M1 postcode district
M1, in the M (Manchester) postcode area, has 548 live and 490 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 178 roads under it.
| postcode area | M (Manchester) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 548 |
| terminated postcodes | 490 |
| sectors | 8 |
| roads listed | 178 |
| companies registered | 5,339 |
| centroid | 53.47754, -2.23614 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
548 of the district's 1,038 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 53.47754, -2.23614, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| M1 1 | 84 | 68 |
| M1 2 | 127 | 90 |
| M1 3 | 78 | 87 |
| M1 4 | 57 | 77 |
| M1 5 | 80 | 63 |
| M1 6 | 40 | 70 |
| M1 7 | 82 | 24 |
| M1 9 | 0 | 11 |
Companies registered in M1
Companies House lists 5,339 companies with a registered office in M1; 2,125 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 M1
- Manchester
- North West
Roads filed under M1
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.
- Abingdon Street
- Adair Street
- Albion Street
- Altrincham Street
- Aquaduct Street
- Atwood Street
- Auburn Street
- Aytoun Street
- Back China Lane
- Back George Street
- Back Piccadilly
- Back Spear Street
- Baird Street
- Baring Street
- Barnes Street
- Beaver Street
- Berry Street
- Betley Street
- Bloom Street
- Boad Street
- Bombay Street
- Boundary Street East
- Bradleys Court
- Bradley Street
- Brazil Street
- Brewer Street
- Brock Street
- Brook Street
- Brown Street
- Bugle Street
- Bunsen Street
- Buxton Street
- Caley Street
- Cameron Street
- Canal Street
- Cavell Street
- Chain Street
- Chapeltown Street
- Charles Street
- Charlotte Street
- Charlton Place
- Chatham Street
- Chepstow Street
- Chepstow Street South
- Chester Street
- China Lane
- Chorlton Street
- Circus Street
- Clare Street
- Cloak Street
- Cobourg Street
- Comet Street
- Congou Street
- Coronation Square
- Dale Street
- Dean Street
- Dickinson Street
- Donald Street
- Downing Street
- Drover Lane
all 178 roads
- Ducie Street
- Echo Street
- Epworth Street
- Faraday Street
- Faulkner Street
- George Street
- Gloucester Street
- Gold Street
- Gore Street
- Granby Row
- Great Bridgewater Street
- Great Marlborough Street
- Greek Street
- Groom Street
- Hall Street
- Harter Street
- Hart Street
- Hawkshaw Street
- Helmet Street
- Heyrod Street
- Hillcourt Street
- Hilton Street
- Holbrook Street
- Hope Street
- Houldsworth Street
- James Leigh Street
- Jutland Street
- Laystall Street
- Lena Street
- Lever Street
- Litcham Close
- Little Ancoats Street
- Little David Street
- Little Lever Street
- Little Pitt Street
- Lizard Street
- Lockton Close
- Lomax Street
- London Road
- Longacre Street
- Lower Albion Street
- Lower Ormond Street
- Major Street
- Makin Street
- Mallard Street
- Mancroft Walk
- Mancunian Way
- Mangle Street
- Market Street
- Meal Street
- Measham Mews
- Merrow Walk
- Millbank Street
- Minshull Street
- Minshull Street South
- Neild Street
- New Cathedral Street
- Newman Street
- Newton Street
- New Wakefield Street
- New York Street
- Nicholas Street
- Nobel Way
- Norton Street
- Oxford Road Station Approach
- Oxford Street
- Paradise Walk
- Parker Street
- Paton Street
- Peak Street
- Penfield Close
- Piccadilly
- Piccadilly Station Approach
- Pigeon Street
- Pine Street
- Portland Street
- Port Street
- Portugal Street East
- Postal Street
- Princess Street
- Pritchard Street
- Reyner Street
- Richmond Street
- River Street
- Roby Street
- Rowendale Street
- Sackville Street
- Samuel Ogden Street
- Sheffield Street
- Sidney Street
- Silver Street
- South Pump Street
- Sparkle Street
- Spear Street
- St Andrew's Square
- St Andrew's Street
- Stevenson Place
- Stevenson Square
- St James Street
- St Mary's Gate
- Store Street
- Tariff Street
- Trafford Street
- Travis Street
- Trumpet Street
- Venice Street
- Wakefield Street
- Warwick Street
- Waterloo Street
- Whittle's Croft
- Whitworth Street
- Whitworth Street West
- Winser Street
- Wyre Street
- York Street
- A57(M)
- B6181
- B6469
Check an address in M1
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M1" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about M1
- What does an M1 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the M1 district of the M (Manchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Manchester. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 548 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 M1
- M20.6 km
- M600.8 km
- M40.9 km
- M611.1 km
- M31.3 km
- M151.5 km
- M132.3 km
- M122.7 km
- M53.1 km
- M163.1 km
- M143.3 km
- M83.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids
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