Property market
The five-year median is £260,000 from 1 recorded sale in NP8 1EL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Powys is £231,004 in June 2026, up 2.9% year on year.
NP8 1EL
Crickhowell with Cwmdu and Tretower · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Crickhowell
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- NP8
- Postcode sector
- NP8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP8 1EL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP8
- Postcode sector
- NP8 1
- Latitude
- 51.840517
- Longitude
- -3.104971
- British National Grid easting
- 323,970
- British National Grid northing
- 216,345
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Crickhowell with Cwmdu and Tretower · W05001126
- Parish or community
- W04000346
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00002325
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 018G · W01001904
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 018 · W02000114
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 NP8
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Duck Cottage, Glangrwyney, Crickhowell, NP8 1EL | 11 July 2025 | £260,000 |
| 2, Rock Cottages, Glangrwyney, Crickhowell, NP8 1EL | 9 August 1996 | £47,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.5 km
Gilwern C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 3.4 km
Crickhowell High School
Welsh establishment
- 3.5 km
Crickhowell C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 44
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 18
- Anti social behaviour 11
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Other theft 3
- Vehicle crime 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- NP8 1 residents
- 5,284
6 female, 5 male
Age bands in NP8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.6%
710 residents
462 residents
828 residents
1,634 residents
1,843 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NP8 1 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
1
within 5 km
WAR MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTRE
BEAUFORT STREET, CRICKHOWELL, NP8 1AG
ODS code W96016
2.7 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
- 0.0 miles
Old Abbey Place
BCT · Glangrwyney
- 0.0 miles
Old Abbey Place
BCT · Glangrwyney
- 0.2 miles
Cwrt-y-Gollen
BCT · Glangrwyney
- 0.3 miles
Cwrt-y-Gollen
BCT · Glangrwyney
- 0.5 miles
The Lodge
BCT · Glangrwyney
Evidence in context
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Gilwern C.P. School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
44 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.667 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.