EH21 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

771 of the district's 913 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 55.93798, -3.04531, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EH21

Companies House lists 1,165 companies with a registered office in EH21; 64 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 EH21

• Scotland
• East Lothian
• Musselburgh
• Wallyford
• Whitecraig
• Edinburgh
• City of Edinburgh
• Old Craighall
• Midlothian
• Stoneyhill Steading

Roads filed under EH21

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.

• Affleck Rise
• Agnew Walk
• Albert Close
• Albert Crescent
• Albert Place
• Ambassador Court
• Andrew Balfour Grove
• Arran Marches
• Arrow Crescent
• Ashgrove
• Ashgrove Place
• Ashgrove View
• Auburn Locks
• Balcarres Place
• Balcarres Road
• Baler Crescent
• Barbachlaw Lane
• Barbachlaw Way
• Bath Crescent
• Battlefield Drive
• Bauld Drive
• Beach Lane
• Bellfield Avenue
• Benhar Road
• Beulah
• Bill Douglas Grove
• Blair Walk
• Blair Way
• Bogpark Road
• Bridge Street
• Broughton Park
• Burns Wynd
• Bush Street
• Bush Terrace
• Cairds Row
• Campie Gardens
• Campie Lane
• Campie Road
• Carberry Close
• Carberry Court
• Carberry Grove
• Carberry Road
• Carlyle Place
• Castle Rise
• Champigny Court
• Chuckers Row
• Church Lane
• Chute Crescent
• Clark Avenue
• Clayknowes Avenue
• Clayknowes Court
• Clayknowes Crescent
• Clayknowes Drive
• Clayknowes Place
• Clayknowes Way
• Cleugh Rise
• Colliers Park
• Colliers Row
• Corrigan Street
• Cottage Lane

Check an address in EH21

Check an address in EH21

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EH21" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EH21

What does an EH21 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EH21 district of the EH (Edinburgh) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Musselburgh. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 771 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 EH21

• EH154.3 km
• EH225.9 km
• EH336.2 km
• EH166.8 km
• EH326.9 km
• EH357.0 km
• EH177.1 km
• EH87.5 km
• EH77.9 km
• EH198.2 km
• EH188.3 km
• EH98.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids