B26 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

575 of the district's 752 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 52.46152, -1.78866, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in B26

Companies House lists 1,835 companies with a registered office in B26; 298 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 B26

• West Midlands
• Birmingham
• Solihull

Roads filed under B26

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.

• Abigails Close
• Airport Way
• Aldershaw Road
• Amanda Drive
• Ambassador Road
• Ann Croft
• Arden Drive
• Arden Oak Road
• Ashdale Grove
• Ash Tree Drive
• Averill Road
• Bantry Close
• Barrows Lane
• Bayford Avenue
• Beechmore Road
• Bellevue Road
• Benedon Road
• Berryfield Road
• Beverley Grove
• Bickley Grove
• Billingsley Road
• Bilton Grange Road
• Bincomb Avenue
• Birchtrees Croft
• Bosworth Road
• Boyne Road
• Bramble Drive
• Brawnes Hurst
• Brays Road
• Brean Avenue
• Brindle Close
• Brinsley Road
• Broadstone Road
• Broadway Croft
• Brook Croft
• Brookdale Grove
• Bryn Arden Road
• Campbells Green
• Carnford Road
• Chaffcombe Road
• Charlbury Crescent
• Charles Edward Road
• Chestnuts Avenue
• Church Road
• Clay Lane
• Clydesdale
• Coalway Avenue
• Cockshut Hill
• Collingdon Avenue
• Comberton Road
• Commissary Road
• Common Lane
• Concorde Road
• Copnor Grove
• Corrie Croft
• Corville Gardens
• Coventry Road
• Cranes Park Road
• Cranfield Grove
• Croft Road

Check an address in B26

Check an address in B26

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=B26" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about B26

What does a B26 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the B26 district of the B (Birmingham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Birmingham. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 575 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 B26

• B332.1 km
• B252.3 km
• B922.9 km
• B273.0 km
• B373.7 km
• B343.9 km
• B104.4 km
• B94.6 km
• B404.7 km
• B364.8 km
• B114.8 km
• B84.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids