DT8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

234 of the district's 274 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 50.81986, -2.75908, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in DT8

Companies House lists 242 companies with a registered office in DT8; 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 DT8

• South West
• Dorset
• Beaminster
• Broadwindsor
• Mosterton
• Drimpton
• Stoke Abbott
• South Perrott
• Hooke
• Burstock
• Netherhay
• Chedington
• Sandpit
• Blackdown
• Hursey
• Mapperton
• Toller Whelme
• Littlewindsor
• Seaborough
• Clapton
• Somerset
• Meerhay

Roads filed under DT8

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.

• Abbot Close
• Applefield Road
• Axe Lane
• Axe Valley Close
• Axnoller Lane
• Back Lane
• Bailey's Lane
• Banks Lane
• Barnes Lane
• Barnfleet
• Beech Lane
• Blagdon Lane
• Blind Lane
• Bowes Lane
• Bowgrove Road
• Bracham Lane
• Brantwood
• Bridport Road
• Broadmead Close
• Broadoak Avenue
• Broadwindsor Road
• Burstock Lane
• Causeway Lane
• Champions Gardens
• Chantry Lane
• Chard Road
• Chedington Lane
• Childhay Lane
• Church Hill
• Church Path
• Church Street
• Claylands Lane
• Clay Lane
• Cockpit Hill
• Cockroad Lane
• Common Hill
• Common Water Lane
• Coombe Lane
• Coombe Water Lane
• Crabb's Barn Lane
• Crewkerne Road
• Crooked Lane
• Culverhayes
• Down Road
• East Street
• East Street Gardens
• Eggardon Close
• Fairfield
• Fairoak Way
• Flaxfield Rise
• Flaxfield Road
• Fleet Street
• Francis Mews
• Fullers
• Furze Lane
• Gerrards Green
• Grange Lane
• Greenham Lane
• Green Lane
• Greens Cross Drive

Check an address in DT8

Check an address in DT8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=DT8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about DT8

What does a DT8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the DT8 district of the DT (Dorchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Beaminster. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 234 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 DT8

• TA187.3 km
• DT69.0 km
• TA1610.3 km
• TA1711.2 km
• TA1414.1 km
• TA1314.6 km
• TA1514.9 km
• BA2015.4 km
• TA2015.4 km
• DT716.6 km
• TA1916.9 km
• BA2117.1 km
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