Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 1 secondary schools. Downe House is the nearest published school at 770 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG16 9QJ
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 9QJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG16
- Postcode sector
- RG16 9
- Latitude
- 51.443589
- Longitude
- -1.275271
- British National Grid easting
- 450,464
- British National Grid northing
- 171,871
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
- E04001162
- Westminster constituency
- Newbury · E14001376
- Output area
- E00177238
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 007F · E01033851
- Middle layer super output area
- West Berkshire 007 · E02003373
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
- 23
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 1
- 770 m
Downe House
Other independent school
- 1.5 km
Curridge Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
Cold Ash St Mark's CE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 77
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 22
- Other theft 11
- Shoplifting 10
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Burglary 6
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
THE DOWNLAND PRACTICE
EAST LANE, CHIEVELEY, NEWBURY, RG20 8UY
ODS code K81050
3.4 km
THATCHAM HEALTH CENTRE
BATH ROAD, THATCHAM, RG18 3HD
ODS code K81073
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Curridge Turn
BCT · Longlane
- 0.3 miles
Long Lane The Lamb
BCT · Longlane
- 0.3 miles
Curridge Turn
BCT · Longlane
- 0.3 miles
Long Lane The Lamb
BCT · Longlane
- 0.3 miles
Curridge Piece
BCT · Hermitage
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 007F, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,776 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 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
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
77 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 22 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.