BS26 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

227 of the district's 293 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 51.27886, -2.85664, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BS26

Companies House lists 365 companies with a registered office in BS26; none of them at an address 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 BS26

• South West
• Somerset
• Axbridge
• Rooks Bridge
• North Somerset
• Cross
• Stone Allerton
• Compton Bishop
• Lower Weare
• Weare
• Biddisham
• Tarnock
• Chapel Allerton
• Badgworth
• Loxton
• Webbington
• Christon
• New Town
• Alston Sutton
• Cheddar
• Brinscombe

Roads filed under BS26

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.

• Allerton Moor Drove
• Alston Sutton Road
• Axbridge Cheddar Cycle Way
• Axbridge Moor Drove
• Back Lane
• Badgworth Lane
• Bailiffs' Wall
• Bailiffs Close
• Banwell Road
• Barnabas Close
• Barton Road
• Biddisham Lane
• Big Tree Close
• Black Lane
• Blackthorn Close
• Bourton Lane
• Breach Lane
• Bridewell Lane
• Bridgwater Road
• Brinscombe Lane
• Bristol Road
• Broadmoor Drove
• Butts Batch
• Chapel Road
• Cheddar Road
• Chestnut Avenue
• Christon Road
• Church Lane
• Clare Court
• Compton Lane
• Coombe's Way
• Coombe Lane
• Copsewood Lane
• Cowslip Lane
• Cross Lane
• Cross Moor Drive
• Cross Moor Drove
• Crossmoor Road
• Dunkery Road
• East End
• Farthing Combe
• Fennel Lane
• Flagstaff Road
• Fletcher's Lane
• Front Street
• Furlong Path
• Gills Lane
• Greenhill Lane
• Hams Lane
• Henmore Lane
• High Street
• Hillview Road
• Hippisley Drive
• Homefield Avenue
• Hookedmead Lane
• Horn's Lane
• Houlgate Way
• Josephs Pound
• Jubilee Road
• Kennel Lane

Check an address in BS26

Check an address in BS26

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BS26" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BS26

What does a BS26 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BS26 district of the BS (Bristol) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Axbridge. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 227 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 BS26

• BS255.2 km
• BS275.9 km
• BS296.2 km
• BS286.5 km
• BS247.6 km
• TA99.2 km
• TA810.3 km
• BS2210.4 km
• BS2310.7 km
• BS4912.0 km
• BS4013.7 km
• BA515.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids