Schools
79 open schools are in scope, including 51 primary and 7 secondary schools. Grace College is the nearest published school at 968 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE8 1HW
Lobley Hill & Bensham · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham
- Postcode district
- NE8
- Postcode sector
- NE8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE8 1HW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE8
- Postcode sector
- NE8 1
- Latitude
- 54.933188
- Longitude
- -1.619187
- British National Grid easting
- 424,500
- British National Grid northing
- 559,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Gateshead · E08000037
- Electoral ward
- Lobley Hill & Bensham · E05016557
- Parish or community
- E43000229
- Westminster constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham · E14001244
- Output area
- E00041888
- Lower layer super output area
- Gateshead 007D · E01008259
- Middle layer super output area
- Gateshead 007 · E02001688
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 NE8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 79
- Primary
- 51
- Secondary
- 7
- 968 m
Grace College
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- 1.2 km
Oakfield Junior School
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- 1.2 km
Oakfield Infant School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,117
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 292
- Shoplifting 227
- Anti social behaviour 109
- Burglary 91
- Public order 82
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NE8 1 residents
- 6,266
Age bands in NE8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20%
- Age 15 to 24
- 24.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.3%
1,297 residents
1,568 residents
1,604 residents
1,220 residents
800 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
23
within 5 km straight-line
FELL TOWER MEDICAL CENTRE
575-583 DURHAM ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE9 5EY
ODS code A85001
1.3 km
FELL COTTAGE SURGERY
123 KELLS LANE, LOW FELL, GATESHEAD, NE9 5XY
ODS code A85007
1.7 km
BENSHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
SIDNEY GROVE, GATESHEAD, NE8 2XB
ODS code A85002
2.2 km
BEACON VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
6 BEACON LOUGH ROAD, BEACON LOUGH, GATESHEAD, NE9 6YS
ODS code A85026
2.2 km
SECOND STREET SURGERY
SECOND STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UR
ODS code A85021
2.4 km
OXFORD TCE & RAWLING RD MEDICAL GROUP
1 OXFORD TERRACE, BENSHAM, GATESHEAD, NE8 1RQ
ODS code A85005
2.5 km
GLENPARK & TEAMS MEDICAL SERVICES
RAVENSWORTH ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE11 9FJ
ODS code A85006
2.5 km
CENTRAL GATESHEAD MEDICAL GROUP
PRINCE CONSORT ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 1NB
ODS code A85019
2.8 km
BEWICK ROAD SURGERY
10 BEWICK ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 4DP
ODS code A85017
2.8 km
WREKENTON MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, WREKENTON, GATESHEAD, NE9 7AD
ODS code A85016
3.2 km
MILLENNIUM FAMILY PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85013
3.5 km
THE BRIDGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85614
3.5 km
CROWHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
FELLING HEALTH CENTRE, STEPHENSON TERRACE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 9QG
ODS code A85009
3.7 km
ST. ALBANS MEDICAL GROUP
FELLING HEALTH CENTRE, STEPHENSON TERRACE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 9QG
ODS code A85011
3.7 km
SUNNISIDE SURGERY
8 DEWHURST TERRACE, SUNNISIDE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 5LP
ODS code A85617
3.8 km
WHICKHAM COTTAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
RECTORY LANE, WHICKHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 4PD
ODS code A85020
4.0 km
CRUDDAS PARK SURGERY
178 WESTMORLAND ROAD, CRUDDAS PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 7JT
ODS code A86017
4.0 km
ELSWICK FAMILY PRACTICE
MELDON STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 6SH
ODS code A86037
4.2 km
NEWCASTLE MEDICAL CENTRE
HOTSPUR WAY, INTU ELDON SQUARE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 7XR
ODS code A86027
4.7 km
HOLMSIDE MEDICAL GROUP
142 ARMSTRONG ROAD, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 8QB
ODS code A86021
4.8 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Team Valley Centre
BCT · Team Valley
- 0.1 miles
Kingsway-Fifth Avenue
BCT · Team Valley
- 0.1 miles
Eastern Avenue-Kingsway
BCT · Team Valley
- 0.1 miles
Team Valley Centre
BCT · Team Valley
- 0.2 miles
Kingsway-Fifth Avenue
BCT · Team Valley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Gateshead 007D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,972 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
1,117 published events cover 12 months, averaging 93.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 292 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.