PE3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

602 of the district's 1,054 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 52.58434, -0.27523, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PE3

Companies House lists 1,896 companies with a registered office in PE3; 144 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 PE3

• City of Peterborough
• Eastern
• Peterborough

Roads filed under PE3

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.

• Adderley
• Alderman's Drive
• Allport Close
• Almoners Lane
• Anderson Drive
• Angus Court
• Apsley Way
• Arbury Close
• Artindale
• Artis Court
• Ashton Road
• Atherstone Avenue
• Auborn Gardens
• Audley Gate
• Axiom Avenue
• Azalea Close
• Bader Close
• Barnards Court
• Barnard Way
• Barnstock
• Benland
• Bentley Grove
• Berkeley Road
• Berridge Place
• Bickleigh Walk
• Blind Lane
• Bozeat Way
• Brackley Close
• Bradden Street
• Bradwell Road
• Brailsford Close
• Bramall Court
• Breamore Gardens
• Bretton Gate
• Bretton Green
• Bretton Way
• Brigstock Court
• Brocklesby Gardens
• Brookfurlong
• Brynmore
• Buckingham Place
• Buckland Close
• Carisbrook Court
• Carters Close
• Cavell Close
• Chapman Avenue
• Charlotte Way
• Chatsworth Place
• Chelveston Way
• Cleatham
• Clifton Avenue
• Clipston Walk
• Copeland
• Cosgrove Close
• Cottesmore Close
• Cranford Drive
• Cypress Close
• Deaconscroft
• Deene Court
• Deerleap

Check an address in PE3

Check an address in PE3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PE3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PE3

What does a PE3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PE3 district of the PE (Peterborough) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Peterborough. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 602 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 PE3

• PE12.6 km
• PE23.2 km
• PE43.2 km
• PE55.2 km
• PE76.9 km
• PE68.4 km
• PE813.9 km
• PE915.9 km
• PE2618.1 km
• PE1022.2 km
• PE1525.0 km
• PE2825.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids