EH6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,017 of the district's 1,480 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 55.97254, -3.17514, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EH6

Companies House lists 6,086 companies with a registered office in EH6; 3,477 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 EH6

• Edinburgh
• City of Edinburgh
• Scotland

Roads filed under EH6

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.

• Academy Park
• Academy Street
• Admiralty Street
• Agnew Terrace
• Albert Road
• Anderson Place
• Andrew Wood Court
• Annfield
• Annfield Street
• Argyle Street
• Arthur Street
• Arthur Street Lane
• Ashley Place
• Ashville Terrace
• Assembly Street
• Auchinleck's Brae
• Balfour Place
• Balfour Street
• Ballantyne Lane
• Ballantyne Road
• Baltic Street
• Bangor Road
• Barleyhill Terrace
• Bathfield
• Bath Road
• Beechwood Terrace
• Belvedere Park
• Bernard Street
• Blackie Road
• Bonar Place
• Bonnington Avenue
• Bonnington Gait
• Bonnington Grove
• Bonnington Road
• Bonnington Road Lane
• Bonnyhaugh
• Bonnyhaugh Lane
• Boothacre Lane
• Bowie's Close
• Bowling Lane
• Breadalbane Street
• Broad Wynd
• Buchanan Street
• Burgess Street
• Burlington Street
• Burns Street
• Cables Wynd
• Cadiz Street
• Cambridge Avenue
• Cambridge Gardens
• Cannon Wynd
• Carmichael Place
• Carpet Lane
• Carron Place
• Cassel's Lane
• Casselbank Street
• Chancelot Crescent
• Chandler Crescent
• Chapel Lane
• Citadel Place

Check an address in EH6

Check an address in EH6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EH6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EH6

What does an EH6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EH6 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 1,017 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 EH6

• EH71.5 km
• EH12.7 km
• EH82.7 km
• EH22.8 km
• EH53.0 km
• EH33.0 km
• EH94.4 km
• EH154.9 km
• EH45.5 km
• EH165.7 km
• EH106.3 km
• EH116.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids