PR5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

993 of the district's 2,394 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 53.73165, -2.65742, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PR5

Companies House lists 2,528 companies with a registered office in PR5; 735 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 PR5

• Lancashire
• North West
• South Ribble
• Bamber Bridge
• Chorley
• Gregson Lane
• Higher Walton
• Coupe Green
• Hoghton
• Samlesbury
• Nab's Head
• Farington Moss
• Cuerden
• Roach Bridge
• Samlesbury Bottoms
• Hoghton Bottoms
• Riley Green
• Preston
• Turner Green
• Sowerbutt's Green

Roads filed under PR5

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.

• Abbotts Close
• Acrefield
• Albany Drive
• Albrighton Close
• Albrighton Crescent
• Albrighton Road
• Alder Drive
• Aldersleigh Crescent
• Alderwood Road
• Aldwych Drive
• Alexandra Road
• Allerton Road
• Allington Close
• Alma Row
• Alpine Avenue
• Alpine Close
• Alton Crescent
• Ambledene
• Ambleside Close
• Ambleway
• Ampleforth Drive
• Ancona drive
• Appleby Close
• Applewood Close
• Arnside Close
• Arrowsmith Close
• Arrowsmith Drive
• Ash Grove
• Ashtree Court
• Ashworth Street
• Asland Close
• Aspden Street
• Aspenwood Close
• Avondale Drive
• Back Bourne's Row
• Back Club Street
• Badgers Way
• Baldwin Street
• Balmoral Road
• Balshaw Street
• Bank Head Lane
• Banksfield Place
• Bannister Close
• Bannister Hall Crescent
• Bannister Hall Drive
• Bannister Hall Lane
• Barleyfield
• Barn Croft
• Barnfield
• Barnflatt Close
• Barn Meadow
• Baxendale Grove
• Baytree Close
• Beech Hill Close
• Beechwood Avenue
• Bellis Way
• Bells Lane
• Berkeley Drive
• Berry Street
• Birch Crescent

Check an address in PR5

Check an address in PR5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PR5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PR5

What does a PR5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PR5 district of the PR (Preston) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Bamber Bridge. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 993 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 PR5

• PR14.1 km
• PR254.8 km
• PR26.2 km
• PR267.1 km
• PR117.2 km
• PR67.7 km
• PR79.2 km
• BB210.3 km
• PR411.8 km
• BB113.1 km
• BB313.2 km
• PR315.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids