Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Whitby High School is the nearest published school at 32 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH66 2NU
Whitby Groves · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Whitby Groves
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
- Postcode district
- CH66
- Postcode sector
- CH66 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH66 2NU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH66
- Postcode sector
- CH66 2
- Latitude
- 53.263623
- Longitude
- -2.912075
- British National Grid easting
- 339,260
- British National Grid northing
- 374,456
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Whitby Groves · E05012245
- Parish or community
- E43000272
- Westminster constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough · E14001222
- Output area
- E00093482
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 016A · E01018526
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 016 · E02003852
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 CH66
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 3
- 32 m
The Whitby High School
Foundation school
- 349 m
Woodlands Primary School
Community school
- 617 m
Ellesmere Port Christ Church CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,468
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 649
- Public order 173
- Shoplifting 162
- Anti social behaviour 99
- Criminal damage and arson 96
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CH66 2 residents
- 12,210
Age bands in CH66 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.2%
1,768 residents
1,215 residents
2,769 residents
3,671 residents
2,695 residents
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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km
WHITBY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
114 CHESTER ROAD, WHITBY, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 6TG
ODS code N81093
445 m
HOPE FARM MEDICAL CENTRE
HOPE FARM ROAD, GREAT SUTTON, ELLESMERE PORT, CH66 2WW
ODS code N81092
779 m
OLD HALL SURGERY
24-26 STANNEY LANE, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 9AD
ODS code N81117
1.5 km
YORK ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
YORK ROAD, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 0DB
ODS code N81063
1.9 km
GREAT SUTTON MEDICAL CENTRE
OLD CHESTER ROAD, GREAT SUTTON, ELLESMERE PORT, CH66 3NZ
ODS code N81050
2.2 km
WESTMINSTER SURGERY
16-18 CHURCH PARADE, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 2ER
ODS code N81607
2.6 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
- 0.1 miles
High School
BCT · Whitby
- 0.1 miles
High School
BCT · Whitby
- 0.1 miles
The Woodlands
BCT · Whitby
- 0.1 miles
The Woodlands
BCT · Whitby
- 0.1 miles
High School
BCT · Whitby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 016A, 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
28,751 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
Recorded crime
1,468 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 649 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.