BH31 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

301 of the district's 432 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 50.87656, -1.87328, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BH31

Companies House lists 588 companies with a registered office in BH31; 30 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 BH31

• Dorset
• South West
• Verwood
• New Forest
• Hampshire
• South East

Roads filed under BH31

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.

• Acacia Avenue
• Acorn Way
• Aggis Farm
• Albion Way
• Aspen Drive
• Badger Way
• Bakers Farm Road
• Barberry Way
• Beech Close
• Belmont Close
• Berkeley Close
• Bessemer Close
• Bingham Close
• Bingham Drive
• Bingham Road
• Bitterne Way
• Black Hill
• Black Moor Road
• Blackthorn Way
• Brickyard Lane
• Bridleways
• Bridport Road
• Brockway
• Brook Drive
• Brunel Close
• Bugdens Lane
• Burley Close
• Burnbake Road
• Burn Close
• Burrows Lane
• Buzzard Close
• Caradon Place
• Cartref Close
• Champtoceaux Avenue
• Cheviot Way
• Chiltern Drive
• Churchfield
• Church Hill
• Claylake Drive
• Compton Close
• Coniston Close
• Coopers Lane
• Copse Road
• Coronation Close
• Coronation Road
• Cotswold Close
• Crane Close
• Crane Drive
• Crescent Road
• Dewlands Road
• Dewlands Way
• Doe's Lane
• Eastworth Road
• Ebblake Close
• Edmondsham Road
• Fairwood Road
• Field Place
• Firs Glen Road
• Forest Close
• Forest Lane

Check an address in BH31

Check an address in BH31

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH31" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BH31

What does a BH31 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BH31 district of the BH (Bournemouth) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Verwood. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 301 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 BH31

• BH247.0 km
• BH228.0 km
• SP68.3 km
• BH2110.1 km
• BH1113.1 km
• BH1013.1 km
• BH914.1 km
• BH815.0 km
• BH315.6 km
• BH1815.7 km
• BH715.9 km
• BH1215.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids