SL8 postcode district
SL8, in the SL (Slough) postcode area, has 264 live and 127 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 102 roads under it.
| postcode area | SL (Slough) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 264 |
| terminated postcodes | 127 |
| sectors | 1 |
| roads listed | 102 |
| companies registered | 1,111 |
| centroid | 51.57878, -0.70868 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
264 of the district's 391 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 51.57878, -0.70868, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| SL8 5 | 264 | 127 |
Companies registered in SL8
Companies House lists 1,111 companies with a registered office in SL8; 332 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 SL8
- South East
- Buckinghamshire
- Bourne End
- Cores End
- Well End
- Hedsor
- Windsor and Maidenhead
Roads filed under SL8
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 Road
- Abney Court Drive
- Avalon Road
- Blind Lane
- Boston Drive
- Bourne Close
- Bramley Gardens
- Brent Road
- Bridgestone Drive
- Burnham Close
- Burroughs Crescent
- Camden Place
- Chalklands
- Chapman Lane
- Cherwell Road
- Chilterns Park
- Church Road
- Claytons Meadow
- Cliffords Way
- Coldmoorholme Lane
- Cores End Road
- Cressington Court
- Cressington Place
- Dandridge Drive
- Donkey Lane
- Eastern Drive
- East Ridge
- Edgar Wallace Place
- Edwards Court
- Eghams Green
- Elm Lane
- Elms Drive
- Evenlode Road
- Fairfield Close
- Farm Road
- Ferry Lane
- Fieldhead Gardens
- Fisherman's Way
- Frank Lunnon Close
- Furlong Close
- Furlong Road
- Georgian Heights
- Goddington Road
- Greenside
- Groves Close
- Hambledon Place
- Harvest Hill
- Hawks Hill
- Heavens Lea
- Hedsor Hill
- Hedsor Road
- Hellyer Way
- Highfield Road
- Howard Court
- Isis Way
- Jeffries Court
- Kennet Road
- Kennett Road
- Kiln Lane
- Lock Bridge Road
all 102 roads
- Loddon Road
- Lower Ridge
- Marlow Road
- Meadow Walk
- Millboard Road
- Millside
- New Road
- Northern Heights
- Oakfield Road
- Orchard Mill
- Princes Road
- Ravenshoe Close
- Recreation Road
- Riversdale
- Roman Way
- Sailing Club Road
- Southbourne Drive
- Spade Oak Meadow
- Spring Gardens
- Station Road
- Sycamore Close
- Telston Close
- Thames Close
- The Avenue
- The Close
- The Drive
- The Parade
- The Rosery
- Trees Road
- Upper Thames Way
- Vineyard Drive
- Waborne Road
- Wakeman Road
- Waldens Close
- Walnut Tree Close
- Walnut Way
- Wendover Road
- Wessex Road
- West Ridge
- Wharf Lane
- Willows Road
- A4094
Check an address in SL8
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SL8" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about SL8
- What does an SL8 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the SL8 district of the SL (Slough) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bourne End. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 264 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 SL8
- HP103.4 km
- SL74.8 km
- HP115.6 km
- HP95.9 km
- SL66.3 km
- HP136.6 km
- SL606.7 km
- HP127.2 km
- SL28.6 km
- HP158.9 km
- SL19.0 km
- SL910.8 km
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