L16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

245 of the district's 328 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 53.39879, -2.88696, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in L16

Companies House lists 468 companies with a registered office in L16; 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 L16

• North West
• Liverpool
• Huyton with Roby
• Knowsley

Roads filed under L16

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.

• Abbey View
• Alban Road
• Ayton Lane
• Babbacombe Road
• Baldwin Avenue
• Bampton Road
• Barnham Drive
• Barnhurst Close
• Barnhurst Road
• Barnside Court
• Basil Close
• Basil Road
• Belston Road
• Bentham Drive
• Betjeman Grove
• Bowland Avenue
• Bowring Park Avenue
• Bowring Park Road
• Burford Road
• Burns Close
• Buttermere Road
• Castletown Close
• Chelwood Avenue
• Childwall Abbey Road
• Childwall Bank Road
• Childwall Crescent
• Childwall Mount Road
• Childwall Park Avenue
• Childwall Priory Road
• Chorlton Close
• Christopher Close
• Christopher Way
• Church Green
• Churston Road
• Colby Close
• Colindale Road
• Corbridge Road
• Countisbury Drive
• Court Hey Drive
• Court Hey Road
• Cypress Grove
• Dairylands Close
• Darsefield Road
• Dartington Road
• Devon Gardens
• Devon Way
• Dominic Close
• Dominic Road
• Dover Grove
• Dunbabin Road
• Durston Road
• Eastham Close
• Edenhurst Avenue
• Eldred Road
• Elowen Close
• Ewart Road
• Ewden Close
• Francis Way
• Givenchy Close
• Gladstone Avenue

Check an address in L16

Check an address in L16

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=L16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about L16

What does an L16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the L16 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 245 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 L16

• L142.2 km
• L152.2 km
• L182.5 km
• L252.7 km
• L133.1 km
• L273.4 km
• L363.5 km
• L124.1 km
• L74.2 km
• L174.3 km
• L284.3 km
• L194.6 km
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distance between the districts' centroids