Welsh Bicknor

What is it like to live in Welsh Bicknor?

Homes sold for a typical £315,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. 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.

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 Welsh Bicknor?

Homes in Welsh Bicknor sold for a typical £315,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 23 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £300,000 from 23 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached £342,500 10 sales
• Semi-detached £260,000 9 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 GL17 district, Welsh Bicknor's main postcode district: a typical £275,000.

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 October 2026.

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 September 2025, 0 of the 23 homes sold in Welsh Bicknor were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the GL17 district, 3%.

New homes among the homes sold

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 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.

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 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.

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 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

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

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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

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.

• Drybrook Surgery Phone 01594 542239 4.5 kmCycle
• Dockham Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2026 · Phone 01594 820010 5.4 kmDrive
• Forest Health Care Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01594 820820 5.4 kmDrive

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

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

By kind, over the 12 months

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.

Source: police.uk, data to January 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.