KY1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

807 of the district's 1,050 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 56.12947, -3.13670, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in KY1

Companies House lists 1,451 companies with a registered office in KY1; 225 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 KY1

• Fife
• Scotland
• Kirkcaldy
• East Wemyss
• Thornton
• Coaltown of Wemyss
• West Wemyss
• Glenrothes
• Strathore
• Newton

Roads filed under KY1

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.

• Adam Smith Close
• Adam Smith Court
• Aitken Place
• Aitken Street
• Aitkin Court
• Albert Drive
• Alexander Street
• Alexandra Street
• Alison Street
• Allen Court
• Almond Place
• Anderson Crescent
• Anderson Street
• Approach Row
• Approach Terrace
• Asquith Street
• Ava Street
• Back Dykes
• Bakers Lane
• Balbeggie Avenue
• Balgonie Street
• Bandon Avenue
• Bank Street
• Barclay Court
• Barnet's Vennel
• Barnet Crescent
• Beatty Court
• Beatty Crescent
• Beech Avenue
• Bellfield Crescent
• Bell Inn Wynd
• Berwick Place
• Beveridge Road
• Biggin Wa's
• Binney Wells
• Birchtree Place
• Birrell's Lane
• Birrell Street Wynd
• Blackthorn Drive
• Blackwood Road
• Blyth Street
• Bogies Wynd
• Bogleys Street
• Bogswell Lane
• Boreland Avenue
• Boreland Crescent
• Boreland Loan
• Boreland Place
• Boreland Road
• Bowhouse Drive
• Bowhouse Gardens
• Bowhouse Way
• Bowling Green Terrace
• Branxton Avenue
• Branxton Wynd
• Briarcliff Street
• Bridge Street
• Broad Wynd
• Brown Crescent
• Burnbank Terrace

Check an address in KY1

Check an address in KY1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=KY1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about KY1

What does a KY1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the KY1 district of the KY (Kirkcaldy) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Kirkcaldy. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 807 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 KY1

• KY23.0 km
• KY77.7 km
• KY68.5 km
• KY39.4 km
• KY59.9 km
• KY810.8 km
• KY414.1 km
• EH617.6 km
• EH517.9 km
• EH718.9 km
• KY1119.4 km
• KY1519.5 km
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