EX8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,094 of the district's 1,448 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 50.62988, -3.40146, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EX8

Companies House lists 1,684 companies with a registered office in EX8; 541 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 EX8

• East Devon
• Devon
• South West
• Exmouth
• Lympstone
• Exton

Roads filed under EX8

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.

• Admirals Walk
• Albany Close
• Albert Place
• Albion Hill
• Albion Place
• Albion Street
• Alexandra Terrace
• Alston Terrace
• Anson Road
• Apple Close
• April Close
• Arthurs Close
• Ashfield Close
• Ash Grove
• Ashleigh Road
• Avondale Road
• Bakery Lane
• Bankside
• Bapton Close
• Bapton Lane
• Barnfield Avenue
• Barrowdale Close
• Bassetts Gardens
• Bath Road
• Beacon Hill
• Beacon Place
• Beechway
• Belle Vue Road
• Belvedere Road
• Berry Close
• Betjeman Drive
• Bicton Place
• Bicton Street
• Bicton Villas
• Bidmead Close
• Birch Road
• Birchwood Road
• Blackmore Court
• Boarden Barn
• Booth Way
• Brackendale
• Brackenwood
• Bradford Close
• Bradham Court
• Bradham Lane
• Breton Way
• Briar Close
• Bridge Road
• Brimpenny Road
• Brittany Road
• Brixington Drive
• Brixington Lane
• Brixington Parade
• Broadmead
• Broad Park Road
• Brookhayes Close
• Brooklands Road
• Brook Meadow
• Buckeridge Road
• Buckingham Close

Check an address in EX8

Check an address in EX8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EX8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EX8

What does an EX8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EX8 district of the EX (Exeter) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Exmouth. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,094 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 EX8

• EX95.6 km
• EX77.0 km
• EX37.5 km
• TQ1411.6 km
• EX211.8 km
• EX112.9 km
• EX1013.0 km
• EX514.2 km
• EX414.3 km
• EX614.8 km
• EX1115.2 km
• TQ1218.6 km
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