Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Whitelands Academy is the nearest published school at 910 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OX6 8PA
Fringford and Heyfords · Cherwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock
- Postcode district
- OX6
- Postcode sector
- OX6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OX6 8PA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2000
- Postcode area
- OX
- Postcode district
- OX6
- Postcode sector
- OX6 8
- Latitude
- 51.881065
- Longitude
- -1.169339
- British National Grid easting
- 457,273
- British National Grid northing
- 220,603
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Cherwell · E07000177
- Electoral ward
- Fringford and Heyfords · E05012969
- Parish or community
- E04013335
- Westminster constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock · E14001090
- Output area
- E00186079
- Lower layer super output area
- Cherwell 016I · E01035739
- Middle layer super output area
- Cherwell 016 · E02005936
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 OX6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 910 m
Whitelands Academy
Free schools
- 1.1 km
Bruern Abbey School
Other independent school
- 1.2 km
St Edburg's Church of England (VA) School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 966
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Shoplifting 518
- Violence and sexual offences 184
- Other theft 67
- Anti social behaviour 41
- Public order 39
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
MONTGOMERY HOUSE SURGERY
PIGGY LANE, BICESTER, OX26 6HT
ODS code K84038
1.9 km
BICESTER HEALTH CENTRE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, COKER CLOSE, BICESTER, OX26 6AT
ODS code K84052
1.9 km
ALCHESTER MEDICAL GROUP
LANGFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE, 9 NIGHTINGALE PLACE, BICESTER, OX26 6XX
ODS code K84613
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Chesterton Turn South
BCT · Wendlebury
- 0.3 miles
Bicester Park and Ride
BCT · Kingsmere
- 0.3 miles
Bicester Park and Ride
BCT · Kingsmere
- 0.4 miles
Bicester Park and Ride
BCT · Kingsmere
- 0.4 miles
Holiday Inn
BCT · Bicester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cherwell 016I, 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
22,798 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
966 published events cover 12 months, averaging 80.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Shoplifting with 518 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.