BH12 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

748 of the district's 1,169 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 50.73735, -1.92771, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BH12

Companies House lists 2,290 companies with a registered office in BH12; 415 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 BH12

• Poole
• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• South West

Roads filed under BH12

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.

• Albert Road
• Albion Close
• Alby Road
• Alcester Road
• Alder Crescent
• Alder Heights
• Alder Hills
• Alderney Avenue
• Alder Road
• Aldersgate Way
• Alice Gardens
• Almond Grove
• Apollo Close
• Apple Close
• Argyll Road
• Arne Avenue
• Arne Crescent
• Aspen Gardens
• Aspen Road
• Aspen Way
• Astbury Avenue
• Aston Way
• Ballam Grove
• Balston Road
• Barter Road
• Bartlett Way
• Bassett Road
• Baverstock Road
• Beaconsfield Road
• Bedford Road North
• Bedford Road South
• Belben Close
• Belben Road
• Benbow Crescent
• Beresford Close
• Beresford Road
• Berkeley Avenue
• Bindon Close
• Binnie Road
• Bishop Close
• Blackburn Road
• Bloxworth Road
• Bob Hann Close
• Boldre Close
• Bountys Lane
• Bourne Valley Road
• Bowden Road
• Boyd Road
• Bradstock Close
• Branksome Wood Road
• Bremble Close
• Bridgewater Road
• Bridport Road
• Brixey Close
• Brixey Road
• Broadmayne Road
• Brook Road
• Broom Road
• Browning Road
• Brunstead Place

Check an address in BH12

Check an address in BH12

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH12" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BH12

What does a BH12 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BH12 district of the BH (Bournemouth) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Poole. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 748 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 BH12

• BH142.1 km
• BH42.7 km
• BH112.9 km
• BH33.1 km
• BH133.2 km
• BH103.5 km
• BH23.6 km
• BH173.9 km
• BH94.1 km
• BH154.4 km
• BH15.0 km
• BH85.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids