What does a SY9 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SY9 district of the SY (Shrewsbury) postcode area, which the directory places around Shropshire. The inward half of the full postcode narrows it to a street or a building; the district alone does not, and an address written with a district and no inward half cannot be checked against the register.

Does a street listed here mean an address on it exists?

It means OS Open Names lists a road of that name under the district, which is what the address lookup answers as a street-level match. It says nothing about any building on it: Great Britain publishes no open register of buildings, so the lookup answers exists: null there and confirms the street alone.

Who lives at these postcodes?

Nobody on this page. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there, and a streets register lists roads, not occupants. The address lookup carries no field about a person and never will.

SY9 postcode district

What the public directories installed here say about the SY9 postcode district: how many of its postcodes are in use, the places OS Open Names lists for them, the streets it files under the district and the district's centroid. Counted from the national postcode directory and OS Open Names on 2026-09-18, and never about who is at an address.

postcode area	SY (Shrewsbury)
live postcodes	137
terminated postcodes	12
streets listed	60
centroid	52.49909, -2.99054
counted on	2026-09-18

Places the directory lists for SY9

OS Open Names places the district's postcodes in these settlements, boroughs, counties and regions, most often first. A town written as any of them matches the directory in an address lookup, and one written as another place in the SY area is reported but not scored.

Shropshire
West Midlands
Bishop's Castle
Lydham
Wentnor
Colebatch
Whitcot
Linley
Bankshead
Powys
Wales
Bishop's Moat
Newton
Norbury
Walkmill
More
Hardwick
Eaton
Lea
Acton
Bryn
Cefn Einion
Mainstone
Churchtown

Postcodes in use

137 postcodes in SY9 were in use on the day of the count. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. 12 of its 149 postcodes have been terminated: a real address written with one has moved on, which is not the same thing as a typo, and the address lookup scores it rather than refusing it.

Centroid: 52.49909, -2.99054 — the mean of the live postcodes' centroids, which locates the district, not any building in it.

Streets filed under SY9

OS Open Names files 60 roads under SY9. 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.

A488
Arbour Lane
B4383
B4384
B4385
Billingsley Close
Bowling Green Close
Brampton Road
Brick Meadow
Bull Lane
Bull Street
Castle Green
Castle Street
Chapel Yard
Church Lane
Church Street
Clove Piece
Colstey Bank
Copall Paddock
Coronation Cottages

the first 20 of 60, alphabetically

Check an address in SY9

The address checker opens on Great Britain with the district in the field: add the street, the number and the full postcode, and it answers the postcode's status, whether the street is filed under the district, and what kind of delivery point the address names.

Check an address in SY9

curl https://spaw.co/api/v1/address \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"address": "10 Downing Street, London SY9 …", "country": "GB"}'

Common questions about SY9

What does a SY9 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the SY9 district of the SY (Shrewsbury) postcode area, which the directory places around Shropshire. The inward half of the full postcode narrows it to a street or a building; the district alone does not, and an address written with a district and no inward half cannot be checked against the register.
Does a street listed here mean an address on it exists?: It means OS Open Names lists a road of that name under the district, which is what the address lookup answers as a street-level match. It says nothing about any building on it: Great Britain publishes no open register of buildings, so the lookup answers exists: null there and confirms the street alone.
Who lives at these postcodes?: Nobody on this page. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there, and a streets register lists roads, not occupants. The address lookup carries no field about a person and never will.

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.

Data synced on 2026-09-18: the newest register or postcode directory copy installed here.

Other districts in SY

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