GL2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,503 of the district's 2,196 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 51.84401, -2.26928, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in GL2

Companies House lists 4,099 companies with a registered office in GL2; 311 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 GL2

• Gloucestershire
• South West
• Gloucester
• Stroud
• Tewkesbury
• Quedgeley
• Hardwicke
• Longford
• Twigworth
• Forest of Dean
• Highnam
• Frampton on Severn
• Whitminster
• Maisemore
• Cambridge
• Norton
• Slimbridge
• Minsterworth
• Arlingham
• Sandhurst
• Saul
• Churcham
• Tibberton
• Over

Roads filed under GL2

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.

• Acer Grove
• Acorn Way
• Addington Court
• Alcotts Green
• Alder Close
• Aldergrove
• Alders Green
• Allendale Close
• Alvin Drive
• Ampney Drive
• Amport Lane
• Ann Wicks Road
• Apley Road
• Apperley Drive
• Apple Ridge Gardens
• Ardea Close
• Argyll Place
• Argyll Road
• Arkendale Drive
• Arlingham Road
• Armscroft Court
• Armscroft Crescent
• Armscroft Gardens
• Armscroft Place
• Armscroft Road
• Armscroft Way
• Ashgrove Close
• Ash Lane
• Ashleworth Gardens
• Ashmead
• Ashmeads Crescent
• Ashville Road
• Aspen Drive
• Aster Close
• Athelai Close
• Atlas Court
• Attlebridge Way
• Austin Drive
• Azalea Gardens
• Babdown Close
• Badger Vale Court
• Baird Road
• Baker Street
• Ballards Lane
• Ballinska Mews
• Ballis Square
• Bampton Castle Way
• Barkston Heath
• Barley Close
• Barley Drive
• Barn Ground
• Barnham Close
• Barrow Close
• Barton Field
• Base Lane
• Bath Road
• Beaumont Road
• Beech Close
• Beechcroft Road
• Bekdale Close

Check an address in GL2

Check an address in GL2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=GL2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about GL2

What does a GL2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the GL2 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 1,503 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 GL2

• GL12.4 km
• GL43.5 km
• GL36.7 km
• GL1011.1 km
• GL1911.4 km
• GL512.2 km
• GL5112.5 km
• GL613.3 km
• GL5014.3 km
• GL5314.4 km
• GL1814.7 km
• GL1414.9 km
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