title: OL postcode area
text: # OL postcode area
  
  The OL postcode area, also known as the Oldham postcode area, is a group of sixteen postcode districts in north-west England, within seven post towns. These cover eastern Greater Manchester (including Oldham, Rochdale, Ashton-under-Lyne, Heywood and Littleborough), plus small parts of east Lancashire (including Bacup) and western West Yorkshire (including Todmorden).
  
  ## Coverage
  
  The approximate coverage of the postcode districts are:
  
  | Postcode district | Post town | Coverage | Local authority area(s) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 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 (centre and east) | Tameside |
  | OL7 | ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE | Ashton-under-Lyne (west) | Tameside |
  | OL8 | OLDHAM | Bardsley, Oldham | Oldham |
  | OL9 | OLDHAM | Chadderton, Oldham, Westwood, Freehold | Oldham |
  | OL10 | HEYWOOD | Heywood | Rochdale |
  | OL11 | ROCHDALE | Rochdale (south), Ashworth, Balderstone, Castleton, Norden | Rochdale |
  | OL12 | ROCHDALE | Rochdale (north), Buckley, Facit, Great Howarth, Healy, Hurstead, Shawforth, Wardle, Whitworth | Rochdale, Rossendale |
  | OL13 | BACUP | Bacup, Britannia, Stacksteads | Rossendale |
  | OL14 | TODMORDEN | Cornholme, Todmorden, Eastwood, Walsden | Calderdale |
  | OL15 | LITTLEBOROUGH | Littleborough, Shore, Smithybridge, Summit | Rochdale |
  | OL16 | LITTLEBOROUGH | | non-geographic |
  | OL16 | ROCHDALE | Rochdale (east), Burnedge, Firgrove, Hurstead, Milnrow, Smallbridge, Thornham | Rochdale |
  | OL95 | OLDHAM | British Gas | non-geographic |
  