NE8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

737 of the district's 1,321 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 54.95508, -1.60623, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in NE8

Companies House lists 2,245 companies with a registered office in NE8; 304 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 NE8

• Gateshead
• North East

Roads filed under NE8

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.

• Abbey Court
• Abbeyfield Close
• Abbots Hill
• Acorn Avenue
• Adler Close
• Affleck Street
• Aintree Gardens
• Airey Terrace
• Albany Road
• Alexandra Road
• Almond Crescent
• Alston Street
• Amberley Street
• Angel Avenue
• Angus Road
• Ann Street
• Anson Street
• Arkle Street
• Arkwright Street
• Armstrong Street
• Arthur Street
• Ascot Crescent
• Ash Street
• Askew Road
• Askew Road West
• Audouins Row
• Autumn Drive
• Avenue Road
• Avondale Terrace
• Avon Street
• Back Woodbine Street
• Balfour Street
• Baltic Square
• Barry Street
• Bartram Gardens
• Bayfield Gardens
• Bayswater Road
• Beaufront Gardens
• Bede Court
• Bede Gardens
• Bedford Place
• Beech Street
• Bennison Close
• Bensham Avenue
• Bensham Crescent
• Bensham Road
• Berners-Lee Road
• Bewick Road
• Bishops Park Road
• Bolam Street
• Bottle Bank
• Brandling Street
• Bridge Street
• Bridges View
• Brighton Gardens
• Brighton Road
• Brinkburn Avenue
• Brunel Street
• Burney Villas
• Byron Walk

Check an address in NE8

Check an address in NE8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=NE8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about NE8

What does an NE8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the NE8 district of the NE (Newcastle upon Tyne) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Gateshead. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 737 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 NE8

• NE991.9 km
• NE12.0 km
• NE112.5 km
• NE93.0 km
• NE43.2 km
• NE103.5 km
• NE23.6 km
• NE63.6 km
• NE75.3 km
• NE166.2 km
• NE316.2 km
• NE36.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids