Postcodes in West Lancashire District

Facts Checked By Data Team - Written By Mallika Basu - Reviewed By Jonathan Benton

This article covers information about postcodes in West Lancashire's local authority district. West Lancashire is an administrative area in Lancashire County. West Lancashire district is further divided into 15 Wards.

Below is a complete list of West Lancashire Postcodes, it has 2796 active postcodes. West Lancashire contains approximately 45359 residential properties with a population of about 110636.

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West Lancashire Postcode and Census - Statistical Overview


Population 110636
Addresses / Property Count 45359
Active Postcodes 2796
County Lancashire
No Of Wards in West Lancashire 15

What is a District

The United Kingdom is primarily divided into large area blocks called Counties. A district is an administrative block in the UK and part of a County council area. The district is also the second-largest administrative block in the UK after counties. These are also known as local authority districts and are different from city districts. West Lancashire is a local authority district in Lancashire county. Districts are majorly categorized into 4 types namely:

  • Non-Metropolitan districts
  • Unitary authority areas
  • Metropolitan boroughs
  • London boroughs

Sub Divisions Of a district

Districts are subdivided into different local administrative blocks. Other categories of local administrative blocks that comes under district authority are as follows:

  • Parish
  • Wards
  • Cities

Wards in West Lancashire

There are 15 wards in the district. Below is a list of the wards. You can click on any ward link to view the postcodes of that ward.

Aughton & Holborn Burscough Bridge & Rufford Burscough Town North Meols & Hesketh Bank Old Skelmersdale Ormskirk East Ormskirk West Rural North East Rural South Rural West Skelmersdale North Skelmersdale South Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre Tarleton Village Up Holland

View Map Of West Lancashire Wards


This map shows all wards in the district of West Lancashire, zoom to view all the pointers. If you click on any pointer you can see the ward name. Below the ward name, you can see a link called view postcodes. Click on the link to see the postcodes for that ward.

List of West Lancashire postcodes


showing 2050-2100 of 2796 active postcodes in West Lancashire
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
WN8 6PB Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55239800 -2.76239800
WN8 6PD Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55219300 -2.76355700
WN8 6PE Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55229700 -2.76408700
WN8 6PF Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55214600 -2.76520100
WN8 6PJ Skelmersdale North 53.56677200 -2.77476600
WN8 6PL Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55172100 -2.76966000
WN8 6PN Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55187100 -2.77136900
WN8 6PP Skelmersdale North 53.56649800 -2.77544100
WN8 6PR Skelmersdale North 53.56780600 -2.77605400
WN8 6PS Skelmersdale North 53.56279100 -2.78160800
WN8 6PT Skelmersdale North 53.56648400 -2.77628600
WN8 6PU Skelmersdale North 53.56671200 -2.77707500
WN8 6PW Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55244000 -2.77101700
WN8 6PX Skelmersdale North 53.56743000 -2.77731500
WN8 6PY Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55430300 -2.76394200
WN8 6PZ Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55399900 -2.76509900
WN8 6QA Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55406300 -2.76627700
WN8 6QB Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55361700 -2.76848800
WN8 6QD Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55375900 -2.76741900
WN8 6QE Skelmersdale North 53.55657200 -2.76463200
WN8 6QF Skelmersdale North 53.55672200 -2.76513300
WN8 6QG Skelmersdale North 53.55649300 -2.76576300
WN8 6QH Skelmersdale North 53.55659900 -2.76742500
WN8 6QJ Skelmersdale North 53.56717800 -2.77586100
WN8 6QN Skelmersdale North 53.56377000 -2.77896900
WN8 6QP Skelmersdale North 53.56196800 -2.77932800
WN8 6QQ Skelmersdale North 53.55637800 -2.76690800
WN8 6QR Skelmersdale North 53.56475500 -2.77944000
WN8 6QS Skelmersdale North 53.56320800 -2.77272300
WN8 6QU Skelmersdale North 53.55597300 -2.77117200
WN8 6QW Skelmersdale North 53.56400600 -2.77713100
WN8 6QX Skelmersdale North 53.55638300 -2.77167800
WN8 6QY Skelmersdale North 53.55481400 -2.77109100
WN8 6QZ Skelmersdale North 53.55545000 -2.77146500
WN8 6RA Skelmersdale North 53.55853900 -2.76626800
WN8 6RB Skelmersdale North 53.55861800 -2.76808000
WN8 6RD Skelmersdale North 53.55857700 -2.76740000
WN8 6RE Skelmersdale North 53.55964600 -2.76746500
WN8 6RF Skelmersdale North 53.55790600 -2.76972800
WN8 6RG Skelmersdale North 53.55822700 -2.76878300
WN8 6RH Skelmersdale North 53.55796400 -2.77042400
WN8 6RJ Skelmersdale North 53.56437700 -2.78095800
WN8 6RL Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55802800 -2.77450100
WN8 6RN Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55816600 -2.77540900
WN8 6RP Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55644900 -2.77406400
WN8 6RQ Skelmersdale North 53.55762300 -2.77174600
WN8 6RR Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55667300 -2.77548700
WN8 6RS Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre 53.55535700 -2.77478400
WN8 6RT Skelmersdale North 53.56413600 -2.77797900
WN8 6RU Skelmersdale North 53.56462800 -2.78380100
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