BH17 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

437 of the district's 721 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 50.74690, -1.98039, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BH17

Companies House lists 1,770 companies with a registered office in BH17; 165 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 BH17

• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• South West
• Poole

Roads filed under BH17

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.

• Aaron Close
• Abingdon Road
• Adastral Road
• Allenby Close
• Allenby Road
• Apsley Crescent
• Arrowsmith Road
• Ashdown Close
• Bader Road
• Baldwin Mews
• Balena Close
• Banbury Road
• Beamish Road
• Beechbank Avenue
• Benmoor Road
• Benson Road
• Bere Close
• Bettiscombe Close
• Blackbird Close
• Bluebell Lane
• Borley Road
• Bovington Close
• Box Close
• Brambling Gardens
• Bredy Close
• Broadstone Way
• Buckthorn Close
• Bullfinch Close
• Burbridge Close
• Cabot Lane
• Calder Road
• Canford Heath Road
• Carpenter Close
• Carsworth Way
• Cavan Crescent
• Chaffinch Close
• Chalbury Close
• Chaldon Road
• Chedington Close
• Chetnole Close
• Chetwode Way
• Chilfrome Close
• Chiswell Road
• Clayford Close
• Clover Drive
• Clyde Road
• Cogdeane Road
• Corscombe Close
• Coventry Crescent
• Cowley Road
• Creekmoor Lane
• Cribb Close
• Culliford Crescent
• Darby's Lane North
• Deneve Avenue
• Denham Close
• Denison Road
• Dewlish Close
• Didcot Road
• Dorset Way

Check an address in BH17

Check an address in BH17

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH17" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BH17

What does a BH17 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BH17 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 437 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 BH17

• BH181.9 km
• BH152.7 km
• BH143.8 km
• BH123.9 km
• BH114.6 km
• BH164.8 km
• BH136.0 km
• BH106.3 km
• BH46.4 km
• BH36.9 km
• BH217.3 km
• BH27.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids