What does a ME17 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the ME17 district of the ME (Medway) postcode area, which the directory places around Kent. The inward half of the full postcode narrows it to a street or a building; the district alone does not, and an address written with a district and no inward half cannot be checked against the register.

Does a street listed here mean an address on it exists?

It means OS Open Names lists a road of that name under the district, which is what the address lookup answers as a street-level match. It says nothing about any building on it: Great Britain publishes no open register of buildings, so the lookup answers exists: null there and confirms the street alone.

Who lives at these postcodes?

Nobody on this page. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there, and a streets register lists roads, not occupants. The address lookup carries no field about a person and never will.

ME17 postcode district

What the public directories installed here say about the ME17 postcode district: how many of its postcodes are in use, the places OS Open Names lists for them, the streets it files under the district and the district's centroid. Counted from the national postcode directory and OS Open Names on 2026-09-18, and never about who is at an address.

postcode area	ME (Medway)
live postcodes	1,105
terminated postcodes	241
streets listed	552
centroid	51.23347, 0.61033
counted on	2026-09-18

Places the directory lists for ME17

OS Open Names places the district's postcodes in these settlements, boroughs, counties and regions, most often first. A town written as any of them matches the directory in an address lookup, and one written as another place in the ME area is reported but not scored.

Kent
South East
Maidstone
Coxheath
Harrietsham
Lenham
Sutton Valence
Boughton Monchelsea
Kingswood
Langley Heath
Leeds
Otham
Chart Sutton
Hollingbourne
Eyhorne Street
Ulcombe
Lenham Heath
Sandway
Warmlake
Linton
Platt's Heath
Loose
Liverton Street
Chartway Street

Postcodes in use

1,105 postcodes in ME17 were in use on the day of the count. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. 241 of its 1,346 postcodes have been terminated: a real address written with one has moved on, which is not the same thing as a typo, and the address lookup scores it rather than refusing it.

Centroid: 51.23347, 0.61033 — the mean of the live postcodes' centroids, which locates the district, not any building in it.

Streets filed under ME17

OS Open Names files 552 roads under ME17. 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.

A20
Abbotts Way
Adam Close
Albertine Road
Alexander Road
Allfrey Road
Alliance Terrace
Amber Lane
Amber Way
Amsbury Road
Armistice Way
Arrow Way
Ashdown Road
Ashford Drive
Ashford Road
Aspian Drive
Athelstan Green
Augustinian Way
B2163
Babylon Lane

the first 20 of 552, alphabetically

Check an address in ME17

The address checker opens on Great Britain with the district in the field: add the street, the number and the full postcode, and it answers the postcode's status, whether the street is filed under the district, and what kind of delivery point the address names.

Check an address in ME17

curl https://spaw.co/api/v1/address \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"address": "10 Downing Street, London ME17 …", "country": "GB"}'

Common questions about ME17

What does a ME17 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the ME17 district of the ME (Medway) postcode area, which the directory places around Kent. The inward half of the full postcode narrows it to a street or a building; the district alone does not, and an address written with a district and no inward half cannot be checked against the register.
Does a street listed here mean an address on it exists?: It means OS Open Names lists a road of that name under the district, which is what the address lookup answers as a street-level match. It says nothing about any building on it: Great Britain publishes no open register of buildings, so the lookup answers exists: null there and confirms the street alone.
Who lives at these postcodes?: Nobody on this page. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there, and a streets register lists roads, not occupants. The address lookup carries no field about a person and never will.

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.

Data synced on 2026-09-18: the newest register or postcode directory copy installed here.

Other districts in ME

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