GL50 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

928 of the district's 1,643 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 51.90064, -2.08184, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in GL50

Companies House lists 4,968 companies with a registered office in GL50; 1,484 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 GL50

• Cheltenham
• Gloucestershire
• South West

Roads filed under GL50

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.

• Albany Road
• Albemarle Gate
• Albert Street
• Aldridge Close
• Alexandra Street
• Ambrose Place
• Ambrose Street
• Amos Close
• Andover Road
• Andover Street
• Andover Walk
• Arkle Close
• Arthur Bliss Gardens
• Ashford Road
• Ashover Lane
• Back Montpellier Terrace
• Bakehouse Lane
• Ballinode Close
• Barberry Close
• Bath Street
• Baynham Way
• Bayshill Lane
• Bayshill Road
• Bayshill Villas Lane
• Bennington Street
• Bethesda Street
• Billings Way
• Bloomsbury Street
• Boulton Road
• Brandon Place
• Broadmayne Mews
• Brookbank Close
• Brook Court
• Brunswick Street
• Burkes Court
• Burton Street
• Calderwood Court
• Cambray Place
• Carlton Place
• Casino Place
• Chapel Lane
• Chapel Street
• Chapel Walk
• Chester Walk
• Christ Church Road
• Church Street
• Clarence Gate
• Clarence Parade
• Clarence Square
• Clarence Street
• Clarington Mews
• Clarke Way
• Cleevelands Avenue
• Cleevelands Close
• Cleevelands Drive
• Commercial Street
• Cottage Rake Avenue
• County Court Road
• Courtenay Street
• Crescent Place

Check an address in GL50

Check an address in GL50

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=GL50" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about GL50

What does a GL50 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the GL50 district of the GL (Gloucester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Cheltenham. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 928 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 GL50

• GL512.0 km
• GL532.5 km
• GL522.7 km
• GL37.7 km
• GL411.6 km
• GL2011.7 km
• GL112.0 km
• GL214.3 km
• GL1915.1 km
• GL5416.3 km
• GL620.0 km
• GL520.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids