Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Ashcombe School is the nearest published school at 350 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
RH4 1LP
Dorking North · Mole Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Dorking
- Ward
- Dorking North
- Local authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley
- Postcode district
- RH4
- Postcode sector
- RH4 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- RH4 1LP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- RH
- Postcode district
- RH4
- Postcode sector
- RH4 1
- Latitude
- 51.241340
- Longitude
- -0.326763
- British National Grid easting
- 516,895
- British National Grid northing
- 150,459
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Mole Valley · E07000210
- Electoral ward
- Dorking North · E05015347
- Parish or community
- E43000139
- Westminster constituency
- Dorking and Horley · E14001201
- Output area
- E00155732
- Lower layer super output area
- Mole Valley 009B · E01030533
- Middle layer super output area
- Mole Valley 009 · E02006370
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 RH4
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Fairmead, Chichester Close, Dorking, RH4 1LP | 15 February 2021 | £800,000 |
| Lyncroft, Chichester Close, Dorking, RH4 1LP | 12 February 2021 | £1,450,000 |
| Stonecroft, Chichester Close, Dorking, RH4 1LP | 17 February 2010 | £605,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 350 m
The Ashcombe School
Academy converter
- 962 m
St Martin's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Dorking Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 888
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 247
- Anti social behaviour 147
- Shoplifting 121
- Public order 78
- Criminal damage and arson 74
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- RH4 1 residents
- 5,661
3 female, 8 male
Age bands in RH4 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.7%
888 residents
493 residents
1,613 residents
1,754 residents
1,237 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider RH4 1 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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
MEDWYN SURGERY
REIGATE ROAD, DORKING, RH4 1SD
ODS code H81072
748 m
DORKING MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEW HOUSE SURGERY, 142A SOUTH STREET, DORKING, RH4 2QR
ODS code H81028
1.6 km
BROCKWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
TANNERS MEADOW, BROCKHAM, BETCHWORTH, RH3 7NJ
ODS code H81068
3.7 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Dorking Railway Station
BCT · Dorking
- 0.1 miles
Dorking Railway Station
BCT · Dorking
- 0.1 miles
Dorking Rail Station
RSE · Dorking
- 0.1 miles
Dorking Railway Station
BCT · Dorking
- 0.1 miles
Dorking Rail Station
RLY · Dorking
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Mole Valley 009B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,398 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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.
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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
888 published events cover 12 months, averaging 74 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 247 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.