Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 1 secondary schools. Curridge Primary School is the nearest published school at 837 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG16 9EF
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 9EF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG16
- Postcode sector
- RG16 9
- Latitude
- 51.438437
- Longitude
- -1.306443
- British National Grid easting
- 448,303
- British National Grid northing
- 171,277
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
- 26
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 1
- 837 m
Curridge Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
Mary Hare School
Non-maintained special school
- 2.3 km
Downe House
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 36
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 11
- Public order 5
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Other theft 4
- Shoplifting 4
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
THE DOWNLAND PRACTICE
EAST LANE, CHIEVELEY, NEWBURY, RG20 8UY
ODS code K81050
2.8 km
STRAWBERRY HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
STRAWBERRY HILL MED.CTR, OLD BATH ROAD, NEWBURY, RG14 1JU
ODS code K81063
3.9 km
THATCHAM HEALTH CENTRE
BATH ROAD, THATCHAM, RG18 3HD
ODS code K81073
4.9 km
EASTFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
6 ST. JOHNS ROAD, NEWBURY, RG14 7LW
ODS code K81002
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Chieveley Services
BCT · Chieveley
- 0.8 miles
Arlington Bridge - School Drive
BCT · Donnington
- 0.8 miles
Arlington Bridge - School Drive
BCT · Donnington
- 0.8 miles
Curridge Crossroads
BCT · Curridge
- 0.9 miles
Fishers Lane
BCT · Longlane
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
36 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 11 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.