GL53 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

754 of the district's 943 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 51.87934, -2.06809, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in GL53

Companies House lists 2,057 companies with a registered office in GL53; 519 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 GL53

• Gloucestershire
• South West
• Cheltenham
• Cotswold
• Tewkesbury
• Coberley
• Cowley
• Leckhampton Hill
• Colesbourne
• Elkstone
• Seven Springs
• Lower Cockleford
• Syde
• Caudle Green
• Upper Coberley

Roads filed under GL53

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 Close
• Allenfield Road
• Arden Road
• Argyll Road
• Ash Close
• Ashgrove
• Asquith Road
• Avenall Parade
• Badminton Close
• Bafford Approach
• Bafford Grove
• Bafford Lane
• Balcarras
• Balcarras Gardens
• Balcarras Retreat
• Balcarras Road
• Bank Close
• Barratt's Mill Lane
• Barrington Place
• Barton Close
• Bath Parade
• Bath Road
• Bath Terrace
• Bath Ville Mews
• Beeches Road
• Belland Drive
• Belmore Place
• Berkshire Court
• Birch Close
• Birch Mews
• Blackthorn End
• Bluebell Close
• Bradley Road
• Branch Hill Rise
• Brizen Lane
• Broadleaf Close
• Brooksdale Lane
• Brook View Close
• Brookway Drive
• Brookway Road
• Bryony Bank
• Buckles Close
• Burnet Drive
• Cedar Close
• Cedar Court Road
• Chancel Way
• Charlton Close
• Charlton Drive
• Charlton Gardens
• Charlton Lane
• Charlton Park Drive
• Charlton Park Gate
• Charnwood Close
• Charnwood Road
• Chatcombe Close
• Chatsworth Drive
• Chelsea Close
• Cherry Avenue
• Chestnut Place
• Chestnut Terrace

Check an address in GL53

Check an address in GL53

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=GL53" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about GL53

What does a GL53 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the GL53 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 754 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 GL53

• GL502.5 km
• GL513.7 km
• GL524.6 km
• GL37.7 km
• GL411.2 km
• GL112.3 km
• GL2014.3 km
• GL214.4 km
• GL5415.5 km
• GL1916.9 km
• GL618.3 km
• GL518.9 km
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