BH5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

251 of the district's 366 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 50.72526, -1.83211, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BH5

Companies House lists 851 companies with a registered office in BH5; 251 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 BH5

• Bournemouth
• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• South West

Roads filed under BH5

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.

• Adeline Road
• Argyll Road
• Ashbourne Road
• Beechwood Avenue
• Beechwood Gardens
• Boscombe Cliff Road
• Boscombe Overcliff Drive
• Boscombe Promenade
• Boscombe Spa Road
• Browning Avenue
• Byron Road
• Cecil Road
• Chessel Avenue
• College Road
• Colonnade Road
• Colville Close
• Colville Road
• Crabton Close Road
• Cromwell Gardens
• Cromwell Place
• Cromwell Road
• Darracott Road
• Dean's Road
• Dingle Road
• Florence Road
• Glen Road
• Grantley Road
• Granville Road
• Grasmere Road
• Grovely Avenue
• Harcourt Road
• Harvey Road
• Hawkwood Road
• Heathcote Road
• Honeycombe Chine
• Horace Road
• Hosker Road
• Keswick Road
• Livingstone Road
• Manor Zig-Zag Path
• Marina Gardens
• Michelgrove Road
• Montague Road
• Morley Close
• Morley Road
• Norwood Place
• Owls Road
• Parkwood Lane
• Parkwood Road
• Pauncefote Road
• Penrith Road
• Percy Road
• Portman Crescent
• Portman Ravine
• Queensland Road
• Ravine Road
• Rotherfield Road
• Roumelia Lane
• Seabourne Place
• Seabourne Road

Check an address in BH5

Check an address in BH5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BH5

What does a BH5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BH5 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 251 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 BH5

• BH71.3 km
• BH12.0 km
• BH62.1 km
• BH82.3 km
• BH23.7 km
• BH33.8 km
• BH93.9 km
• BH44.8 km
• BH105.7 km
• BH236.0 km
• BH136.5 km
• BH126.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids