What does an NE68 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the NE68 district of the NE (Newcastle upon Tyne) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Seahouses. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 111 live postcodes.

NE68 postcode district

NE68, in the NE (Newcastle upon Tyne) postcode area, has 111 live and 8 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 51 roads under it.

postcode area	NE (Newcastle upon Tyne)
live postcodes	111
terminated postcodes	8
sectors	1
roads listed	51
companies registered	81
centroid	55.57921, -1.65948
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

111 of the district's 119 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 55.57921, -1.65948, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
NE68 7	111	8

Companies registered in NE68

Companies House lists 81 companies with a registered office in NE68 (1 October 2026 snapshot).

Places OS Open Names lists for NE68

Northumberland
North East
Seahouses
North Sunderland

Roads filed under NE68

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.

Bamburgh View
Beech Croft
Brindles Manse
Broad Road
Brownsman Court
Castle Close
Castle Court
Castle Drive
Castle View
Chapel Row
Crewe Street
Crown Street
Crumstone
Dunstan View
Farne Crescent
Farneview Court
George Street
Greenacres
Harbour Road
Harcar Court
Islestone Drive
Jackson Place
James Street
Jubilee Place
Kings Field
King Street
Kippy Law
Main Street
Mayfield
Megstone Close
Mitchell Avenue
North Lane
North Street
Osborne Gardens
Osborne Terrace
Quarryfields
Regal Close
Seafield Road
Southfield Avenue
South Lane
South Street
St Aidan's
Staple Court
St Cuthbert Close
Stone Close
Taylor Street
The Croft
Union Street
Village Farm
Weatherley Street
West View

Check an address in NE68

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=NE68" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about NE68

What does an NE68 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the NE68 district of the NE (Newcastle upon Tyne) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Seahouses. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 111 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.

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TD1237.4 km
TD1443.3 km
NE6144.6 km
NE6444.8 km
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