HR8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

576 of the district's 697 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 52.04518, -2.44548, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in HR8

Companies House lists 805 companies with a registered office in HR8; 66 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 HR8

• West Midlands
• County of Herefordshire
• Ledbury
• Forest of Dean
• Gloucestershire
• South West
• Wellington Heath
• Bosbury
• Bromesberrow Heath
• Ashperton
• Much Marcle
• Fromes Hill
• Eastnor
• Malvern Hills
• Worcestershire
• Canon Frome
• Putley Green
• Birchall
• Newtown
• Cold Green
• Catley Southfield
• Bromesberrow
• Little Marcle
• Lower Town

Roads filed under HR8

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.

• Abercrombie Close
• Albert Road
• Albright Lane
• Alton Court Road
• Arrow View
• Aston Close
• Auden Crescent
• Audley Croft
• Ballard Close
• Bank Crescent
• Baregains Lane
• Barnett Avenue
• Barnetts Close
• Beach Lane
• Becks Orchard
• Beggars Ash
• Belle Orchard
• Belle Orchard Close
• Bell Lane
• Biddulph Way
• Birch Close
• Blenheim Drive
• Bramley Close
• Bray Avenue
• Bridge Street
• Bromyard Road
• Bronte Drive
• Brooke Road
• Browning Road
• Burtons Lane
• Bye Street
• Cabbage Lane
• Callow End
• Canal Walk
• Cedar Court
• Challenger Close
• Cherry Orchard Lane
• Chestnut Close
• Childer Road
• Churchill Meadow
• Church Lane
• Church Road
• Church Street
• Clencher's Mill Lane
• Coleridge View
• Common Garden
• Crew's Pitch
• Cut Throat Lane
• Dognall Lane
• Dowdings Close
• Drinkwater Close
• Dunns Copse
• Dyke House Lane
• Elgar Close
• Elizabeth Close
• Ellenscroft Court
• Elmsdale Road
• Elton Drive
• Fairfield Close
• Fairfields Road

Check an address in HR8

Check an address in HR8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=HR8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about HR8

What does an HR8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the HR8 district of the HR (Hereford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Ledbury. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 576 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 HR8

• WR138.9 km
• WR1411.5 km
• GL1811.8 km
• GL1915.4 km
• HR115.9 km
• HR716.5 km
• WR816.7 km
• HR917.9 km
• WR220.8 km
• WR621.0 km
• GL1721.6 km
• WR522.0 km
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