Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 1 secondary schools. Downe House is the nearest published school at 918 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG16 9QX
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 9QX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG16
- Postcode sector
- RG16 9
- Latitude
- 51.443882
- Longitude
- -1.280504
- British National Grid easting
- 450,100
- British National Grid northing
- 171,900
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
- 21
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 1
- 918 m
Downe House
Other independent school
- 1.1 km
Curridge Primary School
Community school
- 2.0 km
Hermitage Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 72
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 23
- Other theft 11
- Shoplifting 10
- Burglary 6
- Other crime 5
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
THE DOWNLAND PRACTICE
EAST LANE, CHIEVELEY, NEWBURY, RG20 8UY
ODS code K81050
3.1 km
THATCHAM HEALTH CENTRE
BATH ROAD, THATCHAM, RG18 3HD
ODS code K81073
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Curridge Piece
BCT · Hermitage
- 0.1 miles
Curridge Piece
BCT · Hermitage
- 0.1 miles
Long Lane The Lamb
BCT · Longlane
- 0.1 miles
Long Lane The Lamb
BCT · Longlane
- 0.2 miles
Curridge Turn
BCT · Longlane
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
72 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 23 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.