M50 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

202 of the district's 352 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 53.47484, -2.29449, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in M50

Companies House lists 2,492 companies with a registered office in M50; 321 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 M50

• Salford
• North West
• Eccles

Roads filed under M50

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.

• Anchorage Quay
• Astor Road
• Aubrey Street
• Blue
• Borough Road
• Boston Court
• Broadway
• Buffalo Court
• Carolina Way
• Centenary Way
• Clippers Quay
• Columbus Way
• Coronet Way
• Dakota Avenue
• Dakota South
• Dallas Court
• Daniel Adamson Road
• Eccles New Road
• Falcon Close
• Furness Quay
• Glen Street
• Green
• Guide Street
• Haldane Road
• Hessel Street
• Houston Park
• Humber Street
• James Corbett Road
• John Atkinson Court
• Kansas Avenue
• King William Street
• Lord Byron Square
• Merchants Quay
• Michigan Avenue
• Missouri Avenue
• Mode Wheel Road
• Mode Wheel Road South
• Montford Street
• Ohio Avenue
• Olympic Court
• Orange
• Ottinger Close
• Ouse Street
• Pacific Way
• Pilgrims Way
• Pink
• Red
• Saint Lawrence Quay
• South Langworthy Road
• The Quays
• Thurlow Street
• Tootal Road
• Trafford Road
• Vancouver Quay
• Vere Street
• Waterfront Quay
• West Ashton Street
• White
• Whiteside Close
• Winnipeg Quay

Check an address in M50

Check an address in M50

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M50" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about M50

What does an M50 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the M50 district of the M (Manchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Salford. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 202 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 M50

• M50.9 km
• M171.8 km
• M62.0 km
• M322.8 km
• M32.9 km
• M162.9 km
• M152.9 km
• M23.4 km
• M13.9 km
• M74.0 km
• M604.1 km
• M304.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids