GL56 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

532 of the district's 665 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 51.98949, -1.70332, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in GL56

Companies House lists 942 companies with a registered office in GL56; 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 GL56

• Gloucestershire
• South West
• Cotswold
• Moreton-in-Marsh
• Blockley
• Stratford-on-Avon
• Warwickshire
• West Midlands
• Longborough
• Little Compton
• Broadwell
• Stretton-on-Fosse
• West Oxfordshire
• Oxfordshire
• South East
• Lower Oddington
• Upper Oddington
• Draycott
• Todenham
• Bourton-on-the-Hill
• Evenlode
• Barton-on-the-Heath
• Adlestrop
• Donnington

Roads filed under GL56

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.

• 1st Avenue
• 2nd Avenue
• 3rd Avenue
• 4th Avenue
• 5th Avenue
• 6th Avenue
• 7th Avenue
• 8th Avenue
• Abbot Richard Lane
• Admirals Walk
• Albemarle Close
• Algernon Crescent
• Anson Close
• Back Lane
• Back Row
• Banks Fee Lane
• Barn Ground Close
• Barton Road
• Bean Hill
• Beaufort Road
• Beceshore Close
• Becket Close
• Belcony
• Bell Bank
• Bell Lane
• Blenheim Way
• Bluebell Close
• Bourton Road
• Bowes Lyon Close
• Bowling Green Court
• Brans Lane
• Broadwell Road
• Brook Lane
• Buttercup Close
• Camden Close
• Carson Close
• Chantry Gardens
• Chapel Gardens
• Chapel Lane
• Chapel Street
• Charlesway
• Church Farm Lane
• Churchill Close
• Church Lane
• Church Place
• Church Road
• Church Street
• Church View
• Clarke Avenue
• Claudius Drive
• Conygree Lane
• Corder's Lane
• Corders Close
• Cornflower Road
• Cotsmore Close
• Cotswold Gardens
• Cotswold Link
• Cottage Farm Court
• Cowslip Drive
• Croft Holm

Check an address in GL56

Check an address in GL56

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=GL56" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about GL56

What does a GL56 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the GL56 district of the GL (Gloucester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Moreton-in-Marsh. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 532 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 GL56

• GL559.4 km
• CV369.5 km
• WR1212.7 km
• GL5414.1 km
• OX714.9 km
• WR1119.4 km
• OX1520.5 km
• CV3721.4 km
• B5022.4 km
• GL5225.5 km
• OX1625.9 km
• OX1826.3 km
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