BS3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

979 of the district's 1,299 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 51.43868, -2.60319, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BS3

Companies House lists 2,850 companies with a registered office in BS3; 454 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 BS3

• South West
• Bristol
• City of Bristol
• North Somerset

Roads filed under BS3

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.

• Acraman's Road
• Addison Road
• Agate Street
• Albert Place
• Alfred Road
• Algiers Street
• Allington Road
• Almorah Road
• Alpha Road
• Argus Court
• Argus Road
• Argyle Street
• Ashfield Road
• Ashgrove Road
• Ashman Road
• Ashton Drive
• Ashton Gate Road
• Ashton Gate Terrace
• Ashton Gate Underpass
• Ashton Rise
• Ashton Road
• Ashton Vale Road
• Ashville Road
• Atlas Road
• Atyeo Close
• Aubrey Road
• Avebury Road
• Avonleigh Road
• Aylesbury Crescent
• Aylesbury Road
• Back Road
• Balfour Road
• Banwell Road
• Barons Close
• Bartlett's Road
• Bartley Street
• Bath Street
• Baynton Road
• Beaufort Street
• Beauley Road
• Beckington Road
• Beckington Walk
• Bedminster Down Road
• Bedminster Parade
• Bedminster Place
• Bedminster Road
• Berrow Walk
• Beryl Road
• Birch Road
• Blackmoors Lane
• Booth Road
• Boot Lane
• Bower Ashton Terrace
• Bower Road
• Bower Walk
• Braunton Road
• Breach Road
• Brean Gardens
• Brendon Road
• Brighton Crescent

Check an address in BS3

Check an address in BS3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BS3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BS3

What does a BS3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BS3 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 979 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 BS3

• BS11.7 km
• BS82.5 km
• BS42.8 km
• BS22.8 km
• BS133.0 km
• BS63.6 km
• BS413.9 km
• BS144.0 km
• BS54.4 km
• BS75.6 km
• BS95.6 km
• BS157.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids