TQ6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

457 of the district's 578 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 50.34691, -3.59166, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in TQ6

Companies House lists 519 companies with a registered office in TQ6; 55 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 TQ6

• South Hams
• Devon
• South West
• Dartmouth
• Kingswear
• Stoke Fleming
• Dittisham
• Strete
• Warfleet
• Capton
• Bowden
• Ash
• Burlestone

Roads filed under TQ6

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.

• Above Town
• Admiral Court
• Alder Way
• Anzac Street
• Archway Drive
• Badger Close
• Baileys Meadow
• Barn Court
• Barton Way
• Bayard's Cove
• Bayard's Hill
• Bay View Close
• Bay View Estate
• Beacon Lane
• Beacon Road
• Beatty Way
• Bidders Close
• Bidders Walk
• Birch Avenue
• Blackpool Hill
• Blackpool Valley Road
• Blatchmore Lane
• Bridge Road
• Britannia Avenue
• Brixham Road
• Broadpark
• Broad Road
• Broadstone
• Brookhill
• Brown's Hill
• Bugford Lane
• Carey Road
• Castle Road
• Chapel Lane
• Charles Street
• Chestnut Avenue
• Chestnut Grove
• Church Close
• Churchfields West
• Church Hill
• Church Road
• Cinders Lane
• Clarence Hill
• Clarence Street
• Clover Gardens
• Cole's Court
• College Way
• Collingwood Close
• Collingwood Road
• Commanders Cut
• Coombe Close
• Coombe Road
• Cotton Road
• Cox's Steps
• Creek Road
• Crestway
• Crossparks
• Crowther's Hill
• Dartmouth Hill
• Dartmouth Road

Check an address in TQ6

Check an address in TQ6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=TQ6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about TQ6

What does a TQ6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the TQ6 district of the TQ (Torquay) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Dartmouth. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 457 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 TQ6

• TQ56.9 km
• TQ48.5 km
• TQ910.5 km
• TQ310.8 km
• TQ214.8 km
• TQ114.8 km
• TQ715.4 km
• TQ817.7 km
• TQ1018.7 km
• TQ1220.3 km
• TQ1120.4 km
• TQ1423.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids