ML3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,321 of the district's 1,713 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 55.76939, -4.05524, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in ML3

Companies House lists 3,900 companies with a registered office in ML3; 1,701 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 ML3

• South Lanarkshire
• Scotland
• Hamilton
• Allanton
• Quarter
• Ferniegair
• Limekilnburn

Roads filed under ML3

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.

• Abbotsford Avenue
• Abbotsford Crescent
• Abbotsford Lane
• Abbotsford Road
• Abercorn Crescent
• Abercorn Drive
• Adirondack Drive
• Ailsa Court
• Aitken Road
• Albany Road
• Alba Way
• Albert Lane
• Albert Street
• Albert Terrace
• Alder Avenue
• Alexander Balfour Gardens
• Alexander Gardens
• Allanshaw Gardens
• Allanshaw Grove
• Allanshaw Street
• Allanton Gardens
• Allanton Lea
• Allanton Place
• Alloway Gardens
• Almada Lane
• Almada Street
• Alness Street
• Alness Terrace
• Alsh Terrace
• Ambleside Rise
• Ambrose Court
• Anderson Street
• Andrew Paton Way
• Angus Avenue
• Ann Court
• Annsfield Road
• Ann Street
• Appin Terrace
• Aqua Avenue
• Aqua Court
• Arbroath Grove
• Ardenclutha Avenue
• Arden Court
• Arden Road
• Arden Terrace
• Ardlui Gardens
• Argyle Crescent
• Argyle Drive
• Arisaig Grove
• Arran Gardens
• Arthur Street
• Ashland Avenue
• Ashworth Terrace
• Aspen Way
• Atholl Street
• Auchincampbell Road
• Auchingramont Road
• Auchinraith Avenue
• Austine Drive
• Avonbank Crescent

Check an address in ML3

Check an address in ML3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=ML3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about ML3

What does an ML3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the ML3 district of the ML (Motherwell) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Hamilton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,321 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 ML3

• ML45.8 km
• ML16.0 km
• G716.0 km
• G726.1 km
• ML97.4 km
• G747.5 km
• ML28.9 km
• G759.3 km
• ML109.9 km
• ML510.2 km
• G7311.0 km
• G3211.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids