EC1V postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

482 of the district's 1,052 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 51.52680, -0.09778, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EC1V

Companies House lists 77,909 companies with a registered office in EC1V; 74,305 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 EC1V

• London
• Greater London
• Islington
• Hackney

Roads filed under EC1V

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.

• Agdon Street
• Anchor Yard
• Ashby Street
• Baldwin Street
• Bartholomew Square
• Bastwick Street
• Bath Street
• Berry Place
• Berry Street
• Bollinder Place
• Boot Street
• Brewery Square
• Brewhouse Yard
• Cayton Place
• Cayton Street
• Central Street
• City Garden Row
• City Road
• Compton Passage
• Compton Street
• Cranwood Street
• Crescent Row
• Cyrus Street
• Dallington Street
• Dingley Place
• Dingley Road
• Earlstoke Street
• Europa Place
• Frederick's Row
• Friend Street
• Galway Street
• Gard Street
• Gee Street
• Goswell Place
• Goswell Road
• Great Sutton Street
• Hall Street
• Helmet Row
• Hermit Street
• Honduras Street
• Hull Street
• Ironmonger Passage
• Ironmonger Row
• Jerusalem Passage
• King Square
• Leo Yard
• Lever Street
• Lizard Street
• Ludlow Street
• Macclesfield Road
• Malta Street
• Manningford Close
• Mason's Place
• Mitchell Street
• Mora Street
• Moreland Street
• Mount Mills
• Nelson Passage
• Nelson Terrace
• New Charles Street

Check an address in EC1V

Check an address in EC1V

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EC1V" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EC1V

What does an EC1V postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EC1V 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 482 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 EC1V

• EC1Y0.6 km
• EC1M0.7 km
• EC1R0.8 km
• EC1A0.8 km
• EC2Y0.9 km
• EC2A0.9 km
• W1A1.1 km
• EC1N1.1 km
• WC1X1.2 km
• EC2M1.2 km
• N11.2 km
• EC2R1.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids