OL6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

898 of the district's 1,357 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 53.49470, -2.08583, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in OL6

Companies House lists 2,558 companies with a registered office in OL6; 869 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 OL6

• North West
• Tameside
• Ashton-under-Lyne
• Alt Hill
• Park Bridge
• Dukinfield
• Luzley
• Oldham
• Hartshead Green

Roads filed under OL6

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.

• Abbeydale Close
• Abingdon Street
• Adam Street
• Addison Avenue
• Albemarle Street
• Albemarle Terrace
• Albion Street
• Albion Way
• Alder Close
• Aldergate Grove
• Alderley Street
• Alexandra Road
• Alexandra Street
• Alfred Street
• Alger Mews
• Alger Street
• Alt Grove
• Alt Hill Lane
• Alt Hill Road
• Alton Close
• Alt Road
• Anderton Grove
• Andrew Street
• Arden Close
• Argyll Street
• Arlies Street
• Arlington Street
• Arundel Street
• Ashbourne Drive
• Ash Close
• Ashdene
• Ashlynne
• Ashton to Oldham Greenway
• Assheton Close
• Athol Street
• Audley Street
• Back Water Street
• Bakery Court
• Bakewell Avenue
• Bamford Grove
• Bangor Street
• Bank Top
• Baron Avenue
• Beauchamp Street
• Beaufort Road
• Beaumont Street
• Belper Street
• Bengal Lane
• Bengal Square
• Bentinck Street
• Berkeley Street
• Beverley Close
• Blandford Street
• Blenheim Way
• Board Street
• Bombay Street
• Boodle Street
• Booth Lane
• Booth Street
• Botany Lane

Check an address in OL6

Check an address in OL6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=OL6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about OL6

What does an OL6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the OL6 district of the OL (Oldham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Ashton-under-Lyne. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 898 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 OL6

• OL71.5 km
• SK162.2 km
• SK152.7 km
• OL84.0 km
• OL54.1 km
• M434.4 km
• M344.8 km
• M354.8 km
• SK145.1 km
• OL45.4 km
• OL96.3 km
• OL16.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids