RG8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

849 of the district's 1,321 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 51.50637, -1.10639, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in RG8

Companies House lists 1,461 companies with a registered office in RG8; 146 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 RG8

• South East
• West Berkshire
• South Oxfordshire
• Oxfordshire
• Goring
• Pangbourne
• Woodcote
• Reading
• Streatley
• Upper Basildon
• Whitchurch-on-Thames
• Whitchurch Hill
• South Stoke
• Checkendon
• Tidmarsh
• New Town
• Cray's Pond
• Ashampstead
• Lower Basildon
• Sulham
• Westridge Green
• Aldworth
• Hook End
• Path Hill

Roads filed under RG8

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.

• Abbots Close
• Adder's Lane
• Aldworth Road
• Allison Gardens
• Ambury Road
• Ashampstead Road
• Ash Hurst
• Ashlee Walk
• Aston Close
• Autumn Fields
• Baldons Close
• Battle Road
• Beckfords
• Beckley Close
• Bec Tithe
• Beech Lane
• Beech Road
• Beechwood Close
• Beeson Close
• Behoes Lane
• Belleisle
• Bell Lane
• Bensgrove Close
• Bere Court Road
• Bethesda Close
• Bethesda Street
• Birchen Close
• Blackbird's Bottom
• Blandy's Lane
• Bottom Lane
• Bourne Road
• Bowling Green Lane
• Brading Way
• Bradley's Street
• Breedons Hill
• Briars Close
• Bridle Path
• Bridle Road
• Bryant Place
• Bucknell Avenue
• Butlers Pond
• Captains Gorse
• Cedar Drive
• Chapel Close
• Chapel Lane
• Chestnut Grove
• Chiltern Gardens
• Chiltern View
• Chiltern Walk
• Church Lane
• Church Mews
• Church Road
• Cleeve Down
• Cleeve Road
• Clevemede
• Cold Harbour
• Coleridge Lane
• Collins End
• Colyton Way
• Corker's Lane

Check an address in RG8

Check an address in RG8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=RG8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about RG8

What does an RG8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the RG8 district of the RG (Reading) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Goring. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 849 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 RG8

• RG317.0 km
• RG308.8 km
• RG49.8 km
• RG111.2 km
• OX1011.3 km
• RG712.2 km
• RG913.2 km
• RG1813.6 km
• OX1114.5 km
• RG614.5 km
• RG214.5 km
• RG515.5 km
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