RG17 8RE

Watchfield & Shrivenham · Vale of White Horse · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Post town: Hungerford
Ward: Watchfield & Shrivenham
Local authority: Vale of White Horse
Constituency: Witney
Postcode district: RG17
Postcode sector: RG17 8

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
RG17 8RD	1.8 km
RG17 8RB	2.1 km
SN8 2JY	2.1 km
RG17 8RA	2.3 km
SN8 2JX	2.4 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: RG17 8RE
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 July 1995
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: RG
Postcode district: RG17
Postcode sector: RG17 8
Latitude: 51.533064
Longitude: -1.594053
British National Grid easting: 428,254
British National Grid northing: 181,651

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: South East · E12000008
Local authority district: Vale of White Horse · E07000180
Electoral ward: Watchfield & Shrivenham · E05012980
Parish or community: E04008191
Westminster constituency: Witney · E14001591
Output area: E00146239
Lower layer super output area: Vale of White Horse 016E · E01028713
Middle layer super output area: Vale of White Horse 016 · E02006886

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

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Property

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3 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
Ashdown Farm House, Ashdown Park, Lambourn, Hungerford, RG17 8RE	26 October 2007	£750,000
Ashdown Farm House, Ashdown Park, Lambourn, Hungerford, RG17 8RE	15 November 1999	£460,000
Ashdown Farm House, Ashdown Park, Lambourn, Hungerford, RG17 8RE	7 April 1995	£201,000

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 3
Primary: 3
Secondary: 0

Baydon St Nicholas Church of England Primary School

Voluntary aided school
3.6 km
Ashbury With Compton Beauchamp Church of England Primary School

Academy converter
3.9 km
Bishopstone Church of England Primary School

Voluntary controlled school
4.2 km

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 11
Postcode households: 5
Residents per household: 2.2
RG17 8 residents: 3,086

Age bands in RG17 8

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 15.1%
Age 15 to 24: 10.3%
Age 25 to 44: 22.7%
Age 45 to 64: 28.7%
Age 65 and over: 23.2%

This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RG17 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.

Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.

Fixed broadband coverage

Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.

Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+: 100%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 100%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 100%
Gigabit-capable: 100%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 100%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 0%

Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

Ashdown House

BCT · Ashbury
0.4 miles
Ashdown House

BCT · Ashbury
0.4 miles
The Ridgeway

BCT · Ashbury
1.8 miles
The Ridgeway

BCT · Ashbury
1.8 miles
Rectory Farm

BCT · Idstone
2.3 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Vale of White Horse 016E, 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

20,703 of 33,755

Income: 9 of 10
Employment: 8 of 10
Education and skills: 8 of 10
Health and disability: 10 of 10
Crime: 8 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 2 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.

Flood risk

Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.

High risk addresses: 1
Medium risk addresses: 1
Low risk addresses: 0
Groundwater flood alert area: Unlikely

Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Evidence in context

Schools

3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Baydon St Nicholas Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.2 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.