What does an S33 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the S33 district of the S (Sheffield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bradwell. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 168 live postcodes.

S33 postcode district

S33, in the S (Sheffield) postcode area, has 168 live and 43 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 128 roads under it.

postcode area	S (Sheffield)
live postcodes	168
terminated postcodes	43
sectors	5
roads listed	128
companies registered	315
centroid	53.34414, -1.73990
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

168 of the district's 211 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 53.34414, -1.73990, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
S33 0	46	12
S33 6	30	12
S33 7	13	1
S33 8	21	7
S33 9	58	11

Companies registered in S33

Companies House lists 315 companies with a registered office in S33; 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 S33

Derbyshire
East Midlands
High Peak
Derbyshire Dales
Bradwell
Bamford
Hope
Castleton
Edale
Brough
Thornhill
Aston
Shatton
Nether Booth
Upper Booth
Barber Booth

Roads filed under S33

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.

Arthurs Way
Ashopton Drive
Ashopton Road
Aston Lane
Back Street
Batham Road
Bemrose Gate
Bessie Lane
Boggy Lane
Bowden Lane
Bradwell Head Road
Brentwood Avenue
Brentwood Close
Brentwood Road
Bridge Street
Brinks Road
Brookside
Brough Lane
Carr Lane
Castle Street
Castleton Road
Chapel Walk
Charlotte Lane
Church Street
Clement Lane
Cold Side
Cresswellpart Lane
Cross Street
Derwent Lane
Dialstone
Dirty Lane
Eades Fold
Eccles Close
Edale Road
Edge Lane
Elliott Avenue
Evans Close
Far Hill
Fernbank
Fidlers Close
Fidlers Well
Fullwood Stile Lane
Goosehill
Gore Lane
Granby Road
Hall Gate View
Hathersage Road
Hill Head
Hollowford Road
Hollow Gate
Hope Road
How Lane
Hugh Lane
Hungry Lane
Hurstclough Lane
Jeffrey Lane
Joan Lane
Lambpart Lane
Lose Hill Lane
Lydgate Lane

all 128 roads

Main Road
Market Close
Market Place
Marsh Avenue
Michlow Close
Michlow Drive
Michlow Lane
Millbridge
Mill Lane
Moorbrook Lane
Mytham Bridge
Netherside
New Church Street
New Lane
New Road
Outlands Road
Parsons Gate
Parsons Lane
Peak Cavern Road
Peveril Close
Peveril Road
Pindale Road
Robinlands Lane
Saltergate Lane
School Lane
Shatton Lane
Sherwood Avenue
Sickleholme
Siggate
Slack Lane
Smalldale Head Road
Smithy Hill
Snake Road
Soft Water Lane
South View
Springfield Close
Springfield Road
Squires Lane
Station Approach
Station Road
Steward Gate
St Johns Close
Stretfield Road
Swift Close
Taggs Knoll
The Clough
The Crescent
The Croft
The Green
The Hills
The Hollow
The Stones
Thornhill Lane
Tophole Road
Townfield Lane
Town Gate
Townhead Lane
Town Lane
Trickett Close
Victoria Road
Warehouse Lane
Water Lane
Weaving Avenue
West Lees Road
Winnats Road
Wortley Court
A57
A6013

Check an address in S33

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=S33" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about S33

What does an S33 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the S33 district of the S (Sheffield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bradwell. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 168 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 S33

S328.1 km
SK2314.0 km
S1714.2 km
SK1714.5 km
DE4515.0 km
S1015.1 km
S1115.5 km
S616.4 km
S716.6 km
SK2216.6 km
S817.4 km
S118.3 km
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