PR2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,792 of the district's 3,066 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 53.77887, -2.70672, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PR2

Companies House lists 7,359 companies with a registered office in PR2; 1,982 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 PR2

• Preston
• Lancashire
• North West
• Fulwood
• Grimsargh
• Broughton
• Cow Hill
• Haighton Top
• Haighton Green

Roads filed under PR2

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 Street
• Abingdon Drive
• Acacia Road
• Acer Grove
• Admiral Way
• Ainsdale Drive
• Ainslie Road
• Albert Road
• Aldate Grove
• Aldcliffe Road
• Alder Coppice
• Alder Grove
• Alder Road
• Aldfield Avenue
• Aldwych Court
• Aldwych Drive
• Alert Street
• Alexander Place
• Alford Fold
• Allenby Avenue
• Allengate
• Almond Close
• Alvern Avenue
• Alvern Crescent
• Alyesbury Court
• Ambergate
• Ambleside Road
• Ambleside Walk
• Andertons Way
• Ansdell Grove
• Appledale Drive
• Armstrong Street
• Arnold Close
• Arnott Road
• Arnside Road
• Arroyo Way
• Ashbourne Crescent
• Ash Coppice
• Ashdown Mews
• Ashfield
• Ashfield Court
• Ashford Road
• Ashleigh Court
• Ashley Mews
• Ash Meadow
• Ashness Close
• Ashton Bank Way
• Ashton Close
• Ashtongate
• Ashton Street
• Ashwood Road
• Assheton Place
• Athelstan Fold
• Atherton Close
• Aubigny Drive
• Austin Crescent
• Avon Bridge
• Aysgarth Avenue
• Azalea Close
• Badgers Croft

Check an address in PR2

Check an address in PR2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PR2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PR2

What does a PR2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PR2 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 1,792 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 PR2

• PR112.3 km
• PR12.4 km
• PR56.2 km
• PR48.6 km
• PR259.4 km
• PR39.8 km
• PR2610.2 km
• PR613.8 km
• BB214.1 km
• PR714.9 km
• BB116.2 km
• BB318.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids