BS1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

804 of the district's 1,780 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 51.45325, -2.59383, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BS1

Companies House lists 5,832 companies with a registered office in BS1; 1,690 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 BS1

• Bristol
• City of Bristol
• South West

Roads filed under BS1

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.

• Alfred Place
• All Saints' Lane
• All Saints' Street
• All Saints Court
• Anchor Lane
• Anchor Road
• Armada Place
• Ashmead Way
• Ashton Avenue
• Assembly Rooms Lane
• Avon Crescent
• Back Bridge Street
• Baldwin Street
• Barossa Place
• Barrs Court
• Barton Street
• Bath Street
• Bathurst Parade
• Bell Avenue
• Bell Lane
• Berkeley Avenue
• Bigwood Lane
• Blackfriars
• Bond Street
• Bond Street South
• Brandon Steep
• Brandon Steps
• Bridewell Street
• Bridge Street
• Brigstowe Street
• Broadmead
• Broad Quay
• Broad Street
• Broad Weir
• Brunel Lock Road
• Brunel Way
• Brunswick Place
• Burton Close
• Caledonian Road
• Callowhill Court
• Cannon Street
• Canon's Road
• Canons Way
• Canynge Street
• Cart Lane
• Cathedral Walk
• Cattle Market Road
• Challoner Court
• Charles Street
• Charlotte Street
• Charlotte Street South
• Chatterton Square
• Chatterton Street
• Cherry Lane
• Christmas Steps
• Christmas Street
• Church Lane
• Church Street
• Clare Street
• Clift Place

Check an address in BS1

Check an address in BS1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BS1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BS1

What does a BS1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BS1 district of the BS (Bristol) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bristol. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 804 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 BS1

• BS21.1 km
• BS31.7 km
• BS62.0 km
• BS82.0 km
• BS42.9 km
• BS53.1 km
• BS73.9 km
• BS94.4 km
• BS134.7 km
• BS144.9 km
• BS415.4 km
• BS156.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids