BR5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

933 of the district's 1,313 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 51.39172, 0.10340, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BR5

Companies House lists 3,247 companies with a registered office in BR5; 519 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 BR5

• London
• Bromley
• Greater London
• Orpington
• Kevington

Roads filed under BR5

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.

• Abbots Close
• Acacia Close
• Addison Close
• Admiral Close
• Albert Road
• Allard Close
• Alma Road
• Amherst Close
• Amherst Drive
• Andrews Close
• Anglesea Road
• Appleby Close
• Arbrook Close
• Archer Road
• Ascot Road
• Ash Close
• Athelstan Way
• Audley Walk
• Augustine Road
• Austin Road
• Axtaine Road
• Barcombe Close
• Barden Grove
• Barnesdale Crescent
• Barnfield Road
• Batchwood Green
• Beagles Close
• Beamish Road
• Beaufort Place
• Beaumont Road
• Beckford Drive
• Beddington Green
• Beddington Road
• Belgrave Close
• Bellefield Road
• Bell Gardens
• Berens Road
• Berger Close
• Berkeley Close
• Birchington Close
• Birchwood Road
• Blackberry Field
• Blacksmiths Lane
• Blackthorn Grove
• Blundell Close
• Blythe Hill
• Bodmin Close
• Bostall Road
• Boswell Close
• Bournewood Road
• Box Tree Walk
• Branston Crescent
• Brantwood Way
• Breakspears Drive
• Brenchley Road
• Bridge Road
• Broadcroft Road
• Broad Oak Close
• Brockwell Close
• Brookmead Close

Check an address in BR5

Check an address in BR5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BR5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BR5

What does a BR5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BR5 district of the BR (Bromley) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Orpington. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 933 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 BR5

• BR63.1 km
• BR73.7 km
• DA143.7 km
• BR85.0 km
• DA155.6 km
• BR25.6 km
• BR16.2 km
• DA56.2 km
• SE96.8 km
• DA67.5 km
• BR48.0 km
• DA168.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids