PL8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

316 of the district's 368 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 50.33552, -4.01066, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PL8

Companies House lists 311 companies with a registered office in PL8; 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 PL8

• South Hams
• Devon
• South West
• Yealmpton
• Newton Ferrers
• Brixton
• Holbeton
• Noss Mayo
• Sherford
• Battisborough Cross
• Membland
• Yealmbridge
• The Butts
• Dunstone
• Blackpool

Roads filed under PL8

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.

• Archers Court
• Ashcombe Hill
• Barrage Way
• Beaumont Drive
• Bellows Park
• Boldventure
• Bowden Hill
• Bramley Close
• Brent Hill
• Bridgend Hill
• Brixton Lodge Gardens
• Brook Mead
• Bumble Walk
• Chapel Lane
• Chapel Road
• Chequers Haigh
• Cherry Tree Drive
• Chittleburn Close
• Chittleburn Hill
• Church Close
• Church Hill
• Church Lane
• Church Park
• Church Park Road
• Church Way
• Clover Park
• Coach Road
• Combe Lane
• Coombe Down Lane
• Court Road
• Court View
• Court Wood
• Creamery Close
• Creekside Road
• Cross Park
• Daisy Park
• De Ferrers Drive
• Dillons
• Dixon Terrace
• Doctors Steps
• Easterntown
• Elburton Road
• Elliotts Hill
• Elm Tree Close
• Elm Tree Park
• Fell Close
• Fordbrook Lane
• Ford Road
• Fore Street
• Foundry Lane
• Garden Close
• Gardeners Lane
• Grassy Lane
• Gunsey Lane
• Hannaford Road
• Haylard Crescent
• Hern Lane
• Highlands
• Hillhead
• Hillside Drive

Check an address in PL8

Check an address in PL8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PL8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PL8

What does a PL8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PL8 district of the PL (Plymouth) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is South Hams. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 316 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 PL8

• PL95.7 km
• PL76.8 km
• PL218.6 km
• PL49.4 km
• PL310.2 km
• PL110.9 km
• PL611.9 km
• PL212.4 km
• PL513.9 km
• PL1014.3 km
• TQ1016.3 km
• TQ717.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids