Wingates
Wingates is covered by postcode district BL5. It is in the Bolton council area, England.
Every postcode in Wingates, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 4
- Some can get gigabit: 6
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 53
- Ofcom gives no figure: 4
Of the 67 postcodes in Wingates that ONS places, 4 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 6 have some that can, 53 can all get it and 4 have no Ofcom figure.
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 53.5599, longitude -2.5267. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 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.
What is it like to live in Wingates?
Homes sold for a typical £172,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 53 of the 63 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 67 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 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Stable Fold Surgery, 850 metres from the middle. The nearest railway station is Westhoughton, 500 metres 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 Wingates?
Homes in Wingates sold for a typical £172,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 31 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £177,500 from 36 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached 4 sales, too few to price
- Semi-detached £180,000 7 sales
- Terraced £168,000 16 sales
- Flat or maisonette 4 sales, too few to price
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole BL5 district, Wingates's main postcode district: a typical £230,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Wingates: 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 Wingates?
7 of the 67 postcodes now in use in Wingates came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 36 homes sold in Wingates were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BL5 district, 17%.
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 Wingates | Across the BL5 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 31 (0%) | 10 of 317 (3%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 0 of 36 (0%) | 90 of 537 (17%) |
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 Wingates?
Ofcom reports on 63 of the 67 postcodes in Wingates. At 53 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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Wingates at risk of flooding?
None of the 67 postcodes in Wingates 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 Wingates?
The primary schools are at the postcodes in Wingates. 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.
Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Wingates?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wingates is Westhoughton Rail Station, 500 m away in a straight line.
- Westhoughton Rail Station Railway station 500 mWalk
- Horwich Parkway Rail Station Railway station 2.2 kmCycle
- Daisy Hill Rail Station Railway station 2.4 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Wingates?
There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Wingates. 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.
- Stable Fold Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01942 813678 850 mWalk
- Unsworth Group Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 01942 812525 1.6 kmCycle
- Pennygate Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01942 807500 4.0 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Wingates safe? Crime recorded around it
Greater Manchester's police force has published no crime figures to Police.uk for any month from September 2024 to August 2026, so we have none to show for Wingates. A count from Police.uk here would take in only the few crimes that neighbouring forces record nearby, so we show none rather than a figure that looks like a quiet area.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Wingates?
- Council
- Bolton
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bolton West
- Police force area
- Greater Manchester
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- MP
- Phil Brickell (Labour)
All 67 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 Wingates
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Bolton about council tax Council tax, on bolton.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The nearest GP practices
- 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
Wingates postcodes
67 postcodes in use in Wingates, by district:
That district is in the BL postcode area.
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Places near Wingates
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Wingates's £172,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Wingates
- What is the postcode for Wingates?
- Postcode district BL5, with 67 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Wingates in?
- Bolton. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Wingates?
- Phil Brickell (Labour), for Bolton West. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Wingates?
- A typical £172,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 31 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Wingates?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include The Gates Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Westhoughton High School, 1.4 km away. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Wingates have a railway station?
- Yes: Westhoughton station, 500 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Wingates?
- Ofcom reports on 63 of the 67 postcodes in Wingates. At 53 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
- Is Wingates at risk of flooding?
- None of the 67 postcodes in Wingates 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. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Wingates?
- 7 of the 67 postcodes now in use in Wingates came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 36 homes sold in Wingates were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BL5 district, 17%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Environment Agency flood risk
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
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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