L9 8 postcode sector in the L9 district

L9 8 is a sector of the L9 district: every postcode that starts L9 8. It has 86 postcodes in use, one of them a large-user postcode. A large-user postcode is one Royal Mail gives to a single address that gets a lot of mail.

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Every postcode in the L9 8 sector, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in the L9 8 sector, by gigabit broadband Of the 86 postcodes in the L9 8 sector that ONS places, 7 have some that can, 78 can all get it and 1 have no Ofcom figure. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Orrell Park, Netherton South & Orrell. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A566A5038 L9 8AA: gigabit for allL9 8AB: gigabit for allL9 8AD: gigabit for allL9 8AG: gigabit for allL9 8AJ: gigabit for allL9 8AN: gigabit for allL9 8AS: gigabit for allL9 8AT: gigabit for allL9 8AU: gigabit for allL9 8AW: gigabit for allL9 8AX: gigabit for allL9 8AY: gigabit for allL9 8AZ: gigabit for allL9 8BA: gigabit for allL9 8BB: gigabit for allL9 8BE: gigabit for allL9 8BF: gigabit for allL9 8BG: gigabit for allL9 8BH: gigabit for allL9 8BJ: gigabit for allL9 8BN: gigabit for allL9 8BP: gigabit for allL9 8BQ: gigabit for allL9 8BR: gigabit for allL9 8BS: gigabit for allL9 8BT: gigabit for allL9 8BW: gigabit for allL9 8BX: gigabit for allL9 8BY: gigabit for allL9 8BZ: gigabit for allL9 8DA: gigabit for allL9 8DB: gigabit for allL9 8DD: gigabit for allL9 8DE: gigabit for allL9 8DF: gigabit for allL9 8DG: gigabit for allL9 8DH: gigabit for allL9 8DJ: gigabit for allL9 8DL: gigabit for allL9 8DN: gigabit for allL9 8DP: gigabit for allL9 8DQ: gigabit for allL9 8DR: gigabit for allL9 8DS: gigabit for allL9 8DT: gigabit for allL9 8DU: gigabit for allL9 8DW: gigabit for allL9 8DX: gigabit for allL9 8DY: gigabit for allL9 8DZ: gigabit for allL9 8EA: gigabit for allL9 8EB: gigabit for allL9 8ED: gigabit for allL9 8EE: gigabit for allL9 8EF: gigabit for allL9 8EG: gigabit for allL9 8EH: gigabit for allL9 8EJ: gigabit for allL9 8EP: gigabit for allL9 8EQ: gigabit for allL9 8ER: gigabit for allL9 8ES: gigabit for allL9 8ET: gigabit for allL9 8EU: gigabit for allL9 8EW: gigabit for allL9 8EX: gigabit for allL9 8EY: gigabit for allL9 8EZ: gigabit for allL9 8HA: gigabit for allL9 8HF: gigabit for allL9 8HG: gigabit for allL9 8HH: gigabit for allL9 8HJ: gigabit for allL9 8HP: gigabit for allL9 8HQ: gigabit for allL9 8HR: gigabit for allL9 8HS: gigabit for allL9 8HW: gigabit for allL9 8AE: some gigabitL9 8AL: some gigabitL9 8AP: some gigabitL9 8AQ: some gigabitL9 8BD: some gigabitL9 8BL: some gigabitL9 8BU: some gigabit Orrell ParkNetherton South & Orrell Map of every postcode in the L9 8 sector, by gigabit broadband Of the 86 postcodes in the L9 8 sector that ONS places, 7 have some that can, 78 can all get it and 1 have no Ofcom figure. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Orrell Park, Netherton South & Orrell. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Orrell ParkNetherton South & Orrell
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 0
  • Some can get gigabit: 7
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 78
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 1

Of the 86 postcodes in the L9 8 sector that ONS places, 7 have some that can, 78 can all get it and 1 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. 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.

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.

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

What do homes sell for in L9 8?

Homes in L9 8 sold for a typical £197,250 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 38 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £184,250 from 58 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£197,250 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£184,250 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £271,750 6 sales
  • Semi-detached £212,000 15 sales
  • Terraced £164,750 16 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

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

Standard sales of homes at market value at the postcodes that start L9 8. A typical price is the median, the middle sale, given from 5 sales or more.

How we work this out: house prices by postcode

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

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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.

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