OL5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

370 of the district's 431 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 53.51806, -2.03842, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in OL5

Companies House lists 468 companies with a registered office in OL5; 30 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 OL5

• North West
• Tameside
• Mossley
• Quick
• Stalybridge
• Oldham
• Broad Carr

Roads filed under OL5

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.

• Abney Grange
• Abney Road
• Abney Steps
• Alphin Close
• Alphin Square
• Andrew Street
• Anthony Street
• Apsley Side
• Archer Street
• Argyle Street
• Arundel Street
• Ash Hill Drive
• Audley Street
• Back Andrew Street
• Back Cecil Street
• Back Lane
• Back Micklehurst Road
• Back Mill Lane
• Back Staley Road
• Bank Side
• Barkwell Lane
• Barngate Drive
• Batley Street
• Beechwood Drive
• Birbeck Street
• Blackrock
• Border Mill Fold
• Boundary Close
• Brackenhurst Avenue
• Broadcarr Lane
• Brookfields
• Brooklands Close
• Brunswick Street
• Bury Street
• Butt Lane
• Calf Lane
• Camden Street
• Canalside Close
• Canal View
• Carrhill Quarry Close
• Carrhill Road
• Carter Street
• Cecil Street
• Cemetery Road
• Chapel Street
• Chellow Dene
• Cherry Tree Walk
• Cheshire Street
• Church Lane
• Clarendon Street
• Cocksfoot Drive
• Cote Lane
• Craddock Street
• Cross Street
• Crown Hill
• Curzon Street
• Daisy Hill Road
• Dale Avenue
• Dalesfield Crescent
• Dane Street

Check an address in OL5

Check an address in OL5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=OL5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about OL5

What does an OL5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the OL5 district of the OL (Oldham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Mossley. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 370 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 OL5

• SK153.5 km
• OL43.6 km
• OL64.1 km
• OL34.3 km
• OL85.3 km
• OL75.5 km
• SK165.6 km
• OL15.7 km
• OL97.4 km
• SK147.4 km
• OL27.7 km
• M357.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids