GL16 postcode district: Coleford and around

GL16 is a postcode district mostly in Gloucestershire, with 500 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Coleford, Broadwell and Coalway and Berry Hill. It is split between 2 councils: Forest of Dean (499 postcodes) and Monmouthshire (1). It crosses a national border: 499 are in England and 1 in Wales. 499 are in Gloucestershire. ONS lists no county for the other 1.

Postcodes in use: 500
Sectors: 3
Councils: 2 councils
Places: 3 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in GL16, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 24
In use before 2020: 476
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 500 postcodes in GL16 that ONS places, 24 are new since 2020 and 476 were in use before 2020.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 160 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.7958, longitude -2.6129. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The 5 newest postcodes

GL16 7FPJuly 2026 GL16 8FPJune 2026 GL16 8FNJanuary 2025 GL16 7RNDecember 2024 GL16 7SEMay 2024

Where the new postcodes lie together

15 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. GL16 7RN, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in GL16?

Ofcom reports on 465 of the 500 postcodes in GL16. At 340 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 17 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit340 of 465

Postcodes where every home can get superfast407 of 465

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband17 of 465

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is GL16 at risk of flooding?

24 of the 499 postcodes in GL16 that are in England have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 180 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 24 of 499 postcodes High: 149Medium: 31Low: 34

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in GL16?

Homes in GL16 sold for a typical £269,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 162 sales, up 0.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£269,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£267,000 12 months to August 2025

▲ up 0.9% on the 12 months before

Detached £380,000 77 sales
Semi-detached £240,000 53 sales
Terraced £197,000 21 sales
Flat or maisonette £115,000 11 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it