Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Gayton Primary School is the nearest published school at 226 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L60 8NJ
Heswall · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Heswall
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West
- Postcode district
- L60
- Postcode sector
- L60 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L60 8NJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L60
- Postcode sector
- L60 8
- Latitude
- 53.319130
- Longitude
- -3.092802
- British National Grid easting
- 327,300
- British National Grid northing
- 380,800
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
- E00036402
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 040E · E01007190
- 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
- 226 m
Gayton Primary School
Academy converter
- 943 m
Heswall St Peter's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
Barnston Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 345
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 139
- Anti social behaviour 56
- Public order 35
- Criminal damage and arson 34
- Shoplifting 24
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
MYRTLE GROUP PRACTICE
270 TELEGRAPH ROAD, HESWALL, WIRRAL, CH60 7RN
ODS code N85007
1.4 km
NESTON MEDICAL CENTRE
14-18 LIVERPOOL ROAD, NESTON, CH64 3RA
ODS code N81125
3.6 km
WEST WIRRAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE WARRENS MEDICAL CENTRE, ARROWE PARK ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 5PL
ODS code N85008
4.4 km
NESTON SURGERY
MELLOCK LANE, LITTLE NESTON, NESTON, CH64 4BN
ODS code N81060
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Gayton Road
BCT · Gayton
- 0.2 miles
Baskervyle Road
BCT · Gayton
- 0.2 miles
Moorland Park
BCT · Gayton
- 0.2 miles
Victoria Avenue
BCT · Gayton
- 0.2 miles
Moorland Park
BCT · Gayton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 040E, 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
32,979 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
345 published events cover 12 months, averaging 28.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 139 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.