Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Glebe Infants' School is the nearest published school at 499 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL18 1DT
Newent & Taynton · Forest of Dean · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Newent & Taynton
- Local authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean
- Postcode district
- GL18
- Postcode sector
- GL18 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL18 1DT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 March 2001
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL18
- Postcode sector
- GL18 1
- Latitude
- 51.930399
- Longitude
- -2.405675
- British National Grid easting
- 372,203
- British National Grid northing
- 225,842
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Forest of Dean · E07000080
- Electoral ward
- Newent & Taynton · E05012169
- Parish or community
- E04004315
- Westminster constituency
- Forest of Dean · E14001240
- Output area
- E00113165
- Lower layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 002B · E01022262
- Middle layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 002 · E02004627
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 GL18
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 499 m
Glebe Infants' School
Foundation school
- 511 m
Picklenash Junior School
Foundation school
- 605 m
Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 277
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 138
- Anti social behaviour 43
- Criminal damage and arson 22
- Public order 20
- Other theft 16
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GL18 1 residents
- 7,426
Age bands in GL18 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.1%
1,149 residents
672 residents
1,607 residents
1,977 residents
1,910 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
THE HOLTS HEALTH CENTRE
WATERY LANE, NEWENT, GL18 1BA
ODS code L84037
157 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Budgens Forecourt
BCT · Newent
- 0.1 miles
Puffs Alley
BCT · Newent
- 0.1 miles
Puffs Alley
BCT · Newent
- 0.1 miles
The Co-Op
BCT · Newent
- 0.1 miles
Lewell Street Car Park
BCT · Newent
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Forest of Dean 002B, 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
15,646 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
277 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 138 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.