SE8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

583 of the district's 985 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 51.48200, -0.02960, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SE8

Companies House lists 4,241 companies with a registered office in SE8; 1,356 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 SE8

• London
• Greater London
• Lewisham
• Greenwich
• Southwark

Roads filed under SE8

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.

• Abinger Grove
• Acacia Close
• Admiral Street
• Admiralty Close
• Adolphus Street
• Albury Street
• Albyn Road
• Alder Path
• Alexandra
• Alloa Road
• Alverton Street
• Armada Street
• Armoury Road
• Ashmead Mews
• Ashmead Road
• Baildon Street
• Bailey Street
• Barfleur Lane
• Barnes Terrace
• Barque Mews
• Basevi Way
• Beech Close
• Benbow Street
• Berthon Street
• Bestwood Street
• Blackhorse Road
• Bolden Street
• Borthwick Street
• Bowditch
• Bridge Walk
• Brig Mews
• Bronze Street
• Brookmill Road
• Bruford Court
• Bush Road
• Canal Approach
• Capstan Road
• Caravel Mews
• Carolean Crescent
• Carrick Mews
• Carteret Way
• Childers Street
• Chilton Grove
• Clandon Street
• Clarence Road
• Clayton Drive
• Cliff Terrace
• Clyde Street
• Coffey Street
• Comet Place
• Comet Street
• Copperas Street
• Cranbrook Road
• Creative Road
• Creek Road
• Creekside
• Croft Street
• Crooke Road
• Crossfield Street
• Czar Street

Check an address in SE8

Check an address in SE8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SE8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SE8

What does an SE8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SE8 district of the SE (South East London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 583 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 SE8

• SE141.1 km
• SE102.1 km
• SE162.3 km
• SE42.4 km
• SE152.7 km
• E142.8 km
• SE132.8 km
• E1W3.7 km
• SE1P3.7 km
• SE33.7 km
• SE224.3 km
• SE54.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids