What does an NR24 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the NR24 district of the NR (Norwich) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is North 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 210 live postcodes.

NR24 postcode district

NR24, in the NR (Norwich) postcode area, has 210 live and 27 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 109 roads under it.

postcode area	NR (Norwich)
live postcodes	210
terminated postcodes	27
sectors	1
roads listed	109
companies registered	142
centroid	52.85878, 1.05010
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

210 of the district's 237 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 52.85878, 1.05010, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
NR24 2	210	27

Companies registered in NR24

Companies House lists 142 companies with a registered office in NR24; 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 NR24

North Norfolk
Norfolk
Eastern
Briston
Melton Constable
Edgefield
Sharrington
Swanton Novers
Briningham
Hunworth
Gunthorpe
Stody
Brinton
Edgefield Street
Fakenham

Roads filed under NR24

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.

All Saints Close
Ash Yard
Bakery Close
Baldwins Close
Bale Road
Barber's Lane
Barningham Road
Barwick Close
Bayse's Lane
Bellview Close
Bridge Close
Brinton Road
Briston Road
Bullfer Lane
Bure Road
Burgh Beck Road
Burston Close
Canon Marcon Way
Chequers Close
Church Lane
Church Street
Colville Road
Craymere Beck Road
Craymere Road
Dereham Road
Edgefield Hill
Edgefield Road
Fakenham Road
Field Lane
Gallowhill Lane
Garden Close
Gloucester Place
Gordon Road
Granary Close
Green Lane
Grove Lane
Grove Road
Hall Lane
Hall Street
Hastings Close
Hazelwood Lane
Heath Lane
Heath Road
Hellpit Lane
Hewitts Close
Hillside
Hindolveston Road
Hollow Tree Way
Holt Road
Homefield Lane
Horseshoe Lane
Hunworth Road
Jewel Close
Jubilee Avenue
Kings Street
Kitchener Road
Limekiln Lane
Long Yard
Lower Hall Lane
Macks Loke

all 109 roads

Manor Road
Marriott Way
Meadow Lane
Melton Road
Melton Street
Mill Lane
Mill Road
New Road
Nine Acre Lane
Norwich Road
Oaklands
Old Post Road
Old School Road
Orchard Close
Pack Lane
Peacock Way
Pecks Lane
Pinkney Lane
Plantation Lane
Plumb's Close
Plumstead Road
Providence Place
Railway Close
Rectory Road
Reepham Road
Ridland's Road
Saxthorpe Road
Sharrington Road
Southgate Way
St Giles Road
Stody Road
Stone Road
Swans Croft Lane
Swanton Road
The Croft
The Lane
The Limes
The Loke
The Street
Thornton Close
Thurning Road
Tithe Barn Lane
Turkey Lane
Upper Hall Lane
Wellington Road
West End
Woodfield
Woodland Lane
Wood Lane

Check an address in NR24

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=NR24" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about NR24

What does an NR24 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the NR24 district of the NR (Norwich) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is North 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 210 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 NR24

NR257.2 km
NR2213.1 km
NR2113.4 km
NR2613.9 km
NR1115.1 km
NR2015.9 km
NR2316.3 km
NR2718.3 km
NR1018.7 km
NR1922.0 km
NR822.8 km
NR2823.7 km
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