SY6 postcode district
SY6, in the SY (Shrewsbury) postcode area, has 322 live and 58 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 112 roads under it.
| postcode area | SY (Shrewsbury) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 322 |
| terminated postcodes | 58 |
| sectors | 4 |
| roads listed | 112 |
| companies registered | 570 |
| centroid | 52.53824, -2.79107 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
322 of the district's 380 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 52.53824, -2.79107, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| SY6 1 | 0 | 1 |
| SY6 6 | 201 | 33 |
| SY6 7 | 121 | 17 |
| SY6 9 | 0 | 7 |
Companies registered in SY6
Companies House lists 570 companies with a registered office in SY6; 250 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 SY6
- Shropshire
- West Midlands
- Church Stretton
- All Stretton
- Little Stretton
- Leebotwood
- Soudley
- Wall under Heywood
- Hope Bowdler
- Cardington
- Alcaston
- Craven Arms
- Ticklerton
- Church Preen
- Picklescott
- Hamperley
- Whittingslow
- Woolston
- Acton Scott
- Wall Bank
- Chelmick
- Gretton
- Hollyhurst
- Woolstaston
Roads filed under SY6
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.
- Alison Drive
- Alison Road
- Ascot Close
- Ashbrook Crescent
- Barn Lane
- Beaumont Road
- Bodbury Close
- Brook Meadow
- Brooksbury
- Bull Lane
- Bur Way
- Burway Road
- Caradoc Drive
- Carding Mill Valley
- Castle Hill
- Central Avenue
- Chartwell Close
- Chelmick Close
- Chelmick Drive
- Churchill Road
- Church Street
- Churchway
- Clive Avenue
- Cross Bank
- Crossways
- Crown Close
- Crown Lane
- Cunnery Road
- Cwms Lane
- Darby Court
- Darby Lane
- Easthope Road
- Elms Lane
- Elms Paddock
- Essex Road
- Fallowfield
- Farm Lane
- Fieldhouse Drive
- Gilberries Lane
- Glebe Croft
- Hazler Crescent
- Hazler Drive
- Hazler Orchard
- Hazler Road
- Heighways Lane
- Helmeth Road
- Henley Lane
- High Street
- Jack Harvey Drive
- Jacob's Ladder
- Jane Wood Drive
- Kennedy Close
- Kenyon Road
- Lawley Close
- Leasowes Close
- Links Road
- Lion Meadow
- Longhills Road
- Longmynd Place
- Ludlow Road
all 112 roads
- Lutwyche Close
- Lutwyche Road
- Madeira Walk
- Morgansfield
- Mott's Road
- Mousetree Bank
- Oakland Park
- Oaks Drive
- Oaks Road
- Pear Tree Drive
- Poplar Drive
- Queens Court
- Ragleth Road
- Rectory Gardens
- Rushbury Road
- Russells Meadow Court
- Sandford Avenue
- Sandford Drive
- Shrewsbury Road
- Snatchfields Lane
- St Andrews Close
- Stanyeld Road
- Starr Lane
- Station Road
- St Dunstan Close
- St Laurence Close
- Street Meadow
- Stretton Farm Road
- Swain's Meadow
- The Bridleways
- The Donkey Patch
- The Meadows
- The Paddock
- The Port Way
- The Row
- Trevor Hill
- Watling Street North
- Watling Street South
- Westfields
- Westholme Park
- White House Gardens
- Willow Meadow
- Windle Hill
- Windsor Place
- Woodcote Edge
- Woodpecker Way
- Yeld Bank
- Yew Tree Gardens
- A49
- B4370
- B4371
- B5477
Check an address in SY6
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SY6" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about SY6
- What does an SY6 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the SY6 district of the SY (Shrewsbury) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Church Stretton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 322 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 SY6
- SY512.9 km
- SY714.1 km
- SY914.2 km
- TF1314.7 km
- SY317.9 km
- SY219.0 km
- SY820.3 km
- SY120.8 km
- TF1222.5 km
- TF823.2 km
- SY1523.2 km
- WV1623.9 km
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