Hartford
Hartford is covered by postcode district CW8. It is in the Cheshire West and Chester council area, England.
Every postcode in Hartford, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 24
- In use before 2020: 162
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 186 postcodes in Hartford that ONS places, 24 are new since 2020 and 162 were in use before 2020.
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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 160 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 53.2439, longitude -2.5457. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 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 5 newest postcodes
What is it like to live in Hartford?
Homes sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 157 of the 185 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 186 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 3 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Firdale Medical Centre, 1.2 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Hartford, 600 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 Hartford?
Homes in Hartford sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 112 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £425,000 from 155 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £467,000 63 sales
- Semi-detached £325,000 26 sales
- Terraced £170,000 11 sales
- Flat or maisonette £220,000 12 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole CW8 district, Hartford's main postcode district: a typical £268,975.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Hartford: 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 Hartford?
24 of the 186 postcodes now in use in Hartford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 16 of the 155 homes sold in Hartford were newly built (10%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CW8 district, 12%.
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 Hartford | Across the CW8 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 112 (0%) | 3 of 616 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 16 of 155 (10%) | 90 of 775 (12%) |
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 Hartford?
Ofcom reports on 185 of the 186 postcodes in Hartford. At 157 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 Hartford at risk of flooding?
None of the 186 postcodes in Hartford 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Hartford?
The open schools at the postcodes in Hartford. 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
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 Hartford?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Hartford is Hartford Rail Station, 600 m away in a straight line.
- Hartford Rail Station Railway station 600 mWalk
- Greenbank Rail Station Railway station 1.1 kmWalk
- Cuddington Rail Station Railway station 3.6 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Hartford?
There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Hartford. 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.
- Firdale Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2026 · Phone 01606 544300 1.2 kmCycle
- Danebridge Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01606 544544 2.7 kmCycle
- Watling Street Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2026 · Phone 01606 42452 2.8 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Hartford safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 439 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Hartford 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
- 43 September 2025
- 34 October 2025
- 39 November 2025
- 27 December 2025
- 23 January 2026
- 28 February 2026
- 51 March 2026
- 46 April 2026
- 40 May 2026
- 35 June 2026
- 33 July 2026
- 40 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 8, shoplifting 5, possession of weapons 3, 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 postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Hartford?
- Council
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Parliamentary constituency
- Mid Cheshire
- Police force area
- Cheshire
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- MP
- Andrew Cooper (Labour)
All 186 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 Hartford
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Cheshire West and Chester about council tax Council tax, on cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The nearest GP practices
- 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 Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Hartford postcodes
186 postcodes in use in Hartford, by district:
That district is in the CW postcode area.
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Places near Hartford
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Hartford's £375,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Hartford
- What is the postcode for Hartford?
- Postcode district CW8, with 186 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Hartford in?
- Cheshire West and Chester. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Hartford?
- Andrew Cooper (Labour), for Mid Cheshire. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Hartford?
- A typical £375,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 112 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Hartford?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Hartford Primary School, The Grange School and Hartford Manor Primary School & Nursery; secondary schools at its postcodes include The Grange School, Hartford Church of England High School and St Nicholas Catholic High School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Hartford have a railway station?
- Yes: Hartford station, 600 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Hartford?
- Ofcom reports on 185 of the 186 postcodes in Hartford. At 157 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Hartford at risk of flooding?
- None of the 186 postcodes in Hartford 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. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Hartford?
- 24 of the 186 postcodes now in use in Hartford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 16 of the 155 homes sold in Hartford were newly built (10%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CW8 district, 12%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- 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
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
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