DE56 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

915 of the district's 1,243 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 53.02255, -1.47533, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in DE56

Companies House lists 2,262 companies with a registered office in DE56; 356 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 DE56

• Derbyshire
• East Midlands
• Amber Valley
• Belper
• Duffield
• Kilburn
• Ambergate
• Milford
• Heage
• Holbrook
• Nether Heage
• Fritchley
• Bargate
• Bullbridge
• Rawson Green
• Turnditch
• Makeney
• Ridgeway
• Derbyshire Dales
• Idridgehay
• Erewash
• Lower Kilburn
• Blackbrook
• Sawmills

Roads filed under DE56

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.

• Abbots Grove
• Acacia Croft
• Acorn Drive
• Acorn Way
• Agnes Drive
• Albert Street
• Alder Road
• Alfred Road
• Allan Lane
• Allstone Lee
• Alport Close
• Alport Lane
• Alton Road
• Amber Close
• Amber Court
• Amber Gardens
• Amber Road
• Amber View Road
• Appleton Drive
• Applewood Close
• Arkwright Avenue
• Ash Acre
• Ashbourne Road
• Ashdene Gardens
• Ash Fields
• Ashford Rise
• Ashop Road
• Ashton Way
• Ash Tree Close
• Astlow Drive
• Auckland Place
• Avenue Road
• Back Lane
• Back Wyver Lane
• Bakers Hill
• Bakery Close
• Bale Place
• Bankhouse Channel
• Banks Close
• Bank View Road
• Bargate Close
• Bargate Road
• Barley Croft
• Barnsley Lane
• Barton Knowle
• Beaumont Close
• Beaurepaire Crescent
• Becksitch Lane
• Beech Close
• Beechwood Close
• Beeley Close
• Belgrave Close
• Belle Acre Close
• Belper Lane
• Belper Road
• Belrope Acre
• Bentfield Road
• Beresford Place
• Bessalone Drive
• Birch Avenue

Check an address in DE56

Check an address in DE56

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=DE56" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about DE56

What does a DE56 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the DE56 district of the DE (Derby) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Belper. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 915 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 DE56

• DE55.5 km
• DE758.2 km
• DE2210.0 km
• DE2110.2 km
• DE111.2 km
• DE5511.2 km
• DE711.5 km
• NG1612.1 km
• DE413.0 km
• DE313.3 km
• DE2313.7 km
• DE2414.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids