L2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

170 of the district's 791 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 53.40672, -2.98983, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in L2

Companies House lists 2,985 companies with a registered office in L2; 997 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 L2

• Liverpool
• North West

Roads filed under L2

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.

• Brunswick Street
• Button Street
• Castle Hill
• Castle Street
• Chapel Street
• Cheapside
• Cheapside Alley
• Cook Street
• Covent Garden
• Cunliffe Street
• Dale Street
• Dorans Lane
• Drury Lane
• Eberle Street
• Exchange Passage East
• Exchange Passage West
• Exchange Street East
• Exchange Street West
• Fenwick Street
• George Street
• Hackins Hey
• Hadwens Buildings
• Hale Street
• Harrington Street
• Hewitts Place
• High Street
• Hockenhall Alley
• James Street
• Leather Lane
• Lord Street
• Lower Castle Street
• Mathew Street
• Moorfields
• Moor Street
• North John Street
• Old Church Yard
• Old Ropery
• Princes Street
• Progress Lane
• Quakers Alley
• Queen Avenue
• Queensway (Mersey Tunnel)
• Rainford Square
• Red Cross Street
• Rumford Street
• Ryleys Gardens
• Silkhouse Lane
• Stephens Lane
• Sweeting Street
• Tempest Hey
• Temple Court
• Temple Lane
• Temple Square
• Temple Street
• The Arcade
• The Strand
• Tithebarn Street
• Union Court
• Vernon Street
• Water Street

Check an address in L2

Check an address in L2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=L2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about L2

What does an L2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the L2 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 170 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 L2

• L30.4 km
• L10.8 km
• L741.5 km
• CH251.8 km
• L52.2 km
• L702.2 km
• L692.4 km
• L82.5 km
• L72.7 km
• L62.9 km
• L753.2 km
• CH413.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids