BR8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

489 of the district's 700 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 51.39868, 0.17454, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BR8

Companies House lists 2,602 companies with a registered office in BR8; 252 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 BR8

• Kent
• South East
• Sevenoaks
• Swanley
• Hextable
• Crockenhill
• Swanley Village
• Bromley
• Greater London
• London
• Hockenden
• Clement Street
• Dartford

Roads filed under BR8

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.

• Abbotts Close
• Acacia Walk
• Alder Way
• Alexandra Close
• Allington Way
• Almond Drive
• Anthonys Lane
• Apple Orchard
• Archer Way
• Ash Close
• Aspen Close
• Azalea Drive
• Barnfield Close
• Bartholomew Way
• Beech Avenue
• Beechenlea Lane
• Bevan Place
• Birchwood Park Avenue
• Birchwood Road
• Bluebell Close
• Bonney Way
• Bourne Way
• Bower Road
• Braeburn Close
• Bramley Close
• Bransell Close
• Bremner Close
• Broadway
• Brook Road
• Button Street
• Casstine Close
• Cedar Close
• Chapmans Lane
• Charnock
• Cherry Avenue
• Church Farm Close
• Church Road
• Claremont Road
• Clement Street
• College Road
• Conifer Way
• Cookham Road
• Court Crescent
• Cranleigh Drive
• Crawfords
• Cray Road
• Crescent Gardens
• Cyclamen Road
• Dahlia Drive
• Daisy Drive
• Dale Road
• Daltons Road
• Darns Hill
• Dawson Drive
• Discovery Drive
• Downsview Close
• Durant Road
• Edgar Close
• Edwards Gardens
• Egerton Avenue

Check an address in BR8

Check an address in BR8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BR8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BR8

What does a BR8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BR8 district of the BR (Bromley) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Swanley. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 489 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 BR8

• DA44.2 km
• BR55.0 km
• DA55.1 km
• DA145.2 km
• DA25.6 km
• DA16.0 km
• DA66.7 km
• BR66.9 km
• DA157.1 km
• DA77.7 km
• BR77.8 km
• DA88.6 km
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distance between the districts' centroids