Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Cumnor House School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH17 7BH
Danehill & Fletching · Wealden · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Danehill & Fletching
- Local authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield
- Postcode district
- RH17
- Postcode sector
- RH17 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH17 7BH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH17
- Postcode sector
- RH17 7
- Latitude
- 51.061019
- Longitude
- 0.000802
- British National Grid easting
- 540,304
- British National Grid northing
- 130,980
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Wealden · E07000065
- Electoral ward
- Danehill & Fletching · E05011634
- Parish or community
- E04003837
- Westminster constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield · E14001212
- Output area
- E00107507
- Lower layer super output area
- Wealden 007A · E01021163
- Middle layer super output area
- Wealden 007 · E02004409
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 RH17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.6 km
Cumnor House School
Other independent school
- 3.1 km
St Giles CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.1 km
Danehill Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 7
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Burglary 1
- Other crime 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- RH17 7 residents
- 7,294
Age bands in RH17 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.7%
1,338 residents
667 residents
1,547 residents
2,248 residents
1,513 residents
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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
ASHDOWN FOREST HEALTH CENTRE
LEWES ROAD, FOREST ROW, RH18 5AQ
ODS code G81024
4.6 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
The Red Lion
BCT · Chelwood Gate
- 0.8 miles
The Red Lion
BCT · Chelwood Gate
- 1.0 miles
Sandy Lane
BCT · Chelwood Gate
- 1.0 miles
Sandy Lane
BCT · Chelwood Gate
- 1.2 miles
The Roebuck
BCT · Wych Cross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wealden 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,515 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
15 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 7 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.