Schools
185 open schools are in scope, including 108 primary and 28 secondary schools. Bensham Manor School is the nearest published school at 169 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR4 7BU
Bensham Manor · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bensham Manor
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon West
- Postcode district
- CR4
- Postcode sector
- CR4 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR4 7BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR4
- Postcode sector
- CR4 7
- Latitude
- 51.394720
- Longitude
- -0.099730
- British National Grid easting
- 532,300
- British National Grid northing
- 167,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Bensham Manor · E05011464
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon West · E14001188
- Output area
- E00004960
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 013A · E01001001
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 013 · E02000206
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 CR4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 185
- Primary
- 108
- Secondary
- 28
- 169 m
Bensham Manor School
Community special school
- 363 m
Ecclesbourne Primary School
Academy converter
- 409 m
Thornton Heath Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9,443
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,559
- Anti social behaviour 1,215
- Vehicle crime 961
- Public order 650
- Other theft 601
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
65
within 5 km
YOUR FAMILY PRACTICE
83 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JH
ODS code H83608
390 m
THORNTON HEATH MEDICAL CENTRE
61A GILLETT ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8RL
ODS code H83022
422 m
BRIGSTOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
141 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JN
ODS code H83017
672 m
PARCHMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
97 PARCHMORE ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8LY
ODS code H83053
756 m
SELHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
27 SELHURST ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, LONDON, SE25 5QA
ODS code H83611
912 m
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
998 m
NORTH CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
518 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7HQ
ODS code H83011
1.1 km
EVERSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
501 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83020
1.1 km
LONDON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
515 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83021
1.1 km
MERSHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
30 NORBURY ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8JN
ODS code H83609
1.1 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
1.2 km
LEANDER FAMILY PRACTICE
949 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6JE
ODS code H83042
1.3 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
189A ST. JAMES'S ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2BZ
ODS code H83012
1.5 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
1.6 km
SOUTH NORWOOD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
103A SOUTH NORWOOD HILL, LONDON, SE25 6BY
ODS code H83010
1.6 km
NORTHWAY ROAD SURGERY
139 NORTHWAY ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6JJ
ODS code H83008
1.7 km
MORLAND ROAD SURGERY
1 MORLAND ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6HA
ODS code H83023
1.8 km
NORBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2B POLLARDS HILL NORTH, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 4NL
ODS code H83009
1.9 km
AUCKLAND SURGERY
84A AUCKLAND ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 2DF
ODS code H83037
2.1 km
COUNTRY PARK PRACTICE
WOODSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, 3 ENMORE ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, LONDON, SE25 5NT
ODS code Y05317
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 65 matching practices.
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
- 0.2 miles
Lakehall Road
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Bert Road
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Brook Road (CR7)
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Brook Road (CR7)
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.3 miles
Thornton Heath Station
BCT · Thornton Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 013A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,461 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
9,443 published events cover 12 months, averaging 786.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,559 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.