DL2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

848 of the district's 996 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 54.52874, -1.59525, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in DL2

Companies House lists 1,020 companies with a registered office in DL2; 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 DL2

• North East
• Darlington
• County Durham
• Middleton St George
• North Yorkshire
• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Hurworth-on-Tees
• Staindrop
• Gainford
• Sadberge
• Croft-on-Tees
• Ingleton
• Stapleton
• Neasham
• Manfield
• Winston
• High Coniscliffe
• Dalton-on-Tees
• Piercebridge
• Stockton-on-Tees
• Merrybent
• Summerhouse
• Raby
• Carlbury

Roads filed under DL2

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.

• Abbey Road
• Academy Gardens
• Acer Drive
• Acorn Close
• Adamson Court
• Alder Grove
• Alderman Leach Drive
• Alexandria Drive
• Alwent Mill Lane
• Archer Road
• Arthur Wharton Lane
• Ash Brook Lane
• Ashdale Close
• Ash Lane
• Ashville Drive
• Aviation Way
• Avison Grove
• Avon Road
• Avro Close
• Azalea Drive
• Back Lane
• Badger Lane
• Bakewell Mews
• Balaguer Grove
• Balderhead Street
• Balmer Hill
• Barnard Street
• Baxby Terrace
• Beacon Grange Park
• Beckside
• Beckside Close
• Beechside
• Beech Walk
• Belgrave Terrace
• Berry Bank
• Black Poplar Avenue
• Blacksmith Way
• Blackthorn Drive
• Bleath Ghyll
• Blind Lane
• Blind Loaning
• Boathouse Lane
• Bowling Green Lane
• Brebner Drive
• Broumley Court
• Browdie Road
• Brownside Lane
• Bryan Close
• Buckthorn Court
• Burma Road
• Burnhope Lane
• Burnt Houses Lane
• Butterfield Drive
• Byron Court
• Cakesmire Lane
• Calder Avenue
• Carroll Place
• Castle Close
• Catcastle Court
• Cedar Grove

Check an address in DL2

Check an address in DL2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=DL2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about DL2

What does a DL2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the DL2 district of the DL (Darlington) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Darlington. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 848 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 DL2

• DL31.6 km
• DL13.6 km
• DL510.0 km
• DL411.7 km
• DL1014.2 km
• DL1415.0 km
• TS2115.3 km
• TS1615.4 km
• TS1917.1 km
• DL1717.2 km
• TS1517.4 km
• TS1817.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids