YO8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,336 of the district's 2,283 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 53.78108, -1.06045, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in YO8

Companies House lists 2,189 companies with a registered office in YO8; 110 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 YO8

• Yorkshire and the Humber
• North Yorkshire
• Selby
• Brayton
• Thorpe Willoughby
• Barlby
• Hambleton
• East Riding of Yorkshire
• Cawood
• Camblesforth
• Hemingbrough
• North Duffield
• Wistow
• Bubwith
• Osgodby
• Cliffe
• Barlow
• Drax
• Burn
• Skipwith
• Gateforth Park
• South Duffield
• West Haddlesey
• Wressle

Roads filed under YO8

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.

• Abbey Walk
• Abbey Yard
• Abbot's Road
• Abbots Court
• Abbots Mews
• Abbotts Gardens
• Acorn Close
• Acorn Way
• Adamson Court
• Aglet Avenue
• Alder Close
• Alma Terrace
• Almond Close
• Angram Lane
• Annie Street
• Annumhills Road
• Anson Croft
• Anson Grove
• Applecroft Road
• Appletree Drive
• Armoury Road
• Ash Close
• Ashlea Close
• Ashley Court
• Ashtree Drive
• Ash Way
• Aspen Close
• Audus Street
• Azalea Mews
• Back Lane
• Back Park Street
• Badgers Way
• Baffam Court
• Baffam Gardens
• Baffam Lane
• Bainbridge Drive
• Bank Road
• Barff Close
• Barff Grove
• Barff Lane
• Barff View
• Barker Drive
• Barkhouse Wood Lane
• Bar Lane
• Barlby Bank
• Barlby Bypass
• Barlby Crescent
• Barlby Road
• Barley Close
• Barley Close Road
• Barleyfield Close
• Barley Fields
• Barlow Common Road
• Barlow Road
• Barmby Ferry Road
• Barn Elms
• Barton Close
• Bartons Garth
• Barwic Close
• Barwic Parade

Check an address in YO8

Check an address in YO8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=YO8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about YO8

What does a YO8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the YO8 district of the YO (York) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Selby. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,336 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 YO8

• DN1411.2 km
• YO1914.2 km
• WF1115.0 km
• LS2415.9 km
• YO2316.4 km
• LS2517.4 km
• YO2418.7 km
• YO1018.8 km
• WF819.0 km
• DN819.7 km
• YO119.8 km
• WF1019.9 km
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