M2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

213 of the district's 688 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 53.48043, -2.24452, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in M2

Companies House lists 9,352 companies with a registered office in M2; 5,659 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 M2

• Manchester
• North West

Roads filed under M2

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.

• Back Pool Fold
• Bale Street
• Barton Square
• Bishopsgate
• Booth Street
• Bootle Street
• Bow Lane
• Bow Street
• Brazennose Street
• Brown Street
• Central Street
• Chancery Lane
• Chancery Place
• Chapel Walks
• Cheapside
• Clarence Street
• Concert Lane
• Cooper Street
• County Street
• Cross Street
• Dalton Entry
• Essex Street
• Exchange Street
• Fountain Street
• Four Yards
• Half Moon Street
• Jackson's Row
• Jerusalem Place
• John Dalton Street
• Kennedy Street
• Kent Street
• King Street
• Library Walk
• Lincoln Square
• Lloyd Street
• Lower Mosley Street
• Marble Street
• Marriots Court
• Marron Place
• Marsden Street
• Milk Street
• Mosley Street
• Mount Street
• Mulberry Street
• Museum Street
• New Market
• Newmarket Lane
• Norfolk Street
• Old Bank Street
• Pall Mall
• Peter Street
• Phoenix Street
• Police Street
• Queen Street
• Ridgefield
• Sickle Street
• South King Street
• Southmill Street
• Spring Gardens
• St Ann's Alley

Check an address in M2

Check an address in M2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about M2

What does an M2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the M2 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 213 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 M2

• M10.6 km
• M30.7 km
• M600.8 km
• M41.1 km
• M611.2 km
• M151.5 km
• M52.5 km
• M132.9 km
• M73.0 km
• M163.1 km
• M83.2 km
• M123.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids