OL13 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

658 of the district's 842 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 53.70085, -2.20435, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in OL13

Companies House lists 702 companies with a registered office in OL13; 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 OL13

• Rossendale
• Lancashire
• North West
• Bacup
• Weir
• Sharneyford
• Rawtenstall

Roads filed under OL13

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 Street
• Acorn Street
• Acre Avenue
• Acre Mill Road
• Acre Park
• Acre View
• Albert Terrace
• Albion Street
• Alder Street
• Allan Street
• Alma Street
• Anderson Close
• Anderson Drive
• Angus Street
• Anvil Street
• Arbour Street
• Arthur Street
• Ash Street
• Ashworth Street
• Atherton Street
• Atherton Way
• Austin Street
• Back Hope Street
• Back Rushton Street
• Back St John Street
• Bacup Old Road
• Baker Street
• Baldwin Street
• Bankfield Street
• Bank House Lane
• Bankside Close
• Bankside Lane
• Bank Street
• Bath Street
• Beaufort Road
• Beaumont Close
• Beaver Terrace
• Beech Close
• Beech Street
• Bentley Street
• Birch Street
• Blackthorn Crescent
• Blackthorn Lane
• Blackwood Court
• Blackwood Mews
• Blackwood Road
• Bobbin Close
• Bold Street
• Booth Road
• Booth Street
• Boston Road
• Bowlers Wood
• Brambling Drive
• Branch Street
• Brandwood Park
• Brandwood Road
• Brearley Street
• Briar Street
• Britannia Avenue
• Brookes Street

Check an address in OL13

Check an address in OL13

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=OL13" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about OL13

What does an OL13 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the OL13 district of the OL (Oldham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bacup. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 658 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 OL13

• BB45.8 km
• OL147.0 km
• OL127.6 km
• OL159.3 km
• BL09.4 km
• BB119.7 km
• OL1110.7 km
• OL1611.0 km
• BB1011.0 km
• OL1012.4 km
• BB512.6 km
• BB1212.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids