BR1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,262 of the district's 2,094 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 51.41203, 0.02093, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BR1

Companies House lists 7,405 companies with a registered office in BR1; 3,142 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 BR1

• Greater London
• London
• Bromley
• Lewisham
• Chislehurst
• Catford

Roads filed under BR1

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 Close
• Albany Mews
• Albyfield
• Aldermary Road
• Alexandra Crescent
• Alpine Copse
• Ambleside
• Amesbury Road
• Ansford Road
• Apollo Avenue
• Arcus Road
• Armstrong Close
• Ashgrove Road
• Ashmead Gate
• Aspen Copse
• Autumn Grove
• Avondale Road
• Aycliffe Close
• Babbacombe Road
• Ballamore Road
• Bamford Road
• Bankfoot Road
• Barfield Road
• Baxter Close
• Baylis Place
• Baytree Close
• Beachborough Road
• Beaconsfield Road
• Bedivere Road
• Beech Copse
• Beechfield Road
• Beechmont Close
• Belcroft Close
• Belfry Close
• Belgravia Gardens
• Benbury Close
• Beresford Drive
• Berryfield Close
• Bickley Crescent
• Bickley Park Road
• Bickley Road
• Bideford Road
• Birdham Close
• Bird in Hand Lane
• Bishops Avenue
• Blackbrook Lane
• Blendon Path
• Blenheim Road
• Blyth Road
• Bolton Gardens
• Bonville Road
• Boscobel Close
• Boulter Close
• Boyland Road
• Bracken Hill Close
• Bracken Hill Lane
• Brady Drive
• Brangbourne Road
• Briary Gardens
• Brindley Way

Check an address in BR1

Check an address in BR1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BR1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BR1

What does a BR1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BR1 district of the BR (Bromley) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,262 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 BR1

• BR22.8 km
• BR73.1 km
• BR33.6 km
• SE123.6 km
• SE63.9 km
• SE94.4 km
• BR44.6 km
• SE265.5 km
• SE205.6 km
• SE135.7 km
• SE235.9 km
• BR56.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids