Amazon fulfilment centres in the UK: FBA warehouse codes and locations, and what they mean for sellers

If you sell through Amazon FBA, you have seen the codes: LBA5, DSA2, MAN4, XBH9. They are on your box labels and in your shipping queue, and they decide where your stock is sold from. This page lists every UK fulfilment centre code we could verify on 1 October 2026, says exactly where each row comes from, and explains what location means for your costs. For the shipment workflow itself, see our guide to sending products to Amazon FBA.

A lot of people searching for these codes are not sellers: they are applying for jobs, or tracking a parcel. If that is you, Amazon’s tour and jobs pages are the right place to start. The rest of this guide is for brands sending stock into Amazon.

What an Amazon fulfilment centre is

Amazon describes a fulfilment centre as a building designed to fulfil customer orders: it stores products, then picks, packs and ships them. Amazon says it operated 31 fulfilment centres in the UK as of 2025, and more than 175 worldwide¹. It also runs sortation centres, specialty sites for particular categories or peak season, and receive centres that take in large volumes of fast-selling stock and spread it across the network¹.

The network is still growing. Amazon opened a fulfilment centre near Hull in 2025, the first of four new UK fulfilment centres; one follows in Northampton in 2026 and two more in the East Midlands, all part of a £40 billion UK investment plan for 2025 to 2027². Sites close too: in January 2023 Amazon announced it would close warehouses in Hemel Hempstead, Doncaster and Gourock¹².

How Amazon’s fulfilment centre codes work

Amazon names its sites after the nearest international airport. EDI4 in Dunfermline is named after Edinburgh Airport “in keeping with our tradition of naming sites after the nearest international airport"⁵, and BRS1 takes its name from Bristol Airport¹⁵. The number tells sites in the same area apart. So:

The airport meanings are standard IATA codes; the regions are where the sites in our tables below sit. Codes beginning with X follow a different pattern. Industry lists describe them as sites operated by a logistics partner on Amazon’s behalf, but we could not find Amazon saying so, so treat that as reported rather than confirmed.

UK fulfilment centre codes named by Amazon

Every row in this table comes from an Amazon page: its UK newsroom, its tours site, its press centre or Seller Central. Addresses appear only where Amazon published them, and some of those pages date from 2019.

Two rows need a note. Amazon’s Leeds press release describes the site at Gateway45 and its photo caption names it LBA5⁶. DSA2 is the only row where the code itself comes from a newspaper rather than Amazon: Hull Live reported in November 2025 that “a sprawling Amazon warehouse called DSA2 has recently opened about seven miles outside of Hull"¹¹.

Other codes reported by third parties

Amazon does not publish the rest of its UK network, so these rows come from one of the more complete public lists, Seller Essentials, which was updated on 29 September 2026¹⁶. We include only sites that also appear in at least one other independent list we checked, and we give the town and postcode district rather than full addresses, because the lists disagree on details. None of these is confirmed by Amazon.

XBH9 is the weakest row. It appears in community map data as “GXO - AMAZON XBH9” on Severn Road¹⁴, which points to a site run by a logistics partner, but we found no Amazon or official source for it.

Sites reported closed

Third-party lists identify the closed sites as LTN2, LBA1 and GLA1, but the BBC report names only the towns. If an old list sends you to one of them, it is out of date.

Why the list changes, and the only address that counts

Any list of fulfilment centres, including this one, is a snapshot. Amazon opens sites (Hull in 2025, Northampton in 2026²), and closes others¹². Several of the Amazon pages above date from 2019, and codes appear in seller labels and job adverts that no source we trust ties to a town, so they are not in our tables.

For sellers that has one practical consequence: ship only to the address Seller Central gives you for that shipment. The destination is chosen when you create the shipment, printed on the box labels, and can differ from shipment to shipment. A list like this one is useful for planning freight and understanding why stock went where it did. It is never a substitute for the label.

What the codes mean for your shipments

In Send to Amazon, Amazon picks the destination fulfilment centres “based on the products that you’re shipping and where you’re shipping them from”, with the aim of placing stock closer to buyers⁸. Three things follow:

• Your shipment may be split. Amazon may send the contents of one shipment to several destinations, though it will not divide the contents of a single box⁸. Each destination gets its own labels and, if you use your own haulier, its own delivery.
• Placements expire. The fulfilment centre placement options are valid for only 72 hours before you confirm the shipment⁸. If you wait, the destinations can change.
• The ship-from address matters. Destinations are set partly by where you ship from. After they are shown you can change the ship-from address, but the destination stays the same⁸, so set the right warehouse before you start.

Partnered carriers soften the cost of a split. Amazon’s UK example sends one 18 kg box from Cheltenham to MAN4, near Chesterfield, for £7.58 through the Partnered Carrier programme, with rates depending on the collection point, destination and number of boxes⁷. Our Send to Amazon guide covers box-level placement and the carriers in detail.

Why location matters for cost and days of cover

Judged on net profit, a fulfilment centre code is two numbers: the freight cost per unit of getting stock there, and the number of days that stock is in transit or being received instead of on sale.

None of this means splits are bad. Stock placed closer to customers can deliver faster, which helps conversion. But the cost belongs in your numbers, which is why we price inbound freight per unit, per destination, rather than per shipment. The FBA calculator and our FBA fees guide cover Amazon’s own fees; inbound freight sits on top of them.

Days of cover is the other half. Our inventory management playbook explains how to build lead time into reorder points; the lead time should run from purchase order to stock being available at Amazon, including the days your boxes spend getting to whichever code Seller Central chose.

Our practice when planning inbound

This is how we plan shipments for the brands we work with. It is our practice, not an Amazon rule.

• Check the destinations before you book freight, and confirm within the 72-hour window so the plan doesn’t change underneath you.
• Price each destination separately when you use your own haulier. If a split makes a shipment uneconomic, consider the Partnered Carrier programme or a different ship-from point.
• Track receiving time by code. After a few months you will know which sites receive quickly for your products, and your lead times get more accurate.
• Reconcile every shipment when it closes. Shortfalls at any destination are claimable only within Amazon’s windows; our guide to FBA reimbursements has the routine.

The codes are the visible end of a network you don’t control. What you control is the cost per unit of feeding it, and that is worth measuring.