M16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

884 of the district's 1,541 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 53.45522, -2.26501, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in M16

Companies House lists 3,088 companies with a registered office in M16; 493 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 M16

• North West
• Trafford
• Old Trafford
• Manchester
• Stretford
• Trafford Park

Roads filed under M16

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 Lawn
• Abbotside Close
• Addison Crescent
• Adscombe Street
• Albion Street
• Alexandra Road
• Alexandra Road South
• Allerford Street
• Alness Road
• Alphonsus Street
• Alport Avenue
• Arcon Drive
• Arnold Road
• Arthur Road
• Arundale Avenue
• Ashley Avenue
• Athol Road
• Auburn Road
• Axon Square
• Ayres Road
• Barleycroft Street
• Barlow Road
• Basford Road
• Bath Crescent
• Bedford Avenue
• Bedford Road
• Bedwell Street
• Beech Hurst Close
• Beever Street
• Belmont Street
• Bexington Road
• Birch Avenue
• Bishop Close
• Blackburn Street
• Blackley Street
• Blair Road
• Bland Street
• Blenheim Avenue
• Blenheim Road
• Bold Street
• Booth Road
• Botanical Avenue
• Boundary Way
• Boyer Street
• Bradstock Road
• Brentwood Street
• Brian Statham Way
• Bridgewater Way
• Brindley Road
• Brixham Road
• Broadmeadow Avenue
• Brook's Road
• Brooklyn Avenue
• Broseley Road
• Burford Avenue
• Burford Drive
• Burford Road
• Burford Walk
• Bury Avenue
• Byrom Street

Check an address in M16

Check an address in M16

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about M16

What does an M16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the M16 district of the M (Manchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Old Trafford. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 884 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 M16

• M151.6 km
• M212.0 km
• M142.7 km
• M52.9 km
• M502.9 km
• M323.0 km
• M23.1 km
• M13.1 km
• M33.3 km
• M133.3 km
• M603.8 km
• M173.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids