BL0 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

564 of the district's 668 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 53.64862, -2.31686, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BL0

Companies House lists 1,353 companies with a registered office in BL0; 512 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for BL0

• North West
• Bury
• Ramsbottom
• Rossendale
• Lancashire
• Edenfield
• Stubbins
• Shuttleworth
• Irwell Vale
• Chatterton
• Strongstry
• Turn
• Lumb
• Radcliffe

Roads filed under BL0

Named roads first, then numbered ones. 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. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Acre Bottom Lane
• Acre Close
• Ada Street
• Adelaide Street
• Aitken Close
• Aitken Street
• Ajax Street
• Albert Street
• Alderwood Grove
• Alfred Street
• Annie Street
• Ash Grove
• Ashwood Avenue
• Astley Hall Drive
• Athol Street
• Aviemore Close
• Avondale Drive
• Back Alfred Street
• Back Bridge Street
• Back Carr Street
• Back Square Street
• Back Stanley Street
• Baker Street
• Balm Street
• Bamford Road
• Bank Street
• Barnes Close
• Baytree Grove
• Beauly Close
• Beechacre
• Beechwood Avenue
• Birch Grove
• Blackburn Road
• Black Lane
• Bleakholt Road
• Bloom Street
• Bolton Road North
• Bolton Road West
• Bolton Street
• Bond Street
• Boundary Edge
• Bowker Street
• Box Street
• Bramble Place
• Bramworth Avenue
• Bridge Street
• Brooklands Road
• Brooksbottom Close
• Brookside Close
• Brown Street
• Buchanan Street
• Burnley Road
• Burnside
• Bury New Road
• Bury Old Road
• Bury Road
• Butler Street
• Buttermere Drive
• Bye Road
• Caldy Drive

Check an address in BL0

Check an address in BL0

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BL0" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BL0

What does a BL0 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BL0 district of the BL (Bolton) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Ramsbottom. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 564 live postcodes.

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.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest BL0

• BL84.9 km
• BB46.4 km
• BL96.6 km
• BL77.2 km
• BL28.4 km
• OL109.0 km
• OL139.4 km
• M269.7 km
• OL1210.1 km
• OL1110.4 km
• BL110.6 km
• BL1111.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids