Schools
118 open schools are in scope, including 70 primary and 18 secondary schools. Gatley Primary School is the nearest published school at 696 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SK8 4BL
Cheadle West & Gatley · Stockport · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SK8 4BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SK
- Postcode district
- SK8
- Postcode sector
- SK8 4
- Latitude
- 53.396269
- Longitude
- -2.237072
- British National Grid easting
- 384,333
- British National Grid northing
- 388,851
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Stockport · E08000007
- Electoral ward
- Cheadle West & Gatley · E05015021
- Parish or community
- E43000161
- Westminster constituency
- Cheadle · E14001158
- Output area
- E00029228
- Lower layer super output area
- Stockport 025C · E01005771
- Middle layer super output area
- Stockport 025 · E02001211
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 SK8
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Park View, Gatley, Cheadle, SK8 4BL | 23 April 2020 | £257,500 |
| 2, Park View, Gatley, Cheadle, SK8 4BL | 24 November 2000 | £133,500 |
| 2, Park View, Gatley, Cheadle, SK8 4BL | 24 October 1997 | £98,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 118
- Primary
- 70
- Secondary
- 18
- 696 m
Gatley Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Broad Oak Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
The Kingsway School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Vehicle crime 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- SK8 4 residents
- 9,028
4 female, 6 male
Age bands in SK8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
1,661 residents
890 residents
2,080 residents
2,323 residents
1,895 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SK8 4 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
33
within 5 km
GATLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
OLD HALL ROAD, GATLEY, CHEADLE, SK8 4DG
ODS code P88024
297 m
CHEADLE MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-5 ASHFIELD CRESCENT, CHEADLE, SK8 1BH
ODS code P88020
1.6 km
BENCHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
BENCHILL ONE STOP MEDICAL CENTRE, 171 BROWNLEY ROAD, MANCHESTER, M22 9UH
ODS code P84029
1.6 km
RK MEDICAL PRACTICE
171 BROWNLEY ROAD, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 9UH
ODS code P84014
1.6 km
BARLOW MEDICAL CENTRE
828 WILMSLOW ROAD, DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER, M20 2RN
ODS code P84034
1.9 km
NORTHENDEN GROUP PRACTICE
489 PALATINE ROAD, NORTHENDEN, MANCHESTER, M22 4DH
ODS code P84012
2.2 km
CORNISHWAY GROUP PRACTICE
FORUM HEALTH, SIMONSWAY, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 5RX
ODS code P84043
2.6 km
PEEL HALL MEDICAL CENTRE
FORUM HEALTH SIMONSWAY, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 5RX
ODS code P84020
2.6 km
HEATON MERSEY MED.PRACT.
460 DIDSBURY ROAD, HEATON MERSEY, STOCKPORT, SK4 3BT
ODS code P88008
2.8 km
CARITAS GENERAL PRACTICE PARTNERSHIP
262 STOCKPORT ROAD, CHEADLE HEATH, STOCKPORT, SK3 0RQ
ODS code P88013
2.9 km
FINNEY LANE SURGERY
FINNEY LANE, HEALD GREEN, CHEADLE, SK8 3JD
ODS code P88042
3.0 km
HEALD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE 2
HEALD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, FINNEY LANE, HEALD GREEN, CHEADLE, SK8 3JD
ODS code P88023
3.0 km
KINGSWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
720 BURNAGE LANE, MANCHESTER, M19 1UG
ODS code P84022
3.1 km
TREGENNA GROUP PRACTICE
399 PORTWAY, WOODHOUSE PK, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M22 0EP
ODS code P84048
3.1 km
ADSHALL ROAD MEDICAL PRAC
97 ADSHALL ROAD, CHEADLE, SK8 2JN
ODS code P88014
3.1 km
BOWLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
52 BOWLAND ROAD, BAGULEY, MANCHESTER, M23 1JX
ODS code P84024
3.2 km
THE PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
434 ALTRINCHAM ROAD, WYTHENSHAWE, MANCHESTER, M23 9AB
ODS code P84045
3.4 km
NORTHERN MOOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
216 WYTHENSHAWE ROAD, NORTHERN MOOR, MANCHESTER, M23 0PH
ODS code P84651
3.5 km
THE MAPLES MEDICAL CENTRE
2 SCOUT DRIVE, NEWALL GREEN, MANCHESTER, M23 2SY
ODS code P84021
3.5 km
DIDSBURY MEDICAL CENTRE - DR WHITAKER
1 THE AVENUE, DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER, M20 2ER
ODS code P84678
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 33 matching practices.
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
- 0.2 miles
Clifton Drive
BCT · Gatley
- 0.2 miles
Clifton Drive
BCT · Gatley
- 0.2 miles
Gatley War Memorial
BCT · Gatley
- 0.3 miles
Gatley War Memorial
BCT · Gatley
- 0.3 miles
Oakwood Avenue
BCT · Gatley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stockport 025C, 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
24,903 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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.
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
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Vehicle crime with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.