HG5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

637 of the district's 903 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 54.01354, -1.45685, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in HG5

Companies House lists 1,542 companies with a registered office in HG5; 58 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 HG5

• North Yorkshire
• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Knaresborough
• Scotton
• Goldsborough
• Staveley
• Arkendale
• Forest Moor
• Ferrensby
• Farnham
• Coneythorpe
• Flaxby
• Hopperton
• Lingerfield
• Allerton Mauleverer
• Thistle Hill
• Harrogate
• Plumpton Rocks

Roads filed under HG5

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 Crags Way
• Abbey Mill Gardens
• Abbey Mill View
• Abbey Road
• Abbots Way
• Alder Avenue
• Alexandra Park Road
• Alexandra Place
• Allerton Lane
• Angel Gardens
• Appleby Avenue
• Appleby Court
• Appleby Crescent
• Appleby Gate
• Appleby Green
• Appleby Grove
• Appleby Walk
• Appleby Way
• Appleshaw Close
• Archers Meadow
• Arkendale Lane
• Arkendale Road
• Ash Tree Road
• Ashwood Place
• Aspin Avenue
• Aspin Chase
• Aspin Drive
• Aspin Gardens
• Aspin Grove
• Aspin Lane
• Aspin Oval
• Aspin Park Avenue
• Aspin Park Crescent
• Aspin Park Drive
• Aspin Park Lane
• Aspin Park Road
• Aspin View
• Aspin Way
• Avenue House Court
• Badger Grove
• Badger Mount
• Badger View
• Badger Way
• Baldersdale Avenue
• Barbondale Grove
• Bardale Close
• Barf Lane
• Bar Lane
• Bedlam Lane
• Beech Close
• Beech Grove
• Beech Hill
• Beechwood CT
• Belmont Avenue
• Belmont Grove
• Belmont View
• Berry's Avenue
• Berrys Court
• Berrys Passage
• Bilsdale Grove

Check an address in HG5

Check an address in HG5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=HG5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about HG5

What does an HG5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the HG5 district of the HG (Harrogate) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Knaresborough. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 637 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 HG5

• HG15.3 km
• HG25.7 km
• YO519.4 km
• LS229.9 km
• HG310.6 km
• LS2314.4 km
• HG417.5 km
• LS1717.7 km
• LS2118.5 km
• YO2618.5 km
• LS1620.3 km
• YO6120.6 km
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