BS40 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

720 of the district's 871 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 51.34651, -2.69206, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BS40

Companies House lists 1,272 companies with a registered office in BS40; 30 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 BS40

• South West
• North Somerset
• Bath and North East Somerset
• Wrington
• Blagdon
• Chew Magna
• Chew Stoke
• Winford
• Churchill
• Somerset
• Compton Martin
• Felton
• East Harptree
• Lower Langford
• West Harptree
• Redhill
• Ubley
• Burrington
• Lulsgate Bottom
• Aldwick
• Upper Langford
• Stock
• Butcombe
• Nempnett Thrubwell

Roads filed under BS40

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.

• Alburys
• Aldwick Lane
• Ashey Lane
• Ashford Road
• Ashwood
• Awkward Hill
• Bakers Lane
• Barrow Lane
• Bath Road
• Battle Lane
• Baynard Close
• Bellhorse Lane
• Bell Lane
• Bell Square
• Bell Walk
• Benches Lane
• Bickfield Lane
• Bilbie Close
• Bilbie Road
• Birch Drive
• Blackmoor
• Blackmoor Close
• Blagdon Lane
• Blind Lane
• Bourne Lane
• Breach Hill Lane
• Bristol Road
• Broad Mead Lane
• Broadoak Road
• Broad Road
• Broad Street
• Brook Gardens
• Brooklyn
• Brookside
• Bullhouse Lane
• Burrington Combe
• Burrington Lane
• Bushy Thorn Road
• Butcombe Lane
• Butham Lane
• Butt's Batch
• Butts Orchard
• Bypass
• Caple Lane
• Chapel Close
• Chapel Hill
• Chapel Lane
• Chew Hill
• Chew Lane
• Chew Road
• Chew Street
• Chillyhill Lane
• Church Court
• Church Lane
• Church Rise
• Church Road
• Church Street
• Church Walk
• Clanders Batch
• Cleeve Hill

Check an address in BS40

Check an address in BS40

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BS40" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BS40

What does a BS40 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BS40 district of the BS (Bristol) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is North Somerset. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 720 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 BS40

• BS418.8 km
• BS139.2 km
• BS499.3 km
• BS259.4 km
• BS489.6 km
• BS279.9 km
• BS3911.2 km
• BS1411.6 km
• BS312.0 km
• BS2913.1 km
• BS813.3 km
• BS413.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids