BB7 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,228 of the district's 1,485 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 53.87036, -2.38914, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BB7

Companies House lists 2,833 companies with a registered office in BB7; 376 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 BB7

• Lancashire
• North West
• Ribble Valley
• Clitheroe
• Barrow
• Whalley
• Billington
• Sabden
• Nethertown
• West Bradford
• Chatburn
• Gisburn
• Grindleton
• Waddington
• Hurst Green
• Wiswell
• Downham
• Rimington
• Sawley
• Dunsop Bridge
• Holden
• Slaidburn
• Pendleton
• Newton

Roads filed under BB7

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.

• Abbey Farm View
• Abbey Fields
• Abbey Road
• Abbots Croft
• Abbot Walk
• Accrington Road
• Acorn Place
• Albemarle Court
• Albemarle Street
• Albion Street
• Alder Drive
• Alderford Close
• Alder Prospect
• Alexandra Close
• Alleys Green
• Alma Place
• Alston Close
• Anna Lane
• Anne Close
• Appleby Square
• Ashburn Close
• Ash Close
• Ashcroft Place
• Ash Drive
• Ash Grove
• Asland Crescent
• Aspen Crescent
• Audley Clough
• Avenue Road
• Back Brennand Street
• Back Commons
• Back Lane
• Back York Street
• Baldwin Hill
• Baldwin Road
• Balmoral Avenue
• Barley Close
• Barnard Close
• Barn Croft
• Barret Hill Brow
• Barrow Brook Close
• Bashall Lane
• Bawdlands
• Bayley Fold
• Beech Close
• Beech Drive
• Beech Grove
• Beech Street
• Beechthorpe Avenue
• Beechwood Avenue
• Beeston Grove
• Belle Vue Lane
• Bellman Way
• Bennetts Close
• Bentlea Road
• Berkeley Square
• Berry's Lane
• Beverley Close
• Beverley Drive
• Billington Gardens

Check an address in BB7

Check an address in BB7

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BB7" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BB7

What does a BB7 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BB7 district of the BB (Blackburn) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Clitheroe. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,228 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 BB7

• BB68.8 km
• BB129.8 km
• BB912.0 km
• BB512.9 km
• BB1113.2 km
• BB113.5 km
• BB1013.7 km
• BB814.9 km
• BB1815.1 km
• BB216.2 km
• BB419.6 km
• BB319.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids