S8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

852 of the district's 1,328 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 53.34001, -1.47763, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in S8

Companies House lists 2,501 companies with a registered office in S8; 429 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 S8

• Sheffield
• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Lightwood
• North East Derbyshire
• Derbyshire
• East Midlands

Roads filed under S8

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.

• Abbey Brook Close
• Abbey Brook Court
• Abbey Brook Drive
• Abbey Brook Gardens
• Abbey Lane
• Abbey Lane Dell
• Abbey View Drive
• Abbey View Road
• Aisthorpe Road
• Aizlewood Road
• Albert Road
• Allenby Close
• Allenby Drive
• Angerford Avenue
• Annesley Close
• Annesley Road
• Archer Drive
• Archer Road
• Argyle Close
• Argyle Road
• Arnside Road
• Arthington Street
• Artisan View
• Ashbury Drive
• Ashbury Lane
• Athol Road
• Atlantic Crescent
• Atlantic Drive
• Atlantic Road
• Atlantic Walk
• Atlantic Way
• Aukley Road
• Backmoor Crescent
• Backmoor Road
• Barton Road
• Batemoor Close
• Batemoor Drive
• Batemoor Place
• Batemoor Road
• Batemoor Walk
• Batt Street
• Beauchief Abbey Lane
• Beauchief Drive
• Beauchief Rise
• Becket Avenue
• Becket Crescent
• Becket Road
• Becket Walk
• Beeton Road
• Beverleys Road
• Binfield Road
• Bingham Road
• Birch Farm Avenue
• Bishops Close
• Bishopscourt Road
• Bochum Parkway
• Bocking Close
• Bocking Lane
• Bocking Rise
• Boland Road

Check an address in S8

Check an address in S8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=S8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about S8

What does an S8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the S8 district of the S (Sheffield) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Sheffield. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 852 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 S8

• S71.9 km
• S142.3 km
• S113.1 km
• S23.8 km
• S174.0 km
• S14.5 km
• S184.5 km
• S124.8 km
• S104.9 km
• S35.3 km
• S136.8 km
• S47.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids