DE72 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

452 of the district's 516 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 52.89313, -1.35839, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in DE72

Companies House lists 802 companies with a registered office in DE72; 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 DE72

• East Midlands
• Derbyshire
• Erewash
• South Derbyshire
• Borrowash
• Breaston
• Draycott
• Aston-on-Trent
• Ockbrook
• Shardlow
• Risley
• Weston-on-Trent
• Thulston
• Elvaston
• Derby
• North West Leicestershire
• Leicestershire
• Ambaston
• Church Wilne
• Great Wilne
• Long Eaton
• City of Derby

Roads filed under DE72

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.

• Acre Lane
• Aires Hollow
• Albert Road
• Alderslade Close
• Alts Nook Way
• Ambaston Lane
• Amelia Close
• Anne Potter Close
• Appian Close
• Appletree Close
• Arbour Hill
• Arthur Street
• Ashbrook Avenue
• Ash Close
• Ashmeadow
• Astill Pine Close
• Aston Hall Drive
• Aston Lane
• Attewell Close
• Back Lane
• Bains Drive
• Bakehouse Lane
• Ballards Way
• Ball Lane
• Balmoral Road
• Bare Lane
• Barron's Way
• Barrons Court
• Bedford Drive
• Beech Avenue
• Bell Avenue
• Belmont Avenue
• Belmont Drive
• Belvoir Close
• Birchwood Avenue
• Blind Lane
• Borrowash Bypass
• Borrowfields
• Bourne Square
• Bradbury Close
• Breaston Lane
• Brian Clough Way
• Briar Close
• Bridge Field
• Bridlegate Lane
• Broad Lane
• Brook Road
• Burlington Close
• Canal Bank
• Carlin Close
• Castle Close
• Cavendish Close
• Cavendish Court
• Cedar Croft
• Cedar Drive
• Central Avenue
• Chapel Row
• Charnwood Avenue
• Cheal Close
• Chellaston Lane

Check an address in DE72

Check an address in DE72

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=DE72" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about DE72

What does a DE72 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the DE72 district of the DE (Derby) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Borrowash. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 452 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 DE72

• NG105.0 km
• DE246.3 km
• DE746.4 km
• DE216.7 km
• DE737.3 km
• DE18.6 km
• NG98.9 km
• DE79.2 km
• DE239.4 km
• DE2210.5 km
• NG8011.7 km
• NG9011.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids