B8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

578 of the district's 779 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 52.49114, -1.84135, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in B8

Companies House lists 2,800 companies with a registered office in B8; 104 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 B8

• Birmingham
• West Midlands

Roads filed under B8

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.

• Adderley Gardens
• Adderley Park Close
• Adderley Road
• Adderley Road South
• Alderson Road
• Alexander Way
• Alumhurst Avenue
• Alum Rock Road
• Anthony Road
• Arden Road
• Arley Road
• Ashby Close
• Ashley Gardens
• Ash Road
• Asquith Road
• Attwood Close
• Bamville Road
• Banford Avenue
• Banford Road
• Bankdale Road
• Barley Mow Close
• Bell Drive
• Bennetts Road
• Berry Road
• Bingley Avenue
• Bowyer Road
• Bridge Road
• Brook Hill Road
• Burney Lane
• Charles Close
• Chartist Road
• Chetwynd Road
• Church Walk
• City View
• Clarel Avenue
• Clayton Road
• Clipston Road
• Clodeshall Road
• Clover Lea Square
• College Gate
• College Road
• Commonfield Croft
• Common Lane
• Coronation Road
• Cotterills Avenue
• Cotterills Lane
• Cotterills Meadow
• Cottesfield Close
• Cottsmeadow Drive
• Couchman Road
• Cradock Road
• Cranby Street
• Crawford Street
• Cremore Avenue
• Cumbria Way
• Deen Crescent
• Dereham Close
• Dorlcote Road
• Dorset Road
• Drews Lane

Check an address in B8

Check an address in B8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=B8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about B8

What does a B8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the B8 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 578 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 B8

• B91.6 km
• B72.1 km
• B102.5 km
• B253.2 km
• B243.3 km
• B63.4 km
• B43.5 km
• B333.8 km
• B23.8 km
• B344.1 km
• B114.2 km
• B234.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids