What does an ST20 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the ST20 district of the ST (Stoke-on-Trent) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Gnosall. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 219 live postcodes.

ST20 postcode district

ST20, in the ST (Stoke-on-Trent) postcode area, has 219 live and 55 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 137 roads under it.

postcode area	ST (Stoke-on-Trent)
live postcodes	219
terminated postcodes	55
sectors	1
roads listed	137
companies registered	293
centroid	52.79838, -2.27759
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

219 of the district's 274 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 52.79838, -2.27759, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
ST20 0	219	55

Companies registered in ST20

Companies House lists 293 companies with a registered office in ST20; 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 ST20

Stafford
Staffordshire
West Midlands
Gnosall
Gnosall Heath
Woodseaves
Church Eaton
Adbaston
High Offley
Norbury
Knightley
Shebdon
Beffcote
Knightley Dale
Oulton
Norbury Junction
Knighton
Church Eaton Green
Apeton
Marston
Little Onn
High Onn
Cowley
Coton End

Roads filed under ST20

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.

Alley's Lane
Anchor Way
Ashbrook Close
Ashley Croft
Ashmore Drive
Audmore Road
Back Lane
Barlands Lane
Barley Orchard
Barn Common
Beffcote Road
Berkeley Close
Birchmoor Lane
Blackberry Way
Bridge Court
Bridle Lane
Britch Lane
Broad Lane
Brookhouse Road
Brookhouse Way
Cartwright Drive
Chestnut Close
Church Close
Cliffs Lane
Cowley Lane
Cross Street
Daffodil Drive
Deer Park
Dicky's Lane
Doley Close
Elmwood Close
Elton Way
Fanlizard Lane
Far Ridding
Five Lanes Ends
Forresters Lane
Fountain Fold
Garden Cotts
Gay Lane
Geneshall Close
Ginger Hill
Glebefields
Glebe Lane
Glebe Meadow
Glendower Close
Gnosall Road
Gorse Lane
Grange Road
Greenfields
Gregory Lane
Grub Street
Hawthorn Close
Heathway
Heron Brook
High Meadow
High Offley Road
High Street
Hollies Brook Close
Hudson Close
Impstones

all 137 roads

Intake Lane
Knightley Close
Knightley Road
Knightley Way
Leese Walk
Lerridge Lane
Little Onn Road
Lodge Lane
Lower Road
Lowfield Lane
Loynton Sands
Main Road
Malt House Lane
Manor Road
Marshmeadow Lane
Meadow Close
Middlefield
Mill Lane
Monks Walk
Moors Wood
Moscow Lane
Moss Lane
Near Ridding
Newport Road
Norbury Close
Norbury Road
North Drive
Oak Close
Old Barn Close
Oldershaws Lane
Osborne Park
Oscote Lane
Oulton Lane
Parkers Close
Park Lane
Parsons Drive
Pear Tree Close
Peggs Lane
Pinfold Lane
Plardiwick Road
Quarry Lane
Radmore Lane
Riley Lane
Sellman Street
Sharman Way
Shay Lane
Shelmore Way
Shires View
Slab Lane
Springfield Gardens
Stafford Lane
Stafford Road
Station Road
St Editha's Court
St Lawrence Way
St Peter's Court
Swan Court
Sweetplace Lane
Taberna View
Telford Lane
The Cloisters
The Flashes
The Green
The Oaklands
The Rank
The Seesall
The Street
Tulip Walk
Tunstall Lane
Waterside Court
Wharf Road
Willey Lane
Willowcroft
Wood Eaton Road
Woodhaven
Woodhouse Lane
B5405

Check an address in ST20

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=ST20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about ST20

What does an ST20 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the ST20 district of the ST (Stoke-on-Trent) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Gnosall. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 219 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 ST20

TF108.0 km
ST218.3 km
ST1610.7 km
ST1712.1 km
ST1913.3 km
ST1813.4 km
ST1514.2 km
TF215.3 km
TF1115.8 km
TF917.0 km
WV9917.1 km
ST1218.0 km
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