PE16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

305 of the district's 373 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 52.45521, 0.04895, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PE16

Companies House lists 497 companies with a registered office in PE16; 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 PE16

• Cambridgeshire
• Eastern
• Fenland
• Chatteris
• Huntingdonshire
• Swingbrow
• Wenny Severals
• Horseway

Roads filed under PE16

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.

• Albert Way
• Allens Yard
• Alma Terrace
• Angoods Lane
• Anvil Close
• Ash Grove
• Augustus Way
• Badney Drove
• Barber Gardens
• Barley Close
• Barrett Close
• Beaufort Drive
• Beckett Way
• Beechwood Gardens
• Beezling Drove
• Beezling Fen Drove
• Belmont Gardens
• Birch Avenue
• Birch Close
• Birch Fen Drove
• Black Horse Lane
• Blackmill Road
• Blackthorn Close
• Block Fen Drove
• Boadicea Court
• Briar Close
• Bridge Street
• Bridle Close
• Burnsfield Estate
• Burnsfield Street
• Byall Fen Drove
• Campole Drove
• Chantry Close
• Chapel Lane
• Church Lane
• Church Walk
• Clare Street
• Cox's Lane
• Cricketers Way
• Curf Fen Drove
• Curlew Avenue
• Cygnet Drive
• Dean Drove
• Dock Road
• Doddington Road
• Drake Avenue
• Eastbourne Close
• Eastbourne Road
• East Park Street
• Eastwood
• Eden Crescent
• Elder Place
• Ellingham Gardens
• Fairbairn Way
• Fairview Avenue
• Fairview Crescent
• Fairview Drive
• Fairview Gardens
• Fairway
• Farriers Gate

Check an address in PE16

Check an address in PE16

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PE16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PE16

What does a PE16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PE16 district of the PE (Peterborough) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Chatteris. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 305 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 PE16

• PE159.5 km
• PE2611.2 km
• CB613.0 km
• PE2716.0 km
• PE2819.4 km
• CB2419.7 km
• PE719.7 km
• PE2920.7 km
• CB721.7 km
• PE1423.2 km
• PE223.8 km
• PE124.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids