CB8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,074 of the district's 1,603 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 52.23102, 0.42890, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in CB8

Companies House lists 2,910 companies with a registered office in CB8; 486 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 CB8

• Eastern
• West Suffolk
• Suffolk
• Newmarket
• Cambridgeshire
• East Cambridgeshire
• Exning
• Kentford
• Wickhambrook
• Kennett
• Cheveley
• South Cambridgeshire
• Moulton
• Gazeley
• Dullingham
• Ashley
• Six Mile Bottom
• Brinkley
• Stetchworth
• Burrough Green
• Saxon Street
• Cowlinge
• Dalham
• Lidgate

Roads filed under CB8

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.

• Abernant Drive
• Aborfield Drive
• Acre Road
• Adastral Close
• Algar Drive
• Allotment Road
• All Saints Close
• All Saints Road
• Alycidon Mews
• Andrew Road
• Anne's Close
• Anvil Way
• Ardross Court
• Argent Place
• Armstrong Close
• Ascot Close
• Ash Drive
• Ashfield
• Ashley Road
• Ash Walk
• Aureole Walk
• Back Lane
• Bahram Close
• Bakehouse Hill
• Balaton Place
• Balsham Lane
• Barbara Stradbroke Avenue
• Barber's Lane
• Barley Close
• Barlings Court
• Barry Lynham Drive
• Bartons Place
• Beaverbrook Road
• Beech Croft
• Beech Row
• Beechwood Close
• Benefield Road
• Bill Rickaby Drive
• Birdcage Walk
• Black Bear Lane
• Bluebell Drive
• Boleyn Walk
• Boyden Close
• Bradley Road
• Brewers Lane
• Brickfields Avenue
• Bridge Street
• Brinkley Road
• Brook Field
• Brookfields Close
• Brook Lane
• Brookside
• Browns Close
• Bunbury Terrace
• Bunters Road
• Burwell Road
• Bury Lane
• Bury Road
• Byerley Close
• Cardigan Street

Check an address in CB8

Check an address in CB8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=CB8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about CB8

What does a CB8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the CB8 district of the CB (Cambridge) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Newmarket. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,074 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 CB8

• CB2512.4 km
• IP2812.9 km
• CB2115.3 km
• CB715.9 km
• IP2916.3 km
• CB916.4 km
• CB518.6 km
• IP3319.1 km
• IP3219.9 km
• CB120.0 km
• CB420.4 km
• CB221.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids