SK3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

611 of the district's 960 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 53.39843, -2.17213, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in SK3

Companies House lists 2,145 companies with a registered office in SK3; 834 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 SK3

• Stockport
• North West
• Bramhall

Roads filed under SK3

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.

• Abbeyfield Close
• Aberdeen Crescent
• Aberdeen Grove
• Adelaide Road
• Adswood Grove
• Adswood Lane West
• Adswood Road
• Adswood Terrace
• Aintree Grove
• Alandale Road
• Albert Street
• Alcester Avenue
• Alder Grove
• Alderley Way
• Alexandra Close
• Algreave Road
• Almond Close
• Alvanley Crescent
• Appleby Close
• Arbury Avenue
• Arley Grove
• Armadale Close
• Armoury Street
• Arnfield Road
• Arnold Street
• Ashburton Road
• Ashfield Grove
• Ashfield Road
• Ashmore Avenue
• Ash Street
• Ashurst Drive
• Astbury Crescent
• Aston Close
• Atherton Street
• Avondale Road
• Avon Street
• Baddeley Close
• Baguley Crescent
• Bakewell Street
• Bann Street
• Barnfield Road East
• Barnfield Road West
• Beech Avenue
• Beechfield Road
• Beech Road
• Beeston Grove
• Bennett Close
• Bennett Street
• Beret Close
• Bergara Close
• Berlin Road
• Bexhill Road
• Bilson Drive
• Birchfield Road
• Bird Hall Lane
• Blackshaw Street
• Blaven Close
• Bloom Street
• Boater Street
• Bombay Road

Check an address in SK3

Check an address in SK3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=SK3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about SK3

What does an SK3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the SK3 district of the SK (Stockport) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Stockport. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 611 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 SK3

• SK11.7 km
• SK42.4 km
• SK22.7 km
• SK83.2 km
• SK73.8 km
• SK54.3 km
• M194.5 km
• M204.9 km
• M226.0 km
• SK66.1 km
• M146.6 km
• M187.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids