PR6 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,059 of the district's 1,596 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 53.66780, -2.61197, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PR6

Companies House lists 1,672 companies with a registered office in PR6; 43 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 PR6

• North West
• Chorley
• Lancashire
• Adlington
• Whittle-le-Woods
• Bamber Bridge
• Brinscall
• Withnell
• Wheelton
• Higher Wheelton
• Abbey Village
• Brindle
• Withnell Fold
• Johnson's Hillock
• Grimeford Village
• Lower Copthurst
• White Coppice
• Limbrick
• Blackburn with Darwen
• Pippin Street
• Windy Harbour
• Higher Copthurst
• Thorpe Green
• Jack Green

Roads filed under PR6

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 Court
• Abbey Grove
• Abbeystead Gardens
• Abbey View
• Adelaide Street
• Albany Court
• Albert Street
• Aldcliffe Court
• Almond Close
• Alpine Road
• Amber Drive
• Anglezarke Road
• Aniline Street
• Ashdown Drive
• Ash Field
• Ashfield Road
• Ashmeadow Lane
• Athol Grove
• Babylon Lane
• Back Lane
• Bagganley Lane
• Balmoral Drive
• Bankside
• Bannerman Terrace
• Barn View
• Barrow Nook Grove
• Bay Tree Road
• Beaconsfield Terrace
• Bearswood Croft
• Beech Avenue
• Beech Gardens
• Beechwood Croft
• Belmont Close
• Belmont Drive
• Belmont Road
• Belvedere Road
• Berry Avenue
• Berry Street
• Bett Lane
• Bingley Close
• Birch Field
• Birchin Lane
• Birch Road
• Blackbrook Close
• Blackburn Brow
• Blackburn Road
• Blackburn Street
• Black Croft
• Blackledge Place
• Blackstone Road
• Blackthorn Croft
• Bloomfield Road
• Blossom Grove
• Bluebell Close
• Bolton Road
• Bone Croft
• Botany Brow
• Bowland Avenue
• Bracken Close
• Bradshaw Lane

Check an address in PR6

Check an address in PR6

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PR6" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PR6

What does a PR6 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PR6 district of the PR (Preston) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Chorley. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,059 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 PR6

• PR73.6 km
• PR256.2 km
• PR57.7 km
• PR268.7 km
• BL69.7 km
• BB310.2 km
• BB210.9 km
• WN611.0 km
• PR111.6 km
• WN112.7 km
• BL713.1 km
• PR213.8 km
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distance between the districts' centroids