PR1 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,691 of the district's 2,896 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 53.75732, -2.70158, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PR1

Companies House lists 6,131 companies with a registered office in PR1; 1,374 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 PR1

• Lancashire
• North West
• Preston
• South Ribble
• Penwortham
• Bamber Bridge
• Hutton

Roads filed under PR1

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 Walk
• Abbot Meadow
• Abbotsway
• Aberdeen Close
• Acorn Close
• Acregate Lane
• Adelphi Place
• Adelphi Street
• Agnes Street
• Alan Kelly Walk
• Albatross Street
• Albert Road
• Albert Terrace
• Albyn Bank Road
• Albyn Street East
• Alcester Avenue
• Alderfield
• Aldwyn Court
• Alexandra Street
• Alice Square
• Alma Street
• Almond Close
• Alsop Street
• Alston Street
• Anchor Court
• Andrew Street
• Annis Street
• Ansdell Street
• Appleby Street
• Appletree Close
• Aqueduct Street
• Ardee Road
• Argyll Road
• Arkwright Road
• Arnhem Road
• Arno Street
• Arthur Street
• Arundel Place
• Ashdale Crescent
• Asheldon Street
• Ashgrove
• Ash Holme
• Ashleigh Street
• Ashmoor Street
• Ashtree Grove
• Ashworth Court
• Ashworth Grove
• Ashworth Lane
• Ashworth Street
• Aspels Crescent
• Aspels Nook
• Aspinall Close
• Atholl Street
• Atkinson Close
• Aughton Walk
• Avenham Colonnade
• Avenham Lane
• Avenham Place
• Avenham Road
• Avenham Street

Check an address in PR1

Check an address in PR1

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PR1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PR1

What does a PR1 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PR1 district of the PR (Preston) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Preston. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,691 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 PR1

• PR22.4 km
• PR54.1 km
• PR114.3 km
• PR257.0 km
• PR267.9 km
• PR48.6 km
• PR611.6 km
• PR312.2 km
• PR712.4 km
• BB213.2 km
• BB115.7 km
• BB316.9 km
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distance between the districts' centroids