 Whittle-le-Woods?
6 of the 121 postcodes now in use in Whittle-le-Woods came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 77 homes sold in Whittle-le-Woods were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PR6 district, 0%. 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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