Lexden and Braiswick · Colchester · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Greenacres On The Heath, The Bridleway, Fordham Heath, Colchester, CO3 9TA | 22 January 2010 | £582,000 |
| Heathside Cottage, The Bridleway, Fordham Heath, Colchester, CO3 9TA | 20 December 1999 | £144,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, Eight Ash Green and Aldham
Academy converter
Doucecroft School
Other independent special school
Holmwood House School
Other independent school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
4 female, 4 male
909 residents
569 residents
1,219 residents
1,355 residents
981 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CO3 9 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km straight-line
145 LONDON ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 8NZ
ODS code F81716
1.8 km
84 WINSTREE ROAD, STANWAY, COLCHESTER, CO3 0PZ
ODS code F81069
2.4 km
76 AMBROSE AVENUE, COLCHESTER, CO3 4LN
ODS code F81067
3.6 km
The Cricketers
BCT · Eight Ash Green
The Cricketers
BCT · Eight Ash Green
Heath Cottages
BCT · Fordham Heath
Huxtables Lane
BCT · Eight Ash Green
Heath Cottages
BCT · Fordham Heath
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Colchester 003D, 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
21,358 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
33 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 7 secondary schools. Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, Eight Ash Green and Aldham is the nearest published school at 745 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
399 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 140 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.