NE17 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

169 of the district's 202 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 54.91281, -1.81746, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in NE17

Companies House lists 103 companies with a registered office in NE17; none of them at an address 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 NE17

• North East
• Gateshead
• Chopwell
• County Durham
• Blackhall Mill
• Hamsterley
• Low Westwood
• High Westwood
• Northumberland
• Leadgate
• Prudhoe

Roads filed under NE17

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.

• Armondside Road
• Blyth Street
• Broad Oak Terrace
• Burnwood Close
• Chopwell Road
• Clayton Terrace Road
• Clyde Street
• Coltpark Woods
• Connolly Terrace
• Coquet Street
• Cut Throat Lane
• Dene Court
• Derwent Cote
• Derwent Crescent
• Derwent Street
• Earls Court
• East Street
• Elizabeth Street
• Forge Close
• Forge Lane
• Forth Street
• Frederick Street
• George Close
• Gill Way
• Greenhead Road
• Hall Road
• Hillford Terrace
• Hollings Terrace
• Horsegate Bank
• Humber Street
• Lonsdale Court
• Meadow Brook Drive
• Mersey Street
• Mill Court
• Mill Race Close
• Mill Road
• Monument Court
• Moorland View
• Moraine Crescent
• Nursery Court
• Oakwell Court
• Parkside Court
• Peartree Bungalows
• Ramsay Road
• Ravenside Terrace
• Riversdale
• River View
• Runnymede Gardens
• Severn Street
• Shaw Lane
• South Road
• South View
• Tay Street
• Tees Street
• Thames Street
• Trent Street
• Tweed Street
• Valley Dene
• Vindomora Road
• Wansbeck Street

Check an address in NE17

Check an address in NE17

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=NE17" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about NE17

What does an NE17 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the NE17 district of the NE (Newcastle upon Tyne) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Chopwell. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 169 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 NE17

• NE393.8 km
• NE425.9 km
• NE406.5 km
• DH86.6 km
• NE436.9 km
• NE417.0 km
• NE217.9 km
• NE168.2 km
• DH98.4 km
• NE1510.0 km
• NE4410.8 km
• NE1112.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids