What does an EH51 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EH51 district of the EH (Edinburgh) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bo'ness. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 427 live postcodes.

EH51 postcode district

EH51, in the EH (Edinburgh) postcode area, has 427 live and 73 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 263 roads under it.

postcode area	EH (Edinburgh)
live postcodes	427
terminated postcodes	73
sectors	3
roads listed	263
companies registered	415
centroid	56.01075, -3.60507
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

427 of the district's 500 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 56.01075, -3.60507, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
EH51 0	176	23
EH51 1	1	13
EH51 9	250	37

Companies registered in EH51

Companies House lists 415 companies with a registered office in EH51; 37 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 EH51

Falkirk
Scotland
Bo'ness

Roads filed under EH51

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.

4th Street
5th Street
6th Street
7th Street
8th Street
Academy Road
Acre Road
Acre View
Amulree Place
Angus Road
Avon Place
Avon Road
Baillie Court
Baker Street
Balmoral Road
Baptie Place
Barony Court
Bearcroft Road
Benjamin Drive
Birdland Avenue
Birkhill Crescent
Birkhill Street
Blair Avenue
Bo'mains Road
Bomar Avenue
Bonhard Court
Bonhard Way
Borrowstoun Crescent
Borrowstoun Place
Borrowstoun Road
Boundary Street
Boxland Drive
Braefoot Road
Braehead
Braehead Grove
Bravo Street
Brewlands Avenue
Bridgeness Crescent
Bridgeness Lane
Bridgeness Road
Buchanan Court
Buchan Road
Burns Crescent
Cadzow Avenue
Cadzow Crescent
Cadzow Lane
Cairn's Lane
Carriden Brae
Carriden Glade
Carriden Place
Carriden View
Carse View
Castlehill
Cathrine Grove
Charles Snedden Avenue
Chestnut Grove
Church Road
Church Wynd
Clover Place
Clydesdale Street

all 263 roads

Colliers Place
Commissioner Street
Constable Court
Corbiehall
Corvi Way
Cowdenhill Road
Craigallan Park
Craigview
Crawfield Avenue
Crawfield Lane
Crawfield Road
Crosshill Drive
Cuffabouts
Cuthell Terrace
Darian Lane
Dawson Place
Deanburn Grove
Deanburn Walk
Deanfield Crescent
Deanfield Drive
Deanfield Place
Deanfield Road
Deanfield Terrace
Dean Road
Dock Street
Don Street
Doocot Brae
Douglas Drive
Douglas Place
Douglas Road
Douglas Terrace
Dower Crescent
Drumacre Road
Drum Farm Lane
Drumpark Avenue
Drum Road
Drumside Terrace
Drumview Gardens
Dugald Stewart Avenue
Dundas Street
Dylons Terrace
Eaglesham Crescent
East Pier Street
Elam Terrace
Erngath Road
Ewart Grove
Fairspark Terrace
Farmstead Way
Firwood Drive
Foredale Terrace
Foreshore Way
Forth Crescent
Forthview Crescent
Fountainpark Crescent
Gauze Court
Gauze Place
Gauze Road
George Street
Gibson's Wynd
Gilburn Place
Gledhill Avenue
Glenard View
Glenburn Way
Glen View
Graham Crescent
Grahamsdyke Avenue
Grahamsdyke Lane
Grahamsdyke Place
Grahamsdyke Road
Grahamsdyke Terrace
Grange Loan
Grangemouth Road
Grangepans
Grange Terrace
Green Tree Lane
Gunner Road
Hadrian Way
Hamilton Lane
Hamilton Square
Haney's Way
Harbour Road
Hazeldean Avenue
Heggie Place
Henry Street
Hillcrest
Hillside Grove
Hope Street
Horn Gardens
Howieson Avenue
Ironstone Place
James Watt Avenue
Jamieson Avenue
Jeffrey Bank
Jessfield Place
Kelty Avenue
Kiln View
Kilpatrick Street
Kinacres Grove
Kinglass Avenue
Kinglass Court
Kinglass Drive
Kinglass Park
Kinneil Court
Kinneil Drive
Kinneil Road
Kirk Place
Ladywell View
Liddle Drive
Links Court
Links Place
Links Road
Linlithgow Road
Little Carriden
Livingstone Drive
Lothian Crescent
Lothian Street
Lourie Crescent
Lyon Court
Maidenpark Place
Main Street
Man o' War Way
Marchlands Avenue
Marchlands Lane
Marchlands Terrace
Market Street
Martin Lane
Maryfield Drive
Matthew Steele Court
Memorial Drive
Millar Terrace
Miller Crescent
Mingle Place
Muirend Court
Muirepark Court
Muirhead Crescent
Muirhouses Avenue
Muirhouses Crescent
Muirhouses Square
Mulholland Drive
Nelson Road
Newtown
Newtown Street
Ninian Road
Northbank Court
Northbank Drive
Northbank Park
North Street
Ochilview Place
Ochilview Road
Ochilview Terrace
Panbrae Road
Park Lane
Pennelton Place
Philpingstone Lane
Philpingstone Road
Pine Green
Providence Brae
Provost Road
Range Road
Rattray Street
Redbrae Avenue
Red Coal Crescent
Register Street
Richmond Terrace
Rifle Road
Ritchie Place
Road 10
Rodger Lane
Roebuck Place
Roman Way
School Brae
Scotlands Close
Seaview Place
Seton Terrace
Shafto Place
Snab Brae
Snab Lane
South Philpingstone Lane
South Street
Stark's Brae
Stewart Avenue
St John's Way
Sycamore Avenue
Sylvan Grove
The Bog
The Loan
The Quarryknowes
The Run
The Tower Gardens
Thirlestane
Thomson Place
Union Street
Victoria Place
Waggon Road
Wallace View
Ward Birkby Drive
Wheatfield Road
Willow Dell
Woodlands Drive
Wotherspoon Drive
A706
A904
A993

Check an address in EH51

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EH51" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EH51

What does an EH51 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the EH51 district of the EH (Edinburgh) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bo'ness. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 427 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 EH51

EH493.9 km
FK37.2 km
FK29.4 km
KY1210.0 km
EH5210.9 km
FK112.1 km
KY1112.6 km
EH4813.0 km
EH3013.2 km
FK513.7 km
EH2913.9 km
EH5414.1 km
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