HD8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

944 of the district's 1,252 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 53.59902, -1.67309, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in HD8

Companies House lists 2,533 companies with a registered office in HD8; 309 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 HD8

• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Kirklees
• Lepton
• Skelmanthorpe
• Kirkburton
• Denby Dale
• Clayton West
• Scissett
• Shepley
• Shelley
• Emley
• Upper Cumberworth
• Upper Denby
• Lane Head
• Huddersfield
• Lower Cumberworth
• Thunder Bridge
• Birds Edge
• Shelley Woodhouse
• Cross Roads
• Linfit
• Lower Denby
• High Flatts
• Haddingley

Roads filed under HD8

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.

• Abbey Drive
• Abbey Farm Drive
• Abbey Gardens
• Abbey Road
• Abbey Road North
• Abbey Road South
• Acorn Croft
• Addle Croft Lane
• Albert Road
• All Saints Close
• Armitage Close
• Ashfield Avenue
• Ashford Court
• Ashford Manor
• Ash Lane
• Ashleigh Close
• Aspen Court
• Back Lane
• Bagden Lane
• Baildon Way
• Balk Lane
• Bank End Lane
• Bankfield
• Bank Hall Grove
• Bank Lane
• Bank Side
• Bark Close
• Bark House Lane
• Barncliffe Hill
• Barnsley Road
• Barrowstead
• Bath Street
• Beaden Drive
• Beanlands Court
• Beaufort Avenue
• Beaumont Street
• Beckett Square
• Bedale Avenue
• Bedale Close
• Bedale Drive
• Bedford Close
• Beechfield Avenue
• Beldon Brook Green
• Betula Way
• Bilham Road
• Birch Avenue
• Birchfield Grove
• Birds Edge Lane
• Birdsnest Lane
• Birkhead Close
• Birk House Lane
• Birks Lane
• Blackthorn Way
• Blenheim Chase
• Bluehills Lane
• Boggart Lane
• Booth Lane
• Botany Lane
• Box Ings Lane
• Brambles Court

Check an address in HD8

Check an address in HD8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=HD8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about HD8

What does an HD8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the HD8 district of the HD (Huddersfield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Lepton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 944 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 HD8

• HD57.2 km
• HD98.4 km
• HD48.7 km
• WF149.1 km
• HD19.3 km
• WF1210.0 km
• HD210.4 km
• WF1310.5 km
• S7510.8 km
• S3611.0 km
• WF511.1 km
• WF411.4 km
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