What does a OX14 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the OX14 district of the OX (Oxford) postcode area, which the directory places around Oxfordshire. The inward half of the full postcode narrows it to a street or a building; the district alone does not, and an address written with a district and no inward half cannot be checked against the register.

Does a street listed here mean an address on it exists?

It means OS Open Names lists a road of that name under the district, which is what the address lookup answers as a street-level match. It says nothing about any building on it: Great Britain publishes no open register of buildings, so the lookup answers exists: null there and confirms the street alone.

Who lives at these postcodes?

Nobody on this page. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there, and a streets register lists roads, not occupants. The address lookup carries no field about a person and never will.

OX14 postcode district

What the public directories installed here say about the OX14 postcode district: how many of its postcodes are in use, the places OS Open Names lists for them, the streets it files under the district and the district's centroid. Counted from the national postcode directory and OS Open Names on 2026-09-18, and never about who is at an address.

postcode area	OX (Oxford)
live postcodes	1,335
terminated postcodes	682
streets listed	641
centroid	51.66850, -1.27642
counted on	2026-09-18

Places the directory lists for OX14

OS Open Names places the district's postcodes in these settlements, boroughs, counties and regions, most often first. A town written as any of them matches the directory in an address lookup, and one written as another place in the OX area is reported but not scored.

Oxfordshire
South East
Vale of White Horse
Abingdon-on-Thames
South Oxfordshire
Drayton
Sutton Courtenay
Radley
Milton
Kennington
Long Wittenham
Appleford-on-Thames
Culham
Milton Heights
Burcot
Clifton Hampden
Little Wittenham
Lodge Hill
Lower Radley
Milton Hill
Didcot

Postcodes in use

1,335 postcodes in OX14 were in use on the day of the count. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. 682 of its 2,017 postcodes have been terminated: a real address written with one has moved on, which is not the same thing as a typo, and the address lookup scores it rather than refusing it.

Centroid: 51.66850, -1.27642 — the mean of the live postcodes' centroids, which locates the district, not any building in it.

Streets filed under OX14

OS Open Names files 641 roads under OX14. 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.

A34
A415
A4183
Abbess Close
Abbey Close
Abbey Gate
Abbot Crescent
Abbott Road
Abingdon Road
Aird Row
Alexander Close
Allder Close
All Saints Lane
Amey Close
Amyce Close
Andersey Way
Anna Pavlova Close
Appleford Drive
Appleford Road
Argentan Close

the first 20 of 641, alphabetically

Check an address in OX14

The address checker opens on Great Britain with the district in the field: add the street, the number and the full postcode, and it answers the postcode's status, whether the street is filed under the district, and what kind of delivery point the address names.

Check an address in OX14

curl https://spaw.co/api/v1/address \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"address": "10 Downing Street, London OX14 …", "country": "GB"}'

Common questions about OX14

What does a OX14 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the OX14 district of the OX (Oxford) postcode area, which the directory places around Oxfordshire. The inward half of the full postcode narrows it to a street or a building; the district alone does not, and an address written with a district and no inward half cannot be checked against the register.
Does a street listed here mean an address on it exists?: It means OS Open Names lists a road of that name under the district, which is what the address lookup answers as a street-level match. It says nothing about any building on it: Great Britain publishes no open register of buildings, so the lookup answers exists: null there and confirms the street alone.
Who lives at these postcodes?: Nobody on this page. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there, and a streets register lists roads, not occupants. The address lookup carries no field about a person and never will.

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.

Data synced on 2026-09-18: the newest register or postcode directory copy installed here.

Other districts in OX

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