OL16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,125 of the district's 1,846 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 53.61239, -2.13125, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in OL16

Companies House lists 3,463 companies with a registered office in OL16; 852 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 OL16

• North West
• Rochdale
• Milnrow
• Newhey
• Royton
• Burnedge
• Oldham
• Lower Ogden

Roads filed under OL16

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.

• Aboukir Street
• Adrian Terrace
• Ainsworth Street
• Albert Royds Street
• Albert Street
• Alexander Drive
• Alpine Drive
• Ann Street
• Ansdell Road
• Apple Tree Way
• Arcon Close
• Argyle Street
• Arkwright Avenue
• Arthington Street
• Ashes Lane
• Ashfield Lane
• Ash Grove
• Ashgrove
• Ashia Close
• Avon Close
• Back Bradshaw Street
• Back Broom Street
• Back Dale Street
• Back Drake Street
• Back Oldham Road
• Badger Close
• Badger Lane
• Baillie Street
• Baillie Street East
• Ball Street
• Balmoral Close
• Bangor Street
• Barlow Street
• Baron Street
• Basil Street
• Bealbank Close
• Beal Crescent
• Bealcroft Close
• Bealcroft Walk
• Beal Terrace
• Beatrice Street
• Beechfield Road
• Beech Street
• Belfield Close
• Belfield Lane
• Belfield Mill Lane
• Belfield Old Road
• Belfield Road
• Bell Lane
• Bellshill Crescent
• Bell Street
• Belton Avenue
• Belvoir Meadows
• Bentfield Crescent
• Bentgate Close
• Bentgate Street
• Beresford Street
• Berkeley Drive
• Bertha Road
• Berwick Street

Check an address in OL16

Check an address in OL16

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=OL16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about OL16

What does an OL16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the OL16 district of the OL (Oldham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Rochdale. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,125 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 OL16

• OL113.1 km
• OL123.5 km
• OL154.2 km
• OL24.6 km
• OL106.6 km
• OL17.1 km
• M248.1 km
• OL98.2 km
• OL48.7 km
• OL89.7 km
• OL310.3 km
• BL910.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids