Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 2 secondary schools. Mary Hare School is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG16 9BQ
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RG16 9BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG16
- Postcode sector
- RG16 9
- Latitude
- 51.437104
- Longitude
- -1.329367
- British National Grid easting
- 446,711
- British National Grid northing
- 171,114
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
- E04001161
- Westminster constituency
- Newbury · E14001376
- Output area
- E00082231
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 001A · E01016277
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 001 · E02003367
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
- 21
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 2
- 0 m
Mary Hare School
Non-maintained special school
- 2.3 km
The Castle School
Community special school
- 2.4 km
Curridge Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Vehicle crime 3
- Burglary 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Other crime 1
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
THE DOWNLAND PRACTICE
EAST LANE, CHIEVELEY, NEWBURY, RG20 8UY
ODS code K81050
3.2 km
STRAWBERRY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
STRAWBERRY HILL MED.CTR, OLD BATH ROAD, NEWBURY, RG14 1JU
ODS code K81063
3.5 km
EASTFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
6 ST. JOHNS ROAD, NEWBURY, RG14 7LW
ODS code K81002
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Snelsmore Country Park
BCT · Snelsmore Common Country Park
- 0.2 miles
Snelsmore Country Park
BCT · Snelsmore Common Country Park
- 0.3 miles
Arlington Bridge - School Drive
BCT · Donnington
- 0.3 miles
Arlington Bridge - School Drive
BCT · Donnington
- 0.3 miles
Arlington Lane
BCT · Snelsmore Common Country Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 001A, 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
22,218 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
15 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.