Schools
98 open schools are in scope, including 55 primary and 15 secondary schools. Woodchurch Road Academy is the nearest published school at 91 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L42 9NP
Oxton · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Oxton
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead
- Postcode district
- L42
- Postcode sector
- L42 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L42 9NP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L42
- Postcode sector
- L42 9
- Latitude
- 53.378956
- Longitude
- -3.037208
- British National Grid easting
- 331,100
- British National Grid northing
- 387,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- Oxton · E05000968
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Birkenhead · E14001091
- Output area
- E00036705
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 022D · E01007243
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 022 · E02001488
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
- 98
- Primary
- 55
- Secondary
- 15
- 91 m
Woodchurch Road Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 340 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead
Academy sponsor led
- 523 m
Devonshire Park Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,470
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,137
- Shoplifting 634
- Public order 578
- Criminal damage and arson 445
- Anti social behaviour 387
GP practices
33
within 5 km straight-line
DEVANEY MED CTR
40 BALLS ROAD, OXTON, PRENTON, CH43 5RE
ODS code N85015
698 m
ST CATHERINE'S SURGERY
ST. CATHERINES HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 0LQ
ODS code N85020
721 m
WHETSTONE LANE MED CTR
44 WHETSTONE LANE, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 2TF
ODS code N85019
1.1 km
GLADSTONE MED CTR
241-243 OLD CHESTER ROAD, ROCK FERRY, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 3TD
ODS code N85031
1.5 km
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
1.7 km
PRENTON & WOODCHURCH MEDICAL CENTRE
516-518 WOODCHURCH ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, CH43 0TS
ODS code N85643
1.8 km
THE VILLA MEDICAL CENTRE
1-2 ROMAN ROAD, PRENTON, CH43 3DB
ODS code N85018
1.9 km
VITTORIA MED CTR G
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85038
2.0 km
VITTORIA MED CTR K
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85634
2.0 km
HAMILTON MED CTR
86 MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 6AJ
ODS code N85021
2.0 km
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
525 NEW CHESTER ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 2AG
ODS code N85016
2.2 km
PAXTON MEDICAL GROUP
CLAUGHTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 161 PARK ROAD NORTH, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 0DD
ODS code N85044
2.2 km
CAVENDISH MEDICAL CENTRE
BIRKENHEAD MEDICAL BUILDING, 31 LAIRD STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 8DB
ODS code N85017
2.2 km
MIRIAM PRIMARY CARE GROUP
BIRKENHEAD MEDICAL BUILDING, LAIRD STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 8DB
ODS code N85625
2.2 km
SUNLIGHT GROUP PRACTICE
SEFTON ROAD, NEW FERRY, WIRRAL, CH62 5HS
ODS code N85051
3.0 km
TEEHEY LANE SURGERY
66 TEEHEY LANE, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2JN
ODS code N85057
3.1 km
CHURCH ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, HIGHER BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85633
3.3 km
KINGS LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85054
3.3 km
SOMERVILLE MED CTR
69 GORSEY LANE, WALLASEY, CH44 4AA
ODS code N85024
3.5 km
HEATHERLANDS MED CTR
396 NEW HEY ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 9DA
ODS code N85037
3.5 km
Showing 20 of 33 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Heatherdale Close
BCT · Arno Hill
- 0.1 miles
Kingsland Road
BCT · Oxton
- 0.1 miles
Highgreen Road
BCT · Arno Hill
- 0.1 miles
Highgreen Road
BCT · Prenton
- 0.1 miles
Merlin Road
BCT · Oxton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 022D, 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
18,976 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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
5,470 published events cover 12 months, averaging 455.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,137 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.