Property market
The five-year median is £812,500 from 2 recorded sales in WA16 8FQ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Cheshire East is £303,387 in June 2026, up 5.0% year on year.
WA16 8FQ
Chelford · Cheshire East · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA16 8FQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA16
- Postcode sector
- WA16 8
- Latitude
- 53.284660
- Longitude
- -2.339692
- British National Grid easting
- 377,450
- British National Grid northing
- 376,462
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Cheshire East · E06000049
- Electoral ward
- Chelford · E05008617
- Parish or community
- E04010986
- Westminster constituency
- Tatton · E14001539
- Output area
- E00094152
- Lower layer super output area
- Cheshire East 007G · E01018654
- Middle layer super output area
- Cheshire East 007 · E02003859
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 WA16
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Manor Farm Barns, 2, Seven Sisters Lane, Ollerton, Knutsford, WA16 8FQ | 23 July 2025 | £1,100,000 |
| Manor Farm Barns, 1, Seven Sisters Lane, Ollerton, Knutsford, WA16 8FQ | 3 February 2025 | £525,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.4 km
St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Adelaide Heath Academy
Academy special sponsor led
- 2.7 km
Manor Park Primary School and Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Public order 3
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Burglary 2
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA16 8 residents
- 7,985
Age bands in WA16 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.3%
1,414 residents
662 residents
1,780 residents
2,185 residents
1,736 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.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
3
within 5 km
KNUTSFORD MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
MANCHESTER ROAD MED/CTR, 27-29 MANCHESTER ROAD, KNUTSFORD, WA16 0LY
ODS code N81049
3.5 km
DAVID LEWIS MEDICAL PRACTICE
MILL LANE, WARFORD, ALDERLEY EDGE, SK9 7UD
ODS code Y05750
3.6 km
CHELFORD SURGERY
ELMSTEAD ROAD, CHELFORD, MACCLESFIELD, SK11 9BS
ODS code N81069
4.1 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Seven Sisters Lane
BCT · Ollerton
- 0.2 miles
Seven Sisters Lane
BCT · Ollerton
- 0.3 miles
Beech Close
BCT · Ollerton
- 0.4 miles
Manor Lane
BCT · Ollerton
- 1.0 miles
Fingerpost Farm
BCT · Toft
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cheshire East 007G, 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
18,873 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
12 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.