Shilbottle

Shilbottle is covered by postcode district NE66. It is in the Northumberland council area, England.

Typical price £227,000 Homes sold in Shilbottle, last 12 months. ▲ 11.8% on the year before Gigabit broadband 1 of 51 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 Shilbottle, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Shilbottle, by flood risk Of the 51 postcodes in Shilbottle that ONS places, 51 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Shilbottle. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. NE66 2EN: not on the flood risk listNE66 2EW: not on the flood risk listNE66 2HE: not on the flood risk listNE66 2HF: not on the flood risk listNE66 2HP: not on the flood risk listNE66 2HX: not on the flood risk listNE66 2HY: not on the flood risk listNE66 2JB: not on the flood risk listNE66 2JJ: not on the flood risk listNE66 2UH: not on the flood risk listNE66 2UL: not on the flood risk listNE66 2UN: not on the flood risk listNE66 2UP: not on the flood risk listNE66 2UR: not on the flood risk listNE66 2UT: not on the flood risk listNE66 2UU: not on the flood risk listNE66 2UW: not on the flood risk listNE66 2UX: not on the flood risk listNE66 2UY: not on the flood risk listNE66 2UZ: not on the flood risk listNE66 2WX: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XA: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XB: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XD: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XE: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XF: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XG: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XH: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XJ: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XL: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XN: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XP: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XQ: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XR: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XS: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XT: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XU: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XW: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XX: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XY: not on the flood risk listNE66 2XZ: not on the flood risk listNE66 2YB: not on the flood risk listNE66 2YD: not on the flood risk listNE66 2YE: not on the flood risk listNE66 2YF: not on the flood risk listNE66 2YG: not on the flood risk listNE66 2YH: not on the flood risk listNE66 2YJ: not on the flood risk listNE66 2YL: not on the flood risk listNE66 2YP: not on the flood risk listNE66 2YQ: not on the flood risk list Shilbottle Map of every postcode in Shilbottle, by flood risk Of the 51 postcodes in Shilbottle that ONS places, 51 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Shilbottle. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Shilbottle
  • 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: 51

Of the 51 postcodes in Shilbottle that ONS places, 51 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 55.3707, longitude -1.6866. 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 Shilbottle?

Homes sold for a typical £227,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 11.8% on the 12 months before. At 1 of the 51 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 51 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 Alnwick Medical Group, 4.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Alnmouth, 4.0 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 Shilbottle?

Homes in Shilbottle sold for a typical £227,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 19 sales, up 11.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£227,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£203,000 12 months to August 2025
▲ up 11.8% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £260,000 10 sales
  • Semi-detached £220,000 5 sales
  • Terraced 4 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole NE66 district, Shilbottle's main postcode district: a typical £268,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Shilbottle: 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 Shilbottle?

None of the 51 postcodes now in use in Shilbottle came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 23 homes sold in Shilbottle were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NE66 district, 13%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn ShilbottleAcross the NE66 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 19 (0%) 3 of 230 (1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 23 (0%) 43 of 325 (13%)

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 Shilbottle?

Ofcom reports on 51 of the 51 postcodes in Shilbottle. At 1 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit1 of 51
Postcodes where every home can get superfast45 of 51

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 Shilbottle at risk of flooding?

None of the 51 postcodes in Shilbottle 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 Shilbottle?

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

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Shilbottle is Alnmouth Rail Station, 4.0 km away in a straight line.

  • Alnmouth Rail Station Railway station 4.0 kmCycle
  • Acklington Rail Station Railway station 7.4 kmDrive
  • Widdrington Rail Station Railway station 15.1 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 Shilbottle?

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

Police.uk records 77 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Shilbottle 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. 14 November 2025
  4. 10 December 2025
  5. 2 January 2026
  6. 5 February 2026
  7. 6 March 2026
  8. 5 April 2026
  9. 5 May 2026
  10. 8 June 2026
  11. 3 July 2026
  12. 5 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences24 reports
Anti-social behaviour17 reports
Criminal damage and arson12 reports
Other theft7 reports
Public order5 reports
Vehicle crime4 reports
Other crime4 reports
Burglary3 reports

Also: 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 Shilbottle?

Council
Northumberland
Parliamentary constituency
North Northumberland
Police force area
Northumbria
Region
North East
Country
England
MP
David Smith (Labour)

All 51 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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Shilbottle postcodes

51 postcodes in use in Shilbottle, by district:

NE66 postcode district,51 postcodes

That district is in the NE postcode area.

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Places near Shilbottle

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Shilbottle's £227,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Alnwick4.4 km, £235,000Warkworth5.5 km, £425,000Amble7.9 km, £225,000Hadston10.2 km, £169,950Longframlington10.2 km, £270,000Widdrington Station15.3 km, £172,000Rothbury15.7 km, £240,000Ellington18.3 km, £235,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Shilbottle

What is it like to live in Shilbottle?
Homes sold for a typical £227,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 11.8% on the 12 months before. At 1 of the 51 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 51 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 Alnwick Medical Group, 4.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Alnmouth, 4.0 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 Shilbottle?
Shilbottle is covered by postcode district NE66, across 51 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Shilbottle in?
Shilbottle is in the Northumberland council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Shilbottle?
Shilbottle is in the North Northumberland parliamentary constituency. Its MP is David Smith (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Shilbottle?
Homes in Shilbottle sold for a typical £227,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 19 sales, up 11.8% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Shilbottle?
In Shilbottle, primary schools at its postcodes include Shilbottle Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Duchess's Community High School, 3.3 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Shilbottle have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Shilbottle is Alnmouth, 4.0 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Shilbottle?
Ofcom reports on 51 of the 51 postcodes in Shilbottle. At 1 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Shilbottle at risk of flooding?
None of the 51 postcodes in Shilbottle 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 Shilbottle?
None of the 51 postcodes now in use in Shilbottle came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 23 homes sold in Shilbottle were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NE66 district, 13%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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