Schools
76 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 7 secondary schools. Grace College is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NE85 2ZA
Birtley North & Lamesley · Gateshead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South
- Postcode district
- NE85
- Postcode sector
- NE85 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NE85 2ZA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2000
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- NE
- Postcode district
- NE85
- Postcode sector
- NE85 2
- Latitude
- 54.929966
- Longitude
- -1.623587
- British National Grid easting
- 424,220
- British National Grid northing
- 559,540
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North East · E12000001
- Local authority district
- Gateshead · E08000037
- Electoral ward
- Birtley North & Lamesley · E05016545
- Parish or community
- E43000229
- Westminster constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South · E14001567
- 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 NE85
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 76
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 7
- 1.1 km
Grace College
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- 1.4 km
Oakfield Junior School
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- 1.4 km
Lobley Hill Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 695
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 196
- Violence and sexual offences 129
- Burglary 64
- Anti social behaviour 59
- Public order 57
GP practices
19
within 5 km
FELL TOWER MEDICAL CENTRE
575-583 DURHAM ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE9 5EY
ODS code A85001
1.7 km
FELL COTTAGE SURGERY
123 KELLS LANE, LOW FELL, GATESHEAD, NE9 5XY
ODS code A85007
2.1 km
BEACON VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
6 BEACON LOUGH ROAD, BEACON LOUGH, GATESHEAD, NE9 6YS
ODS code A85026
2.5 km
BENSHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
SIDNEY GROVE, GATESHEAD, NE8 2XB
ODS code A85002
2.6 km
GLENPARK & TEAMS MEDICAL SERVICES
RAVENSWORTH ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE11 9FJ
ODS code A85006
2.7 km
SECOND STREET SURGERY
SECOND STREET, GATESHEAD, NE8 2UR
ODS code A85021
2.8 km
OXFORD TCE & RAWLING RD MEDICAL GROUP
1 OXFORD TERRACE, BENSHAM, GATESHEAD, NE8 1RQ
ODS code A85005
2.9 km
CENTRAL GATESHEAD MEDICAL GROUP
PRINCE CONSORT ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 1NB
ODS code A85019
3.2 km
BEWICK ROAD SURGERY
10 BEWICK ROAD, GATESHEAD, NE8 4DP
ODS code A85017
3.3 km
SUNNISIDE SURGERY
8 DEWHURST TERRACE, SUNNISIDE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 5LP
ODS code A85617
3.4 km
WREKENTON MEDICAL GROUP
SPRINGWELL ROAD, WREKENTON, GATESHEAD, NE9 7AD
ODS code A85016
3.4 km
WHICKHAM COTTAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
RECTORY LANE, WHICKHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE16 4PD
ODS code A85020
3.8 km
MILLENNIUM FAMILY PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85013
3.9 km
THE BRIDGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRINITY SQUARE HEALTH CTR, GATESHEAD, NE8 1AD
ODS code A85614
3.9 km
CROWHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
FELLING HEALTH CENTRE, STEPHENSON TERRACE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 9QG
ODS code A85009
4.1 km
ST. ALBANS MEDICAL GROUP
FELLING HEALTH CENTRE, STEPHENSON TERRACE, FELLING, GATESHEAD, NE10 9QG
ODS code A85011
4.1 km
CRUDDAS PARK SURGERY
178 WESTMORLAND ROAD, CRUDDAS PARK, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 7JT
ODS code A86017
4.3 km
ELSWICK FAMILY PRACTICE
MELDON STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 6SH
ODS code A86037
4.5 km
HOLMSIDE MEDICAL GROUP
142 ARMSTRONG ROAD, BENWELL, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE4 8QB
ODS code A86021
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Team Valley Centre
BCT · Team Valley
- 0.3 miles
Kingsway-Seventh Avenue
BCT · Team Valley
- 0.3 miles
Kingsway-Seventh Avenue
BCT · Team Valley
- 0.3 miles
Team Valley Centre
BCT · Team Valley
- 0.3 miles
Eastern Avenue-Kingsway
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
695 published events cover 12 months, averaging 57.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 196 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.