Glemsford

Glemsford is covered by postcode district CO10. It is in the Babergh council area, Suffolk.

Typical price £282,500 Homes sold in Glemsford, last 12 months. ▼ 5.8% on the year before Gigabit broadband 50 of 77 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 Glemsford, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Glemsford, by flood risk Of the 77 postcodes in Glemsford that ONS places, 77 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Glemsford. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. CO10 7FG: not on the flood risk listCO10 7FH: not on the flood risk listCO10 7FJ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7FL: not on the flood risk listCO10 7FU: not on the flood risk listCO10 7FX: not on the flood risk listCO10 7GZ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7PH: not on the flood risk listCO10 7PJ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7PL: not on the flood risk listCO10 7PN: not on the flood risk listCO10 7PQ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7PS: not on the flood risk listCO10 7PT: not on the flood risk listCO10 7PW: not on the flood risk listCO10 7PZ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QA: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QB: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QD: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QE: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QG: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QH: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QJ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QL: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QN: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QQ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QW: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QX: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QY: not on the flood risk listCO10 7QZ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RA: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RB: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RE: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RF: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RG: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RH: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RJ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RL: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RN: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RP: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RQ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RR: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RS: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RT: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RU: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RW: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RX: not on the flood risk listCO10 7RY: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SA: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SB: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SD: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SE: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SF: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SG: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SH: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SJ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SL: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SN: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SQ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SS: not on the flood risk listCO10 7ST: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SU: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SW: not on the flood risk listCO10 7SX: not on the flood risk listCO10 7TF: not on the flood risk listCO10 7TN: not on the flood risk listCO10 7TS: not on the flood risk listCO10 7UA: not on the flood risk listCO10 7UD: not on the flood risk listCO10 7UE: not on the flood risk listCO10 7UF: not on the flood risk listCO10 7UJ: not on the flood risk listCO10 7UL: not on the flood risk listCO10 7UN: not on the flood risk listCO10 7UP: not on the flood risk listCO10 7UR: not on the flood risk listCO10 7UT: not on the flood risk list Glemsford Map of every postcode in Glemsford, by flood risk Of the 77 postcodes in Glemsford that ONS places, 77 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Glemsford. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Glemsford
  • 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: 77

Of the 77 postcodes in Glemsford that ONS places, 77 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 52.1002, longitude 0.6693. 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 Glemsford?

Homes sold for a typical £282,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 5.8% on the 12 months before. At 50 of the 77 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 77 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 Clare Guildhall Surgery, 6.5 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Sudbury (Suffolk), 8.4 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 Glemsford?

Homes in Glemsford sold for a typical £282,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 44 sales, down 5.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£282,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£300,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 5.8% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £321,250 14 sales
  • Semi-detached £295,000 15 sales
  • Terraced £220,000 15 sales

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

Across the whole CO10 district, Glemsford's main postcode district: a typical £321,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Glemsford: 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 Glemsford?

2 of the 77 postcodes now in use in Glemsford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 61 homes sold in Glemsford were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO10 district, 9%.

The newest postcodes

CO10 7FXsince November 2021CO10 7FUsince April 2020

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 GlemsfordAcross the CO10 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 44 (0%) 4 of 677 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 61 (0%) 72 of 811 (9%)

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 Glemsford?

Ofcom reports on 77 of the 77 postcodes in Glemsford. At 50 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit50 of 77
Postcodes where every home can get superfast76 of 77

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 Glemsford at risk of flooding?

None of the 77 postcodes in Glemsford 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 Glemsford?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Glemsford. 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 Glemsford?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Glemsford is Sudbury (Suffolk) Rail Station, 8.4 km away in a straight line.

  • Sudbury (Suffolk) Rail Station Railway station 8.4 kmDrive
  • Bures Rail Station Railway station 15.9 kmDrive
  • Bury St Edmunds Rail Station Railway station 17.3 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 Glemsford?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Glemsford. 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 Glemsford safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 104 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Glemsford over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. 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, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 7 September 2025
  2. 7 October 2025
  3. 6 November 2025
  4. 12 December 2025
  5. 12 January 2026
  6. 6 February 2026
  7. 8 March 2026
  8. 5 April 2026
  9. 11 May 2026
  10. 9 June 2026
  11. 8 July 2026
  12. 13 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences52 reports
Anti-social behaviour15 reports
Criminal damage and arson9 reports
Public order8 reports
Other theft8 reports
Other crime5 reports
Vehicle crime3 reports
Possession of weapons2 reports

Also: burglary 1, drugs 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 August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Glemsford?

District, borough or city council
Babergh
County council
Suffolk
Parliamentary constituency
South Suffolk
Police force area
Suffolk
Region
East of England
Country
England
MP
James Cartlidge (Conservative)

All 77 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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Glemsford postcodes

77 postcodes in use in Glemsford, by district:

CO10 postcode district,77 postcodes

That district is in the CO postcode area.

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Places near Glemsford

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Glemsford's £282,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Long Melford4.3 km, £384,250Clare6.5 km, £395,000Acton7.2 km, £302,500Sudbury8.3 km, £276,250Lavenham8.7 km, £375,000Great Yeldham11.7 km, £357,500Sible Hedingham14.6 km, £310,500Haverhill16.2 km, £260,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Glemsford

What is it like to live in Glemsford?
Homes sold for a typical £282,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 5.8% on the 12 months before. At 50 of the 77 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 77 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 Clare Guildhall Surgery, 6.5 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Sudbury (Suffolk), 8.4 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 Glemsford?
Glemsford is covered by postcode district CO10, across 77 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Glemsford in?
Glemsford is in the Babergh council area, and Suffolk is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Glemsford?
Glemsford is in the South Suffolk parliamentary constituency. Its MP is James Cartlidge (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Glemsford?
Homes in Glemsford sold for a typical £282,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 44 sales, down 5.8% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Glemsford?
In Glemsford, primary schools at its postcodes include Glemsford Primary Academy; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Stour Valley Community School, 5.9 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Glemsford have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Glemsford is Sudbury (Suffolk), 8.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Glemsford?
Ofcom reports on 77 of the 77 postcodes in Glemsford. At 50 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Glemsford at risk of flooding?
None of the 77 postcodes in Glemsford 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 Glemsford?
2 of the 77 postcodes now in use in Glemsford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 61 homes sold in Glemsford were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO10 district, 9%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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