What does a B47 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the B47 district of the B (Birmingham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Hollywood. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 241 live postcodes.

B47 postcode district

B47, in the B (Birmingham) postcode area, has 241 live and 54 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 142 roads under it.

postcode area	B (Birmingham)
live postcodes	241
terminated postcodes	54
sectors	2
roads listed	142
companies registered	650
centroid	52.38547, -1.87987
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

241 of the district's 295 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 52.38547, -1.87987, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
B47 5	144	30
B47 6	97	24

Companies registered in B47

Companies House lists 650 companies with a registered office in B47; 91 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 B47

West Midlands
Bromsgrove
Worcestershire
Hollywood
Wythall
Bateman's Green
Inkford
Tanner's Green
Birmingham
Shawbrook
Whitlock's End
Stratford-on-Avon
Warwickshire

Roads filed under B47

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.

Alcester Road
Alder Close
Alfreda Avenue
Alveston Road
Ann Road
Arden Road
Ash Crescent
Aspen Grove
Avon Drive
Baccabox Lane
Barkers Lane
Batemans Lane
Beaudesert Close
Beaudesert Road
Beech Road
Berrymound View
Bramley Drive
Brick Kiln Lane
Burford Road
Burnham Road
Butterworth Close
Chantry Close
Chapel Drive
Chapel Lane
Cherry Walk
Chesterwood
Church Close
Church View
Coppice Gardens
Corbett Road
Cropthorne Drive
Danford Road
Dark Lane
Douglas Road
Drakes Close
Drakes Cross Parade
Dumble Pit Lane
Dyas Road
Easton Grove
Elmwood Grove
Falstaff Avenue
Fenton Road
Fieldways Close
Flax Close
Forest Way
Franklin Close
Fulford Close
Gorsey Lane
Green Close
Green Gables
Hadley Close
Hastings Close
Hawthorne Drive
Hazel Drive
Heath Road
Hill Lane
Holly Drive
Hollywood Bypass
Hollywood Drive
Hollywood Gardens

all 142 roads

Hollywood Lane
Houndsfield Close
Houndsfield Grove
Houndsfield Lane
Innisfree Close
Jeal Close
Kenway
Laburnum Close
Lea Green Drive
Lea Green Lane
Lee Road
Lime Close
Lint Meadow
Littleshaw Croft
Littleshaw Lane
Love Lane
Lynbrook Close
Manor Road
May Farm Close
Mayhurst Close
Mayhurst Road
May Lane
Meadow Croft
Meadow Road
Middle Lane
Mill Close
Mill Lane
Morrey Close
Mynors Crescent
New Road
Norton Lane
Oak Tree Lane
Oakwood Road
Orchard Way
Packhorse Lane
Paddocks Road
Park Croft
Pearmans Croft
Richmond Close
Rowan Close
Rye Croft
School Drive
Selsdon Close
Severn Way
Shawfield
Shawhurst Croft
Shawhurst Gardens
Shawhurst Lane
Silver Birch Drive
Silvermead Court
Silver Street
Simms Lane
Simon Road
Slough Lane
Station Road
Sycamore Drive
Tanners Green Lane
Thame Court
The Close
The Hurst
The Innage
The Laurels
The Lawns
The Oaks
The Orchards
The Reddings
The Spinney
The Willows
Three Oaks Road
Trent Crescent
Warmington Road
Wilfred Mews
Willow Gardens
Wilmore Lane
Windrush Road
Wood Croft
Woodleaves
Woodrush Drive
Wythall Green Way
Wythwood Grove
Wythwood Road
Yarn Close

Check an address in B47

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=B47" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about B47

What does a B47 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the B47 district of the B (Birmingham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Hollywood. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 241 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 B47

B143.6 km
B903.9 km
B384.1 km
B305.2 km
B285.3 km
B485.7 km
B135.8 km
B316.9 km
B947.0 km
B917.3 km
B297.4 km
B277.6 km
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