SY16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

691 of the district's 831 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 52.52039, -3.31198, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SY16

Companies House lists 874 companies with a registered office in SY16; 170 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 SY16

• Powys
• Wales
• Y Drenewydd
• Newtown
• Ceri
• Kerry
• Tregynon
• Sarn
• Llanllwchaiarn
• Bettws Cedewain
• Aberbechan
• Adfa
• Aberhafesp
• Stepaside
• Penygelli
• Cefn Mawr
• New Mills
• Felin Newydd
• Pentre
• Hodley
• Glanrhyd
• Bwlch-y-ffridd
• Dolfor
• Hopton Uchaf

Roads filed under SY16

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.

• Afon Way
• Ash Close
• Back Lane
• Barn Lane
• Beech Close
• Beech Grove
• Beechwood Drive
• Beehive Lane
• Bod Ivan
• Bramble Close
• Brimmon Close
• Brimmon Lane
• Brimmon Road
• Broad Street
• Bryn Close
• Bryn Gardens
• Brynglas Avenue
• Brynglas Close
• Bryn Lane
• Bryn Meadows
• Brynmor Avenue
• Brynmor Close
• Brynmor Heights
• Brynmor Parc
• Bryn Street
• Brynteg
• Brynwood Drive
• Butterfly Lane
• Cae-y-Nant
• Caecamlas
• Cae Melyn
• Cambrian Gardens
• Cambrian Way
• Campion Close
• Canal Close
• Canal Road
• Cedewain
• Ceiriog
• Chapel Close
• Chapel Street
• Chestnut View
• Churchill Close
• Churchill Drive
• Cledan
• Clos Caebitra
• Clos Fioled
• Clos Glandwr
• Clos Robert Owen
• Clos y Ddraig Goch
• Coedlan Brynmor
• Colwyn
• Commercial Street
• Common Road
• Crescent Gardens
• Crescent Street
• Cross Street
• Crown Street
• Cwm Llanfair
• Cwrt Cei Coed
• Cwrt Croesawdy

Check an address in SY16

Check an address in SY16

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SY16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SY16

What does an SY16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SY16 district of the SY (Shrewsbury) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Y Drenewydd. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 691 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 SY16

• SY1710.7 km
• SY1512.6 km
• SY2116.9 km
• SY1818.3 km
• SY921.9 km
• SY1922.8 km
• LD724.0 km
• LD626.9 km
• SY2227.6 km
• LD129.1 km
• SY730.7 km
• LD833.7 km
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