WN4 8 postcode sector in the WN4 district

WN4 8 is a sector of the WN4 district: every postcode that starts WN4 8. It has 180 postcodes in use, 3 of them large-user postcodes. 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 WN4 8 sector, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in the WN4 8 sector, by gigabit broadband Of the 180 postcodes in the WN4 8 sector that ONS places, 6 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 8 have some that can, 164 can all get it and 2 have no Ofcom figure. 2 postcodes lie beyond the edge and are listed under the map. Places named: Ashton-in-Makerfield. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. 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Places named: Ashton-in-Makerfield. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Ashton-in-Makerfield
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 6
  • Some can get gigabit: 8
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 164
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 2

Of the 180 postcodes in the WN4 8 sector that ONS places, 6 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 8 have some that can, 164 can all get it and 2 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.

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.

Postcodes without gigabit

2 further out, not drawn

These postcodes lie well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without them to show the rest closer; they are in every count.

What do homes sell for in WN4 8?

Homes in WN4 8 sold for a typical £213,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 91 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £215,000 from 96 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£213,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£215,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £315,000 25 sales
  • Semi-detached £200,000 56 sales
  • Terraced £135,000 9 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 WN4 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.

Postcodes in WN4 8

Pick a postcode to see its council and MP, broadband, flood risk, what homes sell for, council tax, the nearest schools and stations, and crime around it.

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Postcodes that have ended are not listed.

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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.

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