Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Barnston Primary School is the nearest published school at 599 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L60 3SQ
Heswall · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Heswall
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West
- Postcode district
- L60
- Postcode sector
- L60 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L60 3SQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L60
- Postcode sector
- L60 3
- Latitude
- 53.318355
- Longitude
- -3.079271
- British National Grid easting
- 328,200
- British National Grid northing
- 380,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- Heswall · E05000962
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Wirral West · E14001589
- Output area
- E00036386
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 040F · E01007191
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 040 · E02001506
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 L60
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 599 m
Barnston Primary School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Gayton Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Heswall St Peter's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 210
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 93
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Public order 23
- Criminal damage and arson 19
- Shoplifting 14
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
MYRTLE GROUP PRACTICE
270 TELEGRAPH ROAD, HESWALL, WIRRAL, CH60 7RN
ODS code N85007
2.1 km
NESTON MEDICAL CENTRE
14-18 LIVERPOOL ROAD, NESTON, CH64 3RA
ODS code N81125
3.1 km
NESTON SURGERY
MELLOCK LANE, LITTLE NESTON, NESTON, CH64 4BN
ODS code N81060
4.1 km
WEST WIRRAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE WARRENS MEDICAL CENTRE, ARROWE PARK ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 5PL
ODS code N85008
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Queensway
BCT · Gayton
- 0.1 miles
Queensway
BCT · Gayton
- 0.1 miles
Gayton Lane
BCT · Gayton
- 0.2 miles
Boathouse Lane
BCT · Gayton
- 0.2 miles
Boathouse Lane
BCT · Gayton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 040F, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,178 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
210 published events cover 12 months, averaging 17.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 93 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.