EH8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

566 of the district's 777 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 55.94878, -3.16441, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EH8

Companies House lists 1,051 companies with a registered office in EH8; 94 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 EH8

• Edinburgh
• City of Edinburgh
• Scotland

Roads filed under EH8

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.

• Abbeyhill
• Abbeyhill Crescent
• Abbeymount
• Abbey Strand
• Abercorn Avenue
• Abercorn Crescent
• Abercorn Drive
• Abercorn Gardens
• Abercorn Grove
• Abercorn Road
• Ann Terrace
• Bakehouse Close
• Baronscourt Road
• Baronscourt Terrace
• Bernard Terrace
• Boroughloch
• Boroughloch Walk
• Bowling Green Close
• Bowmont Place
• Boys Brigade Walk
• Braidwood Gate
• Briery Bauks
• Bristo Square
• Brown's Close
• Brown Street
• Buccleuch Place
• Buccleuch Place Lane
• Buccleuch Street
• Buccleuch Terrace
• Buccleugh Pend
• Bull's Close
• Calton Hill Stairs
• Calton Road
• Campbell's Close
• Canongate
• Carnegie Street
• Chapel Street
• Charlesfield
• Charles Street
• Charles Street Lane
• Charteris Place
• Clerk Street
• Clockmill Lane
• Considine Gardens
• Considine Terrace
• Cooper's Close
• Cowan's Close
• Crichton's Close
• Crichton Street
• Croft-an-Righ
• Davie Street
• Drummond Street
• Duddingston Mills
• Duke's Walk
• Dumbiedykes Road
• East Adam Street
• East Crosscauseway
• East Market Street
• East Preston Street
• East Preston Street Lane

Check an address in EH8

Check an address in EH8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EH8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EH8

What does an EH8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EH8 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 566 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 EH8

• EH71.3 km
• EH11.8 km
• EH92.2 km
• EH22.4 km
• EH32.7 km
• EH62.7 km
• EH163.0 km
• EH153.2 km
• EH104.3 km
• EH54.7 km
• EH175.1 km
• EH115.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids