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M4 postcode district

M4, in the M (Manchester) postcode area, has 534 live and 305 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 234 roads under it.

postcode areaM (Manchester)
live postcodes534
terminated postcodes305
sectors8
roads listed234
companies registered5,182
centroid53.48506, -2.23010
directory release2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

534 of the district's 839 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 53.48506, -2.23010, which locates the district, not a building.

sector live terminated
M4 18026
M4 21021
M4 31148
M4 412150
M4 510939
M4 611576
M4 78837
M4 908

Companies registered in M4

Companies House lists 5,182 companies with a registered office in M4; 2,830 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 M4

  • Manchester
  • North West

Roads filed under M4

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.

  • Addington Street
  • Adstone Close
  • Advent Way
  • Ancoats Grove
  • Ancoats Grove North
  • Angel Street
  • Anita Street
  • Ashley Street
  • Aspin Lane
  • Augustus Street
  • Back Elsworth Street
  • Back Red Bank
  • Back St George's Road
  • Back Thomas Street
  • Back Turner Street
  • Badby Close
  • Balloon Street
  • Baptist Street
  • Bendix Street
  • Bengal Street
  • Beswick Row
  • Beswick Street
  • Bilbrook Street
  • Birchin Lane
  • Birchin Place
  • Blisworth Close
  • Blossom Street
  • Boond Street
  • Boslam Walk
  • Brick Street
  • Bridgewater Place
  • Brighton Street
  • Brightwell Walk
  • Bromley Street
  • Burstock Street
  • Butler Street
  • Cable Street
  • Carpenters Lane
  • Carruthers Street
  • Cassidy Close
  • Caterham Street
  • Catlow Lane
  • Chadderton Street
  • Chase Street
  • Chesshyre Avenue
  • Chippenham Road
  • Church Street
  • Cinder Street
  • Cipher Street
  • Clarion Street
  • Clive Street
  • Colenso Way
  • Coop Street
  • Copperas Street
  • Coppersmith Road
  • Cornell Street
  • Corporation Street
  • Cotton Street
  • Cross Keys Street
  • Crossley Court
all 234 roads
  • Crown Lane
  • Danesdale Drive
  • Dantzic Place
  • Dantzic Street
  • Dorsey Street
  • Downley Drive
  • Durant Street
  • Dyche Street
  • Eagle Street
  • Edgehill Street
  • Edge Street
  • Every Street
  • Faber Street
  • Fairham Walk
  • Federation Street
  • Fennel Street
  • Fernie Street
  • Finders Quay
  • Firbeck Drive
  • Foundry Lane
  • Garden Street
  • Garforth Avenue
  • George Leigh Street
  • Gibson Place
  • Glasshouse Street
  • Goadsby Street
  • Goulden Street
  • Gould Street
  • Grace Walk
  • Great Ancoats Street
  • Great Street
  • Guest Street
  • Gun Street
  • Gurney Street
  • Hackleton Close
  • Hanging Ditch
  • Harding Street
  • Hare Street
  • Hargreave's Street
  • Harriett Street
  • Harrison Street
  • Hatter Street
  • Henry Street
  • Higher Oswald Street
  • High Street
  • Hinton Street
  • Holkham Close
  • Hood Street
  • Hornbeam Way
  • Irk Street
  • Isaac Way
  • Jersey Street
  • John Street
  • Joiner Street
  • Keepers Quay
  • Kelvin Street
  • Kingham Drive
  • Lampwick Way
  • Len Cox Walk
  • Linton Close
  • Little Holme Street
  • Little Nelson Street
  • Livesey Street
  • Lockgate Mews
  • Lockyard Lane
  • Loom Street
  • Ludgate Hill
  • Ludgate Street
  • Luna Street
  • Maidford Close
  • Malta Street
  • Marshall Street
  • Martlesham Walk
  • Mason Street
  • Mayes Gardens
  • Mayes Street
  • Merrill Street
  • Miller Street
  • Millow Street
  • Moorhead Street
  • Mozart Close
  • Munday Street
  • Murray Street
  • Naples Street
  • Naval Street
  • Navigation Street
  • Newbeck Street
  • New Century Park
  • New George Street
  • New Islington
  • New Mount Street
  • New Union Street
  • Nicholas Croft
  • Nobby Stiles Drive
  • Oak Street
  • Oldham Street
  • Old Mill Street
  • Old Mount Street
  • Oswald Street
  • Palmerston Street
  • Park Place
  • Pattishall Close
  • Peary Street
  • Pickford Street
  • Piercy Street
  • Poland Street
  • Pollard Street
  • Portugal Street
  • Primrose Street
  • Providence Street
  • Radium Street
  • Red Bank
  • Redcliffe Drive
  • Redhill Street
  • Red Lion Street
  • Riga Street
  • Ripley Close
  • Rodney Street
  • Roger Street
  • Roman Entry
  • Roman Street
  • Saddler's Yard
  • Salmon Street
  • Saltford Avenue
  • School Court
  • School Street
  • Sharp Street
  • Sherratt Street
  • Shilford Drive
  • Short Street
  • Shudehill
  • Silk Street
  • Silver Jubilee Walk
  • Simeon Street
  • Simpson Street
  • Skip Place
  • Snell Street
  • Soap Street
  • Spectator Street
  • Stephen Hunt Street
  • St Vincent Street
  • Style Street
  • Sudell Street
  • Swan Street
  • Tame Street
  • Taunton Street
  • Tavery Close
  • Tebbutt Street
  • Teer Street
  • Thomas Street
  • Thompson Street
  • Thorniley Brow
  • Tib Street
  • Tidworth Avenue
  • Towcester Close
  • Troutbeck Avenue
  • Turner Street
  • Tutbury Street
  • Union Street
  • Upper Kirby Street
  • Vesta Street
  • Village Way
  • Wadeford Close
  • Warford Street
  • Well Street
  • Weybridge Road
  • Whittle Street
  • William Fairburn Way
  • Williamson Street
  • Winder Drive
  • Withy Grove
  • Woodward Place
  • Woodward Street
  • A665

Check an address in M4

Check an address in M4

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M4" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about M4

What does an M4 postcode tell you?
That the address lies in the M4 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 534 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 M4

distance between the districts' centroids

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