OL postcode area

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The OL postcode area, also known as the Oldham postcode area,^[2] is a group of postcode districts around Ashton-under-Lyne, Bacup, Heywood, Littleborough, Oldham, Rochdale and Todmorden in England.

Whilst including almost all of Oldham and most of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, it is not exclusive to these areas, extending into most of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale and parts of the Tameside borough of Greater Manchester, and through a very small part of both Lancashire and West Yorkshire.

Coverage

The approximate coverage of the postcode districts are:

Postcode district	Post town	Coverage	Local authority area
OL1	OLDHAM	Chadderton, Higginshaw, Oldham	Oldham
OL2	OLDHAM	Heyside, Royton, Shaw	Oldham
OL3	OLDHAM	Delph, Denshaw, Diggle, Dobcross, Greenfield, Uppermill	Oldham
OL4	OLDHAM	Austerlands, Grasscroft, Grotton, Lees, Lydgate, Oldham, Scouthead, Springhead, Waterhead	Oldham
OL5	ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE	Mossley, Mossley Cross	Tameside
OL6	ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE	Ashton-under-Lyne	Tameside
OL7	ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE	Ashton-under-Lyne	Tameside
OL8	OLDHAM	Bardsley, Oldham	Oldham
OL9	OLDHAM	Chadderton, Oldham, Westwood, Freehold	Oldham
OL10	HEYWOOD	Heywood	Rochdale
OL11	ROCHDALE	Ashworth, Balderstone, Castleton, Norden, Rochdale	Rochdale
OL12	ROCHDALE	Buckley, Facit, Great Howarth, Healy, Hurstead, Rochdale, Shawforth, Wardle, Whitworth	Rochdale/ Rossendale
OL13	BACUP	Bacup, Britannia, Stacksteads	Rossendale, Lancashire
OL14	TODMORDEN	Cornholme, Todmorden, Eastwood, Walsden	Calderdale, West Yorkshire
OL15	LITTLEBOROUGH	Littleborough, Shore, Smithybridge, Summit	Rochdale
OL16	LITTLEBOROUGH		non-geographic^[3]^[4]
OL16	ROCHDALE	Burnedge, Firgrove, Hurstead, Milnrow, Rochdale, Smallbridge, Thornham	Rochdale
OL95	OLDHAM	British Gas	non-geographic^[3]

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

↑ "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.
↑ Royal Mail, Address Management Guide, (2004)
1 2 "Non Geographic Codes" (PDF). Royal Mail Address Management Unit. July 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 16, 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
↑ "New sectors and localities to 14 December 2012" (PDF). Royal Mail Address Management Unit. 20 December 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 2, 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2012.

Postcode areas in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man

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Related UK lists: Postcode districts Post towns Postal counties London postal district

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