BS2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

659 of the district's 979 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 51.45989, -2.58194, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BS2

Companies House lists 2,656 companies with a registered office in BS2; 358 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 BS2

• City of Bristol
• South West
• Bristol
• Box Makers Yard

Roads filed under BS2

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.

• Albany Road
• Albert Crescent
• Albert Road
• Albion Place
• Alfred Brooks Square
• Alfred Hill
• Alfred Parade
• Alfred Place
• Alfred Street
• Anvil Street
• Argyle Road
• Arthur Street
• Asher Lane
• Ashley Grove Road
• Ashley Parade
• Ashley Street
• Ashley Street Park
• Atlas Street
• Avonside Road
• Avon Street
• Babers Walk
• Backfields
• Backfields Lane
• Badminton Road
• Barley Fields
• Barnabas Street
• Barton Manor
• Barton Road
• Barton Vale
• Bedford Place
• Beggarswell Close
• Birkin Street
• Bishop Street
• Boiling Wells Lane
• Boucher Place
• Boyce Drive
• Bragg's Lane
• Brick Street
• Brighton Street
• Brigstocke Road
• Broad Plain
• Brooklyn Street
• Brunswick Square
• Brunswick Street
• Burnell Drive
• Byron Street
• Cabot Mews
• Cairns' Crescent
• Campbell Street
• Camwal Road
• Castle Street
• Cave Street
• Champion Square
• Chapel Street
• Chapter Street
• Cheese Lane
• Chimney Steps
• Church Lane
• City Road
• Clarence Place

Check an address in BS2

Check an address in BS2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BS2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BS2

What does a BS2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BS2 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 659 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 BS2

• BS11.1 km
• BS61.8 km
• BS52.1 km
• BS32.8 km
• BS82.8 km
• BS43.0 km
• BS73.0 km
• BS94.3 km
• BS155.2 km
• BS145.4 km
• BS105.7 km
• BS135.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids