What does a HR7 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the HR7 district of the HR (Hereford) postcode area, which the directory places around West Midlands. The inward half of the full postcode narrows it to a street or a building; the district alone does not, and an address written with a district and no inward half cannot be checked against the register.

Does a street listed here mean an address on it exists?

It means OS Open Names lists a road of that name under the district, which is what the address lookup answers as a street-level match. It says nothing about any building on it: Great Britain publishes no open register of buildings, so the lookup answers exists: null there and confirms the street alone.

Who lives at these postcodes?

Nobody on this page. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there, and a streets register lists roads, not occupants. The address lookup carries no field about a person and never will.

HR7 postcode district

What the public directories installed here say about the HR7 postcode district: how many of its postcodes are in use, the places OS Open Names lists for them, the streets it files under the district and the district's centroid. Counted from the national postcode directory and OS Open Names on 2026-09-18, and never about who is at an address.

postcode area	HR (Hereford)
live postcodes	281
terminated postcodes	60
streets listed	106
centroid	52.18571, -2.52365
counted on	2026-09-18

Places the directory lists for HR7

OS Open Names places the district's postcodes in these settlements, boroughs, counties and regions, most often first. A town written as any of them matches the directory in an address lookup, and one written as another place in the HR area is reported but not scored.

West Midlands
County of Herefordshire
Bromyard
Bromyard Downs
Much Cowarne
Pencombe
Tedstone Wafer
Bredenbury
Stoke Cross
Stoke Lacy
Malvern Hills
Worcestershire
Little Cowarne
Munderfield Row
Tedstone Delamere
High Lane
Panks Bridge
Edwyn Ralph
Thornbury
Grendon Green
Crick's Green
Stoke Lane
Munderfield Stocks
Collington

Postcodes in use

281 postcodes in HR7 were in use on the day of the count. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. 60 of its 341 postcodes have been terminated: a real address written with one has moved on, which is not the same thing as a typo, and the address lookup scores it rather than refusing it.

Centroid: 52.18571, -2.52365 — the mean of the live postcodes' centroids, which locates the district, not any building in it.

Streets filed under HR7

OS Open Names files 106 roads under HR7. 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.

A44
A465
Apple Tree Close
Ash Crescent
Ashfield Way
Avenbury Lane
Awbrey Way
B4203
B4214
Ballhurst Road
Bannut Tree
Baynham Close
Bramley Orchards
Broad Street
Bromyard Bypass
Broxash Close
Burghope Orchard
Burying Lane
Cherry Tree Close
Chestnut Way

the first 20 of 106, alphabetically

Check an address in HR7

The address checker opens on Great Britain with the district in the field: add the street, the number and the full postcode, and it answers the postcode's status, whether the street is filed under the district, and what kind of delivery point the address names.

Check an address in HR7

curl https://spaw.co/api/v1/address \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"address": "10 Downing Street, London HR7 …", "country": "GB"}'

Common questions about HR7

What does a HR7 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the HR7 district of the HR (Hereford) postcode area, which the directory places around West Midlands. The inward half of the full postcode narrows it to a street or a building; the district alone does not, and an address written with a district and no inward half cannot be checked against the register.
Does a street listed here mean an address on it exists?: It means OS Open Names lists a road of that name under the district, which is what the address lookup answers as a street-level match. It says nothing about any building on it: Great Britain publishes no open register of buildings, so the lookup answers exists: null there and confirms the street alone.
Who lives at these postcodes?: Nobody on this page. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there, and a streets register lists roads, not occupants. The address lookup carries no field about a person and never will.

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.

Data synced on 2026-09-18: the newest register or postcode directory copy installed here.

Other districts in HR

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