SW5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

306 of the district's 754 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 51.49161, -0.19186, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SW5

Companies House lists 1,584 companies with a registered office in SW5; 128 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 SW5

• Kensington and Chelsea
• Greater London
• London
• Kensington

Roads filed under SW5

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.

• Barkston Gardens
• Bina Gardens
• Bolton Gardens
• Boltons Place
• Bramham Gardens
• Child's Place
• Child's Street
• Child's Walk
• Cluny Mews
• Collingham Gardens
• Collingham Place
• Collingham Road
• Courtfield Gardens
• Courtfield Mews
• Cresswell Gardens
• Cromwell Crescent
• Dove Mews
• Eardley Crescent
• Earl's Court Gardens
• Earl's Court Road
• Earl's Court Square
• Farnell Mews
• Gaspar Close
• Gaspar Mews
• Gledhow Gardens
• Hesper Mews
• Hogarth Place
• Hogarth Road
• Kempsford Gardens
• Kenway Road
• Knaresborough Place
• Kramer Mews
• Laverton Mews
• Laverton Place
• Longridge Road
• Morton Mews
• Nevern Place
• Nevern Road
• Nevern Square
• Old Brompton Road
• Old Manor Yard
• Penywern Road
• Philbeach Gardens
• Redfield Lane
• Redfield Mews
• Rich Lane
• South Bolton Gardens
• Spear Mews
• Templeton Place
• Trebovir Road
• Wallgrave Road
• Warwick Road
• Wetherby Gardens
• Wetherby Mews
• A3218

Check an address in SW5

Check an address in SW5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SW5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SW5

What does an SW5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SW5 district of the SW (South West London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Kensington. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 306 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 SW5

• W81.1 km
• SW101.1 km
• SW71.2 km
• W141.3 km
• SW61.8 km
• SW31.8 km
• W62.5 km
• SW1X2.5 km
• W22.7 km
• W112.8 km
• SW1W2.8 km
• SW113.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids