Great Bentley

Great Bentley is covered by postcode district CO7. It is in the Tendring council area, Essex.

Typical price £390,000 Homes sold in Great Bentley, last 12 months. ▼ 2.5% on the year before Gigabit broadband 38 of 62 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 Great Bentley, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Great Bentley, by flood risk Of the 62 postcodes in Great Bentley that ONS places, 62 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Great Bentley. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. CO7 8FA: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FD: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FU: not on the flood risk listCO7 8FY: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GA: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GD: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GF: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GG: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GH: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GW: not on the flood risk listCO7 8GX: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LA: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LD: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LE: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LF: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LG: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LH: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LJ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LL: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LN: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LP: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LR: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LS: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LT: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LU: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LW: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LX: not on the flood risk listCO7 8LY: not on the flood risk listCO7 8NX: not on the flood risk listCO7 8NY: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PA: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PB: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PD: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PE: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PG: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PH: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PJ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PL: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PN: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PP: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PQ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PR: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PS: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PT: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PU: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PW: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PX: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PY: not on the flood risk listCO7 8PZ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8QA: not on the flood risk listCO7 8QB: not on the flood risk listCO7 8QD: not on the flood risk listCO7 8QE: not on the flood risk listCO7 8QF: not on the flood risk listCO7 8QG: not on the flood risk listCO7 8QH: not on the flood risk listCO7 8QJ: not on the flood risk listCO7 8QL: not on the flood risk listCO7 8QN: not on the flood risk listCO7 8QR: not on the flood risk listCO7 8RR: not on the flood risk listCO7 8TJ: not on the flood risk list Great Bentley Map of every postcode in Great Bentley, by flood risk Of the 62 postcodes in Great Bentley that ONS places, 62 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Great Bentley. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Great Bentley
  • 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: 62

Of the 62 postcodes in Great Bentley that ONS places, 62 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 51.8553, longitude 1.0649. 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 Great Bentley?

Homes sold for a typical £390,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.5% on the 12 months before. At 38 of the 62 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 62 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. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Great Bentley, 400 metres 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 Great Bentley?

Homes in Great Bentley sold for a typical £390,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 21 sales, down 2.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£390,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£400,000
12 months to August 2026
£390,000

▼ down 2.5% on the 12 months before

Detached£411,250 14 sales
Semi-detached 4 sales, too few to price
Terraced 3 sales, too few to price

Across the whole CO7 district, Great Bentley's main postcode district: a typical £332,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Great Bentley: 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 Great Bentley?

6 of the 62 postcodes now in use in Great Bentley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 9 of the 49 homes sold in Great Bentley were newly built (18%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO7 district, 27%.

The newest postcodes

CO7 8GXsince September 2025CO7 8GWsince March 2024CO7 8GGsince May 2021CO7 8GHsince September 2020CO7 8FYsince August 2020CO7 8GFsince 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 Great BentleyAcross the CO7 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 21 (0%) 36 of 459 (8%)
The 12 months to August 2025 9 of 49 (18%) 208 of 763 (27%)

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 Great Bentley?

Ofcom reports on 62 of the 62 postcodes in Great Bentley. At 38 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit38 of 62
Postcodes where every home can get superfast62 of 62

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 Great Bentley at risk of flooding?

None of the 62 postcodes in Great Bentley 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 Great Bentley?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Great Bentley. 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 Great Bentley?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Great Bentley is Great Bentley Rail Station, 400 m away in a straight line.

  • Great Bentley Rail Station Railway station 400 mWalk
  • Weeley Rail Station Railway station 3.5 kmCycle
  • Alresford (Essex) Rail Station Railway station 4.6 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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Great Bentley?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Great Bentley. 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 Great Bentley safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 113 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Great Bentley 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. 9 September 2025
  2. 10 October 2025
  3. 19 November 2025
  4. 6 December 2025
  5. 5 January 2026
  6. 8 February 2026
  7. 13 March 2026
  8. 6 April 2026
  9. 9 May 2026
  10. 10 June 2026
  11. 6 July 2026
  12. 12 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences45 reports
Other theft14 reports
Public order13 reports
Vehicle crime12 reports
Anti-social behaviour8 reports
Criminal damage and arson8 reports
Other crime5 reports
Burglary3 reports

Also: shoplifting 2, drugs 2, possession of weapons 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 Great Bentley?

District, borough or city council
Tendring
County council
Essex
Parliamentary constituency
Clacton
Police force area
Essex
Region
East of England
Country
England
MP
Nigel Farage (Reform UK)

All 62 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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Great Bentley postcodes

62 postcodes in use in Great Bentley, by district:

CO7 postcode district,62 postcodes

That district is in the CO postcode area.

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Places near Great Bentley

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Great Bentley's £390,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Weeley3.7 km, £322,000Alresford4.5 km, £330,000Brightlingsea5.4 km, £268,000Elmstead Market5.5 km, £380,000Little Clacton6.0 km, £292,500St Osyth6.2 km, £237,500Thorpe-le-Soken7.0 km, £352,500Wivenhoe7.2 km, £320,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Great Bentley

What is it like to live in Great Bentley?
Homes sold for a typical £390,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.5% on the 12 months before. At 38 of the 62 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 62 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. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Great Bentley, 400 metres 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 Great Bentley?
Great Bentley is covered by postcode district CO7, across 62 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Great Bentley in?
Great Bentley is in the Tendring council area, and Essex is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Great Bentley?
Great Bentley is in the Clacton parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Nigel Farage (Reform UK), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Great Bentley?
Homes in Great Bentley sold for a typical £390,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 21 sales, down 2.5% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Great Bentley?
In Great Bentley, primary schools at its postcodes include Great Bentley Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Colne Community School, 4.9 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Great Bentley have a railway station?
Yes: Great Bentley is 400 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Great Bentley, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Great Bentley?
Ofcom reports on 62 of the 62 postcodes in Great Bentley. At 38 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Great Bentley at risk of flooding?
None of the 62 postcodes in Great Bentley 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 Great Bentley?
6 of the 62 postcodes now in use in Great Bentley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 9 of the 49 homes sold in Great Bentley were newly built (18%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CO7 district, 27%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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