EH40 postcode district
EH40, in the EH (Edinburgh) postcode area, has 68 live and 7 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 41 roads under it.
| postcode area | EH (Edinburgh) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 68 |
| terminated postcodes | 7 |
| sectors | 1 |
| roads listed | 41 |
| companies registered | 110 |
| centroid | 55.98954, -2.66111 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
68 of the district's 75 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 55.98954, -2.66111, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| EH40 3 | 68 | 7 |
Companies registered in EH40
Companies House lists 110 companies with a registered office in EH40; 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 EH40
- East Lothian
- Scotland
- East Linton
Roads filed under EH40
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.
- Andrew Meikle Grove
- Bank Road
- Brae Heads Loan
- Braeview
- Bridge End
- Bridge Street
- Distillery Wynd
- Drylaw Gardens
- Dunpender Road
- Haddington Road
- Hardie Terrace
- High Street
- Kingsburgh Court
- Kingsburgh Gardens
- Langside
- Lauder Place
- Linton Place
- Longstone Avenue
- Mccall Gardens
- Mill Wynd
- Noble Gardens
- Orchard Court
- Orchardfield
- Pencraig Avenue
- Pencraig Brae
- Phantassie Cottages
- Prestonkirk Gardens
- Preston Road
- Rennie Place
- School Road
- Smiddy Wynd
- Station Road
- Stories Park
- The Dean
- The Glebe
- The Square
- Tyne Close
- Walker Terrace
- A199
- B1377
- B1407
Check an address in EH40
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EH40" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about EH40
- What does an EH40 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the EH40 district of the EH (Edinburgh) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is East Linton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 68 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 EH40
- EH397.8 km
- EH428.5 km
- EH418.6 km
- EH3111.5 km
- EH3416.4 km
- EH3218.0 km
- EH3318.5 km
- EH3619.2 km
- TD1319.3 km
- EH3519.7 km
- EH3723.4 km
- EH2124.6 km
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