Property market
The five-year median is £900,000 from 1 recorded sale in BS40 7XU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Somerset is £281,571 in June 2026, up 4.5% year on year.
BS40 7XU
Cheddar · Somerset · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BS40 7XU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BS
- Postcode district
- BS40
- Postcode sector
- BS40 7
- Latitude
- 51.299512
- Longitude
- -2.766194
- British National Grid easting
- 346,679
- British National Grid northing
- 155,878
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Somerset · E06000066
- Electoral ward
- Cheddar · E05014353
- Parish or community
- E04008617
- Westminster constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills · E14001572
- Output area
- E00148350
- Lower layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 001D · E01029128
- Middle layer super output area
- Sedgemoor 001 · E02006061
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 BS40
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| South Barn, Colliers Lane, Blagdon, Bristol, BS40 7XU | 26 October 2022 | £900,000 |
| South Barn, Colliers Lane, Blagdon, Bristol, BS40 7XU | 14 May 2010 | £440,000 |
| South Barn, Colliers Lane, Blagdon, Bristol, BS40 7XU | 11 October 2004 | £150,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.6 km
Cheddar First School
Academy converter
- 2.7 km
Fairlands Middle School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
Shipham Church of England First School
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Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- BS40 7 residents
- 1,842
10 female, 10 male
Age bands in BS40 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.5%
284 residents
148 residents
318 residents
518 residents
435 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BS40 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
4
within 5 km
CHEDDAR MEDICAL CENTRE
ROYNON WAY, CHEDDAR, BS27 3NZ
ODS code L85011
2.8 km
AXBRIDGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, HOULGATE WAY, AXBRIDGE, BS26 2BJ
ODS code L85055
4.1 km
WINSCOMBE SURGERY
HILLYFIELDS WAY, WINSCOMBE, BS25 1AF
ODS code L81021
4.8 km
MENDIP VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
LANGFORD SURGERY, PUDDING PIE LANE, LANGFORD, BRISTOL, BS40 5EL
ODS code L81086
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
- 1.2 miles
Gough's Cave
BCT · Cheddar
- 1.2 miles
Cox's Mill Hotel
BCT · Cheddar
- 1.2 miles
Cox's Cave
BCT · Cheddar
- 1.3 miles
Blackroack Gate
BCT · Cheddar
- 1.4 miles
Round Oak Road
BCT · Cheddar
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sedgemoor 001D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,843 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Cheddar First School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.