CB1 8 postcode sector in the CB1 district

CB1 8 is a sector of the CB1 district: every postcode that starts CB1 8. It has 101 postcodes in use, 4 of them large-user postcodes. A large-user postcode is one Royal Mail gives to a single address that gets a lot of mail.

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Every postcode in the CB1 8 sector, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in the CB1 8 sector, by gigabit broadband Of the 101 postcodes in the CB1 8 sector that ONS places, 2 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 4 have some that can, 91 can all get it and 4 have no Ofcom figure. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Queen Edith's, Cherry Hinton. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A1134 CB1 8AL: no Ofcom figureCB1 8AN: no Ofcom figureCB1 8HQ: no Ofcom figureCB1 8AD: gigabit for allCB1 8AF: gigabit for allCB1 8AJ: gigabit for allCB1 8AP: gigabit for allCB1 8AQ: gigabit for allCB1 8AZ: gigabit for allCB1 8BA: gigabit for allCB1 8BG: gigabit for allCB1 8BL: gigabit for allCB1 8BN: gigabit for allCB1 8DB: gigabit for allCB1 8DE: gigabit for allCB1 8DF: gigabit for allCB1 8DG: gigabit for allCB1 8DH: gigabit for allCB1 8DJ: gigabit for allCB1 8DN: gigabit for allCB1 8DP: gigabit for allCB1 8DS: gigabit for allCB1 8DT: gigabit for allCB1 8DU: gigabit for allCB1 8DX: gigabit for allCB1 8EA: gigabit for allCB1 8EB: gigabit for allCB1 8ED: gigabit for allCB1 8EE: gigabit for allCB1 8EF: gigabit for allCB1 8EG: gigabit for allCB1 8HD: gigabit for allCB1 8NJ: gigabit for allCB1 8NL: gigabit for allCB1 8NN: gigabit for allCB1 8NP: gigabit for allCB1 8NQ: gigabit for allCB1 8NR: gigabit for allCB1 8NS: gigabit for allCB1 8NT: gigabit for allCB1 8NU: gigabit for allCB1 8NW: gigabit for allCB1 8NX: gigabit for allCB1 8NY: gigabit for allCB1 8NZ: gigabit for allCB1 8PA: gigabit for allCB1 8PF: gigabit for allCB1 8PG: gigabit for allCB1 8PJ: gigabit for allCB1 8PL: gigabit for allCB1 8PP: gigabit for allCB1 8PR: gigabit for allCB1 8PS: gigabit for allCB1 8PT: gigabit for allCB1 8PU: gigabit for allCB1 8PW: gigabit for allCB1 8PX: gigabit for allCB1 8PY: gigabit for allCB1 8PZ: gigabit for allCB1 8QA: gigabit for allCB1 8QD: gigabit for allCB1 8QH: gigabit for allCB1 8QJ: gigabit for allCB1 8QL: gigabit for allCB1 8QN: gigabit for allCB1 8QR: gigabit for allCB1 8QS: gigabit for allCB1 8QT: gigabit for allCB1 8QU: gigabit for allCB1 8QW: gigabit for allCB1 8QX: gigabit for allCB1 8QY: gigabit for allCB1 8QZ: gigabit for allCB1 8RA: gigabit for allCB1 8RB: gigabit for allCB1 8RD: gigabit for allCB1 8RE: gigabit for allCB1 8RF: gigabit for allCB1 8RG: gigabit for allCB1 8RJ: gigabit for allCB1 8RN: gigabit for allCB1 8RP: gigabit for allCB1 8RQ: gigabit for allCB1 8RR: gigabit for allCB1 8RW: gigabit for allCB1 8RX: gigabit for allCB1 8SG: gigabit for allCB1 8SH: gigabit for allCB1 8SJ: gigabit for allCB1 8SL: gigabit for allCB1 8SN: gigabit for allCB1 8SQ: gigabit for allCB1 8TH: gigabit for allCB1 8YU: gigabit for allCB1 8DY: some gigabitCB1 8DZ: some gigabitCB1 8QP: some gigabitCB1 8RL: some gigabitCB1 8AG: no gigabitCB1 8DW: no gigabit Queen Edith'sCherry Hinton Map of every postcode in the CB1 8 sector, by gigabit broadband Of the 101 postcodes in the CB1 8 sector that ONS places, 2 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 4 have some that can, 91 can all get it and 4 have no Ofcom figure. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Queen Edith's, Cherry Hinton. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Queen Edith'sCherry Hinton
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 2
  • Some can get gigabit: 4
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 91
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 4

Of the 101 postcodes in the CB1 8 sector that ONS places, 2 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 4 have some that can, 91 can all get it and 4 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.

Postcodes without gigabit

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

What do homes sell for in CB1 8?

Homes in CB1 8 sold for a typical £597,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 34 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £570,000 from 59 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£597,500 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£570,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £799,950 13 sales
  • Semi-detached £597,500 8 sales
  • Terraced £445,000 5 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £285,000 8 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value at the postcodes that start CB1 8. A typical price is the median, the middle sale, given from 5 sales or more.

How we work this out: house prices by postcode

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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