BH6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

525 of the district's 712 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 50.72763, -1.80195, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BH6

Companies House lists 1,124 companies with a registered office in BH6; 32 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 BH6

• Bournemouth
• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
• South West

Roads filed under BH6

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.

• Admiralty Road
• Alexandra Road
• Amesbury Road
• Apple Grove
• Appletree Close
• Ariel Close
• Ariel Drive
• Arnewood Road
• Ashford Road
• Athelstan Road
• Avoncliffe Road
• Baring Road
• Beaufort Road
• Beech Avenue
• Belfield Road
• Belle Vue Close
• Belle Vue Crescent
• Belle Vue Gardens
• Belle Vue Road
• Beresford Road
• Bolton Close
• Bolton Road
• Boreham Road
• Bracken Road
• Braemar Avenue
• Braemar Close
• Branders Close
• Branders Lane
• Brightlands Avenue
• Broadlands Avenue
• Broadway
• Broom Lane
• Burleigh Road
• Burns Road
• Burtley Road
• Carbery Avenue
• Carbery Gardens
• Carbery Lane
• Carlyle Road
• Castlemain Avenue
• Cellars Farm Road
• Chestnut Avenue
• Chilcombe Road
• Church Road
• Clifton Road
• Clingan Road
• Clowes Avenue
• Collingbourne Avenue
• Corhampton Road
• Covena Road
• Cranleigh Close
• Cranleigh Gardens
• Cranleigh Road
• Cringle Avenue
• Dalmeny Road
• Danesbury Avenue
• Denmead Road
• Dickens Road
• Donnelly Road
• Douglas Mews

Check an address in BH6

Check an address in BH6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BH6

What does a BH6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BH6 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 525 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 BH6

• BH72.0 km
• BH52.1 km
• BH83.9 km
• BH234.0 km
• BH14.1 km
• BH95.5 km
• BH35.8 km
• BH25.8 km
• BH46.9 km
• BH107.3 km
• BH138.6 km
• BH128.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids