EC2A postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

337 of the district's 915 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 51.52369, -0.08548, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EC2A

Companies House lists 47,909 companies with a registered office in EC2A; 45,219 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 EC2A

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

Roads filed under EC2A

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.

• Appold Street
• Bateman's Row
• Bath Place
• Blackall Street
• Bonhill Street
• Bowl Court
• Broad Lane
• Chapel Place
• Charlotte Road
• Christina Street
• Christopher Street
• Clere Place
• Clere Street
• Clifton Street
• Crown Place
• Curtain Place
• Curtain Road
• Dereham Place
• Dysart Street
• Earl Street
• Epworth Street
• Exchange Arcade
• Exchange Place
• Exchange Square
• Fairchild Place
• Fairchild Street
• Finsbury Market
• Finsbury Pavement
• Finsbury Square
• Garden Walk
• Gatesborough Street
• Great Eastern Street
• Hearn Street
• Hewett Street
• Holywell Lane
• Holywell Row
• Kiffen Street
• King John Court
• Lackington Street
• Leonard Street
• Luke Street
• Mark Square
• Mark Street
• Mills Court
• New Inn Broadway
• New Inn Square
• New Inn Street
• New Inn Yard
• New North Place
• Paul Street
• Phipp Street
• Pindar Street
• Platina Street
• Plough Yard
• Primrose Street
• Ravey Street
• Rivington Place
• Rivington Street
• Scrutton Street
• Singer Street

Check an address in EC2A

Check an address in EC2A

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EC2A" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EC2A

What does an EC2A postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EC2A 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 337 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 EC2A

• EC1Y0.5 km
• EC2M0.6 km
• EC2Y0.7 km
• EC2N0.9 km
• EC2R0.9 km
• EC1V0.9 km
• EC3A1.1 km
• EC2V1.1 km
• EC3V1.2 km
• EC1M1.2 km
• EC4N1.3 km
• EC3M1.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids