M26 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

863 of the district's 1,771 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 53.56237, -2.33462, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in M26

Companies House lists 2,282 companies with a registered office in M26; 477 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 M26

• North West
• Bury
• Radcliffe
• Bolton
• Kearsley
• Little Lever
• Outwood

Roads filed under M26

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 Close
• Abbey Court
• Abden Street
• Acre Street
• Adelphi Street
• Affleck Avenue
• Ainsworth Road
• Albion Street
• Aldwyn Close
• Alexandra Road
• Allen Green Close
• Allen Street
• Alma Street
• Ampleforth Gardens
• Andrew Close
• Ardenfield Close
• Arley Street
• Arran Grove
• Arrowhill Road
• Ashcombe Drive
• Ashurst Grove
• Ashwood
• Ashworth Street
• Astbury Street
• Back Fletcher Street
• Back Market Street
• Back Oak Street
• Back Potter Street
• Back Ringley Road
• Baillie Street
• Bamburgh Close
• Bank Field Street
• Bankside Avenue
• Bankside Place
• Bank Street
• Barley Avenue
• Barlow Street
• Barnfield Close
• Baybutt Street
• Bealey Avenue
• Bealey Close
• Bealey Row
• Beech Avenue
• Beechfield Avenue
• Beech Street
• Belgrave Close
• Belgrave Drive
• Belgrave Street
• Belmont Road
• Bennet Street
• Bentley Close
• Berkeley Crescent
• Betley Street
• Birch Street
• Blackburn Street
• Black Moss Close
• Black Moss Court
• Blenmar Close
• Bolton Road
• Bolton Street

Check an address in M26

Check an address in M26

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M26" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about M26

What does an M26 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the M26 district of the M (Manchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Radcliffe. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 863 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 M26

• M453.4 km
• BL94.6 km
• BL84.8 km
• BL44.8 km
• BL784.9 km
• BL24.9 km
• M255.4 km
• M275.6 km
• BL116.1 km
• BL36.4 km
• M386.7 km
• M286.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids