EH3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

748 of the district's 1,546 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 55.95187, -3.20682, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EH3

Companies House lists 15,840 companies with a registered office in EH3; 12,659 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 EH3

• City of Edinburgh
• Scotland
• Edinburgh
• Haymarket Square

Roads filed under EH3

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.

• Abercromby Place
• Ainslie Place
• Arboretum Avenue
• Arboretum Place
• Arboretum Road
• Archibald Place
• Atholl Crescent
• Atholl Crescent Lane
• Avondale Place
• Balmoral Place
• Bangholm Terrace
• Barony Place
• Barony Street
• Bellevue
• Bellevue Crescent
• Bell Place
• Boat Green
• Brandfield Street
• Brandon Street
• Brandon Terrace
• Bread Street
• Bread Street Lane
• Brougham Place
• Brougham Street
• Broughton Market
• Canal Walk
• Canning Street
• Canning Street Lane
• Canon Lane
• Canonmills
• Canon Street
• Chalmers Street
• Charlotte Lane
• Chester Street
• Chuckie Pend
• Circus Gardens
• Circus Lane
• Circus Place
• Clarence Street
• Coates Crescent
• Collins Place
• Colville Place
• Conference Square
• Cornwallis Place
• Coronation Walk
• Cumberland Street
• Darnaway Street
• Dean Bank Lane
• Dewar Place
• Dewar Place Lane
• Doune Terrace
• Drumdryan Street
• Drummond Place
• Drumsheugh Gardens
• Drysdale Gait
• Dublin Meuse
• Dublin Street
• Dublin Street Lane North
• Dunbar Street
• Dundas Street

Check an address in EH3

Check an address in EH3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EH3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EH3

What does an EH3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EH3 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 748 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 EH3

• EH20.3 km
• EH10.9 km
• EH92.5 km
• EH82.7 km
• EH72.8 km
• EH52.9 km
• EH63.0 km
• EH113.5 km
• EH103.6 km
• EH43.7 km
• EH164.7 km
• EH124.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids