Schools
112 open schools are in scope, including 62 primary and 17 secondary schools. Utopia is the nearest published school at 708 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L42 2AW
Rock Ferry · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rock Ferry
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead
- Postcode district
- L42
- Postcode sector
- L42 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L42 2AW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L42
- Postcode sector
- L42 2
- Latitude
- 53.380972
- Longitude
- -3.011700
- British National Grid easting
- 332,800
- British National Grid northing
- 387,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- Rock Ferry · E05000971
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Birkenhead · E14001091
- Output area
- E00036954
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 027C · E01007293
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 027 · E02001493
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 L42
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 112
- Primary
- 62
- Secondary
- 17
- 708 m
Utopia
Other independent special school
- 773 m
Well Lane Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 778 m
Rock Ferry Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,476
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,080
- Public order 653
- Shoplifting 621
- Criminal damage and arson 463
- Drugs 421
GP practices
41
within 5 km straight-line
GLADSTONE MED CTR
241-243 OLD CHESTER ROAD, ROCK FERRY, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 3TD
ODS code N85031
642 m
ST CATHERINE'S SURGERY
ST. CATHERINES HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 0LQ
ODS code N85020
992 m
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
525 NEW CHESTER ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 2AG
ODS code N85016
1.1 km
WHETSTONE LANE MED CTR
44 WHETSTONE LANE, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 2TF
ODS code N85019
1.4 km
HAMILTON MED CTR
86 MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 6AJ
ODS code N85021
1.4 km
DEVANEY MED CTR
40 BALLS ROAD, OXTON, PRENTON, CH43 5RE
ODS code N85015
1.8 km
VITTORIA MED CTR G
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85038
2.1 km
VITTORIA MED CTR K
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85634
2.1 km
SUNLIGHT GROUP PRACTICE
SEFTON ROAD, NEW FERRY, WIRRAL, CH62 5HS
ODS code N85051
2.1 km
DINGLE PARK PRACTICE
PARK STREET, TOXTETH, LIVERPOOL, L8 6QP
ODS code N82033
2.7 km
DR JUDE'S PRACTICE - RIVERSIDE
RIVERSIDE CENTRE FOR HEALTH, PARK STREET, LIVERPOOL, L8 6QP
ODS code N82646
2.7 km
GP PRACTICE RIVERSIDE (DR JUDE)
RIVERSIDE CTR FOR HEALTH, PARK STREET, LIVERPOOL, L8 6QP
ODS code N82091
2.7 km
ST. JAMES' HEALTH CENTRE
29 GREAT GEORGE SQUARE, LIVERPOOL, L1 5DZ
ODS code N82082
2.9 km
CAVENDISH MEDICAL CENTRE
BIRKENHEAD MEDICAL BUILDING, 31 LAIRD STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 8DB
ODS code N85017
3.0 km
MIRIAM PRIMARY CARE GROUP
BIRKENHEAD MEDICAL BUILDING, LAIRD STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 8DB
ODS code N85625
3.0 km
PAXTON MEDICAL GROUP
CLAUGHTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 161 PARK ROAD NORTH, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 0DD
ODS code N85044
3.2 km
TEEHEY LANE SURGERY
66 TEEHEY LANE, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2JN
ODS code N85057
3.2 km
THE VILLA MEDICAL CENTRE
1-2 ROMAN ROAD, PRENTON, CH43 3DB
ODS code N85018
3.3 km
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
3.4 km
CIVIC MEDICAL CENTRE
CIVIC WAY, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 7RX
ODS code N85006
3.5 km
Showing 20 of 41 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Turbine Road
BCT · Tranmere
- 0.1 miles
Turbine Road
BCT · Tranmere
- 0.2 miles
Union Street
BCT · Tranmere
- 0.2 miles
Sidney Road
BCT · Mersey Park
- 0.2 miles
Mersey Walk
BCT · Mersey Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 027C, 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
183 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
5,476 published events cover 12 months, averaging 456.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,080 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.