SY2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

580 of the district's 648 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 52.70500, -2.72917, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SY2

Companies House lists 1,684 companies with a registered office in SY2; 221 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 SY2

• Shropshire
• West Midlands
• Shrewsbury

Roads filed under SY2

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.

• Abbey Foregate
• Abbey Wharf
• Abbots Close
• Abbotsfield Drive
• Abbots Green
• Abbots Place
• Abbots Road
• Abbots Way
• Abingdon Road
• Alfred Street
• Allgold Drive
• Allness Close
• Alvaston Way
• Amber Rise
• Anchorage Avenue
• Arden Close
• Armdale
• Armoury Gardens
• Arthur Rowley Close
• Ash Close
• Ashley Street
• Aston Butts
• Bage Way
• Banbury Close
• Bardsley Drive
• Barleyfield
• Beaumont Way
• Belgrave Place
• Bell Lane
• Belvidere Avenue
• Belvidere Lane
• Belvidere Road
• Belvidere Walk
• Bewdley Avenue
• Bishop Street
• Bland Close
• Boyer Close
• Bradford Street
• Bridgeford Way
• Broadway Close
• Brook Road
• Broseley Close
• Burkitt Close
• Burnham Avenue
• Burway Drive
• Buttington Road
• Cadfael Way
• Cadman Place
• Calder Close
• Campbell Close
• Canon Street
• Caradoc Crescent
• Carmen Avenue
• Cartland Avenue
• Chaddeslode Gardens
• Charlton Close
• Chesters Place
• Children's Way
• Clemson Way
• Cleveland Street

Check an address in SY2

Check an address in SY2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SY2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SY2

What does an SY2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SY2 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 580 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 SY2

• SY12.1 km
• SY33.1 km
• SY59.2 km
• SY410.5 km
• TF612.1 km
• TF512.9 km
• TF115.2 km
• TF1317.2 km
• TF418.0 km
• TF818.6 km
• SY619.0 km
• TF319.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids