Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 3 secondary schools. The Whitby High School is the nearest published school at 265 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L66 2PT
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 2PT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L66
- Postcode sector
- L66 2
- Latitude
- 53.261138
- Longitude
- -2.912622
- British National Grid easting
- 339,220
- British National Grid northing
- 374,180
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
- E00093485
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 016A · E01018526
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire West and Chester 016 · E02003852
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
- 30
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 3
- 265 m
The Whitby High School
Foundation school
- 405 m
Woodlands Primary School
Community school
- 823 m
Ellesmere Port Christ Church CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 966
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 393
- Shoplifting 160
- Public order 103
- Anti social behaviour 70
- Criminal damage and arson 61
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
WHITBY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
114 CHESTER ROAD, WHITBY, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 6TG
ODS code N81093
723 m
HOPE FARM MEDICAL CENTRE
HOPE FARM ROAD, GREAT SUTTON, ELLESMERE PORT, CH66 2WW
ODS code N81092
852 m
OLD HALL SURGERY
24-26 STANNEY LANE, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 9AD
ODS code N81117
1.8 km
YORK ROAD GROUP PRACTICE
YORK ROAD, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 0DB
ODS code N81063
2.2 km
GREAT SUTTON MEDICAL CENTRE
OLD CHESTER ROAD, GREAT SUTTON, ELLESMERE PORT, CH66 3NZ
ODS code N81050
2.4 km
WESTMINSTER SURGERY
16-18 CHURCH PARADE, ELLESMERE PORT, CH65 2ER
ODS code N81607
2.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sports & Social Club
BCT · Whitby
- 0.1 miles
The Groves
BCT · Whitby
- 0.2 miles
The Woodlands
BCT · Whitby
- 0.2 miles
The Groves
BCT · Whitby
- 0.2 miles
High School
BCT · Whitby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire West and Chester 016A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,751 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
966 published events cover 12 months, averaging 80.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 393 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.