Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Horsington Church School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BA8 0BW
Blackmoor Vale · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Templecombe
- Ward
- Blackmoor Vale
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton
- Postcode district
- BA8
- Postcode sector
- BA8 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BA8 0BW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BA
- Postcode district
- BA8
- Postcode sector
- BA8 0
- Latitude
- 51.018156
- Longitude
- -2.430733
- British National Grid easting
- 369,883
- British National Grid northing
- 124,398
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Blackmoor Vale · E05014341
- Parish or community
- E04008707
- Westminster constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton · E14001247
- Output area
- E00148518
- Lower layer super output area
- South Somerset 005A · E01029155
- Middle layer super output area
- South Somerset 005 · E02006079
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 BA8
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Peckhold Ash, South Cheriton, Templecombe, BA8 0BW | 24 May 2017 | £790,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 0 m
Horsington Church School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Marchant Holliday School
Other independent special school
- 2.0 km
Abbas and Templecombe Church School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Burglary 4
- Other theft 3
- Vehicle crime 2
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- 5 female, 3 male
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- BA8 0 residents
- 4,387
Age bands in BA8 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- 720 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- 353 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.2%
- 885 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- 1,232 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 27.2%
- 1,190 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BA8 0 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
WINCANTON HEALTH CENTRE
DYKES WAY, WINCANTON, BA9 9FQ
ODS code L85027
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 629 m
White Horse Inn
BCT · South Cheriton
- 642 m
White Horse Inn
BCT · South Cheriton
- 709 m
Mill Cottage
BCT · Horsington
- 717 m
Mill Cottage
BCT · Horsington
- 1.3 km
North Cheriton Cemetery
BCT · South Cheriton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Somerset 005A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,561 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
15 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 event per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.