Shrivenham and Watchfield

Shrivenham and Watchfield is covered by postcode district SN6. It is in the Vale of White Horse council area, Oxfordshire.

Typical price £435,000 Homes sold in Shrivenham and Watchfield, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 76 of 154 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 4 of 155 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 2 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Shrivenham and Watchfield, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Shrivenham and Watchfield, by flood risk Of the 155 postcodes in Shrivenham and Watchfield that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 151 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Shrivenham and Watchfield. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A420 SN6 8AA: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AD: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AE: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AF: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AG: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AH: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AJ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AL: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AN: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AP: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AQ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AR: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AS: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AU: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AW: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AX: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AY: not on the flood risk listSN6 8AZ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8BA: not on the flood risk listSN6 8BB: not on the flood risk listSN6 8BD: not on the flood risk listSN6 8BE: not on the flood risk listSN6 8BG: not on the flood risk listSN6 8BH: not on the flood risk listSN6 8BJ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8BL: not on the flood risk listSN6 8BN: not on the flood risk listSN6 8BQ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8BW: not on the flood risk listSN6 8BY: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DA: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DD: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DE: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DF: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DG: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DH: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DJ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DL: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DN: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DR: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DS: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DT: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DU: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DW: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DX: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DY: not on the flood risk listSN6 8DZ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EA: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EB: not on the flood risk listSN6 8ED: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EE: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EF: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EG: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EH: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EJ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EL: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EN: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EP: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EQ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8ER: not on the flood risk listSN6 8ES: not on the flood risk listSN6 8ET: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EU: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EW: not on the flood risk listSN6 8EZ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FA: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FB: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FD: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FE: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FF: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FG: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FH: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FJ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FL: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FN: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FP: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FQ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FR: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FS: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FT: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FU: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FW: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FX: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FY: not on the flood risk listSN6 8FZ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8GA: not on the flood risk listSN6 8GB: not on the flood risk listSN6 8GD: not on the flood risk listSN6 8GE: not on the flood risk listSN6 8GF: not on the flood risk listSN6 8GH: not on the flood risk listSN6 8GJ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8HA: not on the flood risk listSN6 8HD: not on the flood risk listSN6 8HE: not on the flood risk listSN6 8HF: not on the flood risk listSN6 8HJ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8HL: not on the flood risk listSN6 8HR: not on the flood risk listSN6 8HW: not on the flood risk listSN6 8LA: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RD: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RE: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RF: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RG: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RH: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RJ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RL: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RN: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RP: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RQ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RS: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RT: not on the flood risk listSN6 8RW: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SA: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SB: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SD: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SE: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SF: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SG: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SH: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SJ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SL: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SN: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SP: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SQ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SR: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SS: not on the flood risk listSN6 8ST: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SU: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SW: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SX: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SY: not on the flood risk listSN6 8SZ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TA: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TB: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TD: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TE: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TF: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TG: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TJ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TL: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TP: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TQ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TR: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TS: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TU: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TW: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TX: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TY: not on the flood risk listSN6 8TZ: not on the flood risk listSN6 8HB: low flood risk at worstSN6 8BX: medium flood risk at worstSN6 8EY: medium flood risk at worstSN6 8TN: high flood risk Shrivenham and Watchfield Map of every postcode in Shrivenham and Watchfield, by flood risk Of the 155 postcodes in Shrivenham and Watchfield that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 151 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Shrivenham and Watchfield. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Shrivenham and Watchfield
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 2
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 151

Of the 155 postcodes in Shrivenham and Watchfield that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 151 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 51.6039, longitude -1.6515. 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

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

SN6 8TN1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Shrivenham and Watchfield?

Homes sold for a typical £435,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 76 of the 154 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 4 of its 155 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Swindon, 10.2 km 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 Shrivenham and Watchfield?

Homes in Shrivenham and Watchfield sold for a typical £435,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 67 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £420,000 from 77 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£435,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£420,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £555,000 29 sales
  • Semi-detached £367,500 28 sales
  • Terraced £288,500 10 sales

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

Across the whole SN6 district, Shrivenham and Watchfield's main postcode district: a typical £373,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Shrivenham and Watchfield: 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 Shrivenham and Watchfield?

