Property market
The five-year median is £770,000 from 4 recorded sales in GL8 8QU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wiltshire is £328,908 in June 2026, up 2.7% year on year.
GL8 8QU
Sherston · Wiltshire · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL8 8QU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL8
- Postcode sector
- GL8 8
- Latitude
- 51.596935
- Longitude
- -2.217193
- British National Grid easting
- 385,052
- British National Grid northing
- 188,699
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Wiltshire · E06000054
- Electoral ward
- Sherston · E05013470
- Parish or community
- E04011814
- Westminster constituency
- South Cotswolds · E14001482
- Output area
- E00162995
- Lower layer super output area
- Wiltshire 005B · E01031958
- Middle layer super output area
- Wiltshire 005 · E02006648
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
Property
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Rosewood Cottage, Willesley, Tetbury, GL8 8QU | 2 August 2023 | £525,000 |
| Maytree Cottage, Willesley, Tetbury, GL8 8QU | 25 May 2022 | £1,015,000 |
| The Old Stables, Willesley, Tetbury, GL8 8QU | 18 March 2022 | £507,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.6 km
Westonbirt School
Other independent school
- 2.6 km
Sherston CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.9 km
Leighterton Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Public order 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Shoplifting 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 32
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- GL8 8 residents
- 9,564
13 female, 19 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider GL8 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 95.2%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 95.2%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 95.2%
- Gigabit-capable
- 95.2%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 95.2%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
THE TOLSEY SURGERY
HIGH STREET, SHERSTON, MALMESBURY, SN16 0LQ
ODS code J83618
2.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Phone Box
BCT · Willesley
- 0.1 miles
Phone Box
BCT · Willesley
- 0.1 miles
Willesley Turn
BCT · Westonbirt
- 0.1 miles
Willesley Turn
BCT · Westonbirt
- 0.6 miles
Demand Responsive Area
BCT · Westonbirt
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wiltshire 005B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,386 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Westonbirt School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.