Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Avening Primary School is the nearest published school at 358 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL8 8GD
Grumbolds Ash with Avening · Cotswold · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds
- Postcode district
- GL8
- Postcode sector
- GL8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL8 8GD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL8
- Postcode sector
- GL8 8
- Latitude
- 51.682463
- Longitude
- -2.179677
- British National Grid easting
- 387,674
- British National Grid northing
- 198,204
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Cotswold · E07000079
- Electoral ward
- Grumbolds Ash with Avening · E05010708
- Parish or community
- E04004187
- Westminster constituency
- South Cotswolds · E14001482
- Output area
- E00112692
- Lower layer super output area
- Cotswold 011A · E01022176
- Middle layer super output area
- Cotswold 011 · E02004625
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 GL8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 358 m
Avening Primary School
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- 2.7 km
Minchinhampton Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 2.9 km
Cotswold Chine School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 38
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 23
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Other theft 2
- Vehicle crime 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GL8 8 residents
- 9,564
Age bands in GL8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.1%
1,498 residents
817 residents
2,117 residents
2,728 residents
2,402 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
2
within 5 km
MINCHINHAMPTON SURGERY
CIRENCESTER ROAD, MINCHINHAMPTON, STROUD, GL6 9FB
ODS code L84005
3.0 km
PRICES MILL SURGERY
NEWMARKET ROAD, NAILSWORTH, STROUD, GL6 0DQ
ODS code L84065
3.4 km
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
Memorial Hall
BCT · Avening
- 0.3 miles
The Bell
BCT · Avening
- 0.4 miles
Sandford Leaze
BCT · Avening
- 0.4 miles
Sandford Leaze
BCT · Avening
- 0.4 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Avening
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cotswold 011A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,482 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
38 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 23 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.