GU8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

666 of the district's 873 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 51.14844, -0.64463, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in GU8

Companies House lists 1,328 companies with a registered office in GU8; 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 GU8

• South East
• Surrey
• Waverley
• Milford
• Chiddingfold
• Elstead
• Witley
• Wormley
• Dunsfold
• Guildford
• Cramhurst
• Hambledon
• Shackleford
• Hydestile
• Hascombe
• Mousehill
• Thursley
• Brook
• Chichester
• West Sussex
• Sandhills
• Loxhill
• Peper Harow
• Godalming

Roads filed under GU8

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.

• Alfold Road
• Alldens Lane
• Amberley Road
• Arnold Close
• Ash Combe
• Ash Lane
• Ash Vale
• Attleford Lane
• Back Lane
• Badgers Cross
• Ballsdown
• Bankside Close
• Bannacle Hill Road
• Bannister Close
• Beacon View Road
• Beech Close
• Beech Hill
• Binhams Lea
• Binhams Meadow
• Bluebell Grove
• Borough Farm Road
• Boundless Road
• Bowlhead Green Road
• Bridwell Close
• Brighton Road
• Brook Mead
• Brook Meadow
• Brook Road
• Broomfield
• Burford Lea
• Busdens Close
• Busdens Lane
• Busdens Way
• Canada Copse
• Chalk Lane
• Chapel Close
• Chapel Hill
• Chapel Lane
• Cherry Tree Road
• Chichester Close
• Chiddingfold Road
• Church Close
• Churchfields
• Church Lane
• Church Road
• Church View Close
• Clock Barn Lane
• Combe Lane
• Combe View
• Coppice Place
• Copse Edge
• Cosford Road
• Coxcombe Lane
• Cramhurst Lane
• Cricket Green Close
• Cripplecrutch Hill
• Croft Road
• Crofts Close
• Culmer Hill
• Culmer Lane

Check an address in GU8

Check an address in GU8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=GU8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about GU8

What does a GU8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the GU8 district of the GU (Guildford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Waverley. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 666 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 GU8

• GU75.1 km
• GU268.3 km
• GU279.2 km
• GU510.9 km
• GU311.0 km
• GU611.2 km
• GU211.4 km
• GU111.9 km
• GU1011.9 km
• GU412.8 km
• GU1212.9 km
• GU913.1 km
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