GL5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,102 of the district's 1,354 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 51.73807, -2.22112, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in GL5

Companies House lists 1,873 companies with a registered office in GL5; 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 GL5

• Stroud
• Gloucestershire
• South West
• Brimscombe
• Woodchester
• Far Thrupp
• Butterrow
• Nailsworth
• Selsley
• Minchinhampton
• Amberley
• Thrupp
• Houndscroft
• Bagpath
• Littleworth
• Theescombe
• St Chloe
• Bownham
• Selsley West
• Knave-in-hole

Roads filed under GL5

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.

• Acre Street
• Albert Road
• Allen Drive
• All Saints Fields
• All Saints Road
• Archway Gardens
• Arundel Drive
• Arundell Mill Lane
• Ash Road
• Ashway Court
• Atcombe Road
• Awdry Avenue
• Bagpath Lane
• Barrowfield Road
• Bath Road
• Bath Street
• Baytree Square North
• Baytree Square South
• Beard's Lane
• Bear Hill
• Bedford Street
• Beeches Green
• Beech Grove
• Belle Vue Close
• Belle Vue Road
• Bell Lane
• Belmont Road
• Ben Grazebrooks Well
• Berkeley Close
• Berrymore Road
• Birches Close
• Birches Drive
• Birch Road
• Bishop's Close
• Bisley Old Road
• Bisley Road
• Blacklow Close
• Bospin Lane
• Bourne Lane
• Bowbridge Lane
• Bowbridge Lock
• Bowbridge Wharf
• Bowl Hill
• Bownham Mead
• Bownham Park
• Brewery Lane
• Briar Close
• Brickrow
• Bridge-Side
• Bridge Mead
• Bridge Road
• Bridge Street
• Brimscombe Hill
• Brimscombe Lane
• Broad Street
• Burford Drive
• Burleigh Lane
• Burleigh Tor
• Butterow West
• Butterrow Hill

Check an address in GL5

Check an address in GL5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=GL5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about GL5

What does a GL5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the GL5 district of the GL (Gloucester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Stroud. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,102 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 GL5

• GL61.9 km
• GL104.7 km
• GL1110.8 km
• GL811.1 km
• GL411.4 km
• GL212.2 km
• GL113.6 km
• GL314.3 km
• GL1217.2 km
• GL1317.3 km
• SN1618.6 km
• GL5318.9 km
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