What does a GU28 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the GU28 district of the GU (Guildford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Chichester. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 352 live postcodes.

GU28 postcode district

GU28, in the GU (Guildford) postcode area, has 352 live and 121 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 120 roads under it.

postcode area	GU (Guildford)
live postcodes	352
terminated postcodes	121
sectors	3
roads listed	120
companies registered	616
centroid	50.99112, -0.63315
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

352 of the district's 473 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 50.99112, -0.63315, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
GU28 0	205	46
GU28 8	3	37
GU28 9	144	38

Companies registered in GU28

Companies House lists 616 companies with a registered office in GU28; 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 GU28

Chichester
West Sussex
South East
Petworth
Northchapel
Graffham
Tillington
Lodsworth
Hampers Green
East Lavington
Byworth
Duncton
Haslingbourne
Halfway Bridge
River
Lickfold
Balls Cross
Heath End
Selham
Upperton
Lurgashall
Woodcote
Bexleyhill
Fisherstreet

Roads filed under GU28

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.

Angel Street
Arundel Lane
Back Lane
Barton Lane
Beechwood Lane
Blackberry Road
Blackhouse Lane
Blind Lane
Brookfield Lane
Burton Park Road
Cemetery Lane
Cherry Tree Walk
Church Lane
Church Street
Damer's Bridge
Dawtrey Road
Dean Lane
Dirty Lane
Downview Road
Duncton High Street
Dye House Lane
Easebourne Street
Eastdean Road
East Street
Egremont Row
Fairfield Rise
Folly Lane
Garden Mews
Garland Close
Gills Lane
Glasshouse Lane
Golden Square
Greengates
Green Road
Grove Lane
Grove Street
Guillods Cottages
Hampers Common Industrial Estate
Hampers Green
Haslingbourne Lane
High Lane
Highstead Lane
High Street
Hollihurst Road
Horsham Road
Hungers Lane
Jacobs Ladder
Janes Lane
Kilsham Lane
Kingspit Lane
Lavington Lane
Littlecote
Lombard Street
London Road
Long Bostle Road
Luffs Meadow
Mant Road
Market Square
Martlet Road
Meadow Way

all 120 roads

Middle Street
New Road
New Street
Nonnington Lane
Northend Close
Northmead
North Street
North Way
Norwood Lane
Norwood Lane South
Old Pond Mews
Old School Close
Orchard Close
Park Rise
Park Road
Pipers Lane
Pound Close
Pound Street
Ranville Close
River Lane
Rosemary Lane
Rotherbridge Lane
Rothermead
Saddler's Row
School Lane
Scratchings Lane
Seymour Mews
Sheepdown Close
Sheepdown Drive
Shepherds Lane
Smokyhouse Lane
South Grove
South Lane
Station Road
St Giles Place
St Michaels Close
Streel's Lane
Tegleaze Road
The Croft
The Drive
The Harrows
The Street
Tillington Road
Toronto Road
Trumps Alley
Upperton Road
Valentines Lea
Vicarage Lane
Wallace Square
Westland's Copse Lane
West Side
White Road
Willett Close
Willow Walk
Withey Copse
Woodpecker Road
Wyndham Road
A272
A283
A285

Check an address in GU28

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=GU28" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about GU28

What does a GU28 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the GU28 district of the GU (Guildford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Chichester. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 352 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.

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RH2012.8 km
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GU817.5 km
GU3118.9 km
PO1819.0 km
GU3319.2 km
GU619.5 km
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