BS8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

826 of the district's 1,239 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 51.45749, -2.62233, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BS8

Companies House lists 5,035 companies with a registered office in BS8; 1,664 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 BS8

• South West
• Bristol
• City of Bristol
• North Somerset
• Failand
• Abbots Leigh
• Leigh Woods
• Lower Failand

Roads filed under BS8

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.

• Abbots Leigh Road
• Albermarle Row
• Alexandra Road
• All Saints' Road
• Alma Road
• Alma Road Avenue
• Alma Street
• Alma Vale Road
• Ambra Vale
• Ambra Vale East
• Ambra Vale South
• Ambra Vale West
• Ambrose Road
• Anglesea Place
• Apsley Road
• Argyle Place
• Arlington Villas
• Ashgrove Avenue
• Bannerleigh Lane
• Bannerleigh Road
• Beaconsfield Road
• Bear Yard Mews
• Beaufort Mews
• Beaufort Road
• Beggar Bush Lane
• Belgrave Hill
• Belgrave Place
• Belgrave Road
• Bellevue
• Bellevue Cottages
• Bellevue Crescent
• Bellevue Terrace
• Belmont Drive
• Belmont Hill
• Bennett Way
• Berkeley Crescent
• Berkeley Place
• Berkeley Square
• Birchwood Drive
• Blackmoor Road
• Bowden Way
• Boyce's Avenue
• Brandon Hill Lane
• Bridge Road
• Bridge Valley Road
• Brighton Mews
• Bristol Gate
• Broadoaks
• Buckingham Vale
• Burlington Road
• Burton Court
• Burwalls Road
• Byron Place
• Cabot Way
• Cabstand Road
• Caledonia Mews
• Caledonia Place
• Camden Terrace
• Camp Road
• Cantock's Close

Check an address in BS8

Check an address in BS8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BS8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BS8

What does a BS8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BS8 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 826 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 BS8

• BS12.0 km
• BS62.1 km
• BS32.5 km
• BS22.8 km
• BS93.3 km
• BS74.4 km
• BS414.5 km
• BS44.7 km
• BS54.9 km
• BS135.1 km
• BS105.6 km
• BS115.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids