CH49 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

673 of the district's 786 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 53.38105, -3.10390, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in CH49

Companies House lists 903 companies with a registered office in CH49; none of them at an address 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 CH49

• Wirral
• North West
• Birkenhead
• Greasby
• Wallasey
• Heswall

Roads filed under CH49

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.

• Abingdon Road
• Acacia Close
• Ackers Road
• Allangate Close
• Almond Way
• Appleton Drive
• Arborn Drive
• Archers Way
• Arkill Gardens
• Arrowe Brook Lane
• Arrowe Brook Road
• Arrowe Park Road
• Arrowe Road
• Arrowe Side
• Ashdale Park
• Ashdown Drive
• Atherton Drive
• Atholl Duncan Drive
• Aylsham Drive
• Barker Lane
• Beauworth Avenue
• Beech Avenue
• Benedict Close
• Benson Close
• Big Meadow Road
• Binsey Close
• Birch Avenue
• Birchdale Close
• Blakeney Close
• Blakenhall Way
• Bleasdale Close
• Botley Close
• Bowscale Close
• Bradda Close
• Braeside Gardens
• Bramford Close
• Bridge Farm Close
• Bridge Meadow Road
• Brightwell Close
• Broadoaks
• Broadway
• Bromsgrove Road
• Brookbridge Close
• Brookdale Avenue North
• Brookdale Avenue South
• Brookdale Close
• Brookside Crescent
• Brookside Drive
• Brookway
• Butterton Avenue
• Caernarvon Close
• Caldwell Drive
• Camden Mews
• Carmichael Avenue
• Carr Bridge Road
• Carr Hey Close
• Caulfield Drive
• Cedarwood Close
• Cheshire Acre
• Chestnut Close

Check an address in CH49

Check an address in CH49

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=CH49" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about CH49

What does a CH49 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the CH49 district of the CH (Chester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Birkenhead. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 673 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 CH49

• CH462.6 km
• CH433.0 km
• CH613.5 km
• CH484.5 km
• CH474.7 km
• CH414.9 km
• CH425.5 km
• CH445.8 km
• CH606.1 km
• CH456.4 km
• CH256.4 km
• CH637.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids