Welsh Bicknor

Welsh Bicknor is covered by postcode districts GL17 and HR9. It is mostly in the Forest of Dean council area: 72 of its 73 postcodes. The other is in County of Herefordshire. 72 are in Gloucestershire. ONS lists no county for the other 1.

Typical price £260,000 Homes sold in Welsh Bicknor, last 12 months. ▼ 13.3% on the year before Gigabit broadband 19 of 73 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 18 of 73 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 110 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Welsh Bicknor, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Welsh Bicknor, by flood risk Of the 73 postcodes in Welsh Bicknor that ONS places, 8 have a home or business at high risk, 8 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 55 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 6 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Welsh Bicknor. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. GL17 9DN: not on the flood risk listGL17 9DP: not on the flood risk listGL17 9DS: not on the flood risk listGL17 9LL: not on the flood risk listGL17 9LN: not on the flood risk listGL17 9LP: not on the flood risk listGL17 9LR: not on the flood risk listGL17 9LW: not on the flood risk listGL17 9NB: not on the flood risk listGL17 9NF: not on the flood risk listGL17 9PB: not on the flood risk listGL17 9PD: not on the flood risk listGL17 9PH: not on the flood risk listGL17 9PL: not on the flood risk listGL17 9PT: not on the flood risk listGL17 9PU: not on the flood risk listGL17 9PX: not on the flood risk listGL17 9PY: not on the flood risk listGL17 9PZ: not on the flood risk listGL17 9QA: not on the flood risk listGL17 9QG: not on the flood risk listGL17 9QL: not on the flood risk listGL17 9QN: not on the flood risk listGL17 9QR: not on the flood risk listGL17 9QS: not on the flood risk listGL17 9QT: not on the flood risk listGL17 9QU: not on the flood risk listGL17 9QW: not on the flood risk listGL17 9QX: not on the flood risk listGL17 9QY: not on the flood risk listGL17 9QZ: not on the flood risk listGL17 9RA: not on the flood risk listGL17 9RB: not on the flood risk listGL17 9RD: not on the flood risk listGL17 9RE: not on the flood risk listGL17 9RF: not on the flood risk listGL17 9RG: not on the flood risk listGL17 9RJ: not on the flood risk listGL17 9RN: not on the flood risk listGL17 9RQ: not on the flood risk listGL17 9RW: not on the flood risk listGL17 9RY: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SA: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SD: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SF: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SH: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SJ: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SN: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SP: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SQ: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SR: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SW: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SX: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SY: not on the flood risk listGL17 9SZ: not on the flood risk listGL17 9NJ: low flood risk at worstGL17 9NP: low flood risk at worstGL17 9NA: medium flood risk at worstGL17 9NS: medium flood risk at worstGL17 9NT: medium flood risk at worstGL17 9NW: medium flood risk at worstGL17 9PG: medium flood risk at worstGL17 9PS: medium flood risk at worstGL17 9SB: medium flood risk at worstHR9 6JJ: medium flood risk at worstGL17 9LG: high flood riskGL17 9LH: high flood riskGL17 9LQ: high flood riskGL17 9NG: high flood riskGL17 9NN: high flood riskGL17 9NR: high flood riskGL17 9PP: high flood riskGL17 9SE: high flood risk Welsh Bicknor 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to GL17 9NR, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk6 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Welsh Bicknor, by flood risk Of the 73 postcodes in Welsh Bicknor that ONS places, 8 have a home or business at high risk, 8 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 55 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 6 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Welsh Bicknor. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Welsh Bicknor
  • A home or business at high risk: 8
  • At medium risk at worst: 8
  • At low risk at worst: 2
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 55
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 73 postcodes in Welsh Bicknor that ONS places, 8 have a home or business at high risk, 8 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 55 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 210 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.8425, longitude -2.5807. 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.

GL17 9LQ16 at high riskGL17 9LG12 at high riskGL17 9NR5 at high riskGL17 9NN4 at high riskGL17 9PP3 at high riskGL17 9LH2 at high riskGL17 9NG1 at high riskGL17 9SE1 at high risk

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. GL17 9NR, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Welsh Bicknor?

Homes sold for a typical £260,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 13.3% on the 12 months before. At 19 of the 73 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 110 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 18 of its 73 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Drybrook Surgery, 4.5 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Lydney, 14.7 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 Welsh Bicknor?

Homes in Welsh Bicknor sold for a typical £260,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 19 sales, down 13.3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£260,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£300,000
12 months to August 2026
£260,000

▼ down 13.3% on the 12 months before

Detached£330,000 7 sales
Semi-detached£260,000 8 sales
Terraced 4 sales, too few to price

Across the whole GL17 district, Welsh Bicknor's main postcode district: a typical £260,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Welsh Bicknor: 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 Welsh Bicknor?

None of the 73 postcodes now in use in Welsh Bicknor came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 25 homes sold in Welsh Bicknor were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL17 district, 4%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Welsh BicknorAcross the GL17 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 19 (0%) 0 of 133 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 25 (0%) 6 of 164 (4%)

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 Welsh Bicknor?

Ofcom reports on 73 of the 73 postcodes in Welsh Bicknor. At 19 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit19 of 73
Postcodes where every home can get superfast58 of 73

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 Welsh Bicknor at risk of flooding?

18 of the 73 postcodes in Welsh Bicknor 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 110 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 18 of 73 postcodes High: 44Medium: 66Low: 29

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 Welsh Bicknor?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Welsh Bicknor. 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 Welsh Bicknor?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Welsh Bicknor is Lydney Rail Station, 14.7 km away in a straight line.

  • Lydney Rail Station Railway station 14.7 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 Welsh Bicknor?

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

Police.uk records 98 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Welsh Bicknor over the 12 months from February 2025 to January 2026. Gloucestershire Constabulary has published no figures to Police.uk after January 2026, though Police.uk has figures to August 2026 for other forces. These figures run to January 2026, so no month is counted without them. 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, February 2025 to January 2026

  1. 18 February 2025
  2. 7 March 2025
  3. 7 April 2025
  4. 8 May 2025
  5. 9 June 2025
  6. 7 July 2025
  7. 4 August 2025
  8. 4 September 2025
  9. 9 October 2025
  10. 3 November 2025
  11. 13 December 2025
  12. 9 January 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences39 reports
Anti-social behaviour22 reports
Burglary10 reports
Criminal damage and arson8 reports
Vehicle crime6 reports
Other crime5 reports
Other theft4 reports
Public order2 reports

Also: shoplifting 1, 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 January 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Welsh Bicknor?

Councils
Forest of Dean (72) and County of Herefordshire (1)
Parliamentary constituencies
Forest of Dean (72) and Hereford and South Herefordshire (1)
Police force areas
Gloucestershire (72) and West Mercia (1)
Regions
South West (72) and West Midlands (1)
Country
England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Moving to Welsh Bicknor

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

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Welsh Bicknor postcodes

73 postcodes in use in Welsh Bicknor, by district:

GL17 postcode district,72 postcodesHR9 postcode district,1 postcode

Those districts are in the GL postcode area and HR postcode area.

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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.

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Places near Welsh Bicknor

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Welsh Bicknor's £260,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Berry Hill4.4 km, £360,000Drybrook4.6 km, £275,000Broadwell and Coalway5.3 km, £268,000Cinderford5.9 km, £216,000Coleford6.1 km, £218,000Ruspidge6.5 km, £237,500Mitcheldean6.7 km, £226,000Ross-on-Wye8.0 km, £295,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Welsh Bicknor

What is it like to live in Welsh Bicknor?
Homes sold for a typical £260,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 13.3% on the 12 months before. At 19 of the 73 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 110 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 18 of its 73 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Drybrook Surgery, 4.5 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Lydney, 14.7 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 Welsh Bicknor?
Welsh Bicknor is covered by postcode districts GL17 and HR9, across 73 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Welsh Bicknor?
Homes in Welsh Bicknor sold for a typical £260,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 19 sales, down 13.3% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Welsh Bicknor?
In Welsh Bicknor, primary schools at its postcodes include Lydbrook Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Heart of the Forest Community Special School, 4.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Welsh Bicknor have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Welsh Bicknor is Lydney, 14.7 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Welsh Bicknor?
Ofcom reports on 73 of the 73 postcodes in Welsh Bicknor. At 19 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Welsh Bicknor at risk of flooding?
18 of the 73 postcodes in Welsh Bicknor 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 110 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 Welsh Bicknor?
None of the 73 postcodes now in use in Welsh Bicknor came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 25 homes sold in Welsh Bicknor were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL17 district, 4%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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