Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Knighton C.I.W. School is the nearest published school at 514 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LD8 2WE
Knighton with Beguildy · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- LD8
- Postcode sector
- LD8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LD8 2WE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2009
- Terminated
- 1 August 2010
- Postcode area
- LD
- Postcode district
- LD8
- Postcode sector
- LD8 2
- Latitude
- 52.344395
- Longitude
- -3.047904
- British National Grid easting
- 328,710
- British National Grid northing
- 272,329
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Knighton with Beguildy · W05001138
- Parish or community
- W04000284
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00002391
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 011C · W01000449
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 011 · W02000107
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 LD8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 514 m
Knighton C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 186
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 90
- Public order 23
- Anti social behaviour 19
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Other theft 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LD8 2 residents
- 4,491
Age bands in LD8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 34.5%
492 residents
356 residents
699 residents
1,210 residents
1,455 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
WYLCWM STREET SURGERY
WYLCWM STREET, KNIGHTON, LD7 1AD
ODS code W96004
65 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Brookside Square
BCT · Knighton
- 0.1 miles
Library
BCT · Knighton
- 0.1 miles
Knighton Bus Station
BCS · Knighton
- 0.2 miles
Knighton Hospital
BCT · Knighton
- 0.2 miles
Ffrydd Road
BCT · Knighton
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
186 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 90 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.