PR3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,471 of the district's 1,786 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 53.86656, -2.71931, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PR3

Companies House lists 3,261 companies with a registered office in PR3; 725 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 PR3

• Lancashire
• North West
• Wyre
• Ribble Valley
• Longridge
• Preston
• Garstang
• Catterall
• Broughton
• Great Eccleston
• Forton
• Barton
• Bowgreave
• Goosnargh
• Bonds
• Ribchester
• Chipping
• St Michael's on Wyre
• Bilsborrow
• Fylde
• Scorton
• Pilling
• Stake Pool
• Calder Vale

Roads filed under PR3

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.

• Acorn Bank
• Acreage Close
• Acreage Drive
• Acresfield Park
• Admarsh Drive
• Ailsa Close
• Ainspool Lane
• Alexandra Road
• Allotment Lane
• Alpine Heights
• Alston Lane
• Alston Meadows
• Anchor Hill Close
• Anderton Way
• Apollo Close
• Apple Tree Close
• Apsley Fold
• Archery Gardens
• Ardisia Close
• Arndale Road
• Arnside Road
• Ascot Rise
• Ash Bank Close
• Ash Drive
• Ashfield Rise
• Ashford Crescent
• Ash Grove
• Ash Lane
• Ashley Lane
• Ashton Lane
• Ashton Street
• Aspen Close
• Astley Drive
• Astley Street
• Asturian Gate
• Auction Court
• Aukland Close
• Avon Close
• Bacchus Fold
• Back Lane
• Backsands Lane
• Badgers Wood
• Bainbridge Road
• Bakewell Close
• Ballot Hill Crescent
• Bamford Road
• Band Lane
• Barclay Court
• Barclay Road
• Barker Brow
• Barnacre Road
• Barns Lane
• Barnyard Way
• Barrow's Lane
• Barrows Lane East
• Barton Lane
• Baylton Drive
• Beacon Close
• Beacon Drive
• Beacon Fell Road

Check an address in PR3

Check an address in PR3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PR3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PR3

What does a PR3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PR3 district of the PR (Preston) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Longridge. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,471 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 PR3

• PR118.3 km
• PR29.8 km
• PR112.2 km
• PR414.3 km
• PR515.5 km
• FY617.2 km
• PR2519.2 km
• PR2619.7 km
• FY519.8 km
• BB219.9 km
• FY320.4 km
• LA120.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids