Schools
207 open schools are in scope, including 127 primary and 28 secondary schools. Sydenham School is the nearest published school at 156 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SE26 4RJ
Forest Hill · Lewisham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Forest Hill
- Local authority
- Lewisham
- Constituency
- Lewisham West and East Dulwich
- Postcode district
- SE26
- Postcode sector
- SE26 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SE26 4RJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2003
- Postcode area
- SE
- Postcode district
- SE26
- Postcode sector
- SE26 4
- Latitude
- 51.433054
- Longitude
- -0.057971
- British National Grid easting
- 535,092
- British National Grid northing
- 172,239
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Lewisham · E09000023
- Electoral ward
- Forest Hill · E05013722
- Parish or community
- E43000213
- Westminster constituency
- Lewisham West and East Dulwich · E14001333
- Output area
- E00016472
- Lower layer super output area
- Lewisham 028A · E01003256
- Middle layer super output area
- Lewisham 028 · E02000680
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 SE26
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 207
- Primary
- 127
- Secondary
- 28
- 156 m
Sydenham School
Community school
- 295 m
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 303 m
St Bartholomews's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,806
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,595
- Anti social behaviour 714
- Vehicle crime 580
- Other theft 347
- Public order 285
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SE26 4 residents
- 10,348
Age bands in SE26 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.7%
2,269 residents
969 residents
3,702 residents
2,709 residents
1,284 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
71
within 5 km straight-line
WELLS PARK PRACTICE
1 WELLS PARK ROAD, SYDENHAM, LONDON, SE26 6JQ
ODS code G85114
454 m
VALE MEDICAL CENTRE
195-197 PERRY VALE, FOREST HILL, LONDON, SE23 2JF
ODS code G85696
1.0 km
SYDENHAM GREEN GROUP PRACTICE
26 HOLMSHAW CLOSE, SYDENHAM, LONDON, SE26 4TH
ODS code G85024
1.4 km
MODALITY LEWISHAM (ML)
JENNER HEALTH CENTRE 201-203, STANSTEAD ROAD, FOREST HILL, LONDON, SE23 1HU
ODS code G85004
1.6 km
WOOLSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE
WOOLSTONE ROAD, LONDON, SE23 2SG
ODS code G85061
1.6 km
ONE CARE LAMBETH
JENNER DENTAL SUITE, 14 ST. GERMAN'S ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y07020
1.6 km
ONE CARE LEWISHAM
THE JENNER DENTAL SUITE, 14 ST GERMANS ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y08411
1.6 km
SEL SPECIAL ALLOCATION PRACTICE
THE JENNER DENTAL SUITE, 14 ST. GERMANS ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y06545
1.6 km
SPECIAL ALLOCATION SCHEME (NEL)
JENNER DENTAL CLINIC, 14 ST GERMANS ROAD, LONDON, SE23 1RJ
ODS code Y06592
1.6 km
PAXTON GREEN GROUP PRACTICE
PAXTON GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ALLEYN PARK, LONDON, SE21 8AU
ODS code G85039
2.0 km
THE LORDSHIP LANE SURGERY
417 LORDSHIP LANE, EAST DULWICH, LONDON, SE22 8JN
ODS code G85681
2.0 km
OAKFIELD SURGERY
17 OAKFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SE20 8QA
ODS code G84625
2.3 km
THE PARK PRACTICE
OAKS PARK MEDICAL CENTRE, 17 OAKFIELD ROAD, LONDON, SE20 8QA
ODS code G84025
2.3 km
FOREST HILL GROUP PRACTICE
1 FOREST HILL ROAD, DULWICH, LONDON, SE22 0SQ
ODS code G85001
2.3 km
THE OLD DAIRY HEALTH CENTRE
19B CROXTED ROAD, WEST DULWICH, LONDON, SE21 8SZ
ODS code G85706
2.3 km
THE THREE ZERO SIX MEDICAL CENTRE
306 MEDICAL CENTRE, 306 LORDSHIP LANE, LONDON, SE22 8LY
ODS code G85091
2.3 km
ROBIN HOOD SURGERY
94 CROYDON ROAD, ANERLEY, LONDON, SE20 7AB
ODS code G84029
2.6 km
ANERLEY SURGERY
224 ANERLEY ROAD, PENGE, LONDON, SE20 8TJ
ODS code G84624
2.7 km
THE DULWICH MEDICAL CENTRE
163-169 CRYSTAL PALACE ROAD, EAST DULWICH, LONDON, SE22 9EP
ODS code G85651
2.7 km
UPPER NORWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
130 CHURCH ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 2NT
ODS code H83005
2.9 km
Showing 20 of 71 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sydenham School
BCT · Upper Sydenham
- 0.1 miles
Sydenham Police Station
BCT · Upper Sydenham
- 0.1 miles
Sydenham School
BCT · Upper Sydenham
- 0.1 miles
Sydenham / The Woodman
BCT · Upper Sydenham
- 0.1 miles
Sydenham / The Woodman
BCT · Upper Sydenham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lewisham 028A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,146 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
4,806 published events cover 12 months, averaging 400.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,595 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.