IG8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

797 of the district's 1,500 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 51.60894, 0.03668, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in IG8

Companies House lists 6,630 companies with a registered office in IG8; 3,198 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 IG8

• Greater London
• London
• Woodford
• Redbridge
• Waltham Forest
• Epping Forest
• Essex
• Eastern
• Loughton
• Chigwell
• Walthamstow

Roads filed under IG8

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.

• Abbotsford Gardens
• Acer Close
• Aldeburgh Place
• Alders Avenue
• Anderson Road
• Arlington Road
• Armstrong Avenue
• Arundel Drive
• Ashdon Close
• Ash Way
• Avenue Road
• Baddow Close
• Bairny Wood Approach
• Barclay Oval
• Beaumaris Drive
• Becket Close
• Beechwood Drive
• Belgrave Terrace
• Belmont Close
• Bennington Road
• Bentley Way
• Beresford Drive
• Beverley Crescent
• Birkbeck Gardens
• Blenheim Court
• Blueberry Close
• Bowland Road
• Brackley Square
• Bramley Close
• Brandesbury Square
• Broadmead Road
• Broad Oak
• Broadway Close
• Brookfield Path
• Brook Meadow Close
• Broomhill Road
• Broomhill Walk
• Brunel Road
• Bunces Lane
• Burlington Place
• Butterworth Gardens
• Buxton Close
• Cairns Avenue
• Campion Gardens
• Canfield Road
• Carlina Gardens
• Cavendish Avenue
• Chalford Walk
• Chapelmount Road
• Charteris Road
• Chestnut Walk
• Chigwell Road
• Chiltern Way
• Chingford Lane
• Churchill Mews
• Churchwood Gardens
• Claremont Grove
• Clarence Gate
• Claybury Road
• Clematis Gardens

Check an address in IG8

Check an address in IG8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=IG8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about IG8

What does an IG8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the IG8 district of the IG (Ilford) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Woodford. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 797 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 IG8

• IG91.9 km
• E182.0 km
• IG52.7 km
• E43.3 km
• IG43.4 km
• IG63.8 km
• IG74.1 km
• E174.7 km
• E114.8 km
• IG24.8 km
• IG104.8 km
• E105.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids