OL15 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

539 of the district's 632 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 53.64484, -2.09990, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in OL15

Companies House lists 639 companies with a registered office in OL15; 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 OL15

• Rochdale
• North West
• Littleborough
• Summit
• Rakewood
• Lydgate
• Timbercliffe
• Calderdale
• Yorkshire and the Humber

Roads filed under OL15

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 Drive
• Aberley Fold
• Albert Street
• Albion Street
• Alfred Street
• Almond Close
• Arm Road
• Ash Grove
• Ashwood Drive
• Ashworth Close
• Ballard Close
• Bamford Street
• Bank Close
• Barehill Street
• Barke Street
• Barnes Meadows
• Beaumont Close
• Beechwood Avenue
• Bents Farm Close
• Berkley Walk
• Beswicke Street
• Birch Hill Walk
• Blackstone Edge Old Road
• Blyth Avenue
• Boundary Street
• Box Street
• Bramble Close
• Branch Road
• Brentwood Close
• Bridge Bank Road
• Bridgenorth Drive
• Broadfield Drive
• Brookfield Drive
• Brooklyn Avenue
• Brook Street
• Brookway
• Brown Bank Road
• Brown Lodge Drive
• Brown Lodge Street
• Brown Street
• Butterworth Street
• Calder Avenue
• Calderbrook Road
• Calderbrook Terrace
• Calf Hey
• Canal Street
• Canal View
• Carriage Drive
• Cecil Street
• Celandine Close
• Central Avenue
• Centre Vale Close
• Chapel Hill
• Chapel Street
• Charles Street
• Chelburn View
• Chestnut Way
• Chichester Close
• Church Street
• Clay Street

Check an address in OL15

Check an address in OL15

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=OL15" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about OL15

What does an OL15 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the OL15 district of the OL (Oldham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Littleborough. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 539 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 OL15

• OL164.2 km
• OL124.4 km
• OL116.7 km
• OL147.7 km
• OL28.0 km
• OL139.3 km
• OL1010.2 km
• OL110.6 km
• OL411.5 km
• OL311.7 km
• HX712.1 km
• OL912.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids