DE12 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

568 of the district's 652 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 52.72308, -1.55350, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in DE12

Companies House lists 1,034 companies with a registered office in DE12; none of them at an address 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 DE12

• East Midlands
• Leicestershire
• North West Leicestershire
• South Derbyshire
• Derbyshire
• Measham
• Moira
• Overseal
• Linton
• Donisthorpe
• Appleby Magna
• Rosliston
• Coton in the Elms
• Oakthorpe
• Netherseal
• Walton-on-Trent
• Acresford
• Snarestone
• Lullington
• Spring Cottage
• Chilcote
• Short Heath
• Caldwell
• Appleby Parva

Roads filed under DE12

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.

• Abney Crescent
• Abney Drive
• Abney Walk
• Acresford Road
• Albion Close
• Alexandra Road
• Amersham Way
• Appleby Field Close
• Appleby Lane
• Ashby Road
• Ash Drive
• Ashfield Drive
• Ashlar Drive
• Ashley Close
• Aspen Close
• Atherstone Road
• Austrey Road
• Bailey Avenue
• Barklam Close
• Bath Lane
• Bath Yard
• Beehive Avenue
• Bells End Road
• Blackfordby Lane
• Black Horse Hill
• Blacksmiths Close
• Blackthorn Way
• Bleach Mill
• Bluebell Close
• Bodkin Row
• Boncroft Gardens
• Bosworth Road
• Bott's Lane
• Bowleys Lane
• Bramble Walk
• Brambly Close
• Bramley Close
• Brick Kiln Croft
• Briton Lodge Close
• Brooks Close
• Browning Drive
• Buckley Close
• Burns Close
• Burton Road
• Buttercup Avenue
• Buzzard Close
• Byron Crescent
• Canal Street
• Canal View Lane
• Catton Lane
• Cauldwell Road
• Cedar Grove
• Centenary Place
• Chapel Street
• Chapmans Croft
• Charlton Close
• Cherry Tree Close
• Cherry Tree Court
• Chesterfield Drive
• Chestnut Close

Check an address in DE12

Check an address in DE12

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=DE12" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about DE12

What does a DE12 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the DE12 district of the DE (Derby) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Measham. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 568 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 DE12

• DE115.5 km
• LE656.3 km
• DE159.1 km
• DE1410.9 km
• B7911.8 km
• LE6712.9 km
• DE1313.3 km
• B7713.9 km
• CV915.2 km
• CV1315.2 km
• B7815.3 km
• DE7315.9 km
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