DT6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

996 of the district's 1,232 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 50.73917, -2.77566, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in DT6

Companies House lists 1,206 companies with a registered office in DT6; 121 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 DT6

• Dorset
• South West
• Bridport
• Charmouth
• Bradpole
• Burton Bradstock
• Chideock
• Morcombelake
• Shipton Gorge
• Netherbury
• Uploders
• Salway Ash
• Pymore
• Symondsbury
• Wootton Fitzpaine
• Loders
• Walditch
• Melplash
• Lower Eype
• Ryall
• Nettlecombe
• Powerstock
• Miles Cross
• Whitchurch Canonicorum

Roads filed under DT6

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.

• Abbott's Wootton Lane
• Acer Avenue
• Alexandra Court
• Alexandra Road
• Allington Gardens
• Allington Hill Lane
• Allington Mead
• Allington Park
• Annings Lane
• Apple Trees Lane
• Armstrong Road
• Arrow Field
• Arrowfield
• Arundell
• Ash Farm Close
• Ash Lane
• Asker Gardens
• Atrim Road
• Attisham Lane
• Axminster Road
• Back Rivers Lane
• Banton Shard
• Bar Lane
• Barney's Close
• Barr's Lane
• Barrack Street
• Barr Lane
• Barrowfield Close
• Bath Orchard
• Batts Lane
• Beach Road
• Beaminster Road
• Beaumont Avenue
• Becklands Lane
• Bedford Place
• Bedford Terrace
• Bennetts Hill Lane
• Berkeley Court
• Biddlecome Orchard
• Bilshay Lane
• Bindbarrow
• Blackney Lane
• Blind Lane
• Blind Lane Close
• Bluntshay Lane
• Bonhole Lane
• Bonscombe Lane
• Bothen Drive
• Bottle Lane
• Bowhayes
• Bramble Drive
• Bramblehay
• Bramley Hill
• Bredy Lane
• Bredy Road
• Bridge Road
• Bridge Street
• Brighthay Lane
• Brit View Road
• Broad Lane

Check an address in DT6

Check an address in DT6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=DT6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about DT6

What does a DT6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the DT6 district of the DT (Dorchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bridport. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 996 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 DT6

• DT89.0 km
• DT712.1 km
• TA1816.0 km
• EX1317.1 km
• TA1619.0 km
• TA1719.3 km
• TA2019.9 km
• EX1221.9 km
• EX2422.1 km
• DT222.9 km
• TA1423.1 km
• TA1323.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids