AB56 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

649 of the district's 1,025 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 57.67432, -2.92930, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in AB56

Companies House lists 570 companies with a registered office in AB56; 273 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 AB56

• Scotland
• Moray
• Buckie
• Cullen
• Portknockie
• Findochty
• Portgordon
• Bauds of Cullen
• Aberdeenshire
• Rathven
• Lintmill
• Arradoul
• Enzie
• Clochan
• Drybridge
• Milton
• Kirktown of Deskford
• Berryhillock
• Broadley

Roads filed under AB56

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.

• Aboyne Street
• Addison Street
• Admiralty Street
• Alba Road
• Albert Terrace
• Alexander Street
• Alnath Place
• Anderson Drive
• Anson Way
• Anton Street
• Archibald Grove
• Banff Street
• Bank Street
• Barfield Road
• Barhill Road
• Baron Place
• Baron Street
• Barr Close
• Bayview Road
• Bede Road
• Binn View
• Bin View Close
• Binview Road
• Binview Terrace
• Blairdaff Street
• Blantyre Place
• Blantyre Street
• Blantyre Terrace
• Bowie's Lane
• Braeview Road
• Bridge End
• Bridge Place
• Bridge Street
• Brodie Avenue
• Bruce Avenue
• Bruce Place
• Bryson Crescent
• Burnbank
• Burnside
• Burnside Street
• Burns Square
• Cairnfield Crescent
• Cameron Crescent
• Campbell Place
• Campbell Street
• Carnie Place
• Castle Street
• Castle Terrace
• Cathay Terrace
• Cathcart Court
• Cathcart Grove
• Cathcart Street
• Cathedral Street
• Chancellor Road
• Chapel Street
• Church Street
• Cliff Street
• Cliff Terrace
• Cluny Lane
• Cluny Place

Check an address in AB56

Check an address in AB56

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=AB56" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about AB56

What does an AB56 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the AB56 district of the AB (Aberdeen) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Buckie. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 649 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 AB56

• IV3211.5 km
• AB5517.0 km
• AB4521.6 km
• IV3122.0 km
• IV3023.7 km
• AB4426.0 km
• AB5426.5 km
• AB3827.5 km
• AB5336.0 km
• IV3641.0 km
• AB5241.4 km
• AB3746.2 km
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