Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 3 secondary schools. Sexey's School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA7 7LZ
Wincanton & Bruton · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Castle Cary
- Ward
- Wincanton & Bruton
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton
- Postcode district
- BA7
- Postcode sector
- BA7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA7 7LZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA7
- Postcode sector
- BA7 7
- Latitude
- 51.080725
- Longitude
- -2.474586
- British National Grid easting
- 366,852
- British National Grid northing
- 131,375
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Wincanton & Bruton · E05014389
- Parish or community
- E04008751
- Westminster constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton · E14001247
- Output area
- E00148853
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 001C · E01029221
- Middle layer super output area
- South Somerset 001 · E02006075
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BA7
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Cary Edge Lane, Welham, Castle Cary, BA7 7LZ | 18 October 2017 | £395,000 |
| 1, Cary Edge Lane, Welham, Castle Cary, BA7 7LZ | 22 March 2013 | £227,000 |
| 1, Cary Edge Lane, Welham, Castle Cary, BA7 7LZ | 14 November 2008 | £210,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 3
- 2.9 km
Sexey's School
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- 3.0 km
Castle Cary Community Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 3.1 km
Ansford Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 5
- Other theft 3
- Vehicle crime 2
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- BA7 7 residents
- 3,919
4 female, 3 male
Age bands in BA7 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.4%
530 residents
384 residents
761 residents
1,166 residents
1,298 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BA7 7 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
MILLBROOK SURGERY, CASTLE CARY
MILLBROOK GARDENS, CASTLE CARY, BA7 7EE
ODS code L85040
3.1 km
BRUTON SURGERY
PATWELL LANE, BRUTON, BA10 0EG
ODS code L85032
3.8 km
WINCANTON HEALTH CENTRE
DYKES WAY, WINCANTON, BA9 9FQ
ODS code L85027
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Shepton Montague
BCT · Higher Shepton
- 0.4 miles
Shepton Montague
BCT · Higher Shepton
- 0.4 miles
The Newt
BCT · Welham
- 0.4 miles
The Montague Inn
BCT · Shepton Montague
- 0.4 miles
The Montague Inn
BCT · Shepton Montague
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 001C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,508 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.