Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Priddy Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BS18 6DB
Mendip Hills · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Mendip Hills
- Local authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills
- Postcode district
- BS18
- Postcode sector
- BS18 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS18 6DB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 1997
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS18
- Postcode sector
- BS18 6
- Latitude
- 51.278254
- Longitude
- -2.648920
- British National Grid easting
- 354,834
- British National Grid northing
- 153,435
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Mendip Hills · E05014371
- Parish or community
- E04008578
- Westminster constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
- Output area
- E00148002
- Lower layer super output area
- Mendip 005B · E01029060
- Middle layer super output area
- Mendip 005 · E02006051
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 BS18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.9 km
Priddy Primary School
Community school
- 3.1 km
East Harptree Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 4.9 km
Chewton Mendip Church of England VA Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Vehicle crime 2
- Burglary 1
- Public order 1
GP practices
1
within 5 km
HARPTREE SURGERY
BRISTOL ROAD, WEST HARPTREE, BRISTOL, BS40 6HF
ODS code L81030
3.8 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Castle of Comfort Inn
BCT · Priddy
- 0.3 miles
Castle of Comfort Inn
BCT · Priddy
- 1.0 miles
Harptree Lodge Kennels
BCT · Priddy
- 1.0 miles
Harptree Lodge Kennels
BCT · Priddy
- 2.0 miles
The Beeches
BCT · Priddy
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mendip 005B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,438 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.