LE16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,083 of the district's 1,353 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 52.48607, -0.89789, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in LE16

Companies House lists 3,328 companies with a registered office in LE16; 853 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 LE16

• East Midlands
• Harborough
• Leicestershire
• Market Harborough
• North Northamptonshire
• West Northamptonshire
• Great Bowden
• Great Easton
• Cottingham
• Lubenham
• Medbourne
• Wilbarston
• Clipston
• Hallaton
• Stoke Albany
• Foxton
• Caldecott
• Rutland
• Middleton
• Braybrooke
• East Farndon
• Thorpe Langton
• Weston by Welland
• Arthingworth

Roads filed under LE16

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
• Acorn Close
• Adam and Eve Street
• Adamswood Close
• Adcock Road
• Admiral Road
• Advent Walk
• Airfield Road
• Albany Road
• Albert Road
• Alexander Close
• Allexton Road
• Althorp Close
• Alvington Way
• Andrew's Lane
• Andrew Macdonald Close
• Angell Drive
• Angel Street
• Anson Drive
• Arden Close
• Arden Way
• Argus Close
• Argyle Park
• Ashfield Road
• Ashley Road
• Ashley Way
• Astley Close
• Audley Close
• Auriga Street
• Austins Close
• Back Lane
• Balfour Gardens
• Balmoral Close
• Bamburgh Close
• Banbury Lane
• Bancroft Road
• Bankfield Drive
• Bannockburn Lane
• Bantry Close
• Barley Way
• Barlows Lane
• Barnard Gardens
• Barnsdale
• Barnsdale Close
• Bassett Way
• Bates Close
• Bath Street
• Beech Avenue
• Beeches Close
• Belcher's Hill
• Bellfields Lane
• Bellfields Street
• Bennett Drive
• Berkeley Street
• Berry Close
• Berry Field Road
• Berry Road
• Birch Tree Gardens
• Birtley Coppice
• Bishop Close

Check an address in LE16

Check an address in LE16

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=LE16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about LE16

What does an LE16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the LE16 district of the LE (Leicester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Market Harborough. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,083 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 LE16

• NN1812.6 km
• NN1714.8 km
• LE815.3 km
• NN1615.7 km
• NN1415.7 km
• NN1517.6 km
• LE1818.0 km
• NN618.1 km
• LE1719.1 km
• LE220.0 km
• LE521.1 km
• LE8722.6 km
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distance between the districts' centroids