Newly Formed Companies in the Blackburn Area
BB is more than a short postcode prefix: it draws together a set of towns, suburbs, villages or city districts connected with Blackburn. Among the names that give the area its shape are Blackburn, Bank Hey, Accrington, Altham, Beardwood, Nelson and Barrowford.
The BB area belongs to the North West, where places such as Blackburn, Bank Hey, Accrington, Altham, Beardwood and Nelson sit within a landscape of former industrial towns, motorway corridors, universities, retail centres, coastal resorts and commuter communities.
Districts such as BB1, BB5, BB2, BB9, BB7 give BB much of its company-registration weight, while the surrounding places add local variety.
For anyone reviewing recently formed companies by postcode area, BB provides a useful geographic grouping. As of June 2026, BB sits in the middle-to-upper range when compared with other UK postcode areas, ranking 69th out of 128 with 32,187 companies.
For BB, the company count gives useful context, while the underlying places provide the more meaningful sense of location.
When a company is registered, its registered office address is the publicly visible location of the company and the company has to legally be able to receive post at this address. Over 2,000 companies every day (sometimes over 3000) get formed. These are in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
We analyse whether a registered office has a valid UK postcode that we can get grid co-ordinates for distance calculations and make sure the company has not closed down since it formed. You can then contact these people in the Blackburn (BB) area, who may be interested in receiving your marketing message offering your services under the legitimate interest rules of GDPR (assuming you are marketing to companies who you feel have a potential interest in your services, either geographically or by category). Marketing is by post because it is a brand new company that won't have a business telephone number or business email address (and even if they have, its not part of the data collected and made available by Companies House)
Blackburn is made up of the following towns and villages