PL18 postcode district
PL18, in the PL (Plymouth) postcode area, has 229 live and 29 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 84 roads under it.
| postcode area | PL (Plymouth) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 229 |
| terminated postcodes | 29 |
| sectors | 1 |
| roads listed | 84 |
| companies registered | 184 |
| centroid | 50.51541, -4.22178 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
229 of the district's 258 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 50.51541, -4.22178, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| PL18 9 | 229 | 29 |
Companies registered in PL18
Companies House lists 184 companies with a registered office in PL18; 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 PL18
- Cornwall
- South West
- Gunnislake
- St Ann's Chapel
- Calstock
- Latchley
- Chilsworthy
Roads filed under PL18
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.
- All Saints Park
- Arum Grove
- Back Road
- Baptist Street
- Bealswood Close
- Bealswood Road
- Bedford Close
- Buzzard Rise
- Calstock Road
- Cemetery Road
- Chapel Close
- Chapel Street
- Chawleigh Close
- Chequer Tree Court
- Church Hill
- Church Lane
- Church Street
- Commercial Road
- Commercial Street
- Cox Park Terrace
- Crocker's Row
- Curlew Walk
- Delaware Court
- Delaware Road
- Dingle Court
- Double White Rise
- Drakewalls Gardens
- Edgecombe Way
- Eric Road
- Fore Street
- Fosters Meadow
- Gennys Close
- Glendorgal Park
- Harewood Road
- Heron Road
- Higher Kelly
- Hoopers Lane
- Johnson Park
- King Street
- Kingswood Road
- Lamerhooe Drive
- Lang Gardens
- Liscombe Close
- Lower Kelly
- Marsh Lane
- Mawes Court
- Moorland Way
- Newbridge Hill
- Nuthatch Close
- Old Mine Lane
- Oll an Gwella
- Petroc Court
- Phoebe Close
- Pine View
- Piran Close
- Quarry Lane
- Raven Close
- Rodda Close
- Rose Hill Terrace
- Rowse Gardens
all 84 roads
- Russell Close
- Sampson Close
- Sand Hill
- Sand Hill Park
- Sand Lane
- Skinnard Lane
- St Andrew's Close
- Station Lane
- Station Road
- Stony Lane
- Tamar Place
- Tamar View
- Tamar Way
- The Adit
- The Beeches
- The Crescent
- The Orchard
- The Square
- Turnpike
- Under Road
- Wellpark Road
- Whiterocks Park
- Woodland Close
- Woodland Way
Check an address in PL18
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PL18" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about PL18
- What does a PL18 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the PL18 district of the PL (Plymouth) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Gunnislake. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 229 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 PL18
- PL176.2 km
- PL196.5 km
- PL208.8 km
- PL1210.8 km
- PL512.2 km
- PL613.1 km
- PL214.6 km
- PL1614.9 km
- PL315.6 km
- PL1116.0 km
- PL116.8 km
- PL416.9 km
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