Lightwater

Lightwater is covered by postcode districts GU18 and GU19. It is in the Surrey Heath council area, Surrey.

Typical price £540,000 Homes sold in Lightwater, last 12 months. ▲ 14.9% on the year before Gigabit broadband 76 of 140 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 7 of 140 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 12 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 2 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Lightwater, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Lightwater, by flood risk Of the 140 postcodes in Lightwater that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at low risk at worst and 133 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Lightwater. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A322M3 GU18 5AA: not on the flood risk listGU18 5AB: not on the flood risk listGU18 5AD: not on the flood risk listGU18 5AE: not on the flood risk listGU18 5AF: not on the flood risk listGU18 5AG: not on the flood risk listGU18 5AH: not on the flood risk listGU18 5LA: not on the flood risk listGU18 5LB: not on the flood risk listGU18 5LD: not on the flood risk listGU18 5LE: not on the flood risk listGU18 5LF: not on the flood risk listGU18 5NA: not on the flood risk listGU18 5NB: not on the flood risk listGU18 5ND: not on the flood risk listGU18 5NE: not on the flood risk listGU18 5PA: not on the flood risk listGU18 5PB: not on the flood risk listGU18 5PE: not on the flood risk listGU18 5PF: not on the flood risk listGU18 5QA: not on the flood risk listGU18 5QN: not on the flood risk listGU18 5QR: not on the flood risk listGU18 5QS: not on the flood risk listGU18 5QT: not on the flood risk listGU18 5QU: not on the flood risk listGU18 5QW: not on the flood risk listGU18 5QX: not on the flood risk listGU18 5QY: not on the flood risk listGU18 5QZ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RA: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RB: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RD: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RE: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RF: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RG: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RH: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RJ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RL: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RP: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RQ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RR: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RS: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RT: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RW: not on the flood risk listGU18 5RY: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SA: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SB: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SD: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SG: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SJ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SL: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SN: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SP: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SQ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SS: not on the flood risk listGU18 5ST: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SX: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SY: not on the flood risk listGU18 5SZ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TA: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TB: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TD: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TE: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TF: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TG: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TH: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TJ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TL: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TN: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TP: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TQ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TR: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TS: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TT: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TU: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TW: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TX: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TY: not on the flood risk listGU18 5TZ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UA: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UE: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UG: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UH: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UJ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UL: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UN: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UP: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UR: not on the flood risk listGU18 5US: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UT: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UU: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UW: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UX: not on the flood risk listGU18 5UZ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XA: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XB: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XD: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XE: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XF: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XH: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XJ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XP: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XQ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XR: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XS: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XT: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XU: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XX: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XY: not on the flood risk listGU18 5XZ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YA: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YB: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YD: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YE: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YF: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YG: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YH: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YJ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YL: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YN: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YP: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YQ: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YR: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YS: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YT: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YU: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YW: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YX: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YY: not on the flood risk listGU18 5YZ: not on the flood risk listGU19 5NT: not on the flood risk listGU19 5PA: not on the flood risk listGU18 5PJ: low flood risk at worstGU18 5RX: low flood risk at worstGU18 5RZ: low flood risk at worstGU18 5SW: low flood risk at worstGU18 5QQ: high flood riskGU18 5RU: high flood riskGU18 5SH: high flood risk Lightwater Map of every postcode in Lightwater, by flood risk Of the 140 postcodes in Lightwater that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at low risk at worst and 133 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Lightwater. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. M3 Lightwater
  • A home or business at high risk: 3
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 4
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 133

Of the 140 postcodes in Lightwater that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at low risk at worst and 133 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 51.3488, longitude -0.6722. 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

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

GU18 5QQ2 at high riskGU18 5RU1 at high riskGU18 5SH1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Lightwater?

Homes sold for a typical £540,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 14.9% on the 12 months before. At 76 of the 140 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 12 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 7 of its 140 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bagshot, 2.1 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 Lightwater?

