Schools
80 open schools are in scope, including 58 primary and 11 secondary schools. UTC Swindon is the nearest published school at 513 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SN26 7EQ
Rodbourne Ferndale & Western · Swindon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North
- Postcode district
- SN26
- Postcode sector
- SN26 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SN26 7EQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- 1 June 2008
- Postcode area
- SN
- Postcode district
- SN26
- Postcode sector
- SN26 7
- Latitude
- 51.566185
- Longitude
- -1.792234
- British National Grid easting
- 414,497
- British National Grid northing
- 185,277
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South West · E12000009
- Local authority district
- Swindon · E06000030
- Electoral ward
- Rodbourne Ferndale & Western · E05016297
- Parish or community
- E04012663
- Westminster constituency
- Swindon North · E14001536
- Output area
- E00177254
- Lower layer super output area
- Swindon 012B · E01015578
- Middle layer super output area
- Swindon 012 · E02003223
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 SN26
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 80
- Primary
- 58
- Secondary
- 11
- 513 m
UTC Swindon
University technical college
- 605 m
EOTAS Swindon
Pupil referral unit
- 688 m
Ferndale Primary School & Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,248
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,121
- Anti social behaviour 873
- Shoplifting 731
- Public order 600
- Criminal damage and arson 438
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SN26 7 residents
- 1,640
Age bands in SN26 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 26%
246 residents
147 residents
344 residents
501 residents
434 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
16
within 5 km
WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE
THE WHALEBRIDGE PRACTICE, SWINDON NHS HEALTH CENTRE, 1 ISLINGTON ST, SWINDON, SN1 2DQ
ODS code J83033
855 m
PARK LANE PRACTICE
7-9 PARK LANE, SWINDON, SN1 5HG
ODS code J83646
859 m
HAWTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE
MAY CLOSE, CRICKLADE ROAD, SWINDON, SN2 1UU
ODS code J83027
1.5 km
VICTORIA CROSS SURGERY
168-169 VICTORIA ROAD, SWINDON, SN1 3BU
ODS code J83633
1.6 km
OLD TOWN SURGERY
CURIE AVENUE, OKUS, SWINDON, SN1 4GB
ODS code J83022
1.8 km
PHOENIX SURGERY
DUNWICH DRIVE, TOOTHILL, SWINDON, SN5 8SX
ODS code J83645
2.5 km
ASHINGTON HOUSE SURGERY
ASHINGTON HOUSE, ASHINGTON WAY, WESTLEA, SWINDON, SN5 7XY
ODS code J83036
2.6 km
KINGSWOOD SURGERY
KINGSWOOD AVENUE, PARK NORTH, SWINDON, SN3 2RJ
ODS code J83038
2.9 km
THE LAWN MEDICAL CENTRE
GUILDFORD AVENUE, SWINDON, SN3 1JL
ODS code J83059
2.9 km
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
RIDGE GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE, SHAW VILLAGE CENTRE, RAMLEAZE DRIVE, SHAW, SWINDON, SN5 5PX
ODS code J83064
3.1 km
NORTH SWINDON PRACTICE
HOME GROUND SURGERY, THAMES AVENUE, SWINDON, SN25 1QQ
ODS code J83057
3.1 km
PRIORY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK SOUTH, SWINDON, SN3 2EZ
ODS code J83024
3.4 km
ABBEY MEADS MEDICAL PRACT
ABBEYMEADS VILLAGE CENTRE, ELSTREE WAY, SWINDON, SN25 4YZ
ODS code J83035
3.5 km
MERCHISTON SURGERY
HIGHWORTH ROAD, STRATTON ST MARGARET, SWINDON, SN3 4BF
ODS code J83001
3.8 km
ELDENE SURGERY
COLINGSMEAD, ELDENE, SWINDON, SN3 3TQ
ODS code J83047
4.0 km
RIDGEWAY VIEW FAMILY PRACTICE
BARRETT WAY, WROUGHTON, SWINDON, SN4 9LW
ODS code J83009
4.7 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
New College (North Star Campus)
BCT · Swindon
- 0.2 miles
New College (North Star Campus)
BCT · Swindon
- 0.2 miles
Steam Museum
BCT · Even Swindon
- 0.2 miles
Steam Museum
BCT · Even Swindon
- 0.2 miles
Sheppard Street
BCT · Swindon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Swindon 012B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
16,978 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
6,248 published events cover 12 months, averaging 520.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,121 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.