BL5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

706 of the district's 816 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 53.54813, -2.51565, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BL5

Companies House lists 1,424 companies with a registered office in BL5; 202 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 BL5

• Bolton
• North West
• Westhoughton
• Wingates
• Atherton
• Middle Hulton
• Hart Common
• Chequerbent
• Little Hulton
• Hunger Hill
• Cooper Turning
• Four Gates
• Horwich
• Farnworth

Roads filed under BL5

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.

• Abbeylea Drive
• Abbot Croft
• Abelia Road
• Aireworth Street
• Albion Street
• Alderton Drive
• Alexandria Drive
• Allenby Grove
• Allerton Close
• Allesley Close
• Alma Road
• Amber Grove
• Anderby Walk
• Appleton Lane
• Arundale
• Ashcroft Fold
• Ash Grove
• Aspen Close
• Back Common Street
• Back Dixon Street
• Back Hart Street
• Bailey Fold
• Balfern Fold
• Bamber Croft
• Bampton Close
• Bank Field
• Bank Side
• Bardwell Avenue
• Barnabys Road
• Barnfield Drive
• Barn Hill
• Barn Hill Terrace
• Barrs Fold Close
• Barrs Fold Road
• Beatty Drive
• Beehive Green
• Bellwood
• Bentworth Close
• Birch Avenue
• Bligh Road
• Bolton Road
• Borsdane Way
• Bow Green Fields
• Bowland Gate Drive
• Bow Lee Crescent
• Bracken Lea
• Brackley Road
• Braddyll Road
• Brambling Drive
• Bramford Close
• Brancker Street
• Brandforth Gardens
• Breaktemper
• Bridgewater Avenue
• Brinsop Hall Lane
• Bristle Hall Way
• Broadheath Close
• Broad Walk
• Brook Lea
• Brook Meadow

Check an address in BL5

Check an address in BL5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BL5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BL5

What does a BL5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BL5 district of the BL (Bolton) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Westhoughton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 706 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 BL5

• M462.9 km
• WN24.6 km
• BL65.1 km
• WN75.6 km
• M295.8 km
• BL35.8 km
• M386.3 km
• BL116.5 km
• BL16.6 km
• BL787.2 km
• WN17.4 km
• BL47.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids