EH1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

323 of the district's 769 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 55.95079, -3.19279, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EH1

Companies House lists 3,634 companies with a registered office in EH1; 2,260 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 EH1

• Edinburgh
• City of Edinburgh
• Scotland

Roads filed under EH1

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.

• Advocate's Close
• Albany Lane
• Albany Street
• Albany Street Lane
• Anchor Close
• Andersons Close
• Antigua Street
• Bank Street
• Baron Maule's Close
• Barrace Steps
• Barrie's Close
• Baxter's Place
• Bell's Wynd
• Blackfriars Street
• Blair Street
• Borthwick's Close
• Boyd's Entry
• Brighton Street
• Bristo Place
• Bristo Port
• Broughton Place
• Broughton Street
• Broughton Street Lane
• Byer's Close
• Calton Hill
• Cambridge Street
• Candlemaker Row
• Cant's Close
• Carrubber's Close
• Castlebarns Steps
• Castlehill
• Castle Terrace
• Castle Wynd North
• Castle Wynd South
• Cathedral Lane
• Chalmer's Close
• Chambers Street
• Cockburn Street
• College Wynd
• Cornwall Street
• Cowgate
• Cowgatehead
• Craig's Close
• Cranston Street
• Currie's Close
• Dublin Street Lane South
• Dyer's Close
• Elder Street
• Elder Street East
• Fisher's Close
• Fleshmarket Close
• Forrest Hill
• Forrest Road
• Forth Street
• Gayfield Close
• Gayfield Place Lane
• Gayfield Square
• Gayfield Street
• Gayfield Street Lane
• Geddes' Entry

Check an address in EH1

Check an address in EH1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EH1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EH1

What does an EH1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EH1 district of the EH (Edinburgh) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Edinburgh. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 323 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 EH1

• EH20.6 km
• EH30.9 km
• EH81.8 km
• EH72.0 km
• EH92.0 km
• EH62.7 km
• EH53.4 km
• EH103.6 km
• EH164.0 km
• EH114.2 km
• EH44.5 km
• EH155.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids