BS6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

780 of the district's 1,084 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 51.47079, -2.60050, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BS6

Companies House lists 2,572 companies with a registered office in BS6; 218 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 BS6

• Bristol
• City of Bristol
• South West

Roads filed under BS6

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.

• Abbotsford Road
• Aberdeen Road
• Albert Park
• Albert Park Place
• Alexandra Park
• Alfred Road
• Archfield Road
• Arley Cottages
• Arley Hill
• Arley Park
• Armidale Avenue
• Ashfield Place
• Ashgrove Road
• Ashley Hill
• Ashley Park
• Ashley Road
• Auburn Road
• Back of Kingsdown Parade
• Banner Road
• Bath Buildings
• Bayswater Avenue
• Bay Willow Drive
• Belmont Road
• Belvedere Road
• Belvoir Road
• Berkeley Road
• Birchall Road
• Blenheim Road
• Branksome Road
• Briavels Grove
• Brighton Road
• Brookfield Lane
• Brookfield Road
• Brook Hill
• Brookland Road
• Brook Lane
• Brook Road
• Burghley Road
• Cairns Road
• Cambridge Park
• Canowie Road
• Carnarvon Road
• Chandos Road
• Chapel Green Lane
• Chapter Walk
• Cheltenham Lane
• Cheltenham Road
• Chertsey Road
• Chesterfield Avenue
• Chesterfield Road
• Clarendon Road
• Clare Road
• Clay Pit Road
• Clevedon Terrace
• Clyde Lane
• Clyde Park
• Clyde Road
• Cobourg Road
• Coldharbour Road
• Collingwood Road

Check an address in BS6

Check an address in BS6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BS6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BS6

What does a BS6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BS6 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 780 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 BS6

• BS21.8 km
• BS12.0 km
• BS82.1 km
• BS72.3 km
• BS92.6 km
• BS53.5 km
• BS33.6 km
• BS104.1 km
• BS44.7 km
• BS115.9 km
• BS346.3 km
• BS416.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids