Broadwell and Coalway

Broadwell and Coalway is covered by postcode district GL16. It is in the Forest of Dean council area, Gloucestershire.

Typical price £268,000 Homes sold in Broadwell and Coalway, last 12 months. ▼ 4.5% on the year before Gigabit broadband 80 of 101 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Broadwell and Coalway, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Broadwell and Coalway, by flood risk Of the 101 postcodes in Broadwell and Coalway that ONS places, 101 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Broadwell and Coalway, Coleford. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A4136 GL16 7BE: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BG: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BH: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BJ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BL: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BN: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BP: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BQ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BS: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BT: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BU: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BW: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BX: not on the flood risk listGL16 7BY: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DA: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DB: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DE: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DF: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DG: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DH: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DJ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DL: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DN: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DP: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DQ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DR: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DS: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DT: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DW: not on the flood risk listGL16 7DX: not on the flood risk listGL16 7EA: not on the flood risk listGL16 7EB: not on the flood risk listGL16 7ED: not on the flood risk listGL16 7EE: not on the flood risk listGL16 7EF: not on the flood risk listGL16 7EN: not on the flood risk listGL16 7EX: not on the flood risk listGL16 7FB: not on the flood risk listGL16 7FD: not on the flood risk listGL16 7FF: not on the flood risk listGL16 7FG: not on the flood risk listGL16 7GA: not on the flood risk listGL16 7GD: not on the flood risk listGL16 7GZ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HD: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HE: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HF: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HG: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HH: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HJ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HL: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HN: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HP: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HQ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HR: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HS: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HT: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HU: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HW: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HX: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HY: not on the flood risk listGL16 7HZ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JA: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JB: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JD: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JE: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JF: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JG: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JH: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JJ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JL: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JN: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JP: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JQ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JR: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JS: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JW: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JX: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JY: not on the flood risk listGL16 7JZ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7LW: not on the flood risk listGL16 7NG: not on the flood risk listGL16 7NH: not on the flood risk listGL16 7NJ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7NQ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7QD: not on the flood risk listGL16 7QE: not on the flood risk listGL16 7QF: not on the flood risk listGL16 7QG: not on the flood risk listGL16 7QH: not on the flood risk listGL16 7QJ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7QQ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7RA: not on the flood risk listGL16 7RP: not on the flood risk listGL16 7RR: not on the flood risk listGL16 7RS: not on the flood risk listGL16 7RT: not on the flood risk listGL16 7RU: not on the flood risk listGL16 7RX: not on the flood risk listGL16 7RZ: not on the flood risk listGL16 7SA: not on the flood risk list Broadwell and CoalwayColeford Map of every postcode in Broadwell and Coalway, by flood risk Of the 101 postcodes in Broadwell and Coalway that ONS places, 101 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Broadwell and Coalway. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Broadwell and Coalway
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 101

Of the 101 postcodes in Broadwell and Coalway that ONS places, 101 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.7962, longitude -2.5988. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; 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

What is it like to live in Broadwell and Coalway?

Homes sold for a typical £268,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 4.5% on the 12 months before. At 80 of the 101 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 101 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Yorkley Health Centre(Wg), 6.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Lydney, 10.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Broadwell and Coalway?

Homes in Broadwell and Coalway sold for a typical £268,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 32 sales, down 4.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£268,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£280,750
12 months to August 2026
£268,000

▼ down 4.5% on the 12 months before

Detached£378,750 12 sales
Semi-detached£265,000 15 sales
Terraced£187,000 5 sales

Across the whole GL16 district, Broadwell and Coalway's main postcode district: a typical £269,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Broadwell and Coalway: 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

Are new homes being built in Broadwell and Coalway?

1 of the 101 postcodes now in use in Broadwell and Coalway came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 30 homes sold in Broadwell and Coalway were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL16 district, 5%.

The newest postcodes

GL16 7JYsince December 2023

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Broadwell and CoalwayAcross the GL16 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 32 (0%) 0 of 162 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 30 (0%) 10 of 207 (5%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Broadwell and Coalway?

