L40 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

572 of the district's 785 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 53.60297, -2.84189, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in L40

Companies House lists 2,057 companies with a registered office in L40; 137 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 L40

• Lancashire
• North West
• West Lancashire
• Burscough
• Chorley
• Burscough Bridge
• Rufford
• Ormskirk
• Bescar
• Westhead
• Mawdesley
• Towngate
• Ring o' Bells
• New Lane
• Holmeswood
• Andertons Mill
• Bispham Green
• Hoscar
• Pinfold
• Hurlston Green
• Scarisbrick
• Hill Dale
• Lathom
• Scarth Hill

Roads filed under L40

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 Dale
• Abbey Fold
• Abbey Lane
• Admiralty Close
• Ainscough Drive
• Albert Road
• Alexander Close
• Alexandra Road
• Almond Avenue
• Ashtrees
• Asland Drive
• Asmall Lane
• Back Lane
• Back Lane East
• Back Moss Lane
• Bannister Lane
• Barracuda Way
• Barrison Green
• Bath Wood Close
• Beech Close
• Belmont Close
• Bentley Lane
• Berry House Road
• Bescar Brow Lane
• Bescar Croft Gardens
• Bescar Lane
• Bewcastle Drive
• Birch Avenue
• Birch Crescent
• Birch Lane
• Black Moor Road
• Black Moss Lane
• Bleak Lane
• Blue Stone Lane
• Blythe Lane
• Bobby Langton Way
• Boundary Lane
• Bracken Gardens
• Bradshaw Brow
• Bradshaw Lane
• Bramble Way
• Briars Brook
• Briars Lane
• Brick Kiln Lane
• Brookfield
• Brooklands Grove
• Broom Close
• Bullens Lane
• Canal View Drive
• Canon Way
• Carr Lane
• Cartmel Close
• Carvel Way
• Castle Lane
• Causeway Lane
• Chancel Way
• Chancery
• Chapel Lane
• Charnwood Close
• Cherry Grove

Check an address in L40

Check an address in L40

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=L40" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about L40

What does an L40 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the L40 district of the L (Liverpool) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Burscough. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 572 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 L40

• L395.8 km
• WN87.3 km
• PR910.5 km
• PR811.4 km
• WN611.7 km
• PR2611.8 km
• L3111.8 km
• L3312.8 km
• WN512.9 km
• PR713.3 km
• PR2514.1 km
• L3214.2 km
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