Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Lift Offa's Mead is the nearest published school at 326 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NP16 7ED
Tidenham · Forest of Dean · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chepstow
- Ward
- Tidenham
- Local authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean
- Postcode district
- NP16
- Postcode sector
- NP16 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP16 7ED
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP16
- Postcode sector
- NP16 7
- Latitude
- 51.644251
- Longitude
- -2.664225
- British National Grid easting
- 354,136
- British National Grid northing
- 194,148
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Forest of Dean · E07000080
- Electoral ward
- Tidenham · E05012175
- Parish or community
- E04004329
- Westminster constituency
- Forest of Dean · E14001240
- Output area
- E00113225
- Lower layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 010D · E01022274
- Middle layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 010 · E02004635
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
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Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Tubular Cottages, 2, Beachley Road, Tutshill, Chepstow, NP16 7ED | 12 April 2019 | £270,000 |
| Tubular Cottages, 1, Beachley Road, Tutshill, Chepstow, NP16 7ED | 11 July 2018 | £250,000 |
| Tubular Cottages, 6, Beachley Road, Tutshill, Chepstow, NP16 7ED | 20 April 2018 | £270,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 326 m
Lift Offa's Mead
Academy sponsor led
- 350 m
Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre
Academy converter
- 524 m
Dean Close St John's
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 877
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 240
- Shoplifting 175
- Anti social behaviour 121
- Public order 95
- Criminal damage and arson 61
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- NP16 7 residents
- 6,299
6 female, 11 male
Age bands in NP16 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.9%
995 residents
666 residents
1,446 residents
1,535 residents
1,458 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NP16 7 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
VAUXHALL SURGERY
VAUXHALL LANE, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5PZ
ODS code W93020
1.3 km
MOUNT PLEASANT PRACTICE
CHEPSTOW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, TEMPEST WAY, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5XR
ODS code W93021
1.6 km
TOWN GATE PRACTICE
CHEPSTOW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, TEMPEST WAY, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5XP
ODS code W93022
1.6 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Wyebank Avenue
BCT · Sedbury
- 0.0 miles
Wyebank Avenue
BCT · Sedbury
- 0.1 miles
Rock Villa Lane
BCT · Tutshill
- 0.1 miles
Rock Villa Lane
BCT · Tutshill
- 0.2 miles
Offas Mead School
BCT · Sedbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Forest of Dean 010D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,171 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
877 published events cover 12 months, averaging 73.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 240 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.