SG8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,299 of the district's 1,840 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 52.06447, -0.01478, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SG8

Companies House lists 3,459 companies with a registered office in SG8; 523 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 SG8

• Eastern
• South Cambridgeshire
• Cambridgeshire
• North Hertfordshire
• Hertfordshire
• Royston
• Melbourn
• Bassingbourn
• Fowlmere
• Meldreth
• Barley
• Uttlesford
• Essex
• Litlington
• Barkway
• Steeple Morden
• Guilden Morden
• Shepreth
• Orwell
• Reed
• Kneesworth
• Great Chishill
• Therfield
• Thriplow

Roads filed under SG8

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.

• Abbotts Close
• Abington Road
• Abram's Lane
• Ackroyd Road
• Aintree Road
• Aldous Court
• Angel Pavement
• Angle Lane
• Anvil Avenue
• Appleacre Park
• Appletree Row
• Armingford Crescent
• Ascot Road
• Ash Grove
• Ash Mill
• Ash Way
• Ashwell Road
• Ashwell Street
• Atlas Close
• Austin Corner
• Back Lane
• Bakers Lane
• Baldock Road
• Baldock Street
• Bankside
• Bannister Gardens
• Barham Court
• Barkway Road
• Barkway Street
• Barley Road
• Barnack Grove
• Barrington Road
• Barron's Green
• Bassingbourn Road
• Beechwood Avenue
• Beeton Close
• Beldam Avenue
• Bell Close
• Bell Lane
• Bells Meadow
• Berkshire Court
• Betjeman Road
• Betony Vale
• Beverley Close
• Bilden End
• Binyon Way
• Birch Meadow
• Black Lane
• Blacksmith's Lane
• Blake Close
• Blenheim Close
• Bogmoor Road
• Bogs Gap Lane
• Bonds Crescent
• Braeburn Walk
• Bramley Avenue
• Brampton Road
• Brewers Yard
• Brewery Lane
• Briary Lane

Check an address in SG8

Check an address in SG8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SG8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SG8

What does an SG8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SG8 district of the SG (Stevenage) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Royston. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,299 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 SG8

• CB2212.5 km
• SG912.7 km
• SG712.8 km
• CB216.4 km
• CB2316.8 km
• SG617.1 km
• CB1117.2 km
• SG1817.2 km
• SG1917.4 km
• SG1518.0 km
• CB118.0 km
• CB318.3 km
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