SO42 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

164 of the district's 218 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 50.81556, -1.53669, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SO42

Companies House lists 353 companies with a registered office in SO42; none of them at an address 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 SO42

• New Forest
• Hampshire
• South East
• Brockenhurst
• East Boldre
• Beaulieu
• Setley
• Balmerlawn
• Bucklers Hard
• The Hummicks
• Hill Top
• Dilton
• South Weirs
• Furzey Lodge
• Keeping
• Thorns Beach
• Bailey's Hard

Roads filed under SO42

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.

• Addison Road
• Armstrong Close
• Armstrong Lane
• Armstrong Road
• Auckland Avenue
• Auckland Place
• Avenue Road
• Bailey's Hard Lane
• Balmer Lawn Road
• Beaulieu Road
• Broadlands Road
• Brookley Road
• Brookside Road
• Burford Lane
• Burley Road
• Butts Lawn
• Butts Paddock
• Careys Cottages
• Chapel Lane
• Chestnut Road
• Church Lane
• Collyers Road
• Connaught Place
• Cowleys Lane
• Cripple Gate Lane
• Culverley Close
• Dock Lane
• East Bank Road
• East Boldre Road
• Exbury Road
• Fathersfield
• Fibbards Road
• Fire Station Lane
• Forest Glade Close
• Forest Hall
• Forest Park Road
• Forest View
• Frohawke Ride
• Furzey Lane
• Gaza Avenue
• Gins Lane
• Greenways Road
• Grigg Lane
• Hatchet Lane
• Heath Lane
• Hides Hill Lane
• High Street
• Highwood Road
• Horlock Road
• King's Passage
• Knowle Road
• Lodge Lane
• Lymington Road
• Lyndhurst Road
• Main Road
• Martin's Road
• Masseys Lane
• Matthews Lane
• Meadcrest Wood
• Meerut Road

Check an address in SO42

Check an address in SO42

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SO42" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SO42

What does an SO42 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SO42 district of the SO (Southampton) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Brockenhurst. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 164 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 SO42

• SO417.0 km
• SO438.7 km
• SO4510.6 km
• BH2511.0 km
• SO4011.1 km
• PO4113.5 km
• SO1513.8 km
• SO1414.1 km
• PO4014.8 km
• PO3915.0 km
• SO1615.3 km
• SO1916.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids