SK16 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

459 of the district's 575 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 53.47461, -2.08257, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SK16

Companies House lists 832 companies with a registered office in SK16; 42 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 SK16

• Tameside
• North West
• Dukinfield
• Ashton-under-Lyne
• Audenshaw
• Hyde

Roads filed under SK16

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.

• Adamson Street
• Admiral Way
• Ainley Wood
• Albert Avenue
• Alma Street
• Angel Close
• Anne Street
• Arley Close
• Armadale Road
• Arnold Close
• Arran Road
• Ashridge Drive
• Ashton Road
• Ashton Street
• Ash Tree Drive
• Asquith Avenue
• Astley Gardens
• Astley Street
• Atlas Street
• Barlow Road
• Barton Road
• Bass Street
• Bates Street
• Belvedere Drive
• Benedict Drive
• Birchall Close
• Birch Lane
• Birch View
• Birchwood Way
• Birtles Close
• Blocksage Street
• Boyd's Walk
• Bramhall Close
• Brian Farrell Drive
• Brice Street
• Bridge Street
• Brierley Street
• Broadbent Avenue
• Broadway
• Brownlea Avenue
• Brownville Grove
• Brunswick Street
• Buckingham Drive
• Burns Fold
• Butterley Close
• Bylands Fold
• Cambridge Street
• Canterbury Close
• Capesthorne Road
• Cathedral Close
• Cavendish Street
• Cecil Street
• Cedar Grove
• Chancel Close
• Chapel Close
• Chapel Street
• Chapel View
• Charles Street
• Chaucer Rise
• Cheetham Hill Road

Check an address in SK16

Check an address in SK16

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SK16" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SK16

What does an SK16 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SK16 district of the SK (Stockport) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Dukinfield. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 459 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 SK16

• OL62.2 km
• OL72.4 km
• SK152.7 km
• SK143.1 km
• M343.1 km
• M434.5 km
• OL55.6 km
• M356.0 km
• M186.0 km
• OL86.1 km
• SK56.4 km
• M116.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids