OL7 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

421 of the district's 571 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 53.49066, -2.10725, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in OL7

Companies House lists 1,009 companies with a registered office in OL7; 163 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 OL7

• Tameside
• North West
• Ashton-under-Lyne
• Audenshaw
• Droylsden

Roads filed under OL7

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.

• Albert Walk
• Alexandria Drive
• Ambleside Avenue
• Anglesey Close
• Anglesey Road
• Anne Close
• Ann Street
• Atlas Street
• Back Cambridge Street
• Back Lane
• Bamburgh Drive
• Bank Street
• Barnard Close
• Beech Grove
• Beech Mount
• Belfairs Close
• Belsay Close
• Benjamin Street
• Bennett Street
• Birch Street
• Bishop Close
• Bishops Walk
• Blucher Street
• Boatmans Walk
• Bollington Street
• Borrowdale Crescent
• Bowness Road
• Bradbury Street
• Bradgate Street
• Britannia Street
• Buttermere Road
• Camberwell Drive
• Cambridge Street
• Canal Side Walk
• Cartmel Close
• Cecil Street
• Cecil Walk
• Cedar Mews
• Charges Street
• Clarke Street
• Clive Street
• Clyde Street
• Coleridge Close
• Colwyn Street
• Colwyn Terrace
• Community Street
• Coniston Grove
• Cranbourne Close
• Cranbourne Road
• Cranbrook Gardens
• Cranbrook Street
• Crowhill Road
• Crowthorn Road
• Croxdale Close
• Cumberland Grove
• Daisy Close
• Dale Grove
• Dales Brow Avenue
• Darwin Street
• Davies Street

Check an address in OL7

Check an address in OL7

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=OL7" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about OL7

What does an OL7 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the OL7 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 421 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 OL7

• OL61.5 km
• SK162.4 km
• M432.9 km
• M353.7 km
• M343.9 km
• OL84.0 km
• SK154.0 km
• M115.1 km
• M185.3 km
• SK145.5 km
• OL55.5 km
• M405.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids