Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Mary Hare School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG16 8AU
Chieveley & Cold Ash · West Berkshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Chieveley & Cold Ash
- Local authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury
- Postcode district
- RG16
- Postcode sector
- RG16 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG16 8AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG16
- Postcode sector
- RG16 8
- Latitude
- 51.444256
- Longitude
- -1.352313
- British National Grid easting
- 445,109
- British National Grid northing
- 171,895
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- West Berkshire · E06000037
- Electoral ward
- Chieveley & Cold Ash · E05012137
- Parish or community
- E04001203
- Westminster constituency
- Newbury · E14001376
- Output area
- E00082470
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 018D · E01016326
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 018 · E02003384
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 RG16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.8 km
Mary Hare School
Non-maintained special school
- 3.0 km
Chieveley Primary School
Community school
- 3.5 km
The Castle School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Public order 3
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Drugs 1
- Burglary 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
THE DOWNLAND PRACTICE
EAST LANE, CHIEVELEY, NEWBURY, RG20 8UY
ODS code K81050
3.5 km
STRAWBERRY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
STRAWBERRY HILL MED.CTR, OLD BATH ROAD, NEWBURY, RG14 1JU
ODS code K81063
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
St James Church
BCT · Winterbourne
- 0.0 miles
St James Church
BCT · Winterbourne
- 0.3 miles
Boxford Turn
BCT · Winterbourne
- 0.3 miles
Holt Turn
BCT · Winterbourne
- 0.3 miles
Boxford Turn
BCT · Winterbourne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 018D, 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
23,422 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.