NR16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

505 of the district's 583 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 52.47337, 1.05201, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in NR16

Companies House lists 747 companies with a registered office in NR16; 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 NR16

• Norfolk
• Eastern
• Breckland
• South Norfolk
• East Harling
• Banham
• Tacolneston
• Bunwell
• New Buckenham
• Kenninghall
• Forncett End
• Bridgham
• Ashwellthorpe
• Carleton Rode
• Eccles Road
• Tibenham
• Wreningham
• Fundenhall
• Harling Road
• Forncett St Mary
• Toprow
• Forncett St Peter
• Quidenham
• Hargate

Roads filed under NR16

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.

• Accelerator Way
• Ada Cole Avenue
• Andrew's Furlong
• Apple Close
• Ash Lane
• Ashwellthorpe Road
• Aslacton Road
• Austhorpe Gardens
• Back Lane
• Bailiwick Court
• Baldock Close
• Banham Road
• Barham's Lane
• Bayes Lane
• Belfry Road
• Bentley Road
• Besthorpe Road
• Bevan Close
• Birkin Close
• Blackbarn Road
• Blackslough Lane
• Blacksmiths Lane
• Boileau Avenue
• Boosey's Walk
• Brewsters
• Brick Kiln Lane
• Bridge Road
• Bridgham Lane
• Browne Close
• Bunwell Hill
• Bunwell Street
• Burlingham Road
• Cargate Common Road
• Centenary Close
• Chalk Lane
• Chapel Close
• Chapel Road
• Chapel Street
• Cheese Hill
• Cheney's Lane
• Cherry Tree Road
• Chiswell Lane
• Church Hill
• Church Lane
• Church Road
• Church Street
• Clipbush Lane
• Colman Way
• Common Road
• Copince's Lane
• Cow Lane
• Crown Courtyard
• Crown Meadow
• Crown Street
• Crown Way
• Cuffer Lane
• Diss Road
• Dovedale Road
• Drakes Close
• East Church Street

Check an address in NR16

Check an address in NR16

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=NR16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about NR16

What does an NR16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the NR16 district of the NR (Norwich) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is South Norfolk. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 505 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 NR16

• NR176.1 km
• IP2210.9 km
• NR1811.5 km
• NR1514.9 km
• IP2117.4 km
• NR918.2 km
• IP2319.0 km
• IP2519.1 km
• IP2019.6 km
• NR420.5 km
• IP2420.7 km
• NR522.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids