M8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

803 of the district's 1,833 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 53.50871, -2.24014, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in M8

Companies House lists 5,856 companies with a registered office in M8; 936 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 M8

• North West
• Manchester
• Prestwich
• Bury
• Salford

Roads filed under M8

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.

• Abbotsfield Court
• Abercarn Close
• Absalom Drive
• Addenbrook Road
• Adelaide Street
• Alan Womack Close
• Albert Fildes Walk
• Albyns Avenue
• Alder Court
• Alderford Parade
• Alderglen Road
• Alderwood Walk
• Aldred Close
• Allison Street
• Alms Hill Road
• Alsham Walk
• Amina Road
• Amwell Street
• Andover Walk
• Ansdell Street
• Ansleigh Avenue
• Answell Avenue
• Appleford Drive
• Appleton Street
• Ardern Road
• Arlington Street
• Ash Tree Road
• Ashwin Walk
• Atherstone Avenue
• Avondale Street
• Back Bank Street
• Back Halliwell Lane
• Back St Mark's Lane
• Balfour Street
• Ballater Walk
• Balliol Street
• Balmfield Street
• Bankfoot Walk
• Bankhirst Close
• Bank Road
• Barnsdale Drive
• Barrow Hill Road
• Barry Lawson Close
• Barsham Close
• Batty Street
• Baycliffe Walk
• Beckenham Road
• Beechfield Street
• Belhaven Road
• Bellott Street
• Belmore Avenue
• Belton Walk
• Benhale Walk
• Bennett Road
• Bent Lane
• Bent Street
• Bettwood Drive
• Bignor Street
• Bilton Walk
• Birch Road

Check an address in M8

Check an address in M8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about M8

What does an M8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the M8 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 803 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 M8

• M71.5 km
• M92.3 km
• M612.6 km
• M42.7 km
• M602.7 km
• M32.9 km
• M23.2 km
• M253.2 km
• M403.3 km
• M13.5 km
• M64.2 km
• M54.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids