EH17 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

598 of the district's 646 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 55.90471, -3.14298, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EH17

Companies House lists 767 companies with a registered office in EH17; none of them at an address 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 EH17

• Scotland
• City of Edinburgh
• Edinburgh
• Midlothian

Roads filed under EH17

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.

• Achnacarry Street
• Adit Place
• Affleck Way
• Arkaig Gardens
• Badger Neuk
• Badger Way
• Bain Rigg
• Bain Street
• Banchor Crescent
• Bannerman Cruick
• Bannerman Terrace
• Bannerman Way
• Beale Drive
• Beale Green
• Blackburn Crag
• Bowbridge Crescent
• Brackenridge View
• Brocken Brigg End
• Brocken Brigg Parkway
• Brocken Brigg Road
• Broomhills Road
• Brosie Road
• Brosie Wynd
• Bullfinch Row
• Bullfinch Way
• Burdiehouse Avenue
• Burdiehouse Crescent
• Burdiehouse Crossway
• Burdiehouse Drive
• Burdiehouse Loan
• Burdiehouse Medway
• Burdiehouse Place
• Burdiehouse Road
• Burdiehouse Square
• Burdiehouse Street
• Burdiehouse Terrace
• Burghtoft
• Burndale Place
• Burton Place
• Candlemaker's Crescent
• Candlemaker's Park
• Captain's Road
• Carter Drive
• Carter Mews
• Catchilraw Drive
• Clarkson Road
• Clarkson Terrace
• Clippens Drive
• Combe Cruik
• Combe Road
• Cove Crescent
• Craigour Avenue
• Craigour Crescent
• Craigour Drive
• Craigour Gardens
• Craigour Green
• Craigour Grove
• Craigour Loan
• Craigour Place
• Craigour Terrace

Check an address in EH17

Check an address in EH17

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EH17" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EH17

What does an EH17 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EH17 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 598 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 EH17

• EH162.1 km
• EH203.0 km
• EH183.4 km
• EH94.1 km
• EH194.3 km
• EH104.6 km
• EH155.0 km
• EH85.1 km
• EH255.2 km
• EH225.5 km
• EH16.0 km
• EH246.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids