SY1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,035 of the district's 1,611 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 52.72275, -2.74042, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SY1

Companies House lists 2,929 companies with a registered office in SY1; 304 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 SY1

• Shropshire
• West Midlands
• Shrewsbury

Roads filed under SY1

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.

• Ainsdale Drive
• Alberbury Drive
• Albert Gardens
• Albert Road
• Albert Square
• Albert Street
• Albury Place
• Allerton Road
• Allestree Close
• Ambleside
• Archers Way
• Argyll Street
• Arlington Way
• Ashfields Road
• Ashford Drive
• Asquith Close
• Avondale Drive
• Aynesworth Green
• Bagley Drive
• Bainbridge Green
• Bainbridge Walk
• Bakewell Close
• Bank Passage
• Barker Street
• Barkstone Drive
• Barracks Passage
• Barton Close
• Battlefield Court
• Battlefield Road
• Battlefield Way
• Bayford Drive
• Beacall's Lane
• Beachley
• Bear Steps
• Beaufort Green
• Beaumont Terrace
• Beddow Close
• Beeches Lane
• Beechwood Drive
• Bellstone
• Belmont
• Belmont Bank
• Benbow Close
• Benbow Quay
• Benyon Street
• Berinsfield Close
• Berrington Drive
• Berwick Avenue
• Berwick Close
• Berwick Road
• Birchwood Drive
• Bodkin Way
• Boscobel Drive
• Bowdler's Passage
• Bowling Green Close
• Bramley Close
• Brixton Way
• Broadhaven Close
• Broadhead Drive
• Broome Place

Check an address in SY1

Check an address in SY1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SY1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SY1

What does an SY1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SY1 district of the SY (Shrewsbury) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Shrewsbury. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,035 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 SY1

• SY22.1 km
• SY33.4 km
• SY48.4 km
• SY510.1 km
• TF612.4 km
• TF513.6 km
• TF116.1 km
• TF1319.2 km
• TF419.3 km
• TF820.2 km
• TF220.5 km
• TF320.6 km
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distance between the districts' centroids