EC1M postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

168 of the district's 527 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 51.52130, -0.10230, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EC1M

Companies House lists 3,742 companies with a registered office in EC1M; 2,553 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 EC1M

• London
• Greater London
• Islington
• Camden
• City of London
• City and County of the City of London

Roads filed under EC1M

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.

• Albemarle Way
• Albion Place
• Benjamin Street
• Briset Street
• Britton Street
• Broad Yard
• Carthusian Street
• Charterhouse Bldgs
• Charterhouse Mews
• Charterhouse Square
• Charterhouse Street
• Cowcross Street
• Eagle Court
• Fann Street
• Farringdon Road
• Faulkner's Alley
• Fox and Knot Street
• Goswell Road
• Grand Avenue
• Greenhill Rents
• Lindsey Street
• Onslow Street
• Passing Alley
• Peter's Lane
• Rutland Place
• Saffron Street
• St John's Lane
• St John's Path
• St John's Place
• St John's Square
• Sutton Lane
• Turnmill Street

Check an address in EC1M

Check an address in EC1M

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EC1M" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EC1M

What does an EC1M postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EC1M district of the EC (East Central London) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is London. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 168 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 EC1M

• EC1A0.2 km
• EC1N0.5 km
• EC1R0.6 km
• EC2Y0.6 km
• EC1V0.7 km
• EC1Y0.7 km
• EC4A0.7 km
• EC4M0.8 km
• W1A0.8 km
• EC2V0.9 km
• WC1R1.0 km
• EC2R1.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids