Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Mary Hare School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG16 8BQ
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 8BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG16
- Postcode sector
- RG16 8
- Latitude
- 51.452559
- Longitude
- -1.351347
- British National Grid easting
- 445,168
- British National Grid northing
- 172,819
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
- 10
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.3 km
Mary Hare School
Non-maintained special school
- 2.4 km
Chieveley Primary School
Community school
- 3.8 km
Priors Court School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Public order 4
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Drugs 1
- Burglary 1
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
THE DOWNLAND PRACTICE
EAST LANE, CHIEVELEY, NEWBURY, RG20 8UY
ODS code K81050
3.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Winterbourne Arms
BCT · Winterbourne
- 0.4 miles
Winterbourne Arms
BCT · Winterbourne
- 0.6 miles
Boxford Turn
BCT · Winterbourne
- 0.6 miles
Ogdown House Turn
BCT · North Heath
- 0.6 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
14 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.