M postcode area

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Manchester postcode area
M
Postcode area	M
Postcode area name	Manchester
Post towns	3
Postcode districts	48
Postcode sectors	302
Postcodes (live)	31,670
Postcodes (total)	56,617
Statistics as at February 2012[1]

The M postcode area, also known as the Manchester postcode area,^[2] is a group of several postcode districts in Greater Manchester, England.

The Manchester Post Town includes parts of all boroughs in Greater Manchester. The area is divided into ten post towns: Manchester, Salford, Sale, Oldham, Tameside, Stockport, Rochdale, Bury, Wigan and Bolton. The Manchester and Salford post towns form most of the area, and the other eight post towns are enclaves within it.

The entirety of the metropolitan district of the City of Manchester itself is included within the area, except for Ringway, which is in WA15. The postcode area includes nearly all of the City of Salford, most of the borough of Trafford, and small parts of the wider Greater Manchester area historically closest to the city of Manchester.

Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:

Postcode district	Post town	Coverage	Local authority area
M1	MANCHESTER	Piccadilly, City Centre, Market Street	Manchester
M2	MANCHESTER	Deansgate, City Centre	Manchester
M3 (Sectors 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9)	MANCHESTER	City Centre, Deansgate, Castlefield	Manchester
M3 (Sectors 5, 6 and 7)	SALFORD	Blackfriars, Greengate, Trinity	Salford
M4	MANCHESTER	Ancoats, Northern Quarter, Strangeways	Manchester
M5	SALFORD	Ordsall, Seedley, Weaste, University,	Salford
M6	SALFORD	Pendleton, Irlams o' th' Height, Langworthy, Seedley, Charlestown	Salford
M7	SALFORD	Higher Broughton, Cheetwood, Lower Broughton, Kersal	Salford
M8	MANCHESTER	Crumpsall, Cheetham Hill	Manchester
M9	MANCHESTER	Harpurhey, Blackley	Manchester
M11	MANCHESTER	Clayton, Openshaw, Beswick	Manchester
M12	MANCHESTER	Ardwick, Longsight, Chorlton-on-Medlock	Manchester
M13	MANCHESTER	Ardwick, Longsight, Chorlton-on-Medlock	Manchester
M14	MANCHESTER	Fallowfield, Moss Side, Ladybarn, Rusholme, Victoria Park	Manchester
M15	MANCHESTER	Hulme, Manchester Science Park	Manchester
M16	MANCHESTER	Firswood, Old Trafford, Whalley Range, Moss Side	Manchester, Trafford
M17	MANCHESTER	Trafford Park, The Trafford Centre	Trafford
M18	MANCHESTER	Abbey Hey, Gorton	Manchester
M19	MANCHESTER	Levenshulme, Burnage, Heaton Mersey, Heaton Chapel, Reddish	Manchester, Stockport
M20	MANCHESTER	Didsbury, Withington	Manchester
M21	MANCHESTER	Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Barlow Moor	Manchester
M22	MANCHESTER	Wythenshawe, Northenden, Sharston Industrial Area	Manchester
M23	MANCHESTER	Baguley, Brooklands, Roundthorn Industrial Estate	Manchester
M24	MANCHESTER	Middleton, Alkrington, Chadderton	Rochdale, Oldham
M25	MANCHESTER	Prestwich, Sedgeley Park, Simister	Bury
M26	MANCHESTER	Radcliffe, Stoneclough	Bury, Bolton
M27	MANCHESTER	Swinton, Clifton, Pendlebury, Wardley, Agecroft	Salford
M28	MANCHESTER	Worsley, Walkden, Boothstown, Mosley Common, Wardley Industrial Estate	Salford, Wigan
M29	MANCHESTER	Tyldesley, Astley	Wigan
M30	MANCHESTER	Eccles, Monton, Peel Green, Winton, Patricroft, Barton-upon-Irwell, Ellesmere Park	Salford
M31	MANCHESTER	Carrington, Partington	Trafford
M32	MANCHESTER	Stretford	Trafford
M33	SALE	Sale, Brooklands	Trafford
M34	MANCHESTER	Denton, Audenshaw	Tameside
M35	MANCHESTER	Failsworth	Oldham
M38	MANCHESTER	Little Hulton	Salford
M40	MANCHESTER	Collyhurst, Miles Platting, Moston, New Moston, Newton Heath	Manchester
M41	MANCHESTER	Urmston, Davyhulme, Flixton, Barton Dock Road	Trafford
M43	MANCHESTER	Droylsden	Tameside
M44	MANCHESTER	Irlam, Cadishead	Salford
M45	MANCHESTER	Whitefield	Bury
M46	MANCHESTER	Atherton	Wigan
M50	SALFORD	Salford Quays, MediaCityUK	Salford
M60 (Sectors 1 and 7)	MANCHESTER	Large user and PO Box (located geographically in M1)	Manchester
M60 (Sectors 2 and 8)	MANCHESTER	Large user and PO Box (located geographically in M2)	Manchester
M60 (Sectors 3 and 9)	MANCHESTER	Large user and PO Box (located geographically in M3)	Manchester
M60 (Sectors 4 and 0)	MANCHESTER	Large user and PO Box (located geographically in M4)	Manchester
M60 (Sectors 5 and 6)	MANCHESTER	Manchester X	Manchester
M60 (Sector 9)	SALFORD	Large user and PO Box	Salford
M61	MANCHESTER	Manchester X	Manchester
M90	MANCHESTER	Manchester Airport	Manchester
M99	MANCHESTER	Manchester X; JD Williams (located geographically in M1 and M3)	Manchester

Note: The original M10 postcode is obsolete, having been re-coded as M40 in 1993. The ITV soap opera Coronation Street is set in the fictional town of Weatherfield, and use M10 as their supposed postcode - for example the garage owned by Kevin Webster and Tyrone Dobbs shows an M10 postcode as their address on the sign.

Map

M postcode area map, showing postcode districts in red and post towns in grey text, with links to nearby BL, OL, SK, WA and WN postcode areas.

Former scheme

Before the introduction of postcodes in the 1960s, Manchester along with other major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool and Sheffield was divided into numbered postcode districts. With a few exceptions these were directly incorporated into the outcode (the first part of the postcode). The districts were based on Manchester and Salford together and districts outside the city boundaries were also included.

For example, the City Centre had postcode districts 1 - 4 (north-east, south, west and north-west respectively: Manchester 1 was around Piccadilly and 4 was around Victoria). 5, 6, 7 and 8 were in Salford and then the sequence continued across north Manchester and so round to M17 (Trafford Park). M18 onwards were further out still.

See also

• Postcode Address File
• List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom

References

1. "ONS Postcode Directory Version Notes" (ZIP). National Statistics Postcode Products. Office for National Statistics. February 2012. Table 2. Retrieved 21 April 2012. Coordinates from mean of unit postcode points, "Code-Point Open". OS OpenData. Ordnance Survey. February 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
2. Royal Mail Address Management Guide Edition 4, (2004)

http://planning.stockport.gov.uk/PlanningData/AcolNetCGI.gov?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeNeighbours&TheSystemkey=109952

External links

• Royal Mail's Postcode Address File
• A quick introduction to Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF)
• Map of postcodes of Greater Manchester