M38 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

331 of the district's 529 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 53.53277, -2.42365, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in M38

Companies House lists 499 companies with a registered office in M38; 30 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 M38

• Little Hulton
• Salford
• North West

Roads filed under M38

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.

• Abraham Fold
• Acresfield Road
• Adelphi Drive
• Adelphi Grove
• Albany Close
• Albatross Gardens
• Alderbrook Road
• Amblecote Drive East
• Amblecote Drive West
• Anchor Lane
• Arbor Grove
• Arley Street
• Armitage Avenue
• Armitage Grove
• Ashawe Close
• Ashawe Grove
• Ashawe Terrace
• Bank Grove
• Bank Lane
• Baron Fold
• Baron Fold Crescent
• Baron Fold Grove
• Baron Fold Road
• Beechfield Avenue
• Beech Grove
• Belcroft Drive
• Belcroft Grove
• Bexley Drive
• Birchfold Close
• Birdie Lane
• Blair Avenue
• Blizzard Drive
• Blue Bell Court
• Bournbrook Avenue
• Briar Hill Avenue
• Briar Hill Close
• Briar Hill Grove
• Bridgewater Street
• Brookhurst Lane
• Broughton Avenue
• Brynheys Close
• Buile Hill Avenue
• Buile Hill Grove
• Bullows Road
• Burns Road
• Buttercup Avenue
• Caddie Road
• Captain Fold Road
• Carrfield Avenue
• Carrfield Close
• Carrfield Grove
• Chedworth Crescent
• Cirencester Close
• Claremont Drive
• Clarke Crescent
• Clegg's Lane
• Cloudstock Grove
• Clubhouse Avenue
• Co-Operative Street
• Cocker Street

Check an address in M38

Check an address in M38

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M38" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about M38

What does an M38 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the M38 district of the M (Manchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Little Hulton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 331 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 M38

• BL42.1 km
• M282.6 km
• BL783.2 km
• M293.5 km
• BL33.6 km
• BL114.4 km
• M464.6 km
• M276.2 km
• BL56.3 km
• BL26.5 km
• BL16.6 km
• M266.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids