GL6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,047 of the district's 1,474 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 51.73437, -2.19351, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in GL6

Companies House lists 1,615 companies with a registered office in GL6; 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 GL6

• Gloucestershire
• South West
• Stroud
• Nailsworth
• Chalford
• Minchinhampton
• Painswick
• Whiteshill
• Randwick
• Bisley
• Horsley
• Cotswold
• Ruscombe
• Box
• Edge
• Eastcombe
• France Lynch
• Pitchcombe
• Oakridge Lynch
• Sheepscombe
• Waterlane
• Edgeworth
• Frampton Mansell
• Barton End

Roads filed under GL6

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.

• Abbenesse
• Abnash
• Alder Way
• Arnold's Lane
• Ash Lane
• Ashletts Road
• Ashley Drive
• Ashwell
• Aston View
• Avening Road
• Back Edge Lane
• Back Lane
• Badgers Way
• Barcelona Drive
• Barcelona Lane
• Barn Close
• Barn Field Avenue
• Barn Field Road
• Barton Close
• Bartonend Lane
• Bath Road
• Beacon Close
• Beale Close
• Beech Lane
• Beechwood Close
• Beechwood Drive
• Bell Lane
• Belvedere Mews
• Berry Close
• Besbury Park
• Birds Bush Lane
• Bishops Walk
• Bisley Road
• Bisley Street
• Blakewell Mead
• Blenheim Rise
• Bluebell Chase
• Bluebell Rise
• Blue Boys' Park
• Boscombe Lane
• Box Crescent
• Box Lane
• Bracelands
• Brantwood Road
• Brewery Gardens
• Brewery Lane
• Bridge Street
• Brockley Acres
• Browns Hill
• Brownshill Road
• Bunting Hill
• Bunting Way
• Burcombe Road
• Burcombe Way
• Burleigh View
• Burma Road
• Bussage Hill
• Butcher Hill's Lane
• Butt Green
• Butt Street

Check an address in GL6

Check an address in GL6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=GL6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about GL6

What does a GL6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the GL6 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 1,047 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 GL6

• GL51.9 km
• GL106.6 km
• GL810.3 km
• GL411.9 km
• GL1112.3 km
• GL213.3 km
• GL114.3 km
• GL314.4 km
• SN1617.4 km
• GL5318.3 km
• GL1218.3 km
• GL1319.0 km
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