Homes in Lightwater sold for a typical £540,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 78 sales, up 14.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£540,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£470,000 12 months to August 2025
▲ up 14.9% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £655,000 36 sales
  • Semi-detached £470,000 19 sales
  • Terraced £395,000 9 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £229,000 14 sales

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

Across the whole GU18 district, Lightwater's main postcode district: a typical £545,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Lightwater: 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 Lightwater?

2 of the 140 postcodes now in use in Lightwater came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 116 homes sold in Lightwater were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GU18 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

GU18 5AHsince August 2023GU18 5AGsince March 2021

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 LightwaterAcross the GU18 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 78 (0%) 0 of 79 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 116 (0%) 0 of 116 (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.

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 Lightwater?

Ofcom reports on 140 of the 140 postcodes in Lightwater. At 76 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit76 of 140
Postcodes where every home can get superfast133 of 140

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 Lightwater at risk of flooding?

7 of the 140 postcodes in Lightwater 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 12 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 7 of 140 postcodes High: 4Medium: 8Low: 45

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, 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 Lightwater?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Lightwater. 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

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

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 Lightwater?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Lightwater is Bagshot Rail Station, 2.1 km away in a straight line.

  • Bagshot Rail Station Railway station 2.1 kmCycle
  • Camberley Rail Station Railway station 5.2 kmDrive
  • Sunningdale Rail Station Railway station 5.5 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 Lightwater?

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

Police.uk records 491 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Lightwater 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. 41 September 2025
  2. 42 October 2025
  3. 40 November 2025
  4. 43 December 2025
  5. 42 January 2026
  6. 27 February 2026
  7. 51 March 2026
  8. 46 April 2026
  9. 42 May 2026
  10. 37 June 2026
  11. 35 July 2026
  12. 45 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences130 reports
Anti-social behaviour87 reports
Shoplifting80 reports
Other theft78 reports
Vehicle crime32 reports
Criminal damage and arson24 reports
Public order16 reports
Burglary16 reports

Also: drugs 14, other crime 9, bicycle theft 3, robbery 1, 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 Lightwater?

District, borough or city council
Surrey Heath
County council
Surrey
Parliamentary constituency
Surrey Heath
Police force area
Surrey
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
Dr Al Pinkerton (Liberal Democrat)

All 140 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

Moving to Lightwater

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.

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Lightwater postcodes

140 postcodes in use in Lightwater, by district:

GU18 postcode district,138 postcodesGU19 postcode district,2 postcodes

Those districts are all in the GU postcode area.

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Places near Lightwater

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Lightwater's £540,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Bagshot1.8 km, £417,500Windlesham2.4 km, £670,000West End and Chobham3.3 km, £625,000Bisley3.7 km, £547,500Camberley4.6 km, £427,000Deepcut5.0 km, £491,000Frimley5.8 km, £470,000Ascot and Sunningdale5.9 km, £635,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Lightwater

What is it like to live in Lightwater?
Homes sold for a typical £540,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 14.9% on the 12 months before. At 76 of the 140 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 12 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 7 of its 140 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bagshot, 2.1 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 Lightwater?
Lightwater is covered by postcode districts GU18 and GU19, across 140 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Lightwater in?
Lightwater is in the Surrey Heath council area, and Surrey is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Lightwater?
Lightwater is in the Surrey Heath parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Dr Al Pinkerton (Liberal Democrat), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Lightwater?
Homes in Lightwater sold for a typical £540,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 78 sales, up 14.9% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Lightwater?
In Lightwater, primary schools at its postcodes include Lightwater Village Infant School and Nursery and Lightwater Village Junior School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Gordon's School, 1.9 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Lightwater have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Lightwater is Bagshot, 2.1 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Lightwater?
Ofcom reports on 140 of the 140 postcodes in Lightwater. At 76 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Lightwater at risk of flooding?
7 of the 140 postcodes in Lightwater 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 12 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Lightwater?
2 of the 140 postcodes now in use in Lightwater came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 116 homes sold in Lightwater were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GU18 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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