LE1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

721 of the district's 1,717 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 52.63394, -1.13289, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in LE1

Companies House lists 7,087 companies with a registered office in LE1; 3,496 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 LE1

• Leicester
• East Midlands
• City of Leicester
• Blaby
• Leicestershire

Roads filed under LE1

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.

• Abbey Street
• Abbey Walk
• Albion Street
• All Saints Open
• Angel Gateway
• Ann Street
• Applegate
• Archdeacon Lane
• Arnhem Street
• Arnold Street
• Ashwell Street
• Barston Street
• Bath House Lane
• Bay Street
• Bedford Street North
• Bedford Street South
• Belgrave Gate
• Belvoir Street
• Berkley Street
• Berridge Street
• Birstall Street
• Bishop Street
• Blake Street
• Blake Walk
• Bonners Lane
• Bowling Green Street
• Bowmars Lane
• Britannia Street
• Brougham Street
• Brunswick Street
• Burgess Street
• Burleys Flyover
• Burleys Way
• Burton Street
• Butt Close Lane
• Byron Street
• Calais Hill
• Calais Street
• Calgary Road
• Camden Street
• Campbell Street
• Cank Street
• Canning Place
• Canning Street
• Carlton Street
• Carts Lane
• Castle Street
• Castle View
• Castle Yard
• Causeway Lane
• Chancery Street
• Charles Street
• Charter Street
• Chatham Street
• Cheapside
• Chester Close
• Christow Street
• Church Gate
• Church Street
• Clarence Street

Check an address in LE1

Check an address in LE1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=LE1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about LE1

What does an LE1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the LE1 district of the LE (Leicester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Leicester. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 721 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 LE1

• LE870.3 km
• LE33.0 km
• LE23.2 km
• LE53.3 km
• LE43.5 km
• LE185.9 km
• LE76.6 km
• LE67.3 km
• LE197.3 km
• LE89.2 km
• LE912.1 km
• LE1215.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids