LA5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

587 of the district's 734 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 54.14377, -2.79154, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in LA5

Companies House lists 693 companies with a registered office in LA5; 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 LA5

• North West
• Lancaster
• Lancashire
• Carnforth
• Bolton-le-Sands
• Westmorland and Furness
• Arnside
• Silverdale
• Warton
• Yealand Conyers
• Yealand Redmayne
• The Row
• Waterslack
• Red Bridge
• Crag Foot
• Far Arnside

Roads filed under LA5

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.

• Acorn Meadow
• Alamein Road
• Albert Street
• Alexandra Road
• Alpine View
• Ancliffe Lane
• Arkholme Close
• Arnhem Road
• Ash Drive
• Ashleigh Road
• Ashmeadow Road
• Ash Tree Grove
• Ashtrees Way
• Back Hunter Street
• Back Lane
• Back Market Street
• Back New Street
• Back St Michaels Grove
• Bagguley Grove
• Bank House Lane
• Beachwood Lane
• Beech Grove
• Beech Tree Close
• Birch Drive
• Birch Grove
• Black Dyke Road
• Bloomfield Park
• Bolton Lane
• Booth Street
• Borwick Avenue
• Borwick Close
• Borwick Lane
• Bottoms Lane
• Boundary Lane
• Bowland Close
• Brackenthwaite Road
• Bradshawgate Drive
• Briarscroft
• Bridge Croft
• Bridgeside
• Briery Bank
• Broadlands Drive
• Brookfield Close
• Browfoot Close
• Browsholme Close
• Bye-Pass Road
• Byron Avenue
• Calder Close
• Camborne Avenue
• Canal Gardens
• Carlisle Terrace
• Carnforth Brow
• Castle Bank
• Cause Way
• Cavendish Court
• Chapel Lane
• Chapel Walk
• Cherry Tree Close
• Chestnut Avenue
• Church Brow

Check an address in LA5

Check an address in LA5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=LA5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about LA5

What does an LA5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the LA5 district of the LA (Lancaster) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Carnforth. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 587 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 LA5

• LA49.1 km
• LA79.2 km
• LA1110.8 km
• LA110.8 km
• LA211.7 km
• LA311.9 km
• LA612.3 km
• LA820.1 km
• LA1220.1 km
• LA920.4 km
• LA1525.3 km
• LA2326.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids