What does an EH53 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EH53 district of the EH (Edinburgh) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is East Calder. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 326 live postcodes.

EH53 postcode district

EH53, in the EH (Edinburgh) postcode area, has 326 live and 32 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 199 roads under it.

postcode area	EH (Edinburgh)
live postcodes	326
terminated postcodes	32
sectors	1
roads listed	199
companies registered	468
centroid	55.89573, -3.46789
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

326 of the district's 358 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 55.89573, -3.46789, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
EH53 0	326	32

Companies registered in EH53

Companies House lists 468 companies with a registered office in EH53; 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 EH53

Scotland
West Lothian
East Calder
Livingston
Oakbank
West Clifton
City of Edinburgh

Roads filed under EH53

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 Crescent
Adair Lane
Adam Drive
Agnew Drive
Ainslie Road
Alder Walk
Allerdice Road
Almondell Terrace
Almond Grove
Almond Side
Almond South Road
Anderson Crescent
Anstruther Drive
Armstrong Crescent
Ashbank Terrace
Ashwood Court
Aspen Crescent
Avenue Park
Avenue Park West
Badger Walk
Baillie Crescent
Baird Square
Balfour Drive
Bank Street
Baxter Road
Beech Avenue
Beechbank Crescent
Beech Lane
Beech Path
Belfield Avenue
Ben Alder Drive
Ben Avon Drive
Ben Challum Drive
Ben Chonzie Drive
Ben Klibreck Drive
Ben Lawers Drive
Ben Lomond Drive
Ben Macdui Drive
Ben More Drive
Ben Oss Drive
Ben Starav Drive
Ben Vorlich Drive
Ben Wyvis Drive
Binny Craig View
Bishops Park
Bissett Square
Blair Road
Borthwick Drive
Braeside Gardens
Braeside Park
Brodie Place
Broompark Gardens
Broompark Road
Broompark View
Bruce Way
Bryce Court
Buchan Square
Burnside Terrace
Cairns Gardens
Calder De Clere Crescent

all 199 roads

Calderhall Avenue
Calderhall Crescent
Calderhall Terrace
Calder House Road
Calder Park Road
Calderwood Road
Cameron Gardens
Campbell Drive
Carnegie Court
Caroline Gardens
Caroline Park
Castle Crescent
Cathcart Court
Cawburn Road
Chisholm Crescent
Clifton Road
Cochrane Drive
Cockburn Road
Colquhoun Crescent
Combfoot Cottages
Covenanters Place
Cranstoun Road
Crawford Road
Cunnigar Gardens
Cunnigar Hill View
Cunningham Road
Daffodil Walk
Douglas Road
Drovers Road
Drumshoreland Avenue
Drumshoreland Crescent
Drumshoreland Place
Drumshoreland Road
Fern Way
Finlay Avenue
Firbank Grove
Forest Glade
Gasworks Brae
Hamilton Court
Hare Crescent
Harrysmuir Crescent
Harrysmuir Gardens
Harrysmuir North
Harrysmuir Road
Harrysmuir South
Harrysmuir Terrace
Hawthorn Road
Heaney Avenue
Heatherwood Park
Henderson Court
Hoghill Court
Hoghill Place
Hollybank Place
Kennedie Park
Laburnum Crescent
Langton Avenue
Langton Crescent
Langton Gardens
Langton Grove
Langton Place
Langton Road
Langton Steadings
Langton View
Laurelbank Court
Letham Avenue
Letham Crescent
Letham Gardens
Letham Grove
Letham Park
Letham Place
Letham Road
Letham Terrace
Limebank Park
Limekilns Grove
Linhouse Drive
Linhouse Road
Little Sheil Road
Main Street
Manse Court
Mansefield
Mansefield Place
Market Street
Maryfield Park
Millbrae
Mill Lane
Nasmyth Park
Nethershiel Crescent
Nethershiel Drive
Nethershiel Lane
Nethershiel Road
Nethershiel Terrace
Oakbank Avenue
Oakbank Park Drive
Oakbank Park Place
Oakbank Park Road
Oakbank Park Way
Oakbank Parkway
Oakbank Road
Ochiltree Court
Ochiltree Crescent
Ochiltree Drive
Ormiston Drive
Overshiel Road
Overton Crescent
Park Avenue
Powie's Path
Pumpherston Road
Quarry Park Lane
Queens Gardens
Queens Terrace
Redcraig Road
Renwick Court
Rodger Road
Rowan Place
Rowan Walk
Salveson Place
Sandiland Drive
Sandilands Lane
Sandilands Road
School Lane
Seven Wells Crescent
Shearer Place
Sheil Lane
Sheil Path
Sheil Place
Snowdrop Path
Sommers Park
South Lodge Avenue
Spottiswoode Gardens
Templar Road
Tennent Park
Torphichen Avenue
Turnpike Road
Uphall Station Road
Wallace Mill Gardens
Westgate
Whitebeam Road
Young Road
B8046

Check an address in EH53

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EH53" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EH53

What does an EH53 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the EH53 district of the EH (Edinburgh) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is East Calder. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 326 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 EH53

EH273.3 km
EH543.6 km
EH525.0 km
EH286.1 km
EH297.9 km
EH558.6 km
EH3010.9 km
EH1411.4 km
EH4912.1 km
EH4812.3 km
EH1212.7 km
EH4713.0 km
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