BH16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

411 of the district's 490 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 50.74047, -2.04753, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BH16

Companies House lists 4,867 companies with a registered office in BH16; 2,592 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 BH16

• South West
• Dorset
• Upton
• Lytchett Matravers
• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• Poole
• Holton Heath
• Lytchett Minster
• Organford
• Beacon Hill
• Post Green
• Slepe
• East Holton

Roads filed under BH16

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.

• Abbotts Meadow
• Allens Lane
• Allens Road
• Anncott Close
• Ash Avenue
• Ashbrook Walk
• Ash Close
• Ballam Close
• Ballard Close
• Barn Close
• Bartom's Lane
• Bay Close
• Beach Road
• Beacon Hill Drive
• Beacon Park Crescent
• Beacon Park Road
• Beech Avenue
• Bell Heather Close
• Birch Avenue
• Birchwood Road
• Blackhill Road
• Blackhill Road West
• Blandford Road
• Blandford Road North
• Bluebells Court
• Border Drive
• Border Road
• Briarswood Road
• Bridle Close
• Brooke Way
• Brushwood Drive
• Bulbury Lane
• Burbidge Close
• Buttercup Way
• Camelia Close
• Castle Farm Road
• Castlemain Gardens
• Castle View Drive
• Cecil Place
• Cedar Close
• Charborough Close
• Chelmsford Road
• Chequers Place
• Cherry Blossom Drive
• Cherry Hill Grove
• Chestnut Avenue
• Chris Crescent
• Colehill Road
• Coronation Avenue
• Crumpets Drive
• Crumplers Close
• Dacombe Close
• Dacombe Drive
• Davenport Close
• Deans Drove
• Dillons Gardens
• Dolmans Hill
• Dorchester Road
• Douglas Close
• Doussie Close

Check an address in BH16

Check an address in BH16

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BH16

What does a BH16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BH16 district of the BH (Bournemouth) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Upton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 411 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 BH16

• BH184.0 km
• BH174.8 km
• BH154.8 km
• BH147.5 km
• BH128.4 km
• BH119.3 km
• BH209.3 km
• BH219.5 km
• BH139.6 km
• BH410.6 km
• BH1011.1 km
• BH311.6 km
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distance between the districts' centroids