HR3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

435 of the district's 503 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 52.09455, -3.08795, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in HR3

Companies House lists 433 companies with a registered office in HR3; 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 HR3

• County of Herefordshire
• West Midlands
• Powys
• Wales
• Y Gelli Gandryll
• Hay-on-Wye
• Glasbury
• Y Clas-ar-Wy
• Eardisley
• Clyro
• Cleirwy
• Almeley
• Dorstone
• Llanigon
• Winforton
• Clifford
• Bredwardine
• Whitney-on-Wye
• Lower Welson
• Hereford
• Priory Wood
• Cwmbach
• Snodhill
• Letton

Roads filed under HR3

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.

• Ailey Lane
• Almeley Road
• Apostles Lane
• Arthur's Stone Lane
• Ashcroft
• Ash Grove
• Back Fold
• Bailey Walk
• Bakers Lane
• Baskerville Court
• Bear Street
• Begwyns Bluff
• Bell Bank
• Bells Orchard
• Belmont Road
• Birch Close
• Black Lion Green
• Bodcott Lane
• Bookers Edge
• Booth Gardens
• Bower Lane
• Brecon Road
• Bredwardine Hill
• Bredwarine Hill
• Bridge Street
• Broadmeadow Lane
• Broad Street
• Brobury Lane
• Brookside Glanrhyd
• Brook Street
• Brown's Lane
• Broxwood
• Brunley Close
• Brynafal Bridge Court
• Buttercup Meadow
• Caepound
• Camp Lane
• Canonford Avenue
• Carlsgate
• Castell y Sipsiwn
• Castle Close
• Castle Estate
• Castle Gardens
• Castle Lane
• Castle Street
• Castleton Farm Road
• Cefn Road
• Chancery Court
• Chancery Lane
• Chapel Lane
• Chapel Road
• Church Lane
• Church Road
• Church Street
• Clifford Casle
• Clyro Pitch
• Common Lane
• Crowthers Pool
• Cusop Dingle
• Cwmma Road

Check an address in HR3

Check an address in HR3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=HR3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about HR3

What does an HR3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the HR3 district of the HR (Hereford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Y Gelli Gandryll. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 435 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 HR3

• HR511.9 km
• LD819.1 km
• LD221.5 km
• HR421.6 km
• HR222.7 km
• LD324.3 km
• NP826.3 km
• HR626.5 km
• LD126.5 km
• HR128.3 km
• LD728.7 km
• NP729.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids