DE6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

792 of the district's 1,473 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 52.99079, -1.71613, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in DE6

Companies House lists 1,826 companies with a registered office in DE6; 195 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 DE6

• Derbyshire
• East Midlands
• Derbyshire Dales
• Ashbourne
• Staffordshire
• West Midlands
• East Staffordshire
• Doveridge
• Amber Valley
• Mayfield
• Staffordshire Moorlands
• South Derbyshire
• Hulland Ward
• Brailsford
• Kirk Langley
• Draycott in the Clay
• Parwich
• Ellastone
• Kirk Ireton
• Clifton
• Sudbury
• Kniveton
• Hognaston
• Alstonefield

Roads filed under DE6

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.

• Acorn Drive
• Acre Lane
• Adam's Road
• Agnes Meadow Lane
• Alder Lane
• Allen Lane
• Alley Walk
• Alms Road
• Alport Close
• Appletree Lane
• Ashbourne Lane
• Ashbourne Road
• Ashbrook Grove
• Ashe's Lane
• Ashes Avenue
• Ashlea Drive
• Ashmeadow Court
• Ashton Close
• Aston Lane
• Atlow Brow
• Atlow Lane
• Auction Close
• Audishaw Lane
• Babbs Lane
• Backhill Lane
• Back Lane
• Bag Lane
• Bailey Close
• Baker's Lane
• Bankerwall Lane
• Bank House Court
• Bankside
• Banktop Road
• Barrington Close
• Barton Drive
• Barway
• Basset Drive
• Batch Lane
• Beech Avenue
• Beech Drive
• Beeley Close
• Belle Vue Road
• Bell Lane
• Belper Road
• Benthead Lane
• Bent Lane
• Beresford Avenue
• Bernard Gadsby Close
• Betlingspring Lane
• Biggin Lane
• Bigginmill Lane
• Biggin View
• Big Lane
• Birchwood View
• Birdsgrove Lane
• Blackpit Lane
• Blackthorn Close
• Blackwall Lane
• Blakelow Lane
• Blenheim Road

Check an address in DE6

Check an address in DE6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=DE6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about DE6

What does a DE6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the DE6 district of the DE (Derby) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Ashbourne. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 792 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 DE6

• ST1414.1 km
• DE314.6 km
• DE6515.4 km
• DE2215.8 km
• DE5616.5 km
• ST1016.6 km
• DE2317.7 km
• DE117.7 km
• DE418.2 km
• DE2120.1 km
• DE1320.5 km
• DE2421.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids