SY7 8HN

Bishop's Castle · Shropshire · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Post town: Craven Arms
Ward: Bishop's Castle
Local authority: Shropshire
Constituency: South Shropshire
Postcode district: SY7
Postcode sector: SY7 8

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
SY7 8HJ	574 m
SY7 8HW	1.2 km
SY7 8AE	1.3 km
SY7 8AQ	1.3 km
SY7 8HE	1.4 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: SY7 8HN
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: SY
Postcode district: SY7
Postcode sector: SY7 8
Latitude: 52.466625
Longitude: -2.904853
British National Grid easting: 338,625
British National Grid northing: 285,793

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: West Midlands · E12000005
Local authority district: Shropshire · E06000051
Electoral ward: Bishop's Castle · E05016018
Parish or community: E04011268
Westminster constituency: South Shropshire · E14001493
Output area: E00147719
Lower layer super output area: Shropshire 037C · E01029005
Middle layer super output area: Shropshire 037 · E02006044

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 SY7

Property

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33 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
Manor Farm, Edgton, Craven Arms, SY7 8HN	22 June 2026	£462,795
1, Manor Farm Cottages, Edgton, Craven Arms, SY7 8HN	20 March 2026	£420,000
The Old Post Office, Edgton, Craven Arms, SY7 8HN	6 March 2026	£375,000

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 2
Primary: 2
Secondary: 0

Lydbury North Church of England Primary School

Academy converter
3.6 km
Wistanstow CofE Primary School

Voluntary controlled school
4.6 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 1
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Anti social behaviour 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 65
Postcode households: 27
Residents per household: 2.4
SY7 8 residents: 2,984

Age bands in SY7 8

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 11.6%
Age 15 to 24: 6.4%
Age 25 to 44: 12.7%
Age 45 to 64: 31.1%
Age 65 and over: 38.2%

This postcode contained 2.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY7 8 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+: 93.5%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 93.5%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 93.5%
Gigabit-capable: 93.5%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 3.2%
Next Generation Access: 93.5%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 12.9%

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.

Nearby transport

Broome Rail Station

RLY · Broome
3.1 miles
Craven Arms Rail Station

RLY · Craven Arms
3.3 miles
Hopton Heath Rail Station

RLY · Hopton Heath
5.2 miles
Church Stretton Rail Station

RLY · Church Stretton
6.5 miles
Carding Mill Valley

BCT · Devils Mouth
6.6 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 037C, 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

4 of 10

Overall England rank

12,067 of 33,755

Income: 6 of 10
Employment: 7 of 10
Education and skills: 7 of 10
Health and disability: 9 of 10
Crime: 10 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 1 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: 1
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

Property market

The five-year median is £420,000 from 9 recorded sales in SY7 8HN. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.

The latest UK House Price Index average for Shropshire is £284,036 in June 2026, up 4.9% year on year.

Schools

2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Lydbury North Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.2 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 1 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.