Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 0 secondary schools. Hermitage Primary School is the nearest published school at 623 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RG16 9RG
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 9RG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- RG
- Postcode district
- RG16
- Postcode sector
- RG16 9
- Latitude
- 51.454738
- Longitude
- -1.266344
- British National Grid easting
- 451,072
- British National Grid northing
- 173,117
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
- E04001176
- Westminster constituency
- Newbury · E14001376
- Output area
- E00082178
- Lower layer super output area
- West Berkshire 007A · E01016263
- 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
- 11
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 0
- 623 m
Hermitage Primary School
Community school
- 2.1 km
Downe House
Other independent school
- 2.3 km
Brockhurst and Marlston House Schools
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 88
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 30
- Burglary 12
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Other theft 7
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
THE DOWNLAND PRACTICE
EAST LANE, CHIEVELEY, NEWBURY, RG20 8UY
ODS code K81050
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Hermitage Post Office
BCT · Hermitage
- 0.2 miles
Hermitage Post Office
BCT · Hermitage
- 0.3 miles
Chapel Lane
BCT · Hermitage
- 0.3 miles
Chapel Lane
BCT · Hermitage
- 0.4 miles
Marlston Road
BCT · Hermitage
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Berkshire 007A, 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
27,502 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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
88 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 30 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.