BH7 postcode district
BH7, in the BH (Bournemouth) postcode area, has 290 live and 183 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 121 roads under it.
| postcode area | BH (Bournemouth) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 290 |
| terminated postcodes | 183 |
| sectors | 2 |
| roads listed | 121 |
| companies registered | 1,103 |
| centroid | 50.73651, -1.82589 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
290 of the district's 473 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 50.73651, -1.82589, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| BH7 6 | 193 | 93 |
| BH7 7 | 97 | 90 |
Companies registered in BH7
Companies House lists 1,103 companies with a registered office in BH7; 422 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 BH7
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- South West
- Bournemouth
Roads filed under BH7
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.
- Abinger Road
- Avonbourne Road
- Bartlett Drive
- Beauchamps Gardens
- Bedford Crescent
- Bishops Close
- Bourton Gardens
- Bridle Crescent
- Buchanan Avenue
- Castle Lane East
- Chandlers Close
- Chaseside
- Cheriton Avenue
- Christchurch Road
- Clarence Park Road
- Colemore Road
- College Drive
- Colonnade Road West
- Connaught Road
- Countess Gardens
- Cowell Drive
- Deansleigh Road
- Durrington Place
- Durrington Road
- Eastcott Close
- Elise Close
- Elmgate Drive
- Eltham Close
- Evesham Close
- Gainsborough Road
- Gladstone Mews
- Gladstone Road
- Gladstone Road East
- Glencoe Road
- Gloucester Road
- Hambledon Road
- Hannington Grove
- Hannington Road
- Hares Green
- Harewood Avenue
- Harewood Crescent
- Harewood Gardens
- Harewood Place
- Hartsbourne Drive
- Hatfield Gardens
- Haviland Mews
- Haviland Road
- Haviland Road East
- Hayes Avenue
- Hazelton Close
- Henley Gardens
- Holdenhurst Avenue
- Holmfield Avenue
- Hursley Close
- Iford Gardens
- King's Park Drive
- King's Park Road
- Langton Road
- Lascelles Road
- Leaphill Road
all 121 roads
- Lechlade Gardens
- Leeson Road
- Littledown Avenue
- Littledown Drive
- Littledown Lane
- Marwell Close
- Meon Road
- Middleton Gardens
- Newlands Road
- North Road
- Nursery Gardens
- Ovington Avenue
- Ovington Gardens
- Perryfield Gardens
- Petersfield Place
- Petersfield Road
- Portman Road
- Prior Close
- Rebbeck Road
- Regent Drive
- Riverside Avenue
- Roberts Road
- Ropley Road
- Rosebery Road
- Sarah Close
- Scotter Road
- Sevenoaks Drive
- Sheepwash Lane
- Shelley Road East
- Shepherds Way
- Somerset Road
- Sovereign Close
- Sparkford Close
- Springbank Road
- Springvale Avenue
- Spurgeon Road
- St Saviours Close
- Summerfields
- Swanmore Close
- Swanmore Road
- Tamworth Road
- Tan Howse Close
- The Beeches
- Thistlebarrow Road
- Trentham Avenue
- Trentham Close
- Vine Close
- Walkwood Avenue
- Walsingham Dene
- Waltham Road
- Warnford Road
- Warwick Place
- Warwick Road
- Wheaton Road
- Wickham Road
- William Road
- Wilton Road
- Wolverton Road
- Woodcocks Crescent
- Wynter Close
- York Place
Check an address in BH7
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BH7" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about BH7
- What does a BH7 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the BH7 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 290 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 BH7
- BH51.3 km
- BH81.9 km
- BH62.0 km
- BH12.7 km
- BH93.6 km
- BH34.0 km
- BH24.5 km
- BH235.2 km
- BH105.4 km
- BH45.5 km
- BH127.2 km
- BH117.3 km
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