BH4 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

234 of the district's 519 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 50.72119, -1.89954, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BH4

Companies House lists 1,379 companies with a registered office in BH4; 688 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 BH4

• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• South West
• Bournemouth
• Poole

Roads filed under BH4

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.

• Alum Chine Road
• Alumdale Road
• Alumhurst Road
• Beaulieu Road
• Benellen Avenue
• Benellen Gardens
• Benellen Road
• Bournewood Drive
• Branksome Dene Road
• Branksome Hill Road
• Branksome Wood Road
• Burnaby Road
• Cassel Avenue
• Cherry Tree Walk
• Cheyne Gardens
• Chiltern Close
• Clarendon Road
• County Gates Lane
• Crosby Road
• Denewood Road
• Dorset Road
• Drury Road
• Earle Road
• Eldon Place
• Elm Gardens
• Eton Gardens
• Grosvenor Road
• Groveley Road
• Heatherbank Road
• Herbert Road
• Ipswich Road
• Landseer Road
• Leven Avenue
• Leven Close
• Little Forest Road
• Marlborough Road
• Mckinley Road
• Middle Chine
• Milburn Close
• Milburn Road
• Milner Road
• Mountbatten Road
• Nelson Road
• Netherhall Gardens
• Pembroke Road
• Pine Tree Glen
• Poole Road
• Portarlington Close
• Portarlington Road
• Prince of Wales Road
• Princess Road
• R L Stevenson Avenue
• Rosemount Road
• Rothesay Road
• Sandbourne Road
• Seamoor Lane
• Seamoor Road
• Snowdon Road
• Studland Road
• Surrey Gardens

Check an address in BH4

Check an address in BH4

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH4" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BH4

What does a BH4 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BH4 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 234 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 BH4

• BH21.1 km
• BH132.0 km
• BH32.1 km
• BH122.7 km
• BH12.8 km
• BH143.2 km
• BH93.7 km
• BH84.1 km
• BH104.3 km
• BH54.8 km
• BH114.9 km
• BH75.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids