CA7 1LD

Bothel and Wharrels · Cumberland · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Post town: Wigton
Ward: Bothel and Wharrels
Local authority: Cumberland
Constituency: Penrith and Solway
Postcode district: CA7
Postcode sector: CA7 1

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
CA7 1LB	228 m
CA7 1LE	419 m
CA7 1LA	569 m
CA7 1LF	668 m
CA7 2HS	1.0 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: CA7 1LD
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 June 2000
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: CA
Postcode district: CA7
Postcode sector: CA7 1
Latitude: 54.748714
Longitude: -3.261454
British National Grid easting: 318,901
British National Grid northing: 540,036

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: North West · E12000002
Local authority district: Cumberland · E06000063
Electoral ward: Bothel and Wharrels · E05014175
Parish or community: E04002386
Westminster constituency: Penrith and Solway · E14001424
Output area: E00096707
Lower layer super output area: Allerdale 003E · E01019133
Middle layer super output area: Allerdale 003 · E02003967

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

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Property

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6 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
Kirkland Garth Kirkland Guards, Mealsgate, Wigton, CA7 1LD	10 May 2024	£337,500
Kirkland Grove, Mealsgate, Wigton, CA7 1LD	11 December 2015	£235,000
Orchard House, Mealsgate, Wigton, CA7 1LD	18 November 2008	£150,000

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 5
Primary: 4
Secondary: 1

St Michael's CofE Primary School

Voluntary aided school
1.2 km
Blennerhasset School

Community school
1.8 km
Richmond Hill School

Community school
4.4 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 9
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Burglary 2
Other theft 2
Violence and sexual offences 2
Drugs 1
Other crime 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 10
Postcode households: 6
Residents per household: 1.7
CA7 1 residents: 1,310

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%

This postcode contained 0.8% 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+: 66.7%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 66.7%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 66.7%
Gigabit-capable: 66.7%

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.

Nearby transport

Aspatria Rail Station

RLY · Aspatria
2.9 miles
Wigton Rail Station

RLY · Wigton
6.8 miles
Nichol End (Derwentwater) Ferry Landing

FER · Portinscale
11.4 miles
Nichol End (Derwentwater) Ferry Landing

FBT · Portinscale
11.4 miles
Lingholm Jetty

FBT · Lingholm
11.7 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Allerdale 003E, 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

16,259 of 33,755

Income: 9 of 10
Employment: 7 of 10
Education and skills: 8 of 10
Health and disability: 7 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: 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

Property market

The five-year median is £337,500 from 1 recorded sale in CA7 1LD. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.

The latest UK House Price Index average for Cumberland is £172,036 in June 2026, up 6.9% year on year.

Schools

5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. St Michael's CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 2 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.