ML8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

526 of the district's 604 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 55.73183, -3.84348, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in ML8

Companies House lists 609 companies with a registered office in ML8; 123 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 ML8

• South Lanarkshire
• Scotland
• Carluke
• Law
• Crossford
• Braidwood
• Kilncadzow
• Wildmanbridge
• Rosebank
• Yieldshields
• Lanark

Roads filed under ML8

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.

• Airdrie Road
• Alba Gardens
• Albert Park
• Allan Avenue
• Andrew Place
• Angus Road
• Anstruther Court
• Anstruther Street
• Aquila Way
• Arnum Gardens
• Arnum Place
• Arran Gardens
• Ashfield Road
• Ash Grove
• Atholl Court
• Auchenglen Road
• Auchnotroch Road
• Avon Avenue
• Balcastle Crescent
• Barmore Avenue
• Barrs Lane
• Beanshields Road
• Beechfield Drive
• Beech Grove
• Bell Grove
• Belstane Gate
• Belstane Mews
• Belstane Park
• Belstane Road
• Benty's Lane
• Birkfield Loan
• Birkfield Place
• Birkhill Road
• Birks Court
• Birks Road
• Blackbull Close
• Blackhill View
• Blair Road
• Blenheim Court
• Bluebell Way
• Blueknowes Road
• Boghall Road
• Bothwell Road
• Bourtree Crescent
• Bracken Grove
• Brackenhill Road
• Braefoot Court
• Braefoot Crescent
• Braehead Loan
• Braemar Crescent
• Braidwood Road
• Bridgend View
• Brodick Lane
• Brookbank Terrace
• Brownlee Meadows
• Brownlee Road
• Brown Street
• Buchanan Drive
• Burnbank Braes
• Burnhead Gardens

Check an address in ML8

Check an address in ML8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=ML8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about ML8

What does an ML8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the ML8 district of the ML (Motherwell) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Carluke. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 526 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 ML8

• ML26.6 km
• ML97.8 km
• ML118.0 km
• ML111.1 km
• ML711.3 km
• ML313.9 km
• ML414.7 km
• ML1015.2 km
• ML616.8 km
• G7117.7 km
• EH4717.9 km
• ML518.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids