PR26 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

349 of the district's 409 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 53.68965, -2.73954, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PR26

Companies House lists 640 companies with a registered office in PR26; none of them at an address 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 PR26

• Lancashire
• North West
• South Ribble
• Leyland
• Chorley
• Farington Moss
• Croston
• Midge Hall
• Bretherton
• Wymott
• Ulnes Walton

Roads filed under PR26

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.

• Albion Road
• Alder Close
• Ashfields
• Aston Way
• Avocet Court
• Back Drinkhouse Lane
• Back Lane
• Badger Drive
• Badger Road North
• Badger Road South
• Bamfords Fold
• Bannister Lane
• Barn Croft
• Barn Hey Drive
• Barn Owl Drive
• Beaver Road
• Birchwood
• Bison Place
• Bispham Avenue
• Blackbird Grove
• Blaydike Moss
• Bolton Meadow
• Boxer Place
• Bradshaw Close
• Bramblewood
• Bretherton Close
• Bretherton Road
• Brickcroft Lane
• Bridleway
• Broad Meadow Lane
• Brookfield
• Brookside Close
• Buffalo Road
• Bullfinch Grove
• Cabriolet
• Calderbank Close
• Calder Close
• Camlet Court
• Carr House Lane
• Carrimore Close
• Carr Lane
• Carvers Brow
• Castle Walks
• Charabanc
• Chase
• Cheetham Meadow
• Chelmsford Walk
• Cheshire House Close
• Chieftain Close
• Church Lane
• Church Street
• Clydesdale Place
• Cocker Bar Road
• Cocker Lane
• Comet Road
• Coniston Way
• Constructor Close
• Coronation Court
• Cottage Lane
• County Close

Check an address in PR26

Check an address in PR26

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PR26" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PR26

What does a PR26 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PR26 district of the PR (Preston) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Leyland. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 349 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 PR26

• PR253.0 km
• PR57.1 km
• PR77.2 km
• PR17.9 km
• PR68.7 km
• PR49.6 km
• PR210.2 km
• L4011.8 km
• PR1112.2 km
• WN613.5 km
• WN815.3 km
• PR915.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids