L38 postcode district
L38, in the L (Liverpool) postcode area, has 100 live and 35 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 66 roads under it.
| postcode area | L (Liverpool) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 100 |
| terminated postcodes | 35 |
| sectors | 10 |
| roads listed | 66 |
| companies registered | 104 |
| centroid | 53.52430, -3.05100 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
100 of the district's 135 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 53.52430, -3.05100, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| L38 0 | 19 | 9 |
| L38 1 | 9 | 0 |
| L38 2 | 0 | 1 |
| L38 3 | 24 | 3 |
| L38 4 | 1 | 1 |
| L38 5 | 5 | 1 |
| L38 6 | 10 | 4 |
| L38 7 | 2 | 2 |
| L38 8 | 1 | 2 |
| L38 9 | 29 | 12 |
Companies registered in L38
Companies House lists 104 companies with a registered office in L38; 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 L38
- Sefton
- North West
- Hightown
- Ince Blundell
- Lady Green
- Formby
Roads filed under L38
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.
- Alton Close
- Alt Road
- Back O the Town Lane
- Bankside
- Blundell Avenue
- Blundell Grove
- Blundell Road
- Brentwood Close
- Briary Croft
- Carr House Lane
- Copper Beech View
- Cross Barn Lane
- Elmcroft Lane
- Elvington Road
- Emerson Close
- Farm Lane
- Floodgates Road
- Gorsey Lane
- Grange Road
- Grasmere Road
- Hall Lane
- Hester Close
- Kerslake Way
- Lady Green Court
- Lady Green Lane
- Langley Close
- Larkhill Grove
- Lower Alt Road
- Lowwood
- Mark Road
- Marsh Lane
- Marston Crescent
- Mayfair Close
- Monks Carr Lane
- Moorhouses
- Moor Lane
- Moss Lane
- North Dunes
- North End Lane
- Oakfield Road
- Old Acre
- Orrell Hill Lane
- Rathbone Road
- Richmond Close
- Riverside
- Sandhills
- Sandilands Grove
- Sandy Lane
- Scaffold Lane
- School Road
- St George's Road
- St Stephen's Road
- The Close
- The Cross
- The Roundway
- Thirlmere Road
- Thistledown Drive
- Thornbeck Avenue
- Tudor Gardens
- Victoria Road
all 66 roads
- Village Way
- Westway
- Whitefield Close
- Wignalls Meadow
- Windermere Road
- Withins Field
Check an address in L38
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=L38" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about L38
- What does an L38 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the L38 district of the L (Liverpool) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Hightown. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 100 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 L38
- L373.7 km
- L234.1 km
- L294.7 km
- L225.4 km
- L216.8 km
- L306.8 km
- L317.6 km
- L208.9 km
- L99.5 km
- L109.9 km
- CH4510.6 km
- L3911.0 km
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