BB6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

373 of the district's 713 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 53.79296, -2.41691, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BB6

Companies House lists 853 companies with a registered office in BB6; none of them at an address 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 BB6

• Lancashire
• North West
• Hyndburn
• Great Harwood
• Ribble Valley
• Langho
• Old Langho
• Dinckley

Roads filed under BB6

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.

• Ainslie Close
• Alan Ramsbottom Way
• Albert Street
• Alexandra Place
• Allsprings Close
• Allsprings Drive
• Arthur Street
• Ash Lane
• Ash Street
• Back Church Street
• Back Queen Street
• Balfour Street
• Barnmeadow Lane
• Barons Way
• Beaconsfield Street
• Beech Street
• Belmont Road
• Birtwistle Street
• Blackburn Old Road
• Blackburn Road
• Blake Gardens
• Bostons
• Bradyll Court
• Brantfell Road
• Bridge Street
• Britannia Street
• Brookside
• Burns Way
• Bushburn Drive
• Butts
• Butts Mount
• Byron Square
• Calder Place
• Cambridge Street
• Campbell Avenue
• Cattle Street
• Causeway
• Chapel Lane
• Charles Street
• Chatburn Close
• Chaucer Gardens
• Cherry Drive
• Church Lane
• Church Mews
• Church Street
• Clayton Row
• Clayton Street
• Cliffe Lane
• Clifton Drive
• Clinkham Road
• Coleridge Place
• Comber Crescent
• Commercial Road
• Commercial Street
• Compass Drive
• Coronation Street
• Croft Street
• Cronshaw Drive
• Cross Gates
• Cross Street

Check an address in BB6

Check an address in BB6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BB6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BB6

What does a BB6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BB6 district of the BB (Blackburn) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Great Harwood. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 373 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 BB6

• BB15.0 km
• BB55.2 km
• BB28.0 km
• BB128.2 km
• BB78.8 km
• BB1110.8 km
• BB311.0 km
• BB412.9 km
• BB1013.0 km
• BB914.1 km
• PR517.2 km
• OL1317.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids