EC1R postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

265 of the district's 581 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 51.52504, -0.10834, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EC1R

Companies House lists 3,473 companies with a registered office in EC1R; 1,873 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 EC1R

• London
• Greater London
• Islington
• Camden

Roads filed under EC1R

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.

• Arlington Way
• Aylesbury Street
• Back Hill
• Baker's Row
• Bakers Yard
• Bath Court
• Bowling Green Lane
• Catherine Griffiths Court
• Chadwell Street
• Clerkenwell Close
• Clerkenwell Green
• Clerkenwell Road
• Coldbath Square
• Corporation Row
• Crawford Passage
• Dabb's Lane
• Exmouth Market
• Eyre Street Hill
• Farringdon Lane
• Garnault Mews
• Garnault Place
• Gloucester Way
• Green Terrace
• Hardwick Street
• Hayward's Place
• Herbal Hill
• Inglebert Street
• Ingle Mews
• Laystall Street
• Lloyd's Row
• Meredith Street
• Merlin Street
• Myddelton Passage
• Myddelton Square
• Myddelton Street
• Mylne Street
• Newcastle Row
• Northampton Road
• Pear Tree Court
• Pine Street
• Pooles Buildings
• Ray Street
• Ray Street Bridge
• River Street
• River Street Mews
• Robert's Place
• Rosebery Avenue
• Rosoman Place
• Rosoman Street
• Sans Walk
• Scotswood Street
• Sekforde Street
• Skinner Street
• Spa Fields Lane
• Spafield Street
• St James's Walk
• Summers Street
• Topham Street
• Tysoe Street
• Vine Hill

Check an address in EC1R

Check an address in EC1R

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EC1R" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EC1R

What does an EC1R postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EC1R 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 265 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 EC1R

• W1A0.3 km
• WC1X0.5 km
• EC1N0.6 km
• EC1A0.6 km
• EC1M0.6 km
• EC1V0.8 km
• WC1R0.8 km
• WC1N0.8 km
• WC1V1.0 km
• WC1A1.0 km
• EC4A1.0 km
• WC2A1.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids