NR17 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

593 of the district's 671 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 52.51605, 0.99509, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in NR17

Companies House lists 995 companies with a registered office in NR17; 27 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 NR17

• Breckland
• Norfolk
• Eastern
• Attleborough
• Great Ellingham
• Old Buckenham
• Besthorpe
• Rockland All Saints
• Shropham
• Caston
• Little Ellingham
• Rockland St Peter
• Baconsthorpe
• Stow Bedon
• Bow Street
• Anchor Corner
• Breckles
• Puddledock
• Northacre
• Lower Stow Bedon
• Stacksford
• Fen Street
• Black Carr
• Workhouse Common

Roads filed under NR17

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.

• Abbey Road
• Alexandra Way
• Appletree Close
• Arlington Close
• Arlington Gardens
• Ash Tree Close
• Atling Close
• Atling Way
• Attleborough Road
• Balmoral Close
• Banham Road
• Bannister Close
• Barbers Yard
• Barker's Lane
• Barley Way
• Bayfield
• Beech Avenue
• Bellibone Gardens
• Bell Lane
• Bell Road
• Besthorpe Carr
• Besthorpe Road
• Bickley Close
• Bilberry Close
• Birch Drive
• Blackthorn Road
• Blenheim Drive
• Block Lane
• Bluebell Close
• Bowden Road
• Bowling Green Close
• Bow Street
• Bracken Drive
• Bradcar Road
• Bramble Close
• Bray's Lane
• Briar Gardens
• Brimstone Close
• Broadacre Drive
• Broad Way
• Brown's Lane
• Bryony Way
• Buckenham Road
• Bunn's Bank Road
• Bunwell Road
• Burdock Way
• Burrow Field Crossing
• Bushel Way
• Campion Way
• Carbrooke Road
• Carnation Close
• Carr Lane
• Carver's Lane
• Caston Road
• Cawdor Close
• Cedar Drive
• Celandine Road
• Chapel Loke
• Chapel Road
• Chapel Street

Check an address in NR17

Check an address in NR17

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=NR17" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about NR17

What does an NR17 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the NR17 district of the NR (Norwich) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Attleborough. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 593 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 NR17

• NR166.1 km
• NR189.8 km
• IP2513.1 km
• NR915.3 km
• IP2216.1 km
• NR1918.2 km
• NR1518.4 km
• IP2419.2 km
• NR420.4 km
• NR521.0 km
• NR822.8 km
• NR2022.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids