LE6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

258 of the district's 1,678 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 52.65697, -1.23370, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in LE6

Companies House lists 471 companies with a registered office in LE6; 45 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 LE6

• Leicestershire
• East Midlands
• Hinckley and Bosworth
• Groby
• Ratby
• Charnwood
• Newtown Linford

Roads filed under LE6

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.

• Alans Close
• Anstey Lane
• Ash Close
• Ash Court
• Astill Close
• Bailey View
• Bancroft Way
• Barton Close
• Beacon Close
• Beaumont Green
• Bedford Drive
• Beech Avenue
• Bell Close
• Bennion Close
• Benscliffe Road
• Berry's Lane
• Bevington Close
• Bluebell Drive
• Bracken Hill
• Bradgate Drive
• Bradgate Hill
• Bradgate Road
• Branting Hill
• Brook Drive
• Buckingham Close
• Bumblebee Close
• Burroughs Road
• Butler Close
• Buttercup Close
• Buttercup Grove
• Calverton Close
• Cardinal Close
• Carmen Grove
• Castell Drive
• Castle Rise
• Cedar Court
• Chapel Hill
• Chapel Lane
• Charnwood
• Chestnut Walk
• Church Lane
• Church Ponds Close
• Cooper Lane
• Cottage Close
• Cottagers Walk
• Cow Lane
• Crane-Ley Road
• Cufflin Close
• Daisy Close
• Dalby Drive
• Daly Close
• Dane Hill
• Desford Lane
• East Walk
• Elm Close
• Elsalene Close
• Elsalene Drive
• Farr Wood Close
• Fern Crescent
• Ferndale Drive

Check an address in LE6

Check an address in LE6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=LE6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about LE6

What does an LE6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the LE6 district of the LE (Leicester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Groby. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 258 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 LE6

• LE34.8 km
• LE17.3 km
• LE47.4 km
• LE877.5 km
• LE198.1 km
• LE29.6 km
• LE99.8 km
• LE510.2 km
• LE6710.8 km
• LE711.3 km
• LE1811.7 km
• LE1112.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids