Schools
111 open schools are in scope, including 62 primary and 13 secondary schools. Kilgarth School is the nearest published school at 259 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L41 8BG
Bidston and St James · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bidston and St James
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead
- Postcode district
- L41
- Postcode sector
- L41 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L41 8BG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L41
- Postcode sector
- L41 8
- Latitude
- 53.400512
- Longitude
- -3.039236
- British National Grid easting
- 331,000
- British National Grid northing
- 389,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- Bidston and St James · E05000955
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Birkenhead · E14001091
- Output area
- E00036104
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 010G · E01034836
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 010 · E02001476
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 L41
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 111
- Primary
- 62
- Secondary
- 13
- 259 m
Kilgarth School
Community special school
- 259 m
Our Lady and St Edward's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 719 m
The Priory Parish CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,344
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,143
- Public order 556
- Criminal damage and arson 498
- Shoplifting 481
- Drugs 471
GP practices
37
within 5 km straight-line
CAVENDISH MEDICAL CENTRE
BIRKENHEAD MEDICAL BUILDING, 31 LAIRD STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 8DB
ODS code N85017
547 m
MIRIAM PRIMARY CARE GROUP
BIRKENHEAD MEDICAL BUILDING, LAIRD STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 8DB
ODS code N85625
547 m
VITTORIA MED CTR G
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85038
759 m
VITTORIA MED CTR K
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85634
759 m
PAXTON MEDICAL GROUP
CLAUGHTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 161 PARK ROAD NORTH, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 0DD
ODS code N85044
921 m
SOMERVILLE MED CTR
69 GORSEY LANE, WALLASEY, CH44 4AA
ODS code N85024
1.1 km
HAMILTON MED CTR
86 MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 6AJ
ODS code N85021
1.6 km
WHETSTONE LANE MED CTR
44 WHETSTONE LANE, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 2TF
ODS code N85019
1.6 km
DEVANEY MED CTR
40 BALLS ROAD, OXTON, PRENTON, CH43 5RE
ODS code N85015
1.7 km
CENTRAL PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
VICTORIA CENTRAL HOSPITAL, MILL LANE, WALLASEY, CH44 5UF
ODS code N85027
1.7 km
LISCARD GROUP PRACTICE
VICTORIA CENTRAL HOSPITAL HC, MILL LANE, WALLASEY, CH44 5UF
ODS code N85616
1.7 km
EGREMONT MED CTR
9 KING STREET, WALLASEY, CH44 8AT
ODS code N85629
2.2 km
MANOR HEALTH CTR
LISCARD VILLAGE, WALLASEY, CH45 4JG
ODS code N85023
2.3 km
ST CATHERINE'S SURGERY
ST. CATHERINES HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 0LQ
ODS code N85020
2.4 km
ST HILARY GROUP PRACTICE
BROADWAY, WALLASEY, CH45 3NA
ODS code N85025
2.8 km
GLADSTONE MED CTR
241-243 OLD CHESTER ROAD, ROCK FERRY, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 3TD
ODS code N85031
3.2 km
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
3.4 km
PRENTON & WOODCHURCH MEDICAL CENTRE
516-518 WOODCHURCH ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, CH43 0TS
ODS code N85643
3.6 km
BROWNLOW AT MARYBONE
MARYBONE HEALTH CENTRE, UNIT 1, 2 VAUXHALL ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L3 2BG
ODS code N82617
3.6 km
GROVE RD SURGERY
71 GROVE ROAD, WALLASEY, CH45 3HF
ODS code N85052
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 37 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Corporation Road
BCT · Birkenhead
- 0.1 miles
Cavendish Street
BCT · Birkenhead
- 0.1 miles
Duke Street
BCT · Birkenhead
- 0.1 miles
Cleveland Street
BCT · Birkenhead
- 0.1 miles
Corporation Road
BCT · Birkenhead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 010G, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
871 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
5,344 published events cover 12 months, averaging 445.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,143 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.