L1 postcode district
L1, in the L (Liverpool) postcode area, has 459 live and 357 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 211 roads under it.
| postcode area | L (Liverpool) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 459 |
| terminated postcodes | 357 |
| sectors | 10 |
| roads listed | 211 |
| companies registered | 6,075 |
| centroid | 53.40198, -2.98055 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
459 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 53.40198, -2.98055, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| L1 0 | 40 | 16 |
| L1 1 | 67 | 60 |
| L1 2 | 22 | 16 |
| L1 3 | 28 | 33 |
| L1 4 | 73 | 61 |
| L1 5 | 74 | 40 |
| L1 6 | 36 | 47 |
| L1 7 | 15 | 7 |
| L1 8 | 55 | 40 |
| L1 9 | 49 | 37 |
Companies registered in L1
Companies House lists 6,075 companies with a registered office in L1; 3,557 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 L1
- Liverpool
- North West
Roads filed under L1
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.
- Alfred Mews
- Arch View Crescent
- Argyle Street
- Arrad Street
- Art House Square
- Back Berry Street
- Back Bold Street
- Back Colquitt Street
- Back Hope Place
- Back Knight Street
- Back Lime Street
- Back Maryland Street
- Back Percy Street
- Back Renshaw Street
- Back Seel Street
- Bailey Street
- Baltimore Street
- Basnett Street
- Beckwith Street
- Benson Street
- Berry Street
- Blundell Lane
- Blundell Street
- Bold Place
- Bold Street
- Brick Street
- Bridgewater Street
- Brooks Alley
- Brythen Street
- Burton Close
- Campbell Square
- Campbell Street
- Canning Place
- Carpenters Row
- Cases Street
- Cathedral Close
- Cathedral Gate
- Charlotte Way
- Church Alley
- Church Street
- Civic Way
- Clayton Square
- Cleveland Square
- College Court
- College Lane
- Colquitt Street
- Concert Street
- Cookson Street
- Cornhill
- Cornwallis Street
- Cropper Street
- Crosshall Street
- Crump Street
- Cumberland Street
- Cummings Street
- Custom House Place
- David Lewis Street
- Davies Street
- Dawson Street
- Dean Dillistone Court
all 211 roads
- Dickenson Street
- Duke Street
- Duke Street Lane
- Duncan Street
- Elliot Street
- Fairclough Street
- Fleet Street
- Flint Street
- Forrest Street
- Gambier Terrace
- Gilbert Street
- Gradwell Street
- Grayson Street
- Great Charlotte Street
- Great George Place
- Great George Square
- Great George Street
- Greenland Street
- Greetham Street
- Grenville Street South
- Griffiths Street
- Hanover Street
- Hardman Street
- Hardy Street
- Harrington Road
- Heathfield Street
- Henry Street
- Hood Street
- Hope Place
- Hope Street
- Houghton Lane
- Houghton Sreet
- Hurst Street
- Jamaica Street
- Jordan Street
- Kent Street
- Kenyon's Steps
- Keys Court
- Kings Dock Street
- Kitchen Street
- Knight Street
- Lady Chapel Close
- Lakeland Close
- Lawton Street
- Leece Street
- Leigh Place
- Leigh Street
- Lime Street
- Little Hardman Street
- Liver Street
- Lyceum Place
- Lydia Ann Street
- Madison Square
- Manestys Lane
- Maritime Way
- Market Square
- Market Way
- Maryland Street
- Mitchell Place
- Mount Street
- Nation Way
- Nelson Street
- New Bird Street
- Newhall Street
- Newington
- Norfolk Street
- Oldham Place
- Oldham Street
- Old Haymarket
- Old Post Office Place
- Paradise Place
- Paradise Street
- Parker Street
- Park Lane
- Parliament Close
- Parr Street
- Peters Arcade
- Peter Street
- Pilgrim Street
- Pine Mews
- Pitt Street
- Pownall Street
- Preston Street
- Price Street
- Prince Albert Mews
- Pudsey Street
- Queen's Walk
- Queen Square
- Queensway Entrance (Mersey Tunnel)
- Raffles Street
- Rainford Gardens
- Ranelagh Street
- Renshaw Street
- Rice Street
- Richmond Street
- Rodney Street
- Roe Alley
- Roe Street
- Ropewalks Square
- Roscoe Lane
- Roscoe Place
- Roscoe Street
- Sankey Street
- School Lane
- Seddon Street
- Seel Street
- Shaw Hill Street
- Shaws Alley
- Simpson Street
- Sir Thomas Street
- Slater Place
- Slater Street
- South Hunter Street
- South John Street
- Sparling Street
- Stanley Street
- St George's Place
- St George's Way
- St James Road
- St James Street
- St John's Lane
- St Lukes Place
- Stowell Street
- St Peter's Square
- Strand Street
- Suffolk Street
- Surrey Street
- Tabley Street
- Tarleton Street
- Thomas Steers Way
- Tradewind Square
- Upper Duke Street
- Upper Frederick Street
- Upper Newington
- Upper Pitt Street
- Upper Pownall Street
- Victoria Street
- Vincent Court
- Wall Street
- Wapping
- Watkinson Street
- Whitechapel
- William Brown Street
- Williamson Street
- Wolstenholme Square
- Wood Street
- York Street
- A5037
- A5040
- A5044
- B5339
Check an address in L1
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=L1" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about L1
- What does an L1 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the L1 district of the L (Liverpool) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Liverpool. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 459 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 L1
- L30.8 km
- L20.8 km
- L741.1 km
- L701.6 km
- L81.7 km
- L691.7 km
- L72.1 km
- CH252.1 km
- L52.6 km
- L62.7 km
- CH413.6 km
- L753.6 km
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