Glossop
Glossop is covered by postcode district SK13. It is in the High Peak council area, Derbyshire.
Every postcode in Glossop, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 45
- At medium risk at worst: 8
- At low risk at worst: 19
- At very low risk only: 1
- Not on the at-risk list: 383
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 456 postcodes in Glossop that ONS places, 45 have a home or business at high risk, 8 are at medium risk at worst, 19 are at low risk at worst, 1 are at very low risk only and 383 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 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 53.4426, longitude -1.9500. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The postcodes at high risk
45 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 11 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SK13 8GJ, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SK13 8GT, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. SK13 8HL, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Glossop?
Homes sold for a typical £280,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 394 of the 449 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 510 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 73 of its 456 postcodes. It has 6 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Glossop, 200 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Glossop?
Homes in Glossop sold for a typical £280,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 225 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £275,000 from 279 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £470,000 57 sales
- Semi-detached £297,500 61 sales
- Terraced £215,000 89 sales
- Flat or maisonette £165,000 18 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole SK13 district, Glossop's main postcode district: a typical £260,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Glossop: 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 Glossop?
8 of the 456 postcodes now in use in Glossop came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 279 homes sold in Glossop were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SK13 district, 0%.
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
| Period | In Glossop | Across the SK13 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 225 (0%) | 0 of 386 (0%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 0 of 279 (0%) | 0 of 503 (0%) |
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 Glossop?
Ofcom reports on 449 of the 456 postcodes in Glossop. At 394 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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Glossop at risk of flooding?
73 of the 456 postcodes in Glossop 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 510 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 Glossop?
The open schools at the postcodes in Glossop. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. 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.
Primary
- St Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy300 m 97 pupils, 210 places
- Duke of Norfolk CofE Primary School550 m 304 pupils, 330 places
- Whitfield St James' CofE (VC) Primary School600 m 311 pupils, 360 places
- St Luke's CofE Primary School650 m 201 pupils, 210 places
- All Saints' Catholic Voluntary Academy900 m 51 pupils, 98 places
- Simmondley Primary School1.3 km
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Glossop?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Glossop is Glossop Rail Station, 200 m away in a straight line.
- Glossop Rail Station Railway station 200 mWalk
- Dinting Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
- Hadfield Rail Station Railway station 2.3 kmCycle
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 Glossop?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Glossop. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Manor House Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report April 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01457 860860 350 mWalk
- Simmondley Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01457 862305 1.3 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Glossop safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,276 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Glossop 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
- 121 September 2025
- 130 October 2025
- 91 November 2025
- 123 December 2025
- 103 January 2026
- 121 February 2026
- 95 March 2026
- 99 April 2026
- 83 May 2026
- 109 June 2026
- 110 July 2026
- 91 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 27, other crime 24, possession of weapons 10, robbery 6.
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 postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Glossop?
- District, borough or city council
- High Peak
- County council
- Derbyshire
- Parliamentary constituency
- High Peak
- Police force area
- Derbyshire
- Region
- East Midlands
- Country
- England
- MP
- Jon Pearce (Labour)
All 456 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.
Moving to Glossop
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell High Peak about council tax Council tax, on highpeak.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Glossop
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Glossop postcodes
456 postcodes in use in Glossop, by district:
That district is in the SK postcode area.
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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Glossop
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Glossop's £280,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Glossop
- What is the postcode for Glossop?
- Postcode district SK13, with 456 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Glossop in?
- High Peak, with Derbyshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Glossop?
- Jon Pearce (Labour), for High Peak. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Glossop?
- A typical £280,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 225 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Glossop?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include St Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy, Duke of Norfolk CofE Primary School and Whitfield St James' CofE (VC) Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include St Philip Howard Catholic Voluntary Academy. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Glossop have a railway station?
- Yes: Glossop station, 200 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Glossop?
- Ofcom reports on 449 of the 456 postcodes in Glossop. At 394 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Glossop at risk of flooding?
- 73 of the 456 postcodes in Glossop 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 510 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Glossop?
- 8 of the 456 postcodes now in use in Glossop came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 279 homes sold in Glossop were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SK13 district, 0%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
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