OL2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,090 of the district's 1,293 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 53.57317, -2.10997, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in OL2

Companies House lists 1,760 companies with a registered office in OL2; 435 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 OL2

• North West
• Oldham
• Royton
• Shaw
• Rochdale
• Chadderton
• Low Crompton

Roads filed under OL2

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.

• Acre Barn
• Ainsdale Crescent
• Alandale Drive
• Albert Avenue
• Albert Street
• Albion Gardens Close
• Alfred Street
• Alison Street
• Allenby Street
• Allen Close
• All Saint's Close
• Alpine Drive
• Alston Avenue
• Alwin Road
• Angela Avenue
• Annersley Avenue
• Appleby Walk
• Arley Drive
• Arlington Close
• Arncott Close
• Arnside Close
• Arthur Street
• Ashdown Way
• Ash Grove
• Ashleigh Close
• Ashwood Drive
• Ashworth Close
• Assheton Road
• Astley Close
• Avis Street
• Avon Road
• Badger Close
• Baldwins Close
• Balfour Street
• Ballard Way
• Balmoral Avenue
• Bamford Street
• Bank Street
• Barnfield Rise
• Bartlett Road
• Baysdale
• Beal Lane
• Beard Street
• Beck Grove
• Beckley Close
• Bedford Avenue
• Beechwood
• Beechwood Drive
• Belgravia Mews
• Bellingham Close
• Bennett Way
• Berkeley Drive
• Berkeley Street
• Bertha Street
• Beswick Street
• Betjeman Place
• Bickerstaffe Close
• Bidston Close
• Birchinlee Avenue
• Birkdale Avenue

Check an address in OL2

Check an address in OL2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=OL2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about OL2

What does an OL2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the OL2 district of the OL (Oldham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Royton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,090 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 OL2

• OL12.6 km
• OL44.2 km
• OL94.4 km
• OL164.6 km
• OL85.3 km
• OL115.7 km
• M246.3 km
• OL36.9 km
• OL107.7 km
• OL57.7 km
• M357.9 km
• OL127.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids