EX1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

892 of the district's 1,518 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 50.72888, -3.49654, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EX1

Companies House lists 3,083 companies with a registered office in EX1; 1,638 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 EX1

• Devon
• South West
• Exeter
• East Devon
• Clyst Honiton
• West Clyst

Roads filed under EX1

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.

• Albert Street
• Alder Drive
• Aldridge Place
• Alford Close
• Alford Crescent
• Alpha Street
• Ambassador Drive
• Amber Rise
• Andrews Close
• Anthony Road
• Apple Tree Lane
• Archibald Road
• Armlet Row
• Arrow Field Road
• Ashcroft Road
• Ash Farm Close
• Athelstan Road
• Babblebrook Mews
• Bakery Drive
• Bampfylde Lane
• Bampfylde Street
• Baring Crescent
• Barnade View
• Barnfield Crescent
• Barnfield Hill
• Barnfield Road
• Barns Close
• Basil Way
• Battle Abbey Way
• Bayley Place
• Bazley Square
• Bear Street
• Bedford Street
• Belmont Road
• Bevan Road
• Bicton Place
• Binford Close
• Birch Close
• Birchy Barton Hill
• Blackberry Close
• Blackmore Drive
• Blacksmith Drive
• Blackthorn Crescent
• Blue Boy Square
• Blue Jay Way
• Bodley Close
• Bonnington Grove
• Bonville Close
• Bowring Close
• Bramley Avenue
• Brewery Lane
• Bridgeman Place
• Brimlicombe Meadow
• Broadleaf Close
• Bronze Drive
• Brook Close
• Brookleigh Avenue
• Brooklyn Close
• Brookway
• Buckle Rise

Check an address in EX1

Check an address in EX1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EX1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EX1

What does an EX1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EX1 district of the EX (Exeter) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Exeter. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 892 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 EX1

• EX42.1 km
• EX22.6 km
• EX55.4 km
• EX35.4 km
• EX69.2 km
• EX812.9 km
• EX1114.7 km
• EX915.7 km
• EX716.1 km
• EX1717.4 km
• EX1018.0 km
• EX1519.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids