BL7 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

508 of the district's 617 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 53.63170, -2.42236, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in BL7

Companies House lists 1,020 companies with a registered office in BL7; 118 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 BL7

• North West
• Bolton
• Blackburn with Darwen
• Edgworth
• Belmont
• Chapeltown
• Turton Bottoms
• Edgworth Moor
• Entwistle
• Edge Fold
• Dimple

Roads filed under BL7

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.

• Ainsdale Avenue
• Albert Street
• Alder Grove
• Alfred Street
• Anshaw Close
• Arnold Road
• Ashcombe Place
• Back Blackburn Road
• Back Blackburn Road East
• Back Blackburn Road West
• Back Clay Street East
• Back Clay Street West
• Back Cox Green Road South
• Back Darwen Road North
• Back Darwen Road South
• Back High Street
• Back Hough Lane East
• Back King Street North
• Back Longworth Road
• Back Martin Street
• Back Mill Street North
• Back Mill Street South
• Back Sandy Bank Road
• Back Union Street
• Back Water Street
• Bank Street
• Barberry Bank
• Barnfield Close
• Barn Meadow
• Batridge Road
• Bedford Street
• Belmont Road
• Benson Street
• Birches Road
• Birtenshaw Crescent
• Blackburn Road
• Blair Street
• Blake Street
• Bolton Road
• Boonfields
• Briarfield
• Brierholme Avenue
• Briggs Fold Close
• Briggs Fold Road
• Brindle Dell
• Broadhead Road
• Broadmeadow
• Bromley Cross Road
• Brookdale
• Bury Road
• Carlisle Street
• Chapel Fields
• Chapel Grange
• Chapel Street
• Chapeltown Road
• Chapel View
• Charles Street
• Chetwyn Avenue
• Church Street
• Clarendon Gardens

Check an address in BL7

Check an address in BL7

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=BL7" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about BL7

What does a BL7 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the BL7 district of the BL (Bolton) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bolton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 508 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 BL7

• BL14.8 km
• BL25.1 km
• BL116.6 km
• BL86.9 km
• BL07.2 km
• BL37.5 km
• BB37.9 km
• BL788.0 km
• BL69.0 km
• BL49.6 km
• M269.6 km
• BL99.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids