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Prior Scientific Instruments Limited

Age80 years
older than 99% of its sector
Same activity, United Kingdom308live companies · 2nd oldest
In Fulbourn168live companies
At this address1only this company
Latest accounts2025group accounts, made up to 31 Mar 2025

In brief

Prior Scientific Instruments Limited is a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales on 4 February 1946. At 80 years old it is older than 99% of the 308 live companies whose main activity is manufacture of optical precision instruments. Its registered office is in Fulbourn, South Cambridgeshire, East of England. Its latest accounts were made up to 31 March 2025 and filed as group accounts.

Register details

Registered namePRIOR SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS LIMITED
Company number00404087
Company typePrivate Limited Company
Registered officeUnits 3-4 Fielding Industrial Estate Wilbraham Road, Fulbourn, CB21 5ET Cambridge
JurisdictionEngland and Wales
Nature of business (UK SIC 2007)26701 Manufacture of optical precision instruments
International sector (ISIC Rev.4)C · 26 Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products

Timeline

Register events, newest first.

  • Confirmation statement made up
  • Accounts made upGroup accounts
  • Incorporated

Filings and charges

Deadlines and charge counts from the register.

Next accounts due31 December 2026
Accounting reference date31 March
Next confirmation statement9 June 2027
Last confirmation statement26 May 2026
Charges registered6
Outstanding · satisfied1 · 4

Charges are security interests (such as mortgages) registered against the company.

Manufacture of optical precision instruments in the United Kingdom

Live companies whose main activity is 26701: 308 in total, median age 10 years, 34 incorporated in the past 12 months.

All 308 companies
This company's decadeOther decades
0501001502001920s: 111920s1940s: 111940s1950s: 441950s1960s: 111960s1970s: 881970s1980s: 10101980s1990s: 22221990s2000s: 47472000s2010s: 95952010s2020s: 1191192020s
Incorporated per year, still live
0102030402011: 720112012: 102013: 1620132014: 32015: 1020152016: 102017: 820172018: 82019: 1320192020: 142021: 1220212022: 112023: 1520232024: 142025: 2620252026: 27

Location

Registered office in Fulbourn, South Cambridgeshire, East of England.

Fulbourn
Live companies in Fulbourn168
Same activity in Fulbourn1
Live companies in South Cambridgeshire13,048
New in Fulbourn, past 12 months17

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Sources

Register data: Companies House, Free Company Data Product, delivery of 1 October 2026. Places: ONS Postcode Directory (Open Government Licence v3.0). Sector names: Eurostat NACE Rev. 2. Context figures are computed by FirmsDB from these sources. This page is not an official register; check the official record before relying on it.