ML12 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

351 of the district's 409 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 55.56925, -3.59428, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in ML12

Companies House lists 427 companies with a registered office in ML12; none of them at an address 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 ML12

• Scotland
• South Lanarkshire
• Biggar
• Scottish Borders
• Dumfries and Galloway
• Symington
• Wanlockhead
• Leadhills
• Abington
• Crawford
• Thankerton
• Broughton
• Crawfordjohn
• Skirling
• Coulter
• Elvanfoot
• Quothquan
• Wiston
• Elsrickle
• Carmichael
• Candy Mill
• Drumelzier
• Covington
• Tweedsmuir

Roads filed under ML12

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.

• Abington Road
• Albion Court
• Annieston Place
• Baird Way
• Ballgreen Road
• Bell View
• Belstane Avenue
• Bencroft Avenue
• Biggar Mill Road
• Biggar Road
• Biggarshiels Road
• Birthwood Road
• Bizzyberry Crescent
• Black Mount Drive
• Blackwood Murray Lane
• Blawhill Way
• Boat Road
• Boghall Avenue
• Boghall Park
• Boghall Road
• Bowling Green Lane
• Bridgend
• Bridgend Road
• Broadfield Road
• Brookside Court
• Broughton Road
• Burnhead Road
• Burnside Terrace
• Caledonian Avenue
• California Place
• Camp Road
• Camps Road
• Candymill Road
• Carding Street
• Cardon Drive
• Carlisle Road
• Carmichael Bank
• Carnwath Road
• Carwood Road
• Castlehill Court
• Castlehill Lane
• Castle Yett
• Church Lane
• Church Street
• Clydesdale Close
• Colebrooke Terrace
• Colliehill Road
• Cormiston Road
• Cornhill Grove
• Cornhill Road
• Coronation Drive
• Coulter Road
• Covenanters Way
• Covington Road
• Craighead Road
• Croftfoot Terrace
• Cross Road
• Crown Rig
• Curfew Place
• Dempster Road

Check an address in ML12

Check an address in ML12

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=ML12" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about ML12

What does an ML12 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the ML12 district of the ML (Motherwell) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Biggar. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 351 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 ML12

• ML1116.4 km
• ML823.9 km
• EH4624.2 km
• EH4527.1 km
• ML929.1 km
• DG1029.4 km
• ML230.5 km
• EH5530.9 km
• DG431.2 km
• ML731.6 km
• ML1032.2 km
• EH4732.5 km
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