SY5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,069 of the district's 1,233 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 52.65166, -2.83360, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SY5

Companies House lists 1,109 companies with a registered office in SY5; 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 SY5

• Shropshire
• West Midlands
• Pontesbury
• Minsterley
• Powys
• Wales
• Hanwood
• Condover
• Dorrington
• Ford
• Cressage
• Cross Houses
• Westbury
• Shrewsbury
• Longden
• Crewgreen
• Hanwood Bank
• Snailbeach
• Annscroft
• Coundarbour
• Acton Burnell
• Worthen
• Yockleton
• Brockton

Roads filed under SY5

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 Lane
• Acre Lane
• Albany Court
• Alberbury Road
• Alder Drive
• Ashdale Road
• Ashford Avenue
• Ashford Close
• Ashford Drive
• Ashford Park
• Ashford Way
• Ash Grove
• Ash Lea
• Ashton Road
• Atcham Road
• Atherton Rise
• Austin Grove
• Back Lane
• Bailey Crescent
• Bank Drive
• Barnyard Close
• Bath Mews
• Beech Close
• Bell View
• Bennetts Lane
• Berriewood Lane
• Binweston Lane
• Birch Drive
• Bishop Close
• Bleachfield
• Bogey Lane
• Boundary Way
• Bowler Close
• Braggington Lane
• Brazier Way
• Briar Close
• Bridge Lane
• Brockton Meadow
• Brook Close
• Brook Gardens
• Brook Rise
• Brook Road
• Brookside
• Brookside Gardens
• Broom Drive
• Broomhill Lane
• Broxtons Wood
• Bryncoed
• Bryn Mawr
• But Lane
• Bytherig
• Callow Crescent
• Callow Lane
• Caradoc View
• Carver Street
• Castle Green
• Causemountain Lane
• Chapel Lane
• Chapel Street
• Cherry Arbor

Check an address in SY5

Check an address in SY5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SY5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SY5

What does an SY5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SY5 district of the SY (Shrewsbury) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Shropshire. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,069 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 SY5

• SY36.7 km
• SY29.2 km
• SY110.1 km
• SY612.9 km
• SY417.1 km
• TF1318.8 km
• SY920.0 km
• TF620.9 km
• TF521.1 km
• SY1523.0 km
• TF123.0 km
• TF823.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids