Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Boltons CofE School is the nearest published school at 2.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CA7 1DQ
Thursby · Cumberland · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
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- Post town
- Wigton
- Ward
- Thursby
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway
- Postcode district
- CA7
- Postcode sector
- CA7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CA7 1DQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CA
- Postcode district
- CA7
- Postcode sector
- CA7 1
- Latitude
- 54.766358
- Longitude
- -3.151088
- British National Grid easting
- 326,037
- British National Grid northing
- 541,877
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cumberland · E06000063
- Electoral ward
- Thursby · E05014212
- Parish or community
- E04002389
- Westminster constituency
- Penrith and Solway · E14001424
- Output area
- E00096438
- Lower layer super output area
- Allerdale 002A · E01019083
- Middle layer super output area
- Allerdale 002 · E02003966
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 CA7
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bolton Park Lodge, Mealsgate, Wigton, CA7 1DQ | 2 December 2016 | £220,000 |
| Bolton Park Lodge, Mealsgate, Wigton, CA7 1DQ | 6 August 2010 | £150,000 |
| Top Cottage, Mealsgate, Wigton, CA7 1DQ | 2 July 1999 | £28,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.4 km
Boltons CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.8 km
Ireby CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- CA7 1 residents
- 1,310
6 female, 9 male
Age bands in CA7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 34.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 25%
197 residents
128 residents
268 residents
494 residents
363 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CA7 1 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
- 14.3%
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.
Nearby transport
- 4.4 miles
Wigton Rail Station
RLY · Wigton
- 7.2 miles
Aspatria Rail Station
RLY · Aspatria
- 8.5 miles
Dalston (Cumbria) Rail Station
RLY · Dalston
- 11.8 miles
Nichol End (Derwentwater) Ferry Landing
FER · Portinscale
- 11.8 miles
Nichol End (Derwentwater) Ferry Landing
FBT · Portinscale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Allerdale 002A, 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
15,357 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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
- 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.