OL8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

849 of the district's 1,167 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 53.52584, -2.11684, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in OL8

Companies House lists 4,293 companies with a registered office in OL8; 27 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 OL8

• Oldham
• North West
• Failsworth
• Chadderton
• Park Bridge
• Woodhouse Green

Roads filed under OL8

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.

• Abbey Hills Road
• Acacia Road
• Adam Street
• Age Croft
• Ainsdale Close
• Albert Street
• Alder Lane
• Alders Court
• Alexandra Road
• Alexandra Street
• Allen Street
• Alt Fold Drive
• Alt Lane
• Alton Street
• Alvingham Avenue
• Angelica Crescent
• Anselms Court
• Apple Close
• April Close
• Argus Street
• Armitage Close
• Arran Avenue
• Ashfield Street
• Ashton Road
• Ashville Court
• Atlas Street
• Avondale Street
• Avon Street
• Ayr Avenue
• Back Scott Street
• Bainburgh Clough
• Bankfield Drive
• Bardsley Vale Avenue
• Barmouth Court
• Barmouth Walk
• Bateson Way
• Baxter Street
• Beacon Grove
• Beechwood Road
• Beehive Street
• Belgrave Avenue
• Belgrave Road
• Bellfield Avenue
• Berwyn Close
• Bethesda Street
• Bewley Street
• Birch Avenue
• Bisley Street
• Blackdown Grove
• Blackthorn Road
• Blunn Street
• Boston Street
• Bowbank Close
• Brae Side
• Bredon Way
• Brennan Court
• Brierley Street
• Bright Street
• Broad Oak Crescent
• Broadway Street

Check an address in OL8

Check an address in OL8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=OL8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about OL8

What does an OL8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the OL8 district of the OL (Oldham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Oldham. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 849 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 OL8

• OL92.4 km
• OL12.8 km
• M353.3 km
• OL43.4 km
• OL74.0 km
• OL64.0 km
• M435.2 km
• OL55.3 km
• OL25.3 km
• M405.5 km
• M246.1 km
• SK166.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids