DN16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

749 of the district's 877 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 53.56742, -0.63966, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in DN16

Companies House lists 914 companies with a registered office in DN16; 50 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 DN16

• North Lincolnshire
• Yorkshire and the Humber
• Scunthorpe
• Santon
• Holme

Roads filed under DN16

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.

• Abercorn Street
• Acacia Court
• Acorn Way
• Airedale Road
• Albert Road
• Albion Park
• Alexander Road
• Alexandra Road
• Almond Grove
• Alpina Close
• Alvingham Road
• Amos Crescent
• Ancholme Road
• Anchor Road
• Anderson Road
• Annes Crescent
• Appleby Mill Road
• Appleton Way
• Arkwright Way
• Armour Road
• Ashberry Drive
• Ashby Crescent
• Ashby High Street
• Ashby Road
• Ash Grove
• Aspen Grove
• Audern Road
• Avocet Mews
• Avon Road
• Baldwin Avenue
• Balliol Drive
• Banbury Road
• Bardney Avenue
• Barlings Avenue
• Basic Slag Road
• Baysdale Road
• Beauchamp Street
• Beauchamp Walk
• Beauchief Gardens
• Beck Lane
• Bedale Road
• Beeches Avenue
• Beechway
• Bellingham Road
• Belmont Street
• Bennett Road
• Berry Court
• Bilberry Close
• Billet Mill Approach Road
• Bilsdale Road
• Birch Drive
• Birchwood Road
• Bishopdale Road
• Blenheim Court
• Bloom Mill Approach Road
• Bos Approach Road
• Bottesford Avenue
• Bottesford Road
• Boyds Court
• Brambling Way

Check an address in DN16

Check an address in DN16

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=DN16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about DN16

What does a DN16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the DN16 district of the DN (Doncaster) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Scunthorpe. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 749 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 DN16

• DN174.4 km
• DN155.3 km
• DN208.9 km
• DN3816.4 km
• DN2117.0 km
• DN1817.9 km
• DN918.2 km
• HU1520.1 km
• HU1420.1 km
• DN3920.8 km
• LN721.1 km
• DN821.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids