Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Whitby High School is the nearest published school at 647 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L66 2NZ
Whitby Groves · Cheshire West and Chester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Whitby Groves
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
- Postcode district
- L66
- Postcode sector
- L66 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L66 2NZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L66
- Postcode sector
- L66 2
- Latitude
- 53.257743
- Longitude
- -2.909852
- British National Grid easting
- 339,400
- British National Grid northing
- 373,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire West and Chester · E06000050
- Electoral ward
- Whitby Groves · E05012245
- Parish or community
- E43000272
- Westminster constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough · E14001222
- Output area
- E00093694
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 014D · E01018568
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 014 · E02003851
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 L66
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 3
- 647 m
The Whitby High School
Foundation school
- 806 m
Woodlands Primary School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Ellesmere Port Christ Church CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 699
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 279
- Shoplifting 138
- Public order 67
- Anti social behaviour 44
- Criminal damage and arson 44
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
WHITBY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
114 CHESTER ROAD, WHITBY, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 6TG
ODS code N81093
1.1 km
HOPE FARM MEDICAL CENTRE
HOPE FARM ROAD, GREAT SUTTON, ELLESMERE PORT, CH66 2WW
ODS code N81092
1.2 km
OLD HALL SURGERY
24-26 STANNEY LANE, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 9AD
ODS code N81117
2.1 km
YORK ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
YORK ROAD, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 0DB
ODS code N81063
2.5 km
GREAT SUTTON MEDICAL CENTRE
OLD CHESTER ROAD, GREAT SUTTON, ELLESMERE PORT, CH66 3NZ
ODS code N81050
2.8 km
WESTMINSTER SURGERY
16-18 CHURCH PARADE, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 2ER
ODS code N81607
3.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Groves
BCT · Whitby
- 0.1 miles
The Groves
BCT · Whitby
- 0.1 miles
Strawberry Roundabout
BCT · Whitby
- 0.2 miles
Strawberry Roundabout
BCT · Whitby
- 0.3 miles
Larchdale Close
BCT · Great Sutton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 014D, 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
32,665 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
699 published events cover 12 months, averaging 58.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 279 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.