Ofcom reports on 101 of the 101 postcodes in Broadwell and Coalway. At 80 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 3 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit80 of 101
Postcodes where every home can get superfast89 of 101
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband3 of 101

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.

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

Is Broadwell and Coalway at risk of flooding?

None of the 101 postcodes in Broadwell and Coalway is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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

Which schools are in Broadwell and Coalway?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Broadwell and Coalway. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Broadwell and Coalway?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Broadwell and Coalway is Lydney Rail Station, 10.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Lydney Rail Station Railway station 10.2 kmDrive
  • Chepstow Rail Station Railway station 18.1 kmDrive
  • Cam & Dursley Rail Station Railway station 18.7 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Broadwell and Coalway?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Broadwell and Coalway. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Broadwell and Coalway safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 713 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Broadwell and Coalway over the 12 months from February 2025 to January 2026. Gloucestershire Constabulary has published no figures to Police.uk after January 2026, though Police.uk has figures to August 2026 for other forces. These figures run to January 2026, so no month is counted without them. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, February 2025 to January 2026

  1. 57 February 2025
  2. 52 March 2025
  3. 64 April 2025
  4. 58 May 2025
  5. 103 June 2025
  6. 68 July 2025
  7. 65 August 2025
  8. 60 September 2025
  9. 61 October 2025
  10. 35 November 2025
  11. 41 December 2025
  12. 49 January 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences253 reports
Anti-social behaviour185 reports
Criminal damage and arson63 reports
Public order56 reports
Other theft45 reports
Shoplifting31 reports
Burglary23 reports
Other crime23 reports

Also: vehicle crime 13, drugs 11, possession of weapons 6, theft from the person 2, bicycle theft 1, robbery 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to January 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Broadwell and Coalway?

District, borough or city council
Forest of Dean
County council
Gloucestershire
Parliamentary constituency
Forest of Dean
Police force area
Gloucestershire
Region
South West
Country
England
MP
Matt Bishop (Labour)

All 101 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

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Broadwell and Coalway postcodes

101 postcodes in use in Broadwell and Coalway, by district:

GL16 postcode district,101 postcodes

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Places near Broadwell and Coalway

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Broadwell and Coalway's £268,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Coleford1.3 km, £218,000Berry Hill2.1 km, £360,000Bream5.3 km, £250,000Welsh Bicknor5.3 km, £260,000Yorkley and Whitecroft6.0 km, £318,000Ruspidge6.6 km, £237,500Cinderford7.4 km, £216,000Monmouth8.4 km, £306,500 All places A to Z

Questions about Broadwell and Coalway

What is it like to live in Broadwell and Coalway?
Homes sold for a typical £268,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 4.5% on the 12 months before. At 80 of the 101 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 101 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Yorkley Health Centre(Wg), 6.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Lydney, 10.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Broadwell and Coalway?
Broadwell and Coalway is covered by postcode district GL16, across 101 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Broadwell and Coalway in?
Broadwell and Coalway is in the Forest of Dean council area, and Gloucestershire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Broadwell and Coalway?
Broadwell and Coalway is in the Forest of Dean parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Matt Bishop (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Broadwell and Coalway?
Homes in Broadwell and Coalway sold for a typical £268,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 32 sales, down 4.5% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Broadwell and Coalway?
In Broadwell and Coalway, primary schools at its postcodes include Coalway Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Five Acres High School, 1.6 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Broadwell and Coalway have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Broadwell and Coalway is Lydney, 10.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Broadwell and Coalway?
Ofcom reports on 101 of the 101 postcodes in Broadwell and Coalway. At 80 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 3 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Broadwell and Coalway at risk of flooding?
None of the 101 postcodes in Broadwell and Coalway is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Broadwell and Coalway?
1 of the 101 postcodes now in use in Broadwell and Coalway came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 30 homes sold in Broadwell and Coalway were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL16 district, 5%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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