What does an S32 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the S32 district of the S (Sheffield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Hathersage. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 206 live postcodes.

S32 postcode district

S32, in the S (Sheffield) postcode area, has 206 live and 64 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 136 roads under it.

postcode area	S (Sheffield)
live postcodes	206
terminated postcodes	64
sectors	5
roads listed	136
companies registered	378
centroid	53.29438, -1.65145
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

206 of the district's 270 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 53.29438, -1.65145, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
S32 1	57	19
S32 2	31	9
S32 3	58	16
S32 4	22	6
S32 5	38	14

Companies registered in S32

Companies House lists 378 companies with a registered office in S32; 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 S32

Derbyshire Dales
Derbyshire
East Midlands
Hathersage
Calver
Eyam
Grindleford
Curbar
Stoney Middleton
Froggatt
Nether Padley
Foolow
Upper Padley
Abney
Leadmill
Offerton
Stoke
Bretton

Roads filed under S32

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.

Adlington Lane
Avenue Close
Back Lane
Bank Top Lane
Barnfield Drive
Barnfields
Bar Road
Baslow Road
Baulk Lane
Besom Lane
Birley Lane
Black Harry Lane
Bradshaw Lane
Brookfields
Calver Mill
Cannon Fields
Castleton Road
Chapel Walk
Church Bank
Church Street
Cliffe Lane
Cliff Lane
Coggers Lane
Coombs Lane
Cornmill Close
Crossland Road
Cross Lane
Curbar Hill
Dale Crescent
Delph Close
Denman Crescent
Derwent Avenue
Derwent Close
Derwent Lane
Donkey Lane
Dore Lane
Dukes Drive
Dunlow Lane
Duper Lane
Eaton Fold
Edge Road
Edge View Close
Farnsley Lane
Fellview Close
Folds Lane
Gatehouse Lane
Glebe Park
Goatscliff Farm Lane
Hassop Road
Hawkhill Road
Hazel Grove
Heather Lane
Higger Lane
High Street
Hill Lane
Hollowgate
Hungry Lane
Hurstclough Lane
Ibbotsons Croft
Jagger's Lane

all 136 roads

Kingsgate
Ladybower Drive
Little Edge
Lowside
Lowside Close
Lydgate
Main Road
Main Street
Malthouse Lane
Maynard Road
Meadow Close
Middleton Dale
Middleton Lane
Mill Farm Close
Mill Lane
Mill Street
Moisty Lane
Moorland Road
Moorlands Lane
Mount Pleasant Road
New Close
New Road
Ninelands Road
Oddfellows Road
Old Hall Gardens
Old Mill Lane
Padley Hill
Padley Road
Park Edge
Peaklands Park
Peak View Close
Pinfold Hill
Polly Froggatt Lane
Ranmoor Hill
Ranmoor Lane
Riddings Lane
Riley Back Lane
Riverside Close
Riverside Court
Riverside Drive
Roslyn Crescent
Roslyn Road
School Lane
Sheffield Road
Shippon Lane
Sir William Hill Road
Smithy Knoll Road
Smithy Meadows
Sough Lane
Spooner Lane
Station Approach
Station Road
St Helen's Close
St Helen's Croft
Tedgness Road
The Avenue
The Bank
The Bent
The Causeway
The Crofts
The Dale
The Fold
The Green
The Hillock
The Nook
The Square
Thunderpit Lane
Tideswell Lane
Towers Lane
Townhead
Trinkey Lane
Water Lane
Windmill Lane
A6187
B6001
B6521

Check an address in S32

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=S32" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about S32

What does an S32 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the S32 district of the S (Sheffield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Hathersage. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 206 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.

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S1414.9 km
S615.2 km
S4015.2 km
S115.3 km
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