Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Dean Close St John's is the nearest published school at 368 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NP6 7DW
Tidenham · Forest of Dean · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tidenham
- Local authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean
- Postcode district
- NP6
- Postcode sector
- NP6 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP6 7DW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP6
- Postcode sector
- NP6 7
- Latitude
- 51.644700
- Longitude
- -2.667642
- British National Grid easting
- 353,900
- British National Grid northing
- 194,200
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
- E00113240
- Lower layer super output area
- Forest of Dean 010E · E01022275
- 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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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 368 m
Dean Close St John's
Other independent school
- 511 m
Lift Offa's Mead
Academy sponsor led
- 578 m
Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 952
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 262
- Shoplifting 180
- Anti social behaviour 127
- Public order 101
- Criminal damage and arson 65
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
VAUXHALL SURGERY
VAUXHALL LANE, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5PZ
ODS code W93020
1.1 km
MOUNT PLEASANT PRACTICE
CHEPSTOW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, TEMPEST WAY, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5XR
ODS code W93021
1.4 km
TOWN GATE PRACTICE
CHEPSTOW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, TEMPEST WAY, CHEPSTOW, NP16 5XP
ODS code W93022
1.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Rock Villa Lane
BCT · Tutshill
- 0.1 miles
Rock Villa Lane
BCT · Tutshill
- 0.1 miles
Somerset Cottages
BCT · Chepstow
- 0.2 miles
Wyebank Avenue
BCT · Sedbury
- 0.2 miles
Wyebank Avenue
BCT · Sedbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Forest of Dean 010E, 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
30,087 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
952 published events cover 12 months, averaging 79.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 262 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.