Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Swanmore College is the nearest published school at 887 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SO3 2TH
Bishop's Waltham · Winchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bishop's Waltham
- Local authority
- Winchester
- Constituency
- Winchester
- Postcode district
- SO3
- Postcode sector
- SO3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SO3 2TH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1985
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- SO
- Postcode district
- SO3
- Postcode sector
- SO3 2
- Latitude
- 50.946112
- Longitude
- -1.196603
- British National Grid easting
- 456,536
- British National Grid northing
- 116,605
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Winchester · E07000094
- Electoral ward
- Bishop's Waltham · E05010997
- Parish or community
- E04004653
- Westminster constituency
- Winchester · E14001587
- Output area
- E00117985
- Lower layer super output area
- Winchester 012D · E01023223
- Middle layer super output area
- Winchester 012 · E02004840
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 SO3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 887 m
Swanmore College
Community school
- 1.2 km
Swanmore Church of England Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
Bishop's Waltham Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 411
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 202
- Anti social behaviour 43
- Criminal damage and arson 34
- Public order 31
- Shoplifting 25
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
BISHOPS WALTHAM SURGERY
LOWER LANE, BISHOPS WALTHAM, SOUTHAMPTON, SO32 1GR
ODS code J82064
1.5 km
WICKHAM SURGERY
HOUGHTON WAY, WICKHAM, FAREHAM, PO17 5GU
ODS code J82034
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Forest Farm
BCT · Bishops Waltham
- 0.4 miles
Moorlands Road
BCT · Swanmore
- 0.4 miles
Moorlands Road
BCT · Swanmore
- 0.4 miles
Paradise Lane
BCT · Bishops Waltham
- 0.5 miles
Paradise Lane
BCT · Bishops Waltham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Winchester 012D, 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
19,367 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
411 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 202 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.