M46 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

577 of the district's 700 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 53.52585, -2.49234, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in M46

Companies House lists 1,146 companies with a registered office in M46; 153 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 M46

• North West
• Atherton
• Wigan
• Bolton

Roads filed under M46

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.

• Acres Fold Close
• Ainsdale Avenue
• Albion Close
• Albion Green Place
• Alchemy Close
• Alderfold Street
• Alder Street
• Aldford Drive
• Allenby Street
• Alma Street
• Alston Lea
• Argyle Street
• Arley Way
• Ascot Drive
• Ashfield Avenue
• Askrigg Close
• Atherleigh Way
• Back Short Street
• Bag Lane
• Barnes Passage
• Bath Street
• Beacon Close
• Bedford Drive
• Beech Avenue
• Beech Street
• Bee Fold Lane
• Belgrave Street
• Belmont Avenue
• Belvedere Avenue
• Birchfield Avenue
• Birch Road
• Birkdale Avenue
• Blacksmiths Fold
• Blake Avenue
• Blakemore Park
• Bolton Old Road
• Bolton Road
• Bond Street
• Bracken Road
• Bradshaw Street
• Brampton Street
• Breeze Hill
• Breeze Hill Road
• Briarcroft Drive
• Bridge's Street
• Brierfield Avenue
• Brindley Close
• Broadleaf Drive
• Broadway
• Brookdale
• Brook Fold
• Brooklands Avenue
• Brookside Close
• Brook Street
• Browning Avenue
• Browning Walk
• Bullough Street
• Burns Avenue
• Buttercup Close
• Buxton Close

Check an address in M46

Check an address in M46

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M46" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about M46

What does an M46 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the M46 district of the M (Manchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Atherton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 577 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 M46

• BL52.9 km
• M293.0 km
• WN73.5 km
• M384.6 km
• BL35.9 km
• WN26.1 km
• M286.2 km
• BL46.4 km
• BL786.7 km
• BL116.8 km
• BL17.8 km
• BL68.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids