LE8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

886 of the district's 2,309 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 52.55472, -1.09435, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in LE8

Companies House lists 3,029 companies with a registered office in LE8; 627 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 LE8

• Leicestershire
• East Midlands
• Blaby
• Harborough
• Whetstone
• Countesthorpe
• Fleckney
• Great Glen
• Kibworth Beauchamp
• Kibworth Harcourt
• Burton Overy
• Arnesby
• Smeeton Westerby
• Saddington
• Willoughby Waterleys
• Peatling Magna
• Newton Harcourt
• Tur Langton
• Shangton
• Foston
• Carlton Curlieu
• Wistow
• Wigston
• Oadby and Wigston

Roads filed under LE8

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.

• Abbott Way
• Acorn Lane
• Ainsdale
• Albert Court
• Albert Road
• Albert Street
• Alice Gardens
• Almond Close
• Anna's Way
• Archery Close
• Arnesby Lane
• Arnesby Road
• Arran Way
• Ashby Rise
• Ash Grove
• Ashville Way
• Aspen Close
• Aspen Drive
• Asquith Drive
• Attfield Drive
• Auburn Road
• Austrey Lane
• Avon Drive
• Back Lane
• Badcock Way
• Badger Close
• Badger Drive
• Bailey Close
• Baileys Lane
• Bakehouse Lane
• Balfour Drive
• Bambury Lane
• Barfoot Close
• Barley Close
• Barley Lane
• Barnes Close
• Barnfield Close
• Barnley Close
• Barn Owl Close
• Barrowcliff Way
• Bassett Avenue
• Batchelor Road
• Beacon Close
• Beadswell Lane
• Beaker Close
• Beauchamp Road
• Beaver Close
• Beechfield Close
• Beechings Close
• Beech Road
• Beech Tree Close
• Bell Lane
• Benskyn Close
• Bigg's Close
• Billington Road
• Bindley Lane
• Birdie Close
• Blaby Bypass
• Blackbird Road
• Blacksmiths Lane

Check an address in LE8

Check an address in LE8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=LE8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about LE8

What does an LE8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the LE8 district of the LE (Leicester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Whetstone. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 886 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 LE8

• LE183.3 km
• LE26.0 km
• LE198.4 km
• LE878.9 km
• LE19.2 km
• LE59.3 km
• LE310.2 km
• LE1711.3 km
• LE412.4 km
• LE912.8 km
• LE714.0 km
• LE614.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids