MK42 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,288 of the district's 1,673 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 52.11615, -0.47107, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in MK42

Companies House lists 3,693 companies with a registered office in MK42; 752 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 MK42

• Eastern
• Bedford
• Kempston
• Shortstown
• Wixams
• Central Bedfordshire
• Elstow
• Harrowden

Roads filed under MK42

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.

• Abbey Close
• Abbeyfields
• Abbott Crescent
• Acacia Road
• Acorn Way
• Adams Close
• Adamson Walk
• Addison Close
• Alamein Avenue
• Alburgh Close
• Alder Close
• Aldergrove Gardens
• Alpine View
• Althorpe Street
• Ampthill Road
• Ampthill Street
• Arkwright Road
• Armstrong Drive
• Arnold Way
• Ashdale Avenue
• Ash Walk
• Aspley Road
• Aston Road
• Atherstone Close
• Austin Canons
• Austin Canons Way
• Austin Gardens
• Aviation Way
• Avocet Road
• Baker Drive
• Baldwin Walk
• Balliol Road
• Bamford Road
• Banks Close
• Barford Avenue
• Barnard Avenue
• Barton Road
• Bartrum Close
• Basen Close
• Bassie Close
• Bayham Close
• Beatrice Street
• Beauvais Avenue
• Beauvais Square
• Bedesman Lane
• Bedford Road
• Beechdale Road
• Beech Walk
• Belfry Close
• Bell's Close
• Bellflower Road
• Benson Close
• Berkeley Road
• Birchdale Avenue
• Bird Grove
• Bishop Mead
• Bittern Lane
• Blackbird Close
• Blackburn Close
• Blake's Boulevard

Check an address in MK42

Check an address in MK42

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=MK42" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about MK42

What does an MK42 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the MK42 district of the MK (Milton Keynes) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bedford. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,288 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 MK42

• MK402.5 km
• MK414.4 km
• MK436.0 km
• MK449.6 km
• MK4510.4 km
• SG1713.0 km
• SG1814.6 km
• SG1916.1 km
• SG1616.3 km
• MK4616.3 km
• MK1617.4 km
• MK1017.6 km
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distance between the districts' centroids