Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Ratcliffe College is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LE7 8SH
Wreake Valley · Charnwood · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wreake Valley
- Local authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston
- Postcode district
- LE7
- Postcode sector
- LE7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LE7 8SH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- LE
- Postcode district
- LE7
- Postcode sector
- LE7 8
- Latitude
- 52.720336
- Longitude
- -1.075523
- British National Grid easting
- 462,540
- British National Grid northing
- 314,030
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Charnwood · E07000130
- Electoral ward
- Wreake Valley · E05014689
- Parish or community
- E04005382
- Westminster constituency
- Melton and Syston · E14001357
- Output area
- E00130735
- Lower layer super output area
- Charnwood 008D · E01025769
- Middle layer super output area
- Charnwood 008 · E02005352
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 LE7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.0 km
Ratcliffe College
Other independent school
- 1.7 km
Broomfield Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Wreake Valley Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 70
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 18
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Vehicle crime 11
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Public order 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
DR MK LAKHANI'S PRACTICE
HIGHGATE SURGERY, 5 STORER CLOSE, SILEBY, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 7UD
ODS code C82644
2.2 km
THE COUNTY PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, MELTON ROAD, SYSTON, LEICESTER, LE7 2EQ
ODS code C82042
2.2 km
THE JUBILEE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SYSTON HEALTH CENTRE, 1330 MELTON ROAD, SYSTON, LEICESTER, LE7 2EQ
ODS code C82078
2.2 km
THE BANKS SURGERY
9 THE BANKS, SILEBY, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 7RD
ODS code C82600
2.3 km
CHARNWOOD SURGERY
39 LINKFIELD ROAD, MOUNTSORREL, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 7DJ
ODS code C82097
4.1 km
ALPINE HOUSE SURGERY
86 ROTHLEY ROAD, MOUNTSORREL, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE12 7JU
ODS code C82095
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake
- 0.4 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake
- 0.5 miles
Ratcliffe College
BCT · Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake
- 0.7 miles
Gate Hangs Well
BCT · Syston
- 0.7 miles
Gate Hangs Well
BCT · Syston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Charnwood 008D, 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
29,210 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
70 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 18 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.