GL8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

339 of the district's 430 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 51.64281, -2.17124, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in GL8

Companies House lists 1,184 companies with a registered office in GL8; 556 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 GL8

• South West
• Gloucestershire
• Cotswold
• Tetbury
• Avening
• Long Newnton
• Leighterton
• Westonbirt
• Kingscote
• Shipton Moyne
• Ashley
• Newington Bagpath
• Wiltshire
• Cherington
• Doughton
• Beverston
• Tetbury Upton
• Nag's Head
• Willesley
• Knockdown
• Culkerton
• Boxwell
• Stroud
• Bagpath

Roads filed under GL8

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.

• Alexander Gardens
• Andrews Close
• Ashcroft Road
• Avening Road
• Back Lane
• Barber Lane
• Bartley Croft
• Bath Road
• Beech Tree Gardens
• Berkeley Way
• Berrells Road
• Black Horse Hill
• Blind Lane
• Bowldown Road
• Box Close
• Boxwell Road
• Boxwood Close
• Braybrooke Close
• Brays Avenue
• Breuse Court
• Broad Drive
• Byams Ride
• Castle Farm Close
• Cattle Lane
• Chantry Court
• Chapman Link
• Charlton Road
• Chavenage Lane
• Cherry Orchard Road
• Chestnut Close
• Cheviot Close
• Chipping Street
• Church Road
• Church Street
• Circular Drive
• Cirencester Road
• Clarrie Road
• Close Gardens
• Clothiers Close
• Combers End
• Conygar Road
• Cookspool
• Cornwall Close
• Coronation Road
• Cotswold Close
• Cotton's Lane
• Courtfield
• Courthouse Road
• Cranmore Lane
• Crudwell Lane
• Cutwell
• Dearnley Close
• De Borg Close
• Dormers Close
• Draper Close
• Eccles Court
• Elizabeth Gardens
• Farm Hill
• Farm Lane
• Fitzherbert Close

Check an address in GL8

Check an address in GL8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=GL8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about GL8

What does a GL8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the GL8 district of the GL (Gloucester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Tetbury. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 339 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 GL8

• SN168.0 km
• GL610.3 km
• GL511.1 km
• GL913.3 km
• GL1113.9 km
• GL1013.9 km
• GL1215.2 km
• SN1418.7 km
• SN1519.9 km
• BS3720.2 km
• GL720.4 km
• GL1320.7 km
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