What does an HR5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the HR5 district of the HR (Hereford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Kington. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 247 live postcodes.

HR5 postcode district

HR5, in the HR (Hereford) postcode area, has 247 live and 42 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 129 roads under it.

postcode area	HR (Hereford)
live postcodes	247
terminated postcodes	42
sectors	2
roads listed	129
companies registered	11,248
centroid	52.19634, -3.03646
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

247 of the district's 289 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 52.19634, -3.03646, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
HR5 3	247	41
HR5 8	0	1

Companies registered in HR5

Companies House lists 11,248 companies with a registered office in HR5; 10,852 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 HR5

County of Herefordshire
West Midlands
Kington
Powys
Wales
Lyonshall
Titley
Gladestry
Huntington
Rushock
Kingswood
New Street
Nextend
Holme Marsh
Mahollam
Woodbrook
Lewis Wych
Upper Marston
Moorcot
Stanner
Burcher
Lower Hergest
Chickward
Upper Hergest

Roads filed under HR5

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.

Aconbury Leigh
Apostles Lane
Arrow View
Banley Drive
Barton Lane
Bath Cottage Lane
Baynhams Yard
Black Barn Close
Board School Lane
Bonds Green
Bradnor View Close
Brandor
Brickyard Road
Bridge Street
Broken Bank
Bryncurl
Burgage Close
Cabal Lane
Campion Lane
Castle Hill
Chapel Lane
Chickward Lane
Churchill Road
Church Road
Church Street
Common Close
Coronation Road
Crabtree Road
Crooked Well
Cutterbach Lane
Duke Street
Dunfield Lane
Eardisley Road
Elizabeth Road
Eywood Lane
Eywood Road
Fishpools
Garden Close
Gorsty Lane
Gravel Hill
Gravel Hill Drive
Greenfield
Greenfield Drive
Green Lane
Grove Farm Road
Gwern y Bwch
Hatton Gardens
Headbrook
Hergest Road
High Street
Hill Gate
Husseys Lane
Island Terrace
Jack's Ditch Lane
Jasmine Close
Kingswood Common
Kingswood Road
Llan Arrow
Llewellin Road
Love Lane

all 129 roads

Mahollam Road
Market Hall Street
Markwick Close
Meadow Vale
Meads Close
Mill Furlong Lane
Mill Lane
Mill Street
Mission Hut Mews
Montfort Fields
Montfort Road
Moor Court Lane
Morgans Orchard
Newton Lane
Noke Lane
Oak Plock
Old Eardisley Road
Owens Yard
Oxford Lane
Park Avenue
Park Green
Park Road
Park Stile Mill
Park View
Passey Court
Perseverence Close
Piccadilly
Platinum Mews
Prospect Place
Prospect Road
Prospect View
Ridgebourne Road
Rushock
School Close
School Lane
Stanner Road
Stepstile
Stoney Lane
Sun Lane
Sunset Row
Sutton Walls Grove
Tan House Meadows
Tanyard Lane
Temple Lane
The Close
The Crescent
The Forge
The Meads
The Mews
The School Road
The Square
Townsend
Two Hedges Lane
Upper Hengoed
Upper Hergeist
Victoria Court
Victoria Road
Wall Hills Close
Wallstych Lane
Walnut Gardens
Waterloo Road
Webbs Meadow
White Lions Meadow
Woodbrook
Yeld Lane
A44
A4111
B4355
B4594

Check an address in HR5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=HR5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about HR5

What does an HR5 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the HR5 district of the HR (Hereford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Kington. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 247 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.

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SY727.4 km
HR128.8 km
SY829.8 km
SY933.8 km
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