BB8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

785 of the district's 1,532 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 53.85818, -2.16352, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BB8

Companies House lists 1,226 companies with a registered office in BB8; 279 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 BB8

• Pendle
• Lancashire
• North West
• Colne
• Trawden
• Foulridge
• Winewall
• Hey
• Monkroyd
• Nelson
• Wycoller

Roads filed under BB8

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.

• Abner Row
• Acresfield
• Albert Road
• Alkincoats Road
• Alkincoats View
• Allendale Street
• Allison Grove
• Alma Avenue
• Alma Road
• Angel Way
• Archery Avenue
• Argyle Street
• Ashburnham Road
• Ash Street
• Aspinall Drive
• Atkinson Street
• Avondale Street
• Ayrton Street
• Back Albert Road
• Back Atkinson Street
• Back Bond Street
• Back Boundary Street
• Back Brown Street
• Back Cambridge Street
• Back Chapel Street
• Back Colne Road
• Back Derby Street
• Back Duke Street
• Back Earl Street
• Back Hall Street
• Back Lane
• Back Leach Street
• Back Lune Street
• Back Zion Street
• Ball Grove Drive
• Bankfield Street
• Bank Street
• Bannister Close
• Bannister Way
• Barcroft Street
• Barn Field Close
• Barrowford Road
• Basil Street
• Bath Street
• Beacon Close
• Beckside
• Belgrave Road
• Bence Street
• Bent Lane
• Bethel Street
• Birchenlee Lane
• Birtwistle Avenue
• Birtwistle East Lemes
• Birtwistle Fold
• Birtwistle Hyde Park
• Black Horse Yard
• Blenheim Street
• Blucher Street
• Bold Street
• Bolton Street

Check an address in BB8

Check an address in BB8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BB8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BB8

What does a BB8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BB8 district of the BB (Blackburn) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Colne. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 785 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 BB8

• BB94.1 km
• BB186.3 km
• BB107.5 km
• BB1110.3 km
• BB1210.4 km
• BD2213.7 km
• BD2014.7 km
• BB714.9 km
• OL1416.5 km
• BD2316.5 km
• HX716.7 km
• BD2116.8 km
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