G42 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

652 of the district's 1,103 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 55.83212, -4.25748, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in G42

Companies House lists 1,834 companies with a registered office in G42; 142 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 G42

• Glasgow
• Glasgow City
• Scotland

Roads filed under G42

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.

• Advie Place
• Agnew Lane
• Aikenhead Road
• Ailsa Drive
• Albert Avenue
• Albert Road
• Allison Place
• Allison Street
• Annandale Street
• Annette Street
• Ardbeg Lane
• Ardbeg Street
• Ardmory Place
• Ardnahoe Avenue
• Ardnahoe Place
• Arundel Drive
• Ascog Street
• Balvicar Drive
• Balvicar Street
• Bankhall Street
• Barbreck Road
• Batson Street
• Battlefield Avenue
• Battlefield Crescent
• Battlefield Gardens
• Battlefield Road
• Battle Place
• Belleisle Street
• Bennan Square
• Bolivar Terrace
• Bolton Drive
• Boswell Court
• Bowman Street
• Boyd Street
• Braemar Street
• Brereton Street
• Brisbane Street
• Brownlie Street
• Burton Lane
• Butterbiggins Court
• Butterbiggins Road
• Butterfield Place
• Calder Street
• Carfin Street
• Carmichael Place
• Cartside Quadrant
• Cartside Street
• Cartvale Road
• Cathcart Road
• Cathkin Road
• Cathkinview Place
• Cathkinview Road
• Chapman Street
• Clincart Road
• Coplaw Street
• Corlaich Avenue
• Corlaich Drive
• Craigie Street
• Craigmillar Road
• Crossbank Avenue

Check an address in G42

Check an address in G42

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=G42" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about G42

What does a G42 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the G42 district of the G (Glasgow) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Glasgow. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 652 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 G42

• G51.8 km
• G411.8 km
• G442.0 km
• G432.6 km
• G402.8 km
• G13.0 km
• G453.4 km
• G23.4 km
• G733.5 km
• G33.9 km
• G44.0 km
• G314.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids