CA5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

353 of the district's 1,153 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 54.85566, -3.02086, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in CA5

Companies House lists 473 companies with a registered office in CA5; 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 CA5

• North West
• Cumberland
• Dalston
• Thursby
• Burgh-by-Sands
• Buckabank
• Thurstonfield
• Great Orton
• Kirkbampton
• Westmorland and Furness
• Moorhouse
• Monkhill
• Hawksdale
• Kirkandrews-on-Eden
• Beaumont
• Woodville
• Low Whinnow
• Sebergham
• Boustead Hill
• Longburgh
• Cardewlees
• Baldwinholme
• Raughton Head
• Grinsdale

Roads filed under CA5

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.

• Aballava Way
• Appletree Close
• Barras Brow
• Barras Close
• Barras Lane
• Bishop's Mill
• Bishops Way
• Boomby Lane
• Bouch Way
• Brook Close
• Buckabank Court
• Buckabank Road
• Buebank Lane
• Buebank Road
• Caldew Drive
• Canal Court
• Carlisle Road
• Centurion Way
• Chapel Field
• Chapelfield Lane
• Cherrim Lane
• Church Lane
• Coophouse Lane
• Crakegarth
• Crakegarth Close
• Croftlands Close
• Cross House Gardens
• Dacre Close
• Dundraw Lane
• Ewelock Lane
• Fairfields
• Glave Hill
• Glebe Close
• Grange Park Road
• Greensyke Court
• Greensyke Lane
• Greenwood Close
• Greenwood Garth
• Harrison Gardens
• Hawksdale Pastures
• High End Close
• Hillcroft
• Holmecroft
• Holme Lane
• Inglewood Drive
• King Edwards Fauld
• Kingfisher Row
• Kings View
• Ladylands Lane
• Laripots Close
• Lawrence Lane
• Ling Lane
• Lingyclose Road
• Longtom Rigg
• Low Moorlands
• Ludgate Hill
• Madam Banks Road
• Manor Farm Place
• Marsh House Gardens
• Matty Lonning

Check an address in CA5

Check an address in CA5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=CA5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about CA5

What does a CA5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the CA5 district of the CA (Carlisle) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Cumberland. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 353 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 CA5

• CA25.4 km
• CA17.7 km
• CA37.9 km
• CA412.1 km
• CA715.0 km
• DG1616.0 km
• CA617.2 km
• DG1220.9 km
• CA823.3 km
• DG1425.3 km
• CA1126.1 km
• CA1229.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids