HP2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

987 of the district's 1,382 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 51.76440, -0.45194, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in HP2

Companies House lists 4,814 companies with a registered office in HP2; 1,686 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 HP2

• Hertfordshire
• Eastern
• Dacorum
• Hemel Hempstead
• Jockey End
• St. Albans

Roads filed under HP2

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.

• Abel Close
• Achilles Close
• Acre Wood
• Adeyfield Gardens
• Adeyfield Road
• Admiral Avenue
• Albion Hill
• Alexandra Road
• Allandale
• Andrews Close
• Apollo Way
• Aragon Close
• Argus Gardens
• Argyll Road
• Arkley Road
• Arundel Close
• Ashby Court
• Aston View
• Austins Place
• Avebury Court
• Avon Square
• Aycliffe Drive
• Badgers Croft
• Barley Croft
• Basildon Square
• Bassil Road
• Bathurst Road
• Bayford Close
• Baylie Court
• Baylie Lane
• Beechwood View
• Bencroft Road
• Benton Close
• Berefeld
• Berkeley Square
• Berrymead
• Bingham Mews
• Birch Leys
• Blackberry Way
• Blair Close
• Blossom Way
• Bluebell Walk
• Bohemia
• Boleyn Close
• Borrowdale Court
• Botley Road
• Boundary Park
• Boundary Way
• Bowmans Court
• Bowyers
• Boxhill
• Bracknell Place
• Bradden Lane
• Bradden Meadow
• Braemar Turn
• Brambling Rise
• Bramfield Place
• Branksome Close
• Breakspear Way
• Briery Way

Check an address in HP2

Check an address in HP2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=HP2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about HP2

What does an HP2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the HP2 district of the HP (Hemel Hempstead) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Hemel Hempstead. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 987 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 HP2

• HP12.7 km
• HP33.5 km
• AL35.4 km
• WD46.4 km
• WD57.2 km
• HP48.1 km
• AL58.9 km
• AL19.0 km
• AL29.5 km
• WD259.7 km
• WD2410.7 km
• AL410.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids