PL4 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

827 of the district's 1,256 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 50.37555, -4.12804, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PL4

Companies House lists 2,522 companies with a registered office in PL4; 582 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 PL4

• Plymouth
• City of Plymouth
• South West

Roads filed under PL4

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.

• Abingdon Road
• Addison Road
• Albertha Close
• Alexandra Road
• Allendale Road
• Alma Street
• Alton Place
• Alton Road
• Alvington Street
• Amity Place
• Anson Place
• Apsley Road
• Archway Avenue
• Arlington Road
• Armada Street
• Artillery Place
• Ashford Hill
• Ashford Road
• Astor Drive
• Barbican Approach
• Barbican Court
• Baring Street
• Basket Ope
• Batter Street
• Beatrice Avenue
• Beaumont Avenue
• Beaumont Place
• Beaumont Road
• Bedford Park
• Bedford Park Villas
• Bedford Terrace
• Beech Avenue
• Beechwood Avenue
• Beechwood Terrace
• Belgrave Lane
• Belgrave Road
• Belvedere Road
• Bernice Close
• Bernice Terrace
• Bilbury Street
• Blenheim Road
• Bradley Road
• Breakwater Hill
• Brentor Road
• Breton Side
• Britannia Place
• Brunswick Road
• Bulmer Road
• Bute Road
• Camden Street
• Candlewick Lane
• Carlton Terrace
• Carmarthen Road
• Cathcart Avenue
• Cattedown Road
• Cattewater Road
• Cavendish Road
• Cecil Avenue
• Central Park Avenue
• Chaddlewood Avenue

Check an address in PL4

Check an address in PL4

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PL4" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PL4

What does a PL4 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PL4 district of the PL (Plymouth) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Plymouth. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 827 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 PL4

• PL31.4 km
• PL12.0 km
• PL23.0 km
• PL93.8 km
• PL54.8 km
• PL64.9 km
• PL76.2 km
• PL106.8 km
• PL119.0 km
• PL89.4 km
• PL129.9 km
• PL2014.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids