PL16 postcode district
PL16, in the PL (Plymouth) postcode area, has 115 live and 18 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 34 roads under it.
| postcode area | PL (Plymouth) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 115 |
| terminated postcodes | 18 |
| sectors | 1 |
| roads listed | 34 |
| companies registered | 83 |
| centroid | 50.64627, -4.26594 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
115 of the district's 133 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 50.64627, -4.26594, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| PL16 0 | 115 | 18 |
Companies registered in PL16
Companies House lists 83 companies with a registered office in PL16 (1 October 2026 snapshot).
Places OS Open Names lists for PL16
- Devon
- South West
- West Devon
- Lifton
- Torridge
- Tinhay
- Chillaton
- Broadwoodwidger
- Liftondown
- Meadwell
- Forda
- Sprytown
- Kelly
- Marystow
Roads filed under PL16
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.
- Arundell Close
- Arundell Gardens
- Ash Vale
- Broad Street
- Chapel Street
- Darkey Lane
- Diana Close
- Duntz Hill
- Fore Street
- Great Oak Gardens
- Hannaford Road
- Hornapark Close
- Leat Road
- May Close
- Millers Close
- Moorfield
- New Road
- North Road
- Oak Ridge
- Old Tinhay
- Park Court
- Park Road
- Park Wood Rise
- Parsonage Court
- Phillips Road
- Rowan Way
- Spry Lane
- Station Road
- The Crescent
- The Lime Kilns
- The Old Rice Mill
- The Rowans
- Whitebeam Place
- Willas Road
Check an address in PL16
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PL16" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about PL16
- What does a PL16 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the PL16 district of the PL (Plymouth) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Lifton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 115 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 PL16
- PL159.4 km
- PL1912.7 km
- PL1814.9 km
- PL1714.9 km
- EX2118.2 km
- PL2020.0 km
- EX2021.0 km
- EX2221.5 km
- PL1424.7 km
- PL1225.2 km
- PL527.1 km
- EX2327.3 km
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