M45 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

646 of the district's 1,019 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 53.54763, -2.29038, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in M45

Companies House lists 2,198 companies with a registered office in M45; 254 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 M45

• Bury
• North West
• Whitefield
• Radcliffe
• Prestwich

Roads filed under M45

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.

• Abingdon Avenue
• Abingdon Close
• Acorn Close
• Albert Close
• Albert Drive
• Albert Road
• Alden Close
• Alexandra Avenue
• Alt Walk
• Argyle Avenue
• Arundel Avenue
• Ashbourne Grove
• Ashbrook Close
• Ashby Grove
• Ashley Mews
• Avondale Road
• Balmoral Avenue
• Bank Street
• Barnard Avenue
• Barn Street
• Beal Walk
• Beech Avenue
• Beeston Grove
• Bellerby Close
• Berwick Avenue
• Beverley Close
• Billberry Close
• Bill Lane
• Birch Avenue
• Birkdale Avenue
• Birkinbrook Close
• Bleakley Street
• Bollin Walk
• Bollin Way
• Bosworth Close
• Bradshaw Avenue
• Brathay Close
• Brierley Avenue
• Brightwater Close
• Broadhead Walk
• Brook Close
• Brook Drive
• Buckingham Avenue
• Buckley Lane
• Bunkers Hill
• Burnsall Avenue
• Bury New Road
• Bury Old Road
• Caister Avenue
• Calder Crescent
• Calder Walk
• Calder Way
• Cambeck Close
• Cambeck Walk
• Cambridge Grove
• Carisbrook Avenue
• Carlisle Close
• Carlton Avenue
• Cedar Avenue
• Chapel Walk

Check an address in M45

Check an address in M45

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M45" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about M45

What does an M45 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the M45 district of the M (Manchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Whitefield. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 646 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 M45

• M252.4 km
• M263.4 km
• BL95.0 km
• M275.0 km
• M75.0 km
• M85.5 km
• M95.8 km
• M246.1 km
• M66.1 km
• OL106.5 km
• BL86.9 km
• BL47.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids