BB12 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

978 of the district's 1,230 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 53.80345, -2.29259, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BB12

Companies House lists 2,114 companies with a registered office in BB12; 98 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 BB12

• Lancashire
• North West
• Burnley
• Padiham
• Pendle
• Ribble Valley
• Read
• Simonstone
• Higham
• Hapton
• Fence
• Wheatley Lane
• Barley
• Spen Brook
• Newchurch in Pendle
• Thorney Holme
• Altham

Roads filed under BB12

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.

• Abingdon Road
• Acorn Mews
• Acrefield
• Acresbrook Road
• Adamson Street
• Ainslie Street
• Albert Street
• Albion Street
• Alder Street
• Alder Way
• Alexander Grove
• Allendale Street
• Allerton Drive
• All Saints Close
• Alma Street
• Alnwick Close
• Altham Street
• Anderton Road
• Anglesey Avenue
• Arbories Avenue
• Arbory Drive
• Arboury Street
• Arch Street
• Arkwright Street
• Arley Gardens
• Armytage Grove
• Arundel Close
• Ash Close
• Ashendean View
• Ashfield Road
• Ashley Street
• Ashworth Road
• Aspinall Close
• Avalon Close
• Avon Court
• Avondale Avenue
• Back Albert Street
• Back Altham Street
• Back Church Street
• Back Lane
• Back Shuttleworth Street
• Back Willow Street
• Badger Close
• Balliol Close
• Bamburgh Drive
• Bankcroft Close
• Bank Street
• Barbon Street
• Barkerfield Close
• Barley Lane
• Barley New Road
• Barley Street
• Barrowford Road
• Barry Street
• Bayard Street
• Beachley Square
• Bear Street
• Beatrice Avenue
• Beaufort Close
• Beauley Avenue

Check an address in BB12

Check an address in BB12

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BB12" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BB12

What does a BB12 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BB12 district of the BB (Blackburn) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Burnley. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 978 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 BB12

• BB113.4 km
• BB104.8 km
• BB96.3 km
• BB57.6 km
• BB68.2 km
• BB79.8 km
• BB810.4 km
• BB411.1 km
• BB112.3 km
• OL1312.8 km
• BB1814.7 km
• BB215.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids