Schools
187 open schools are in scope, including 106 primary and 28 secondary schools. Bensham Manor School is the nearest published school at 131 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR4 7EA
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 7EA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR4
- Postcode sector
- CR4 7
- Latitude
- 51.394790
- Longitude
- -0.104039
- British National Grid easting
- 532,000
- 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
- E00004957
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 010C · E01001003
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 010 · E02000203
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
- 187
- Primary
- 106
- Secondary
- 28
- 131 m
Bensham Manor School
Community special school
- 350 m
Ecclesbourne Primary School
Academy converter
- 675 m
Thornton Heath Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9,711
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,631
- Anti social behaviour 1,234
- Vehicle crime 994
- Public order 677
- Other theft 609
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
68
within 5 km straight-line
YOUR FAMILY PRACTICE
83 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JH
ODS code H83608
280 m
BRIGSTOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
141 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JN
ODS code H83017
372 m
THORNTON HEATH MEDICAL CENTRE
61A GILLETT ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8RL
ODS code H83022
645 m
PARCHMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
97 PARCHMORE ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8LY
ODS code H83053
784 m
NORTH CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
518 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7HQ
ODS code H83011
875 m
EVERSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
501 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83020
887 m
LONDON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
515 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83021
887 m
LEANDER FAMILY PRACTICE
949 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6JE
ODS code H83042
1.0 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
1.1 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
1.1 km
SELHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
27 SELHURST ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, LONDON, SE25 5QA
ODS code H83611
1.2 km
MERSHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
30 NORBURY ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8JN
ODS code H83609
1.2 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
1.6 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
189A ST. JAMES'S ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2BZ
ODS code H83012
1.6 km
NORBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2B POLLARDS HILL NORTH, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 4NL
ODS code H83009
1.7 km
SOUTH NORWOOD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
103A SOUTH NORWOOD HILL, LONDON, SE25 6BY
ODS code H83010
1.9 km
NORTHWAY ROAD SURGERY
139 NORTHWAY ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6JJ
ODS code H83008
2.0 km
MORLAND ROAD SURGERY
1 MORLAND ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6HA
ODS code H83023
2.0 km
THORNTON ROAD & VALLEY PARK SURGERY
HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE, FRANKLIN WAY, CROYDON, CR0 4YD
ODS code H83051
2.2 km
WIDE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WIDE WAY, MITCHAM, CR4 1BP
ODS code H85029
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 68 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Torridge Road
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.0 miles
Lakehall Road
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Haslemere Road
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Bert Road
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Bensham Lane
BCT · Thornton Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 010C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,236 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
9,711 published events cover 12 months, averaging 809.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,631 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.