AL8 postcode district
AL8, in the AL (St Albans) postcode area, has 422 live and 178 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 164 roads under it.
| postcode area | AL (St Albans) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 422 |
| terminated postcodes | 178 |
| sectors | 2 |
| roads listed | 164 |
| companies registered | 859 |
| centroid | 51.80364, -0.21176 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
422 of the district's 600 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 51.80364, -0.21176, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| AL8 6 | 213 | 113 |
| AL8 7 | 209 | 65 |
Companies registered in AL8
Companies House lists 859 companies with a registered office in AL8; 51 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.
Places OS Open Names lists for AL8
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Hertfordshire
- Eastern
- Welwyn Garden City
- Stanborough
- Lemsford
- Ayot Green
- Cromer Hyde
Roads filed under AL8
Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.
- Amethyst Walk
- Applecroft Road
- Ashcombe
- Ashley Close
- Attimore Close
- Attimore Road
- Barleycroft Green
- Barleycroft Road
- Barn Close
- Barnside Court
- Birdcroft Road
- Blakemere Road
- Bridge Road
- Broadfield Place
- Broadleaf Grove
- Brocket Road
- Brockett Close
- Brockswood Lane
- Brooms Close
- Burycroft
- Byfield
- Cherry Croft
- Church Road
- Colgrove
- Coneydale
- Coopers Green Lane
- Corn Mead
- Crossway
- Dellcott Close
- Densley Close
- De Soissons Close
- Digswell Rise
- Digswell Road
- Dognell Green
- Downfields
- Elm Gardens
- Elmwood
- Farm Close
- Fearnley Road
- Fern Grove
- Field View Court
- Fordwich Road
- Fretherne Road
- Great Dell
- Great North Road
- Greenfield
- Gresley Close
- Guessens Grove
- Guessens Road
- Guessens Walk
- Handside Close
- Handside Green
- Handside Lane
- Harwood Close
- Harwood Hill
- Hawthorns
- Haymeads
- Heather Road
- High Grove
- High Oaks Road
all 164 roads
- Hitherway
- Hobbs Way
- Holly Walk
- Homerfield
- Honeycroft
- Howardsgate
- Ingles
- Kirklands
- Knightsfield
- Lanefield Walk
- Leaside Close
- Lemsford Lane
- Lemsford Village
- Little Dell
- Little Youngs
- Longcroft Gardens
- Longcroft Green
- Longcroft Lane
- Lyles Lane
- Lytton Gardens
- Maidensfield
- Malmsdale
- Mandeville Rise
- Mannicotts
- Marford Road
- Marsden Close
- Marsden Green
- Marsden Road
- Mayfield
- Meadow Green
- Melbourne Court
- Mill Close
- Monks Rise
- Monks Walk
- Monkswood
- Newfields
- New Road
- Nut Grove
- Oakdale
- Osborn Way
- Palmerston Close
- Parkfields
- Parkway
- Parkway Close
- Parkway Gardens
- Pentley Close
- Pentley Park
- Picketts
- Pippens
- Pitsfield
- Polayn Garth
- Rayfield
- Rectory Road
- Reddings
- Redwoods
- Rooks Close
- Rooks Hill
- Roundwood Drive
- Russellcroft Road
- Scholars Mews
- Scotts View
- Sefton Court
- Sewells
- Sherrardspark Road
- Shoplands
- Sir Theodore's Way
- Springfields
- Stacklands
- Stanborough Close
- Stanborough Green
- Stanborough Lane
- Stanborough Mews
- Stanborough Road
- Stonehills
- Stonemead
- Summer Dale
- Templewood
- The Campus
- The Cloisters
- The Coppins
- The Firs
- The Glade
- The Lawns
- The Old Drive
- The Orchard
- The Quadrangle
- The Valley Green
- The Vineyard
- Tilecroft
- Turmore Dale
- Uplands
- Valley Road
- Vine Close
- Walden Place
- Walden Road
- Warren Dale
- Wigmores North
- Wigmores South
- Wilkins Grove
- Willow Grove
- Woodland Rise
- Youngs Rise
- A1(M)
- A6129
Check an address in AL8
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=AL8" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about AL8
- What does an AL8 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the AL8 district of the AL (St Albans) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Welwyn Garden City. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 422 live postcodes.
Where the counts come from
- ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
- os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0
What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.
Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.
Districts nearest AL8
- AL71.9 km
- AL63.3 km
- AL105.0 km
- AL46.6 km
- SG36.6 km
- AL96.7 km
- SG148.1 km
- AL59.8 km
- SG139.8 km
- AL19.8 km
- SG210.9 km
- AL311.7 km
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