BH3 postcode district
BH3, in the BH (Bournemouth) postcode area, has 130 live and 67 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 41 roads under it.
| postcode area | BH (Bournemouth) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 130 |
| terminated postcodes | 67 |
| sectors | 1 |
| roads listed | 41 |
| companies registered | 305 |
| centroid | 50.73653, -1.88332 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
130 of the district's 197 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 50.73653, -1.88332, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| BH3 7 | 130 | 67 |
Companies registered in BH3
Companies House lists 305 companies with a registered office in BH3; none of them at an address 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 BH3
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- South West
- Bournemouth
- Poole
Roads filed under BH3
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.
- Albemarle Road
- Alford Road
- Alington Road
- Alyth Road
- Belvedere Road
- Berkeley Road
- Berwick Road
- Bryanstone Road
- Carrbridge Close
- Carrbridge Road
- Cawdor Road
- De Lisle Road
- Dulsie Road
- Dunbar Road
- Dunkeld Road
- East Avenue
- Elgin Road
- Fortescue Road
- Gerald Road
- Glenferness Avenue
- Grafton Close
- Grafton Road
- Heron Court Road
- Huntly Road
- Iddesleigh Road
- Keith Road
- King's Road
- Kinross Road
- Lonsdale Road
- Meyrick Park Crescent
- Nairn Road
- Oban Road
- Roslin Road
- Roslin Road South
- Ross Glades
- Rushton Crescent
- Stirling Road
- St Luke's Road
- Stoke Wood Road
- Talbot Avenue
- Windermere Road
Check an address in BH3
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH3" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about BH3
- What does a BH3 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the BH3 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 130 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 BH3
- BH91.6 km
- BH21.7 km
- BH42.1 km
- BH12.1 km
- BH82.3 km
- BH102.6 km
- BH123.1 km
- BH53.8 km
- BH113.9 km
- BH134.0 km
- BH74.0 km
- BH144.6 km
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