What does a TN6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the TN6 district of the TN (Tonbridge) postcode area, which the directory places around Wealden. 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.

TN6 postcode district

What the public directories installed here say about the TN6 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	TN (Tonbridge)
live postcodes	859
terminated postcodes	440
streets listed	366
centroid	51.05203, 0.17573
counted on	2026-09-18

Places the directory lists for TN6

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 TN area is reported but not scored.

Wealden
East Sussex
South East
Crowborough
Rotherfield
Town Row
Mark Cross
High Cross
Marden's Hill
Friar's Gate
Argos Hill
Boarshead
Castle Hill
Stone Cross
Trull's Hatch
Sweethaws
Poundgate

Postcodes in use

859 postcodes in TN6 were in use on the day of the count. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. 440 of its 1,299 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: 51.05203, 0.17573 — the mean of the live postcodes' centroids, which locates the district, not any building in it.

Streets filed under TN6

OS Open Names files 366 roads under TN6. 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.

A26
Adam Close
Alamein Close
Alderbrook Close
Alderbrook Path
Alderbrook Way
Aldervale Cottages
Alice Bright Lane
Allfreys Lane
Argos Hill Road
Ashleigh Gardens
Ashley Road
Aviemore Road
B2100
B2101
B2157
Badgers Close
Bailey Place
Bainden Close
Barcombe Place

the first 20 of 366, alphabetically

Check an address in TN6

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 TN6

curl https://spaw.co/api/v1/address \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"address": "10 Downing Street, London TN6 …", "country": "GB"}'

Common questions about TN6

What does a TN6 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the TN6 district of the TN (Tonbridge) postcode area, which the directory places around Wealden. 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 TN

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