Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Paternoster School is the nearest published school at 188 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL7 1WU
Watermoor · Cotswold · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Watermoor
- Local authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds
- Postcode district
- GL7
- Postcode sector
- GL7 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL7 1WU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- 1 July 2000
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL7
- Postcode sector
- GL7 1
- Latitude
- 51.710254
- Longitude
- -1.964384
- British National Grid easting
- 402,557
- British National Grid northing
- 201,280
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cotswold · E07000079
- Electoral ward
- Watermoor · E05010727
- Parish or community
- E04013303
- Westminster constituency
- South Cotswolds · E14001482
- Output area
- E00112818
- Lower layer super output area
- Cotswold 007D · E01022200
- Middle layer super output area
- Cotswold 007 · E02004621
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 GL7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 188 m
Paternoster School
Academy special sponsor led
- 400 m
Cirencester Primary School
Community school
- 616 m
Chesterton Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 985
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 328
- Shoplifting 195
- Anti social behaviour 173
- Other theft 71
- Public order 67
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GL7 1 residents
- 15,226
Age bands in GL7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
2,351 residents
1,750 residents
3,676 residents
4,155 residents
3,314 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
CIRENCESTER HEALTH GROUP
THE AVENUE SURGERY, 1 THE AVENUE, CIRENCESTER, GL7 1EH
ODS code L84018
357 m
UPPER THAMES MEDICAL GROUP
THE PARK SURGERY, TETBURY ROAD, CIRENCESTER, GL7 1US
ODS code L84010
790 m
PHOENIX HEALTH GROUP
PHOENIX CIRENCESTER, 9 CHESTERTON LANE, CIRENCESTER, GL7 1XG
ODS code L84012
870 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
St Michael's Road
BCT · Watermoor
- 0.1 miles
King Street School stop
BCT · Watermoor
- 0.2 miles
Meadow Court
BCT · Watermoor
- 0.2 miles
Meadow Court
BCT · Watermoor
- 0.2 miles
Queen Street
BCT · Watermoor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cotswold 007D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,431 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
985 published events cover 12 months, averaging 82.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 328 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.