PR8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,256 of the district's 2,088 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 53.62617, -3.00979, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PR8

Companies House lists 3,009 companies with a registered office in PR8; 476 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 PR8

• North West
• Southport
• Sefton
• West Lancashire
• Lancashire
• Snape Green
• Carr Cross

Roads filed under PR8

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.

• Aintree Crescent
• Albert Terrace
• Alderdale Avenue
• Alma Road
• Altham Road
• Althorpe Drive
• Andreas Close
• Anne Avenue
• Arbour Street
• Arden Close
• Ardleigh Avenue
• Argameols Close
• Arlington Close
• Arundel Road
• Ascot Close
• Ashdown Close
• Ash Street
• Ashton Road
• Aspen Gardens
• Aughton Mews
• Aughton Road
• Ayr Close
• Back Compton Road
• Back Forest Road
• Back Virginia Street
• Bakersfield Drive
• Balfour Road
• Ball's Place
• Banastre Road
• Bank Passage
• Barclay Place
• Barford Close
• Barrett Avenue
• Barrett Road
• Barrington Drive
• Beacham Road
• Beach Priory Gardens
• Beach Road
• Beatty Road
• Bedford Road
• Beechfield Gardens
• Belgrave Place
• Belgrave Road
• Belmont Street
• Belvedere Road
• Bentham's Way
• Bentham Street
• Berwick Avenue
• Betula Bank
• Bickerton Road
• Birch Street
• Birdling Drive
• Birkdale Cop
• Black Brook Close
• Blandford Close
• Blenheim Road
• Blowick Moss Lane
• Blue Bird Close
• Blundell Avenue
• Blundell Crescent

Check an address in PR8

Check an address in PR8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PR8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PR8

What does a PR8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PR8 district of the PR (Preston) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Southport. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,256 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 PR8

• PR94.7 km
• L378.5 km
• L3910.3 km
• L4011.4 km
• L3811.6 km
• L2913.3 km
• L3113.5 km
• FY813.9 km
• L2315.0 km
• L3015.9 km
• L2216.6 km
• L2117.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids