PA20 postcode district
PA20, in the PA (Paisley) postcode area, has 270 live and 55 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 146 roads under it.
| postcode area | PA (Paisley) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 270 |
| terminated postcodes | 55 |
| sectors | 3 |
| roads listed | 146 |
| companies registered | 181 |
| centroid | 55.83407, -5.05721 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
270 of the district's 325 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 55.83407, -5.05721, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| PA20 0 | 147 | 27 |
| PA20 2 | 1 | 3 |
| PA20 9 | 122 | 25 |
Companies registered in PA20
Companies House lists 181 companies with a registered office in PA20; 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 PA20
- Argyll and Bute
- Scotland
- Rothesay
- Port Bannatyne
- Craigmore
- Kilchattan Bay
- Ascog
- Kingarth
- Mount Stuart
- Ardbeg
- Straad
- Kildavanan
- Kerrycroy
Roads filed under PA20
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.
- Academy Road
- Adelaide Place
- Albany Road
- Albert Place
- Alma Terrace
- Ardbeg Road
- Ardencraig Lane
- Ardencraig Road
- Ardmory Road
- Argyle Place
- Argyle Street
- Argyle Terrace
- Auchnacloich Road
- Ballochgoy Road
- Ballochgoy Terrace
- Balmory Road
- Bannatyne Mains Road
- Barone Road
- Battery Place
- Beach Road
- Beech Avenue
- Bellevue Road
- Bishop Street
- Bishop Terrace
- Bishop Terrace Brae
- Blain Terrace
- Bogany Road
- Bridgend Street
- Bridge Park
- Bridge Street
- Broadcroft Lane
- Bruchag Road
- Bryce Avenue
- Burnside Road
- Bush Avenue
- Bush Road
- Caledonia Walk
- Camplen Court
- Castlehill Street
- Castle Street
- Chapel Hill Road
- Church Lane
- Colbeck Lane
- Columshill Place
- Columshill Street
- Columshill Terrace
- Cotton Mill Lane
- Craigmore Road
- Craignethan
- Creek Drive
- Crichton Road
- Dean Hood Place
- Dewar Avenue
- Duncan Street
- Eastlands Park
- Eastlands Road
- East Princes Street
- Eden Drive
- Esplanade
- Ettrickdale Road
all 146 roads
- Fauldtrees Road
- Ferfadd Road
- Foley Park
- Foley Road
- Fortyfive Avenue
- Gallowgate
- George Street
- Glebelands Road
- Glebe Terrace
- Glenburn Road
- Gortans Road
- Gowanfield Place
- Gowanfield Terrace
- Greenhill Brae
- Grosvenor Road
- Guildford Square
- Havelock Terrace
- Hawthorn Lane
- High Road
- High Street
- Hillhouse Road
- Hillview Walk
- Inkerman Terrace
- John Street
- King Street
- Knockanreoch
- Ladeside Place
- Ladeside Street
- Leopold Road
- Lilyoak Terrace
- Limetree Avenue
- Longhill Crescent
- Longhill Terrace
- Lorne Road
- Mackinlay Street
- Macnab's Brae
- Marine Place
- Marine Road
- Meadows Road
- Mill Road
- Mill Street
- Minister's Brae
- Montague Street
- Montford Terrace
- Mountclare Gardens
- Mount Pleasant Road
- Mountstuart Road
- Nettle Brae
- Plan Road
- Pointhouse Crescent
- Prospect Terrace
- Quay Street
- Queen Street
- Regal Place
- Riverside Drive
- Robertson Drive
- Roslin Crescent
- Roslin Road
- Russell Street
- Serpentine Road
- Shore Road
- Springfield Place
- St Andrews Walk
- St Bride's Road
- St John's Drive
- St Johns Place
- Store Lane
- Stuart Street
- Tower Street
- Union Street
- Victoria Street
- Wallace Avenue
- Watergate
- Watson Place
- Waverley Avenue
- Wellpark Road
- Westfield Grove
- Westland Road
- West Princes Street
- Wyndham Court
- Wyndham Park
- Wyndham Road
- A844
- B875
- B878
- B881
Check an address in PA20
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PA20" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about PA20
- What does a PA20 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the PA20 district of the PA (Paisley) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Rothesay. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 270 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 PA20
- PA1711.2 km
- PA1812.0 km
- KA2812.1 km
- KA3012.8 km
- PA2114.2 km
- PA2315.4 km
- KA2915.4 km
- PA2216.0 km
- PA1919.6 km
- KA2320.0 km
- PA1620.0 km
- PA1522.8 km
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