BH8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

646 of the district's 909 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 50.74215, -1.85177, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BH8

Companies House lists 3,117 companies with a registered office in BH8; 1,260 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 BH8

• Bournemouth
• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• South West

Roads filed under BH8

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.

• Ampfield Road
• Arcadia Avenue
• Ascham Road
• Ashling Close
• Ashling Crescent
• Ashstead Gardens
• Ashurst Road
• Avon Close
• Avon Road
• Avon Walk
• Axford Close
• Balmoral Avenue
• Barrington Lane
• Barrow Drive
• Barrowgate Road
• Barrowgate Way
• Barrow Road
• Barrow Way
• Beechey Road
• Belmont Avenue
• Bennett Road
• Bethia Close
• Bethia Road
• Birch Drive
• Blackfield Road
• Bower Road
• Brackendale Road
• Bradpole Road
• Braishfield Gardens
• Bramshaw Gardens
• Broad Avenue
• Broadlands Close
• Broadway Lane
• Bucklers Way
• Burnham Drive
• Bushey Road
• Cadnam Way
• Calmore Close
• Capstone Place
• Capstone Road
• Careys Road
• Castle Gate Close
• Castle Lane West
• Castle Way
• Cattistock Road
• Cecil Avenue
• Cecil Hill
• Chapel Gardens
• Charminster Close
• Charminster Place
• Charminster Road
• Chatsworth Road
• Cheshire Drive
• Cheshire Gardens
• Chesilbourne Grove
• Chesildene Avenue
• Chesildene Drive
• Chigwell Road
• Coach House Place
• Cooper Dean Drive

Check an address in BH8

Check an address in BH8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BH8

What does a BH8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BH8 district of the BH (Bournemouth) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bournemouth. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 646 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 BH8

• BH91.7 km
• BH71.9 km
• BH12.0 km
• BH32.3 km
• BH52.3 km
• BH23.3 km
• BH103.5 km
• BH63.9 km
• BH44.1 km
• BH115.4 km
• BH125.4 km
• BH136.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids