TA16 postcode district
TA16, in the TA (Taunton) postcode area, has 56 live and 7 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 46 roads under it.
| postcode area | TA (Taunton) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 56 |
| terminated postcodes | 7 |
| sectors | 1 |
| roads listed | 46 |
| companies registered | 43 |
| centroid | 50.90941, -2.79384 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
56 of the district's 63 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 50.90941, -2.79384, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| TA16 5 | 56 | 7 |
Companies registered in TA16
Companies House lists 43 companies with a registered office in TA16 (1 October 2026 snapshot).
Places OS Open Names lists for TA16
- Somerset
- South West
- Merriott
- Pye Corner
Roads filed under TA16
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.
- Abbott Lane
- Beadon Lane
- Boozer Pit
- Bowood Lane
- Brimzemore Lane
- Broadway
- Brook Square
- Church Street
- Court Mill Lane
- Evergreen Path
- Farr's Orchard
- Garstone Lane
- Glebelands
- Gough Close
- Granary Barton Close
- Greys Road
- Hackney Pit Lane
- Higher Beadon
- Higher Street
- Hitchen
- Knapp
- Lower Beadon
- Lower Street
- Manor Drive
- Merriott Road
- Middlefield Lane
- Monkhouse Lane
- Moorlands Road
- Newchester Cross
- Old Farm Close
- Old Farm Walk
- Old Hitchen
- Orchard Drive
- Osborne Place
- Sandy Hole
- Sherlands
- Sherlands Gardens
- Shiremoor Hill
- Shyners Terrace
- Speke Close
- Tail Mill Lane
- The Close
- The Piece
- Townsend Orchard
- Wall Ditch Lane
- Waterwheel Court
Check an address in TA16
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=TA16" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about TA16
- What does a TA16 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the TA16 district of the TA (Taunton) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Merriott. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 56 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 TA16
- TA183.0 km
- TA173.0 km
- TA134.3 km
- TA145.1 km
- TA157.1 km
- TA127.4 km
- TA199.0 km
- DT810.3 km
- BA2010.9 km
- BA2112.2 km
- TA2012.4 km
- BA2212.8 km
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