SY8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

824 of the district's 1,030 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 52.36497, -2.69527, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SY8

Companies House lists 930 companies with a registered office in SY8; 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 SY8

• West Midlands
• Shropshire
• Ludlow
• County of Herefordshire
• Cleehill
• Knowbury
• Orleton
• Brimfield
• Farden
• Ashford Carbonell
• Sheet
• Rockgreen
• Bromfield
• Richards Castle
• Caynham
• Bitterley
• Ludford
• Middleton
• Hints
• Wyson
• Hayton's Bent
• Whitton
• Knowle
• Culmington

Roads filed under SY8

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.

• Angel Lane
• Appleyard Close
• Ash Close
• Attorney's Walk
• Badgers Rise
• Baker Close
• Ballard Close
• Beaconsfield Park
• Beech Close
• Belfry Close
• Belle Vue Terrace
• Bell Lane
• Bitterley Close
• Bitterley Lane
• Blashfield Road
• Bleathwood Lane
• Bowdler Close
• Brand Lane
• Bringewood Close
• Bringewood Rise
• Bringewood Road
• Broad Street
• Bromfield Road
• Bromley Road
• Brook Crescent
• Bull Ring
• Burway Close
• Burway Lane
• Camp Lane
• Cangeford Drive
• Captains Meadow
• Carpenters Lane
• Carter Way
• Castleford Road
• Castle Square
• Castle Street
• Castle View Terrace
• Castle Walk
• Catherton Close
• Caynham Court
• Caynham Road
• Chandlers Close
• Charlton Rise
• Chestnut Grove
• Churchill Close
• Church Lane
• Church Road
• Church Street
• Church Walk
• Claremont Orchard
• Clay Lane
• Clayton Close
• Clee Gardens
• Clee Hill Road
• Clee Stanton Road
• Clee Vantage
• Clee View
• Clee View Close
• Coder Road
• Cold Western Drive

Check an address in SY8

Check an address in SY8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SY8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SY8

What does an SY8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SY8 district of the SY (Shrewsbury) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Ludlow. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 824 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 SY8

• WR1510.8 km
• SY714.6 km
• DY1415.5 km
• HR615.5 km
• SY620.3 km
• HR723.1 km
• WV1623.5 km
• DY1224.8 km
• TF1324.9 km
• SY925.0 km
• WR626.0 km
• LD826.3 km
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