M31 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

267 of the district's 1,144 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 53.41912, -2.42464, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in M31

Companies House lists 252 companies with a registered office in M31; 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 M31

• Trafford
• North West
• Partington
• Carrington
• Urmston

Roads filed under M31

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.

• Ackers Lane
• Addison Road
• Aire Road
• Albinson Walk
• Almond Walk
• Ash Road
• Ashton Road
• Aspen Close
• Aster Walk
• Avens Road
• Avon Lane
• Bailey Lane
• Barberry Walk
• Beech Close
• Birch Road
• Birchwood Drive
• Blackthorn Walk
• Blossom Road
• Box Walk
• Bridge Close
• Broadway
• Brook Farm Close
• Brookheys Road
• Broom Road
• Bucklow Avenue
• Buttermere Road
• Camomile Walk
• Carmichael Close
• Carrington Lane
• Cedar Road
• Central Road
• Chapel Lane
• Charlock Walk
• Cherry Walk
• Cheshire Road
• Chestnut Walk
• Cloudberry Walk
• Columbine Walk
• Common Lane
• Conifer Walk
• Coniston Road
• Constance Road
• Coppicewood Close
• Crampton Lane
• Cranberry Road
• Cross Lane East
• Cross Lane West
• Cumberland Road
• Cypress Gardens
• Daffodil Close
• Damson Walk
• Dane Avenue
• Daniel Adamson Avenue
• Davies Road
• Dean Close
• Derbyshire Road
• Derwent Close
• Devon Road
• Dunham Road
• Dunnock Road

Check an address in M31

Check an address in M31

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M31" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about M31

What does an M31 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the M31 district of the M (Manchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Partington. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 267 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 M31

• M442.4 km
• WA135.1 km
• M415.3 km
• WA145.5 km
• M336.5 km
• WA157.6 km
• M328.4 km
• M308.6 km
• M178.8 km
• WA39.2 km
• M239.3 km
• M2910.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids