CO8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

126 of the district's 143 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 51.97347, 0.76655, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in CO8

Companies House lists 109 companies with a registered office in CO8; 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 CO8

• Eastern
• Essex
• Braintree
• Bures
• Babergh
• Suffolk
• Colchester
• Alphamstone
• Mount Bures
• Lamarsh
• Bures Green

Roads filed under CO8

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.

• Alphamstone Road
• Apple Tree Mews
• Ball's Chace
• Beaumont Close
• Bell Hill
• Bells Hill
• Bridge Street
• Cambridge Way
• Chappel Road
• Church Square
• Claypits Avenue
• Clicket Hill
• Colchester Road
• Colne Road
• Craig's Hill
• Craig's Lane
• Croftside
• Cuckoo Hill
• Dead Lane
• Dowling Road
• Fordham Road
• Friends Field
• Goulds Road
• Hall Road
• Hamlet Court
• Henny Back Road
• Henny Road
• Henny Street
• High Street
• Hollow Lane
• Lamarsh Hill
• Lamarsh Road
• Langley Hill
• Maltings Close
• Moat Lane
• Nayland Road
• New Cut
• Normandie Way
• Old Barn Road
• Parsonage Grove
• Peartree Hill
• Pebmarsh Road
• Pikes Marsh
• Pitmire Lane
• Robert's Hill
• Smallbridge Entry
• Springett's Hill
• Station Hill
• St Edmund's Hill
• St Edmunds Lane
• St Mary's Lane
• Sudbury Road
• Tawneys Ride
• Tenter Field
• The Croft
• The Paddocks
• The Waldegraves
• Water Lane
• Wemsey's Lane
• Wharf Lane

Check an address in CO8

Check an address in CO8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=CO8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about CO8

What does a CO8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the CO8 district of the CO (Colchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bures. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 126 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 CO8

• CO65.7 km
• CO1010.0 km
• CO910.8 km
• CO311.6 km
• CO412.7 km
• CO113.4 km
• CO214.5 km
• IP716.1 km
• CM717.9 km
• CO517.9 km
• CM7718.9 km
• CO719.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids