Schools
86 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 9 secondary schools. Laurance Haines School is the nearest published school at 213 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WD1 8HQ
Holywell · Watford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WD1 8HQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2000
- Postcode area
- WD
- Postcode district
- WD1
- Postcode sector
- WD1 8
- Latitude
- 51.648757
- Longitude
- -0.407611
- British National Grid easting
- 510,267
- British National Grid northing
- 195,640
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- Watford · E07000103
- Electoral ward
- Holywell · E05011048
- Parish or community
- E43000082
- Westminster constituency
- Watford · E14001568
- Output area
- E00121198
- Lower layer super output area
- Watford 011A · E01023863
- Middle layer super output area
- Watford 011 · E02004978
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 WD1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 86
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 9
- 213 m
Laurance Haines School
Academy converter
- 519 m
Chessbrook Education Support Centre
Pupil referral unit
- 598 m
Chater Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,197
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,203
- Anti social behaviour 810
- Shoplifting 640
- Other theft 467
- Public order 436
GP practices
16
within 5 km straight-line
WATFORD HEALTH CENTRE
GROUND FLOOR, COLNE HOUSE, 21 UPTON ROAD, WATFORD, WD18 0JP
ODS code E82045
992 m
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES
BRIDGEWATER HOUSE, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code E82013
1.1 km
SAS WEST HERTS
BRIDGEWATER SURGERIES, 7 PRINTERS AVENUE, WATFORD, WD18 7QR
ODS code Y08362
1.1 km
SUTHERGREY HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
37A ST. JOHNS ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 1LS
ODS code E82015
1.4 km
THE ELMS SURGERY
38 THE AVENUE, WATFORD, WD17 4NT
ODS code E82069
1.5 km
ATTENBOROUGH SURGERY
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82124
2.3 km
MANOR VIEW PRACTICE
BUSHEY HEALTH CENTRE, LONDON ROAD, BUSHEY, WD23 2NN
ODS code E82073
2.3 km
NEW ROAD SURGERY
166 NEW ROAD, CROXLEY GREEN, RICKMANSWORTH, WD3 3HD
ODS code E82106
2.7 km
CONSULTING ROOMS
THE CONSULTING ROOMS, OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7RU
ODS code E82020
2.8 km
SOUTH OXHEY SURGERY
OXHEY DRIVE, WATFORD, WD19 7SF
ODS code E82655
2.8 km
GARSTON MEDICAL CENTRE
6A NORTH WESTERN AVENUE, WATFORD, WD25 9GP
ODS code E82017
3.9 km
EASTBURY SURGERY
3 EASTBURY ROAD, NORTHWOOD, HA6 3BG
ODS code E86028
4.2 km
MOUNTWOOD SURGERY
RICKMANSWORTH ROAD, NORTHWOOD, HA6 2RG
ODS code E86001
4.4 km
LITTLE BUSHEY SURGERY
CALIFORNIA LANE, BUSHEY HEATH, BUSHEY, WD23 1EZ
ODS code E82657
4.7 km
ACRE SURGERY
NEAL CLOSE, ACRE WAY, NORTHWOOD, HA6 1TQ
ODS code E86041
4.9 km
CAREPOINT PRACTICE
NORTHWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, NEAL CLOSE, NORTHWOOD, HA6 1TQ
ODS code E86618
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Brightwell Road
BCT · Watford
- 0.1 miles
Brightwell Road
BCT · Watford
- 0.1 miles
Kelmscott Crescent
BCT · Watford
- 0.2 miles
General Hospital
BCT · Watford
- 0.2 miles
General Hospital
BCT · Watford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Watford 011A, 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
18,274 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
Recorded crime
6,197 published events cover 12 months, averaging 516.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,203 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.