GU3 postcode district
GU3, in the GU (Guildford) postcode area, has 410 live and 147 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 166 roads under it.
| postcode area | GU (Guildford) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 410 |
| terminated postcodes | 147 |
| sectors | 3 |
| roads listed | 166 |
| companies registered | 1,056 |
| centroid | 51.24700, -0.62880 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
410 of the district's 557 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 51.24700, -0.62880, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| GU3 1 | 116 | 37 |
| GU3 2 | 93 | 31 |
| GU3 3 | 201 | 79 |
Companies registered in GU3
Companies House lists 1,056 companies with a registered office in GU3; 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 GU3
- Surrey
- South East
- Guildford
- Wood Street Village
- Flexford
- Fairlands
- Normandy
- Worplesdon
- Puttenham
- Compton
- Peasmarsh
- Woking
- Artington
- Wyke
- Willey Green
- Littleton
- Hurlands
- Henley Park
- Wanborough
Roads filed under GU3
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.
- Aldershot Road
- Almsgate
- Anchor Close
- Badger Walk
- Bailes Lane
- Baird Drive
- Beavers Close
- Beech Lane
- Berry Lane
- Bluebell Rise
- Bracken Way
- Bramble Close
- Broadacres
- Broad Street
- Brocks Drive
- Brooke Forest
- Broomfield Close
- Burdenshot Hill
- Burdenshott Road
- Burton Drive
- Butt Lane
- Callingham Close
- Cater Gardens
- Chitty's Walk
- Christmas Crescent
- Christmaspie Avenue
- Church Lane
- Cobbett's Close
- Cobbett Hill Road
- Compton Heights
- Coombe Lane
- Cranstoun Close
- Crossways
- Cull's Road
- Cunningham Close
- Dark Lane
- Deacon Way
- Dorrit Crescent
- Down Lane
- Dynevor Place
- Eastbury Lane
- East Flexford Lane
- Ecob Close
- Elmgrove Lane
- Envis Way
- Fairlands Avenue
- Fairlands Road
- Farm Close
- Ferndale
- Findlay Drive
- Flexford Road
- Fowlers Croft
- Frog Grove Lane
- Glaziers Lane
- Goose Rye Road
- Gravetts Lane
- Green Lane
- Green Lane East
- Guildford Road
- Gumbrells Close
all 166 roads
- Halifax Close
- Hawthorn Close
- Heath Mill Lane
- Highfield Lane
- Hillbrow Close
- Hilltop Close
- Holly Lane
- Homestead Drive
- Hook Lane
- Hops End
- Hunts Hill Road
- James Road
- Keens Lane
- Keens Park Road
- Kiln Meadows
- Langford Close
- Lascombe Lane
- Laureldene
- Lawford's Hill Close
- Lawford's Hill Road
- Liddington Hall Drive
- Liddington New Road
- Littlefield Close
- Littlefield Way
- Littleton Lane
- Louis Fields
- Malthouse Lane
- Manor Farm
- Manor Farm Close
- Mariners Drive
- Mill Lane
- Milton Close
- Morgan Close
- Munday's Boro
- Munday's Boro Road
- Munstead View
- Murtmead Lane
- Murtmoor Lane
- New House Farm Lane
- Normandy Common Lane
- Norton Close
- Oak Cottage Close
- Oakdene Place
- Oakdene Road
- Oakfields
- Oak Hill
- Old Dairy Close
- Old Portsmouth Road
- Orchard Close
- Orchard Way
- Penny Drive
- Pirbright Road
- Polsted Lane
- Pound Court
- Pound Hill
- Pound Lane
- Priorswood
- Puttenham Heath Road
- Puttenham Hill
- Quakers Way
- Rickford Hill
- River Wey Close
- Sandpit Heath
- Sandy Lane
- School Lane
- Seale Lane
- Searle Close
- Sime Close
- Spiceall
- Stakescorner Road
- St Albans Close
- St Michael's Avenue
- Storr's Lane
- Stream Banks
- Suffield Lane
- Szabo Crescent
- Tangley Crescent
- Tangley Lane
- Thatchers Lane
- The Avenue
- The Drive
- The Fairway
- The Firs
- The Oval
- The Paddocks
- The Ridges
- The Street
- Tovey Green
- Unstead Wood
- Venzers Yard
- Vine Close
- Walcot Mews
- Walden Cottages
- Wallace Close
- Wanborough Hill
- Wells Lane
- West Flexford Lane
- Westwood Lane
- White Hart Lane
- Whittles Drive
- Wildfield Close
- Willow Drive
- Withies Lane
- Wood Rise
- A3100
- B3000
Check an address in GU3
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=GU3" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about GU3
- What does a GU3 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the GU3 district of the GU (Guildford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Guildford. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 410 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 GU3
- GU22.4 km
- GU14.5 km
- GU46.2 km
- GU76.5 km
- GU127.0 km
- GU218.9 km
- GU229.0 km
- GU249.3 km
- GU119.4 km
- GU169.5 km
- GU59.9 km
- GU2310.0 km
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