12 of the 155 postcodes now in use in Shrivenham and Watchfield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 77 homes sold in Shrivenham and Watchfield were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SN6 district, 22%.

The newest postcodes

SN6 8HWsince April 2025SN6 8GHsince November 2023SN6 8GFsince April 2023SN6 8GJsince April 2023SN6 8GDsince June 2022SN6 8GEsince June 2022

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 Shrivenham and WatchfieldAcross the SN6 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 67 (0%) 18 of 277 (6%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 77 (0%) 95 of 433 (22%)

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 Shrivenham and Watchfield?

Ofcom reports on 154 of the 155 postcodes in Shrivenham and Watchfield. At 76 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit76 of 154
Postcodes where every home can get superfast141 of 154

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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Shrivenham and Watchfield at risk of flooding?

4 of the 155 postcodes in Shrivenham and Watchfield 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 3 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 4 of 155 postcodes High: 1Medium: 2Low: 1

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 Shrivenham and Watchfield?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Shrivenham and Watchfield. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Shrivenham and Watchfield?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Shrivenham and Watchfield is Swindon Rail Station, 10.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Swindon Rail Station Railway station 10.2 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Shrivenham and Watchfield?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Shrivenham and Watchfield. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Shrivenham and Watchfield safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 293 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Shrivenham and Watchfield 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. 20 September 2025
  2. 13 October 2025
  3. 28 November 2025
  4. 17 December 2025
  5. 22 January 2026
  6. 20 February 2026
  7. 26 March 2026
  8. 22 April 2026
  9. 35 May 2026
  10. 26 June 2026
  11. 33 July 2026
  12. 31 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences144 reports
Criminal damage and arson35 reports
Anti-social behaviour33 reports
Public order24 reports
Shoplifting16 reports
Other theft15 reports
Burglary8 reports
Other crime8 reports

Also: vehicle crime 4, bicycle theft 4, drugs 2.

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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Shrivenham and Watchfield?

District, borough or city council
Vale of White Horse
County council
Oxfordshire
Parliamentary constituency
Witney
Police force area
Thames Valley
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
Charlie Maynard (Liberal Democrat)

All 155 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 Shrivenham and Watchfield

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Shrivenham and Watchfield postcodes

155 postcodes in use in Shrivenham and Watchfield, by district:

SN6 postcode district,155 postcodes

That district is in the SN postcode area.

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Places near Shrivenham and Watchfield

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Shrivenham and Watchfield's £435,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Highworth5.2 km, £275,000Faringdon7.1 km, £302,000Wanborough7.1 km, £672,500Stratton St Margaret7.2 km, £290,000Broad Blunsdon9.8 km, £355,000Swindon10.3 km, £265,000Stanford in the Vale10.5 km, £385,000Lechlade-on-Thames10.9 km, £406,500 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Shrivenham and Watchfield

What is the postcode for Shrivenham and Watchfield?
Postcode district SN6, with 155 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Shrivenham and Watchfield in?
Vale of White Horse, with Oxfordshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Shrivenham and Watchfield?
Charlie Maynard (Liberal Democrat), for Witney. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Shrivenham and Watchfield?
A typical £435,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 67 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Shrivenham and Watchfield?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Shrivenham Church of England School and Watchfield Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Highworth Warneford School, 4.8 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Shrivenham and Watchfield have a railway station?
The nearest is Swindon station, 10.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Shrivenham and Watchfield?
Ofcom reports on 154 of the 155 postcodes in Shrivenham and Watchfield. At 76 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Shrivenham and Watchfield at risk of flooding?
4 of the 155 postcodes in Shrivenham and Watchfield 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 3 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 Shrivenham and Watchfield?
12 of the 155 postcodes now in use in Shrivenham and Watchfield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 77 homes sold in Shrivenham and Watchfield were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SN6 district, 22%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is 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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