CB5 postcode district
CB5, in the CB (Cambridge) postcode area, has 279 live and 589 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 170 roads under it.
| postcode area | CB (Cambridge) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 279 |
| terminated postcodes | 589 |
| sectors | 3 |
| roads listed | 170 |
| companies registered | 1,101 |
| centroid | 52.21267, 0.15703 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
279 of the district's 868 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 52.21267, 0.15703, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| CB5 0 | 0 | 207 |
| CB5 8 | 279 | 112 |
| CB5 9 | 0 | 270 |
Companies registered in CB5
Companies House lists 1,101 companies with a registered office in CB5; 61 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 CB5
- Cambridgeshire
- Eastern
- Cambridge
- South Cambridgeshire
- Fen Ditton
Roads filed under CB5
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.
- Abbey Gardens
- Abbey Road
- Ann's Road
- Auckland Court
- Auckland Road
- Bailey Mews
- Bakery Close
- Barnes Close
- Barnwell Drive
- Barnwell Road
- Beche Court
- Beche Road
- Beech Court
- Bergholt Close
- Beta Avenue
- Biggin Lane
- Blue Lion Close
- Bragg Way
- Brentwood Close
- Brunswick Gardens
- Brunswick Terrace
- Brunswick Walk
- Caroline Hart Walk
- Causeway Passage
- Cessna Way
- Cheddars Lane
- Chigwell Court
- Church Street
- Coggeshall Close
- Cut Throat Lane
- De Bruyne Street
- Dennis Road
- Ditton Fields
- Ditton Lane
- Ditton Walk
- Dudley Road
- Dunsmore Close
- Durrant Close
- Egerton Close
- Egerton Road
- Ekin Close
- Ekin Road
- Ekin Walk
- Elfleda Road
- Evening Court
- Fairfield End
- Ferndale Rise
- Field Lane
- Fison Road
- Galfrid Close
- Galfrid Road
- Garlic Row
- Gerard Close
- Gerard Road
- Gillies Close
- Godesdone Road
- Grebe Court
- Green End
- Green Lane
- Gregory Park Mews
all 170 roads
- Gregory Park North
- Gregory Park South
- Grey Way
- Gypsy Moth Lane
- Hadleigh Court
- Harvest Way
- Hazel Court
- Headford Close
- Helen Close
- High Ditch Road
- High Street
- Holyoake Court
- Horningsea Road
- Howard Close
- Howard Road
- Humble Lane
- Huntley Close
- Jack Warren Green
- Jubilee Lane
- Jubilee Square
- Keynes Road
- Kingsley Walk
- Latimer Close
- Leonard Close
- Lower Park Street
- Malden Close
- Maltings Close
- Maltings Yard
- Mansfield Way
- Marleigh Avenue
- Marleigh Lane
- Meadowlands Road
- Mercers Row
- Midsummer Place
- Misty Meadows
- Morrow Lane
- Musgrave Way
- Newmarket Road
- New Park Street
- North Terrace
- Norton Close
- Nursery Close
- Oak Court
- Oyster Row
- Park Parade
- Park Street
- Parsonage Street
- Peverel Close
- Peverel Road
- Pool Way
- Poplar Close
- Portugal Place
- Portugal Street
- Priory Road
- Quainton Close
- Quayside
- Rachel Close
- Rawlyn Close
- Rawlyn Road
- Rayson Way
- Regatta Court
- River Lane
- Riverside
- Riverside Place
- Round Church Street
- Rowan Court
- Rowlinson Way
- Saxon Road
- Sharland Lane
- Shepherd's Close
- Ship Lane
- Stanbury Close
- Stanesfield Close
- Stanesfield Road
- Stanley Court
- Stanley Road
- Stanway Close
- St Bartholomew's Court
- Stevenson Court
- St John's Road
- Sunnyside
- Sun Street
- Swann's Road
- Ten Acre Place
- The Avenue
- The Chimney
- The Copse
- The Homing
- The Mallards
- The Quadrant
- The Rodings
- Thetford Terrace
- The Westering
- Thompson's Lane
- Thorleye Road
- Thorpe Way
- Tiger Moth Lane
- Tiptree Close
- Titch Street
- Valiant Lane
- Velos Walk
- Wadloes Footpath
- Wadloes Road
- Walnut Court
- Walnut Tree Avenue
- Whitehill Close
- Whitehill Road
- Willow Court
- Wright's Close
- B1047
Check an address in CB5
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=CB5" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about CB5
- What does a CB5 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the CB5 district of the CB (Cambridge) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Cambridge. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 279 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 CB5
- CB42.2 km
- CB12.2 km
- CB23.8 km
- CB34.0 km
- CB258.5 km
- CB249.1 km
- CB229.4 km
- CB2112.7 km
- CB2313.0 km
- CB818.6 km
- CB720.0 km
- SG820.2 km
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