PR7 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,508 of the district's 1,924 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 53.64873, -2.65557, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PR7

Companies House lists 7,384 companies with a registered office in PR7; 1,637 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 PR7

• Lancashire
• North West
• Chorley
• Buckshaw Village
• Euxton
• Coppull
• Eccleston
• Adlington
• South Ribble
• Charnock Richard
• Pincock
• Heskin Green
• Heath Charnock
• Coppull Moor
• Bolton Green
• Shaw Green
• Ulnes Walton
• Runshaw Moor
• West Lancashire
• Charnock Green
• Andertons Mill
• Wrightington Bar

Roads filed under PR7

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.

• Ackhurst Lodge Drive
• Ackhurst Road
• Ackhurst Wood Close
• Acresfield
• Acres Field Close
• Acreswood Close
• Albert Street
• Albion Street
• Albion Walk
• Alder Drive
• Alder Grove
• Alexander Close
• Alfred's Court
• Alker Lane
• Alker Street
• Allerton Close
• Alma Drive
• Alma Wood Close
• Almond Drive
• Alnwick Close
• Altcar Close
• Ambleside Avenue
• Ambrose Avenue
• Anchor Fields
• Anderton Crescent
• Anderton Road
• Anderton Street
• Apple Tree Close
• Arcon Road
• Argyll Avenue
• Arley Street
• Arley Wood Drive
• Armetriding Reaches
• Arnold Place
• Ashby Street
• Ashdale Close
• Ashfield Road
• Ash Grove
• Ash Road
• Ash Wood Court
• Aspen Gardens
• Astell Court
• Astley Road
• Astley Street
• Atherton Street
• Atlas Avenue
• Austin Drive
• Avenham Road
• Avondale Road
• Aycliffe Drive
• Ayrshire Close
• Back Ashby Street
• Back Fazakerley Street
• Back Lane
• Back Mount
• Back Railway View
• Badgers Walk
• Baker Close
• Baker Street
• Balcarres Road

Check an address in PR7

Check an address in PR7

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PR7" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PR7

What does a PR7 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PR7 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 1,508 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 PR7

• PR63.6 km
• PR255.7 km
• PR267.2 km
• WN68.2 km
• PR59.2 km
• BL69.9 km
• WN110.7 km
• PR112.4 km
• WN813.0 km
• WN513.2 km
• L4013.3 km
• WN313.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids