L20 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

984 of the district's 1,540 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 53.45295, -2.98918, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in L20

Companies House lists 2,456 companies with a registered office in L20; 689 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 L20

• North West
• Sefton
• Bootle
• Liverpool
• Litherland
• Crosby

Roads filed under L20

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.

• Abbott Drive
• Acorn Way
• Addison Street
• Ainsdale Road
• Aintree Road
• Akenside Street
• Albert Drive
• Alexandra Drive
• Alma Vale Terrace
• Altcar Road
• Alt Road
• Annie Road
• Antonio Street
• Anvil Close
• Arctic Road
• Argos Place
• Argos Road
• Ashcroft Street
• Ash Street
• Atlantic Road
• Atlas Road
• Aughton Road
• August Street
• Autumn Way
• Aylward Place
• Back Stanley Road
• Bailey Drive
• Balfour Avenue
• Balfour Road
• Ballantyne Grove
• Balliol Road
• Balliol Road East
• Baltic Road
• Bankfield Street
• Bankhall Lane
• Bankhall Street
• Bank Road
• Barbour Drive
• Barnton Close
• Baucher Drive
• Beatrice Street
• Beaumaris Street
• Beck Road
• Bedford Place
• Bedford Road
• Beech Street
• Benbow Street
• Benedict Street
• Beresford Street
• Bergen Close
• Berry Street
• Bianca Street
• Bibby's Lane
• Birchall Street
• Blossom Street
• Boswell Street
• Bowles Street
• Braby Road
• Bradshaw Walk
• Brasenose Road

Check an address in L20

Check an address in L20

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=L20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about L20

What does an L20 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the L20 district of the L (Liverpool) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bootle. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 984 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 L20

• L212.2 km
• L752.2 km
• L42.5 km
• L92.5 km
• L53.2 km
• L303.7 km
• L223.7 km
• L64.5 km
• L104.8 km
• L234.8 km
• L114.9 km
• CH454.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids