GL1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,036 of the district's 1,686 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 51.85933, -2.24381, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in GL1

Companies House lists 3,231 companies with a registered office in GL1; 638 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 GL1

• Gloucester
• Gloucestershire
• South West
• Quedgeley

Roads filed under GL1

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.

• Adelaide Street
• Albany Street
• Albert Street
• Albion Mews
• Albion Street
• Alderman Road
• Alexandra Road
• Alfred Street
• Alington Close
• All Saints' Road
• Alma Place
• Alma Terrace
• Alney Terrace
• Alvin Street
• Archdeacon Court
• Archdeacon Street
• Archibald Street
• Arthur Street
• Ayland Gardens
• Balfour Road
• Barbican Road
• Barbican Way
• Barnaby Close
• Barrack Square
• Barron Way
• Barton Street
• Basswood Court
• Bathurst Road
• Bearland
• Bedford Street
• Belgrave Road
• Bell Lane
• Berkeley Street
• Birchmore Road
• Bishop's Castle Way
• Bishopstone Road
• Black Dog Way
• Blackfriars
• Blenheim Road
• Bloomfield Road
• Bloomfield Terrace
• Bonnies Lane
• Bowly Road
• Brook Street
• Brunswick Road
• Brunswick Square
• Bruton Way
• Bull Lane
• Burford Mews
• Calton Road
• Cambridge Street
• Carmarthen Street
• Casey Close
• Castle Meads Way
• Catherine Court
• Cecil Road
• Central Road
• Charles Street
• Chaucer Close
• Chillingworth Mews

Check an address in GL1

Check an address in GL1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=GL1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about GL1

What does a GL1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the GL1 district of the GL (Gloucester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Gloucester. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,036 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 GL1

• GL22.4 km
• GL42.7 km
• GL34.6 km
• GL1910.1 km
• GL5110.2 km
• GL5012.0 km
• GL5312.3 km
• GL1013.1 km
• GL513.6 km
• GL614.3 km
• GL5214.4 km
• GL1814.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids