LA8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

500 of the district's 594 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 54.32341, -2.76143, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in LA8

Companies House lists 639 companies with a registered office in LA8; 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 LA8

• Westmorland and Furness
• North West
• Staveley
• Levens
• Endmoor
• Crosthwaite
• Sedgwick
• Summerlands
• Brigsteer
• Underbarrow
• Old Hutton
• Meal Bank
• Bowston
• Cowan Head
• Ings
• Millholme
• Gatebeck
• Stainton
• Sampool
• Crook
• Plumgarths
• Barrows Green
• Crosscrake
• New Hutton

Roads filed under LA8

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.

• Alexander Drive
• Ashbank Lane
• Ashes Lane
• Back Lane
• Bankhead Lane
• Beathwaite Close
• Beathwaite Gardens
• Beck Nook
• Beehive Lane
• Birchfield
• Blackbeck Brow
• Black Road
• Bonfire Hall Lane
• Breasthigh Road
• Brigsteer Brow
• Brigsteer Causeway
• Brigsteer Road
• Broom Garth End Lane
• Broom Lane
• Brow Foot Lane
• Brow Lane
• Byre Mount View
• Caldrigg Fold
• Capplerigg Lane
• Carlbank Lane
• Castle View
• Chambers Place
• Chapel Lane
• Church Close
• Church Lane
• Church Road
• Church View
• Cockrigg Lane
• Cold Harbour Lane
• Commonmire Lane
• Coopers Drive
• Cornclose Lane
• Crag View
• Crook Brow
• Crooked Gate
• Crookfield
• Crook Road
• Crow Wood
• Danes Crescent
• Danes Road
• Dickgate Road
• Dobby Lane
• Dobdale Road
• Docker Brow
• Docker Lane
• Dodding Holme
• Dodds Howe
• Dolholme Hill
• Dove Nest Lane
• Dry Lane
• Elm Close
• Elph Howe Lane
• Enyeat Road
• Eskrigg Lane
• Ewbank Lane

Check an address in LA8

Check an address in LA8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=LA8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about LA8

What does an LA8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the LA8 district of the LA (Lancaster) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Westmorland and Furness. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 500 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 LA8

• LA91.2 km
• LA710.9 km
• LA2311.2 km
• LA1117.4 km
• LA1017.4 km
• LA2218.5 km
• LA619.1 km
• LA520.1 km
• LA2121.0 km
• LA1224.9 km
• LA1728.5 km
• LA428.8 km
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