Coleford

What is it like to live in Coleford?

Homes sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 113 of the 140 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 156 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 19 of its 171 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Wye Valley Practice, 6.3 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Lydney, 10.6 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; Welsh Government school list; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Coleford?

Homes in Coleford sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 58 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £220,000 from 85 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £337,500 18 sales
• Semi-detached £210,000 21 sales
• Terraced £193,500 13 sales
• Flat or maisonette £140,000 6 sales

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

Across the whole GL16 district, Coleford's main postcode district: a typical £275,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Coleford: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Coleford?

4 of the 171 postcodes now in use in Coleford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 85 homes sold in Coleford were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL16 district, 4%.

The newest postcodes

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

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Coleford?

Ofcom reports on 140 of the 171 postcodes in Coleford. At 113 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Coleford at risk of flooding?

19 of the 171 postcodes in Coleford 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 156 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Coleford?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Coleford. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Sources: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026; Welsh Government school list, read 27 October 2026. Each school opens its record on GOV.UK or its page on My Local School.

How far is the station from Coleford?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Coleford is Lydney Rail Station, 10.6 km away in a straight line.

• Lydney Rail Station Railway station 10.6 kmDrive
• Chepstow Rail Station Railway station 17.4 kmDrive
• Cam & Dursley Rail Station Railway station 19.6 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Coleford?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Coleford. 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.

• Wye Valley Practice Phone 01594 530334 6.3 kmDrive
• Dixton Road Surgery Phone 01600 712152 6.9 kmDrive
• Castle Gate Medical Practice Phone 01600 713811 7.2 kmDrive

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Coleford safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 774 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Coleford 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

By kind, over the 12 months

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

Source: police.uk, data to January 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Coleford?

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

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.