L31 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

793 of the district's 990 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 53.51315, -2.93713, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in L31

Companies House lists 1,319 companies with a registered office in L31; 333 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 L31

• North West
• Sefton
• Maghull
• Lydiate
• Kirkby
• West Lancashire
• Lancashire
• Melling
• Knowsley
• Melling Mount

Roads filed under L31

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 Drive
• Airegate
• Aisthorpe Grove
• Aldykes
• Alexander Drive
• Alexander Wharf
• Alscot Close
• Alt Avenue
• Altcar Lane
• Amanda Way
• Ambleside Road
• Anderton Way
• Andrew Avenue
• Angers Lane
• Apsley Brow
• Aragon Close
• Arcadia Avenue
• Archers Fold
• Arkle Chase
• Artisan Drive
• Ashleigh Road
• Avelon Close
• Avondale Avenue
• Bailey Way
• Balmoral Road
• Bankhouse Drive
• Bank Lane
• Barnes Drive
• Bartlett Close
• Baytree Grove
• Bedford Avenue
• Beech Avenue
• Beechfield
• Beechway
• Beechway Avenue
• Bell's Close
• Bell's Lane
• Birch Close
• Birchfield Way
• Birchtree Drive
• Blackhurst Road
• Bluestone Lane
• Bournehurst Drive
• Boyer Avenue
• Brendale Avenue
• Brewery Lane
• Briars Lane
• Briarwood Close
• Brickfield Close
• Bridge Farm Drive
• Bridge Road
• Bridges Lane
• Broadoak Road
• Broadwood Avenue
• Brook Avenue
• Brooklands Drive
• Brook Park
• Brook Road
• Broxholme Way
• Buckingham Road

Check an address in L31

Check an address in L31

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=L31" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about L31

What does an L31 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the L31 district of the L (Liverpool) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Maghull. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 793 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 L31

• L293.3 km
• L304.0 km
• L104.4 km
• L334.8 km
• L325.0 km
• L95.9 km
• L396.0 km
• L236.1 km
• L216.3 km
• L227.2 km
• L117.4 km
• L207.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids