These are the Harrogate areas in new map of poshest postcodes in UK
There’s new evidence of just how ‘posh’ Harrogate thanks to a new postcode map of Great Britain.
It’s all thanks to Ben Mustard, who is based in Harrogate, and who has just launched a new Posh Index at https://www.poshindex.co.uk/
Posh Index is a free tool which scores every UK postcode from 0 to 100 based on real data.
The categories evaluated across the country include sold prices from HM Land Registry, Police UK crime statistics, Waitrose proximity, golf clubs, Michelin stars and a few other things which, as Ben says, tend to separate the genuinely posh from the merely pleasant.
In total, so far, the Posh Index has rated more than 14,000 postcodes nationally.
Although it was set up by its founder Ben Mustard partly for “a bit of fun”, the results are quite revealing.
Yorkshire does very well, he said.
Beckwithshaw near Harrogate achieves a perfect 100, the highest score possible, one of only a handful of postcodes to get a perfect score.
In general, the Golden Triangle between Harrogate, Wetherby and north Leeds dominates the data “in a way that will surprise nobody who has tried to buy a house there,” said Ben.
Pannal, Rawdon, Guiseley and Wetherby all feature in the Yorkshire top ten.
Among the high scorers are the HG2 8HJ postcode at Fulwith Mill Lane in Harrogate which scores 91 out of 100, while HG3 1RJ in the Walton Park area of Pannal and Burn Bridge scores 94 out of 100.
More information at: https://poshindex.co.uk/