BB2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,414 of the district's 2,177 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 53.74119, -2.50213, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BB2

Companies House lists 3,495 companies with a registered office in BB2; 183 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 BB2

• North West
• Blackburn with Darwen
• Blackburn
• Lancashire
• Ribble Valley
• Mellor
• Mellor Brook
• Pleasington
• Osbaldeston
• South Ribble
• Balderstone
• Chorley
• Myerscough Smithy
• Darwen
• Clayton-le-Dale
• Osbaldeston Green

Roads filed under BB2

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.

• Abbotsford Avenue
• Abbott Brow
• Abraham Street
• Acorn Way
• Acrefield
• Ada Street
• Addison Close
• Addison Street
• Adelaide Terrace
• Agnes Street
• Alan Shearer Way
• Alastairs Place
• Albany Road
• Alberta Close
• Albert Street
• Albion Road
• Albion Street
• Alder Bank
• Alderney Close
• Alexandra Mews
• Alexandra Road
• Alma Street
• Alpine Grove
• Alum Scar Lane
• Amberley Street
• Amberwood Drive
• Andrew Close
• Andrews Walk
• Angela Street
• Anglesey Street
• Ansdell Terrace
• Apple Close
• Apple Street
• Aqueduct Road
• Arbour Drive
• Arkwright Fold
• Arley Rise
• Arnold Close
• Arnside Crescent
• Arthur Street
• Arthur Way
• Ashville Terrace
• Ashwood Avenue
• Ashworth Close
• Aspen Close
• Assheton Road
• Astley Gate
• Aston Walk
• Astor Crescent
• Avebury Close
• Avon Close
• Azalea Road
• Back Parkinson Street
• Bailey Close
• Balderstone Hall Lane
• Baldwin Street
• Balfour Street
• Balmoral Close
• Banbury Close
• Bank Hey View

Check an address in BB2

Check an address in BB2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BB2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BB2

What does a BB2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BB2 district of the BB (Blackburn) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Blackburn. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,414 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 BB2

• BB13.1 km
• BB35.4 km
• BB68.0 km
• BB58.6 km
• PR510.3 km
• PR610.9 km
• PR113.2 km
• BL713.3 km
• PR1113.4 km
• PR2513.7 km
• PR214.1 km
• PR714.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids