BH1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

595 of the district's 1,511 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 50.72469, -1.86005, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BH1

Companies House lists 2,472 companies with a registered office in BH1; 646 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 BH1

• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• South West
• Bournemouth
• Poole

Roads filed under BH1

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.

• Adelaide Lane
• Albert Road
• Annerley Road
• Ashley Close
• Ashley Road
• Austin Close
• Aylesbury Road
• Barham Close
• Bath Road
• Borthwick Lane
• Borthwick Road
• Boscombe Grove Road
• Campbell Road
• Carlton Road
• Carnarvon Road
• Carysfort Road
• Cavendish Place
• Cavendish Road
• Centenary Way
• Cherries Court
• Churchill Road
• Cleveland Gardens
• Cleveland Road
• Corporation Road
• Crown Walk
• Cumnor Road
• Curzon Road
• Dalkeith Lane
• Dalkeith Steps
• Dean Park Crescent
• Dean Park Road
• Derby Road
• Donoughmore Road
• Drummond Road
• East Cliff Promenade
• East Cliff Zig Zag
• East Overcliff Drive
• Exton Gardens
• Fir Vale Road
• Florin Mall
• Frances Road
• Garfield Avenue
• Gervis Place
• Gervis Road
• Gladstone Road West
• Glen Fern Road
• Gordon Road
• Grant's Avenue
• Grantham Road
• Grants Close
• Granville Place
• Grosvenor Gardens
• Grove Road
• Hamilton Close
• Hamilton Road
• Harrison Avenue
• Haviland Road West
• Hengist Road
• Hinton Road
• Kilmarnock Road

Check an address in BH1

Check an address in BH1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BH1

What does a BH1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BH1 district of the BH (Bournemouth) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bournemouth. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 595 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 BH1

• BH21.8 km
• BH52.0 km
• BH82.0 km
• BH32.1 km
• BH72.7 km
• BH42.8 km
• BH92.9 km
• BH64.1 km
• BH104.5 km
• BH134.6 km
• BH125.0 km
• BH146.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids