What does a PE7 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PE7 district of the PE (Peterborough) postcode area, which the directory places around Eastern. The inward half of the full postcode narrows it to a street or a building; the district alone does not, and an address written with a district and no inward half cannot be checked against the register.

Does a street listed here mean an address on it exists?

It means OS Open Names lists a road of that name under the district, which is what the address lookup answers as a street-level match. It says nothing about any building on it: Great Britain publishes no open register of buildings, so the lookup answers exists: null there and confirms the street alone.

Who lives at these postcodes?

Nobody on this page. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there, and a streets register lists roads, not occupants. The address lookup carries no field about a person and never will.

PE7 postcode district

What the public directories installed here say about the PE7 postcode district: how many of its postcodes are in use, the places OS Open Names lists for them, the streets it files under the district and the district's centroid. Counted from the national postcode directory and OS Open Names on 2026-09-18, and never about who is at an address.

postcode area	PE (Peterborough)
live postcodes	1,309
terminated postcodes	119
streets listed	930
centroid	52.53635, -0.21051
counted on	2026-09-18

Places the directory lists for PE7

OS Open Names places the district's postcodes in these settlements, boroughs, counties and regions, most often first. A town written as any of them matches the directory in an address lookup, and one written as another place in the PE area is reported but not scored.

Eastern
Cambridgeshire
Fenland
City of Peterborough
Peterborough
Huntingdonshire
Whittlesey
Yaxley
Stilton
Farcet
Coates
Eastrea
Holme
Folksworth
Conington
King's Dyke
Turves
Chesterton
Norman Cross
Morborne
Eldernell
Oldeamere
Reach
Denton

Postcodes in use

1,309 postcodes in PE7 were in use on the day of the count. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. 119 of its 1,428 postcodes have been terminated: a real address written with one has moved on, which is not the same thing as a typo, and the address lookup scores it rather than refusing it.

Centroid: 52.53635, -0.21051 — the mean of the live postcodes' centroids, which locates the district, not any building in it.

Streets filed under PE7

OS Open Names files 930 roads under PE7. 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.

A605
Abberton Mews
Abbey Way
Abbot Way
Acorn Gardens
Adlington Close
Alba Road
Albert Crescent
Alcott Place
Alder Road
Aliwal Road
Allard Close
Allerton Garth
Almond Avenue
Alvis Drive
Andrewe's Close
Anglers Avenue
Anthony Close
Appleton Close
Apple Tree Close

the first 20 of 930, alphabetically

Check an address in PE7

The address checker opens on Great Britain with the district in the field: add the street, the number and the full postcode, and it answers the postcode's status, whether the street is filed under the district, and what kind of delivery point the address names.

Check an address in PE7

curl https://spaw.co/api/v1/address \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"address": "10 Downing Street, London PE7 …", "country": "GB"}'

Common questions about PE7

What does a PE7 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the PE7 district of the PE (Peterborough) postcode area, which the directory places around Eastern. The inward half of the full postcode narrows it to a street or a building; the district alone does not, and an address written with a district and no inward half cannot be checked against the register.
Does a street listed here mean an address on it exists?: It means OS Open Names lists a road of that name under the district, which is what the address lookup answers as a street-level match. It says nothing about any building on it: Great Britain publishes no open register of buildings, so the lookup answers exists: null there and confirms the street alone.
Who lives at these postcodes?: Nobody on this page. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there, and a streets register lists roads, not occupants. The address lookup carries no field about a person and never will.

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.

Data synced on 2026-09-18: the newest register or postcode directory copy installed here.

Other districts in PE

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