What does an L70 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the L70 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 15 live postcodes.

L70 postcode district

L70, in the L (Liverpool) postcode area, has 15 live and 204 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 1 road under it.

postcode area	L (Liverpool)
live postcodes	15
terminated postcodes	204
sectors	6
roads listed	1
companies registered	25
centroid	53.40409, -2.95677
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

15 of the district's 219 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 53.40409, -2.95677, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
L70 0	0	2
L70 1	9	104
L70 2	4	5
L70 3	0	1
L70 8	1	32
L70 9	1	60

Companies registered in L70

Companies House lists 25 companies with a registered office in L70 (1 October 2026 snapshot).

Places OS Open Names lists for L70

North West
Liverpool
Kirkby
Knowsley
Bootle
Sefton

Roads filed under L70

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.

Old Leeds Street

Check an address in L70

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=L70" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about L70

What does an L70 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the L70 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 15 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 L70

L70.5 km
L11.6 km
L81.6 km
L61.7 km
L31.9 km
L22.2 km
L692.3 km
L742.4 km
L152.5 km
L52.7 km
L132.9 km
L173.1 km
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