What does a S35 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the S35 district of the S (Sheffield) postcode area, which the directory places around Yorkshire and the Humber. The inward half of the full postcode narrows it to a street or a building; the district alone does not, and an address written with a district and no inward half cannot be checked against the register.

Does a street listed here mean an address on it exists?

It means OS Open Names lists a road of that name under the district, which is what the address lookup answers as a street-level match. It says nothing about any building on it: Great Britain publishes no open register of buildings, so the lookup answers exists: null there and confirms the street alone.

Who lives at these postcodes?

Nobody on this page. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there, and a streets register lists roads, not occupants. The address lookup carries no field about a person and never will.

S35 postcode district

What the public directories installed here say about the S35 postcode district: how many of its postcodes are in use, the places OS Open Names lists for them, the streets it files under the district and the district's centroid. Counted from the national postcode directory and OS Open Names on 2026-09-18, and never about who is at an address.

postcode area	S (Sheffield)
live postcodes	891
terminated postcodes	167
streets listed	689
centroid	53.45850, -1.49876
counted on	2026-09-18

Places the directory lists for S35

OS Open Names places the district's postcodes in these settlements, boroughs, counties and regions, most often first. A town written as any of them matches the directory in an address lookup, and one written as another place in the S area is reported but not scored.

Yorkshire and the Humber
Sheffield
Chapeltown
High Green
Barnsley
Ecclesfield
Grenoside
Oughtibridge
Wharncliffe Side
Thurgoland
Worrall
Crane Moor
Wortley
Green Moor
Rotherham
Howbrook
Whitley
Hood Hill
Eastfield
Brightholmlee
Bromley
Wood Seats
Coldwell
Foldrings

Postcodes in use

891 postcodes in S35 were in use on the day of the count. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. 167 of its 1,058 postcodes have been terminated: a real address written with one has moved on, which is not the same thing as a typo, and the address lookup scores it rather than refusing it.

Centroid: 53.45850, -1.49876 — the mean of the live postcodes' centroids, which locates the district, not any building in it.

Streets filed under S35

OS Open Names files 689 roads under S35. 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.

Acacia Avenue
Acorn Court
Acre Gate
Acre Lane
Aire Close
Albany Avenue
Alford Avenue
Allen Gardens
Alma Road
Angram Road
Angram View
Annat Place
Anvil Crescent
Arncliffe Drive
Arundel Road
Ashbourne Grove
Ash Close
Ash View
Ashwood Close
Ashwood Road

the first 20 of 689, alphabetically

Check an address in S35

The address checker opens on Great Britain with the district in the field: add the street, the number and the full postcode, and it answers the postcode's status, whether the street is filed under the district, and what kind of delivery point the address names.

Check an address in S35

curl https://spaw.co/api/v1/address \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"address": "10 Downing Street, London S35 …", "country": "GB"}'

Common questions about S35

What does a S35 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the S35 district of the S (Sheffield) postcode area, which the directory places around Yorkshire and the Humber. The inward half of the full postcode narrows it to a street or a building; the district alone does not, and an address written with a district and no inward half cannot be checked against the register.
Does a street listed here mean an address on it exists?: It means OS Open Names lists a road of that name under the district, which is what the address lookup answers as a street-level match. It says nothing about any building on it: Great Britain publishes no open register of buildings, so the lookup answers exists: null there and confirms the street alone.
Who lives at these postcodes?: Nobody on this page. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there, and a streets register lists roads, not occupants. The address lookup carries no field about a person and never will.

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.

Data synced on 2026-09-18: the newest register or postcode directory copy installed here.

Other districts in S

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