BH2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

276 of the district's 510 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 50.72099, -1.88428, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BH2

Companies House lists 2,746 companies with a registered office in BH2; 1,720 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 BH2

• Bournemouth
• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• South West

Roads filed under BH2

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.

• Arthur Close
• Avenue Lane
• Avenue Road
• Beacon Road
• Beacon Steps
• Bodorgan Road
• Bourne Avenue
• Bourne Close
• Bradburne Road
• Braidley Road
• Branksome Wood Gardens
• Cambridge Road
• Central Drive
• Chine Crescent
• Chine Crescent Road
• Commercial Road
• Cranborne Road
• Crescent Road
• Durley Chine Road
• Durley Chine Road South
• Durley Gardens
• Durley Road
• Durley Road South
• Durrant Road
• Exeter Crescent
• Exeter Lane
• Exeter Park Road
• Exeter Road
• Hahnemann Road
• Kensington Drive
• Kerley Road
• Mannington Place
• Merlewood Close
• Norwich Avenue
• Norwich Avenue West
• Norwich Road
• Orchard Street
• Pier Approach
• Poole Hill
• Priory Road
• Purbeck Road
• Queen's Road
• Queens Gardens
• Richmond Hill
• Richmond Hill Drive
• Silchester Close
• Somerville Road
• South Cliff Road
• South View Place
• St Anthony's Road
• St Augustin's Road
• St Ives Gardens
• St Michael's Lane
• St Michael's Place
• St Michael's Road
• St Stephen's Road
• St Stephen's Way
• St Valerie Road
• St Winifred's Road
• Suffolk Road

Check an address in BH2

Check an address in BH2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BH2

What does a BH2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BH2 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 276 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 BH2

• BH41.1 km
• BH31.7 km
• BH11.8 km
• BH132.9 km
• BH83.3 km
• BH93.3 km
• BH123.6 km
• BH53.7 km
• BH144.3 km
• BH104.3 km
• BH74.5 km
• BH115.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids