BH20 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

721 of the district's 958 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 50.68731, -2.14927, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BH20

Companies House lists 771 companies with a registered office in BH20; 124 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 BH20

• Dorset
• South West
• Wareham
• Wool
• Sandford
• Bere Regis
• Corfe Castle
• West Lulworth
• Stoborough Green
• Stoborough
• Ridge
• East Morden
• Church Knowle
• East Lulworth
• Bloxworth
• Binnegar
• Creech
• Kingston
• Lulworth Cove
• East Stoke
• Whitefield
• Coombe Keynes
• Harman's Cross
• Worgret

Roads filed under BH20

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.

• Abbot's Quay
• Admirals Way
• Alamein Road
• Alder Close
• Amiens Road
• Andover Green
• Arne Road
• Arras Crescent
• Arras Road
• Ash Close
• Avon Drive
• Back Lane
• Baggs Lane
• Bagwood Road
• Bailey's Drove
• Baker Close
• Balaclava Road
• Barndale Drive
• Barnes Close
• Barnes Road
• Barnhill Road
• Barrow Hill
• Battlemead
• Beech Close
• Bell's Orchard Lane
• Bennett Boulevard
• Bere Down Lane
• Bere Road
• Bestwall Crescent
• Bestwall Road
• Bindon Close
• Bindon Lane
• Bindon Road
• Bindon Way
• Binnegar Lane
• Bitchams Mead
• Blind Street
• Boney Road
• Bonnett's Lane
• Boswell's Close
• Bourne Drive
• Bovington Lane
• Breaches Lane
• Breach Field
• Brian Close
• Britwell Drive
• Brixey's Lane
• Bryn Road
• Burnham's Lane
• Burns Road
• Burton Close
• Burton Road
• Burton Wood
• Bushey Lane
• Butt Lane
• Butt Lane Hollow
• Cachy Road
• Calcraft Road
• Canary Close
• Capper Road East

Check an address in BH20

Check an address in BH20

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BH20

What does a BH20 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BH20 district of the BH (Bournemouth) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Wareham. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 721 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 BH20

• BH169.3 km
• BH1512.2 km
• BH1813.3 km
• BH1713.6 km
• BH1414.9 km
• BH1915.1 km
• BH1316.3 km
• BH1216.6 km
• BH418.0 km
• BH1118.2 km
• BH2118.5 km
• BH219.0 km
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